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Set Fileversion metafield on exe to beat version #13310

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Shaoranlaos opened this issue Aug 22, 2019 · 2 comments
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Set Fileversion metafield on exe to beat version #13310

Shaoranlaos opened this issue Aug 22, 2019 · 2 comments
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Describe the enhancement:
Each Exe in Windows has a Metafield Fileversion which normaly describe's the version of the program the file is starting. This field is empty for Filebeat, Metricbeat and WInlogbeat (these are the ones i checked). This field should be filled during the build process with the beat version.
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(I only have access to a german windows so please excuss the non english screenshot)

Describe a specific use case for the enhancement or feature:
This would make it easier to identify if an update of the beat through a centralized software management was successful, because these can easily check these meta fields.

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jsoriano commented Aug 23, 2019

@Shaoranlaos thanks for opening this enhancement proposal. I think it should be possible to do it with one of:

@jsoriano jsoriano added good first issue Indicates a good issue for first-time contributors :Windows labels Aug 23, 2019
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Fixed by #16048

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