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title: "September 18, 2024"
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# September 18, 2024

## Features

### Data Pipelines

- **Logs**: Users can now exclude specific logs from being ingested based on user defined rules.

  ![Middleware release September 18, 2024: Logs Pipeline](/images/release/pipeline-log-features.jpg)
- **Metrics**: Users can choose which metrics to collect by toggling them on or off. This section replaces the "Metrics Control Plane" that was in the settings.
- **RUM**: User can choose which sessions/spans to exclude based on attribute value pairs.

  ![Middleware release September 18, 2024: RUM Pipeline](/images/release/pipeline-rum-features.jpg)

### Natural Language Search

- Natural Language Search is now supported for the Logs section of the platform.

## Changes

- Updated windows agent installation design.
- Added ability to filter parent/child span in APM

  ![Middleware release September 18, 2024: APM Pipeline](/images/release/apm-improvement.jpg)
- Updated inner screens of Kubernetes with better UX and updated YAML view.
- Updated Kubernetes default column size for all tables for better data representations.

## Fixes

- Fixed the issue of the filter not being applied for live mode in APM.
- Fixed an issue on Windows where expanding the Tooltip with Alt/Option didn't always work.
- Fixed an issue where the date picker was limited to 7 days on some screens.

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