Fluentd v1 provides major improvements over v0.12 including nanosecond event time resolution, multi-core support, Windows support, and new plugin APIs. The new plugin APIs provide well-controlled lifecycles and integrate all output plugins. v1 also introduces a server engine based supervisor, dynamic buffering capabilities, and various plugin helpers. While maintaining compatibility with v0.12 plugins, v1 focuses on ease of use, stability, performance and flexibility.