The addition for registry options with PR #285 apparently does not work on Filebeat6.
The syntax Filbeat6 expects is:
filebeat.registry_file: $path/$filename
filebeat.registry_file_permissions: $perm
filebeat.registry_flush: $flush
but the syntax created here is:
filebeat:
registry:
path: $path
file_permissions: $perm
flush: $flush
I don't have a Filebeat7 to test if it works there.