Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.17.1
editFleet and Elastic Agent 8.17.1
editReview important information about the Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.17.1 release.
Breaking changes
editBreaking changes can prevent your application from optimal operation and performance. Before you upgrade, review the breaking changes, then mitigate the impact to your application.
- Elastic Agent
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- Elastic Agent Docker images for Elastic Cloud have been reverted from having been based off of Ubuntu 24.04 to being based off of Ubuntu 20.04. This is to ensure compatibility with Elastic Cloud Enterprise, support for new Wolfi-based images, and for GNU C Library (glibc) compatibility. #6393
Known issues
editKibana out of memory crashes on 1 GB Elastic Cloud Kibana instances using Elastic Security view
Details
Elastic Cloud deployments that use the smallest available Kibana instance size of 1 GB may crash due to out of memory errors when the Security UI is loaded.
Impact
The root cause is inefficient memory allocation, and this is exacerbated when the prebuilt security rules package is installed on the initial load of the Elastic Security UI.
As a workaround, you can upgrade your deployment to 8.17.1 in which this issue has been resolved by #208869 and #208475.
New features
editThe 8.17.1 release added the following new and notable features.
- Elastic Agent
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- Add the Otel loadbalancing exporter to Elastic Agent. #6315
Enhancements
edit- Elastic Agent
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Respond with an error message in case the user running the
enrollcommand and the user who is the owner of the Elastic Agent program files don’t match. #6144 #4889 -
Implement the
MarshalJSONmethod on thecomponent.Componentstruct, so that when the component model is logged, the output does not contain any secrets that might be part of the component model. #6329 #5675
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Respond with an error message in case the user running the
Bug fixes
edit- Fleet Server
- Elastic Agent