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Elasticsearch version 7.17.0edit

Also see Breaking changes in 7.17.

Known issuesedit

  • Elasticsearch fails to parse system index migration data from the cluster state (issue: #84115)
  • Feature migration refuses to run if all features requiring upgrade have encountered errors (issue: #83917)
  • Migrating system indices fails for tasks with mapper_parsing_exception (issue: #83779)

These issues will impact any subsequent upgrade to 8.x, and are fixed in 7.17.1. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to a later patch release of 7.17 before upgrading to 8.x.

  • Parsing a request when the last element in an array is filtered out (for instance using _source_includes) fails. This is due to a bug in Jackson parser. Fixed in Elasticsearch 8.6.1 (#91456)
  • The deprecated index.mapper.dynamic setting can break your cluster. It can only be set using the Update index settings API. Symptoms include nodes failing to start or shards failing to allocate. Do not use this setting in versions prior to 7.17.22. The bug is fixed in 7.17.22. (issue: #109160)

Deprecationsedit

Mapping
Transform

Enhancementsedit

Audit
Authorization
  • Allow read template with cluster monitor privilege #82046 (issue: #78832)
  • Make authorization performance log message configurable and disabled by default #82648 (issue: #75439)
  • Add Kibana system permissions for Endpoint action indices #81953
ILM+SLM
  • Add an index→step cache to the PolicyStepsRegistry #82316 (issue: #77466)
  • Migrate legacy/v2/component templates away from custom attributes routing #82472 (issue: #82170)
  • Migrate to data tiers API dry run on any ILM status #82226 (issue: #82169)
Infra/Core
  • Allow scaling executors to reject tasks after shutdown #81856 (issues: #77017, #77178)
  • Prevent direct upgrade of indices from 6.8 to 8.0 #82689 (issue: #81326)
Infra/Logging
  • Adjust ILM policy for deprecation logs #82833
  • Do no use x-opaque-id for deduplicating Elastic originating requests #82855 (issue: #82810)
Infra/Settings
Java Low Level REST Client
  • Expose HTTP client and allow overriding meta header #81955
License
  • Add DEBUG log when document level security and field level security usage is detected #82182 (issue: #79152)
Machine Learning
  • Move datafeed stats action off of master node #82271
Watcher
  • Prevent watcher from starting if its templates are missing #82395

Bug fixesedit

Aggregations
  • Fix bucket keys format for range aggregations on float field #81801 (issue: #81749)
  • Fix cardinality aggregation in asynchronous search #82108
  • Fix missing fields in range aggregation response for date fields #82732 (issue: #82688)
Allocation
  • Correct context for batched reroute notifications #83019
Authorization
CRUD
  • Fix potential listener leak in TransportBulkAction #81894
Geo
  • Handle degenerated rectangles in vector tiles #82404 (issue: #81891)
  • GeoPolygonDecomposer might fail due to numerical errors when calculating intersection with the dateline #82953 (issue: #82840)
ILM+SLM
  • Migrate the coldest node attribute for data tier routing #81940 (issue: #81633)
  • Retry ILM step to safely refresh the cached phase #82613 (issue: #81921)
  • Fix ILM allocate action to allow only total_shards_per_node #81944 (issue: #81943)
Indices APIs
  • Make the rollover API respect the request’s master_timeout #82326 (issue: #81762)
Infra/Core
  • Allow clearing blocks on managed system indices #82507 (issue: #80814)
Infra/Logging
  • Add doPrivileged section in deprecation logger #81819 (issue: #81708)
  • Always emit product origin to deprecation log if present #83115
Ingest
  • Filter enrich policy index deletes to just the policy’s associated indices #82568
  • Fix enrich cache corruption bug #82441 (issue: #82340)
Java Low Level REST Client
  • Fix version resolution and encoding in LLRC #81989
Machine Learning
  • Fix annotations index maintenance after reindexing #82304 (issue: #82250)
  • Improve cleanup for model snapshot upgrades #81831 (issue: #81578)
  • Make delete intervening results more selective #82437
  • Skip time to next interval with data for datafeeds with aggs #82488 (issue: #82406)
  • Update running process when global calendar changes #83044
  • Avoid transient poor time series modeling after detecting new seasonal components. This can affect cases where there are fast and slow repeats in the data, for example 30 minutes and 1 day, and the job uses a short bucket length. #2167 (issue: #2166)
Monitoring
  • Always attempt upgrade monitoring templates #82713 (issue: #82453)
Network
  • Correct context for ClusterConnManager listener #83035
Search
  • Fix bug where field is not returned if it has the same prefix as a nested field #82922 (issue: #82905)
Settings
  • Change deprecation.skip_deprecated_settings to work with dynamic settings #81836
  • Check both node and cluster settings in NodeDeprecationChecks #82487 (issue: #82484)
  • Ignore dynamic settings specified by deprecation.skip_deprecated_settings in node deprecation checks #82883 (issue: #82889)
Snapshot/Restore
  • Always fail snapshot deletion listeners on master failover #82361 (issue: #81596)
  • Fix potential repository corruption during master failover #82912 (issue: #82911)
  • Remove requirement for key setting on Azure client settings #82030
  • Support GKE workload identity for searchable snapshots #82974 (issue: #82702)
Stats
  • Correct context for CancellableSOCache listener #83021

Upgradesedit

Search
  • Upgrade to Lucene 8.11.1 #81900
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