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{kib} 7.17.2

Review the following information about the 7.17.2 release.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in the 7.17.2 release.

To review the breaking changes in previous versions, refer to the following:

{kibana-ref-all}/7.16/release-notes-7.16.0.html#breaking-changes-7.16.0[7.16] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.15/release-notes-7.15.0.html#breaking-changes-7.15.0[7.15] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.14/release-notes-7.14.0.html#breaking-changes-7.14.0[7.14] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.13/release-notes-7.13.0.html#breaking-changes-7.13.0[7.13] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.12/release-notes-7.12.0.html#breaking-changes-7.12.0[7.12] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.11/breaking-changes-7.11.html[7.11] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.10/breaking-changes-7.10.html[7.10] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.9/breaking-changes-7.9.html[7.9] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.8/breaking-changes-7.8.html[7.8] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.7/breaking-changes-7.7.html[7.7] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.6/breaking-changes-7.6.html[7.6] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.5/breaking-changes-7.5.html[7.5] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.4/breaking-changes-7.4.html[7.4] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.3/breaking-changes-7.3.html[7.3] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.2/breaking-changes-7.2.html[7.2] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.1/breaking-changes-7.1.html[7.1] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.0/breaking-changes-7.0.html[7.0]

Bug Fixes

Dashboard

Use debounce instead of async url update to remove app state from URL {kibana-pull}127083[#127083]

Discover

Improves doc viewer source tab performance by limiting height {kibana-pull}127439[#127439]

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 7.17.2 release information, refer to {security-guide}/release-notes.html[Elastic Security Solution Release Notes].

Fleet

• Use validated fields for default_fields index setting {kibana-pull}128094[#128094]

• Fixes links to Agent logs for apm, endpoint, synthetics, osquery {kibana-pull}127480[#127480]

• Makes input IDs unique in agent policy yaml {kibana-pull}127343[#127343]

Machine Learning

Anomaly Detection: Update annotation directly using the index it is stored in {kibana-pull}126573[#126573]

Management

• Resolves errors seen when creating a runtime field with a user that has access to a limit set of indices {kibana-pull}127523[#127523]

• Fixes field format color editor crash on invalid color value {kibana-pull}127292[#127292]

• Adds deprecation logging as step on overview page of Upgrade Assistant {kibana-pull}126277[#126277]

• Upgrade Assistant will show a reindex warning if Elasticsearch is low on disk space {kibana-pull}125572[#125572]

Observability

• Fixes pings over time histogram when filters are defined {kibana-pull}127757[#127757]

• Checks for latest Snapshot count document {kibana-pull}127676[#127676]

• Optimization for Metric Threshold Rule for 7.17 {kibana-pull}126545[#126545]

{kib} 7.17.1

Review the following information about the 7.17.1 release.

Known issue

Lens & visualizations

A change in the Markdown library that TSVB Markdown visualizations and Text dashboard panels use renders some tables differently.

This known issue affects only 7.17.1. All other versions of {kib} render that Markdown in tables as expected.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in the 7.17.1 release.

To review the breaking changes in previous versions, refer to the following:

{kibana-ref-all}/7.16/release-notes-7.16.0.html#breaking-changes-7.16.0[7.16] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.15/release-notes-7.15.0.html#breaking-changes-7.15.0[7.15] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.14/release-notes-7.14.0.html#breaking-changes-7.14.0[7.14] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.13/release-notes-7.13.0.html#breaking-changes-7.13.0[7.13] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.12/release-notes-7.12.0.html#breaking-changes-7.12.0[7.12] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.11/breaking-changes-7.11.html[7.11] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.10/breaking-changes-7.10.html[7.10] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.9/breaking-changes-7.9.html[7.9] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.8/breaking-changes-7.8.html[7.8] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.7/breaking-changes-7.7.html[7.7] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.6/breaking-changes-7.6.html[7.6] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.5/breaking-changes-7.5.html[7.5] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.4/breaking-changes-7.4.html[7.4] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.3/breaking-changes-7.3.html[7.3] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.2/breaking-changes-7.2.html[7.2] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.1/breaking-changes-7.1.html[7.1] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.0/breaking-changes-7.0.html[7.0]

Bug fixes

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 7.17.1 release information, refer to {security-guide}/release-notes.html[Elastic Security Solution Release Notes].

Lens & Visualizations

• Removes tabify performance issue {kibana-pull}124931[#124931]

• Fixes an issue where shard failures were not reported in TSVB {kibana-pull}123474[#123474]

Machine Learning

• Fixes anomaly detector jobs list filter delay {kibana-pull}124328[#124328]

Management

• You can now use the search bar in the snapshots list of the Snapshot & Restore app with date strings {kibana-pull}125234[#125234]

• Adds warning when remote clusters are configured {kibana-pull}125138[#125138]

• Updates logic for handling reindex failures {kibana-pull}124571[#124571]

• Fixes redirect to the wizard {kibana-pull}124337[#124337]

• Fixes cross cluster search when using the fields search request parameter for versions of {es} prior to 7.0 {kibana-pull}123267[#123267]

Maps

Fixes an issue where layers from WMS capabilities for a specific URL were unable to load {kibana-pull}123386[#123386]

Security

• Prevents repeated calls to extend session when Kibana is unavailable {kibana-pull}125973[#125973]

• Changed deprecation warning for elasticsearch.username {kibana-pull}124717[#124717]

{kib} 7.17.0

Review the following information about the 7.17.0 release.

Breaking changes

There are no breaking changes in the 7.17.0 release.

To review the breaking changes in previous versions, refer to the following:

{kibana-ref-all}/7.16/release-notes-7.16.0.html#breaking-changes-7.16.0[7.16] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.15/release-notes-7.15.0.html#breaking-changes-7.15.0[7.15] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.14/release-notes-7.14.0.html#breaking-changes-7.14.0[7.14] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.13/release-notes-7.13.0.html#breaking-changes-7.13.0[7.13] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.12/release-notes-7.12.0.html#breaking-changes-7.12.0[7.12] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.11/breaking-changes-7.11.html[7.11] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.10/breaking-changes-7.10.html[7.10] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.9/breaking-changes-7.9.html[7.9] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.8/breaking-changes-7.8.html[7.8] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.7/breaking-changes-7.7.html[7.7] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.6/breaking-changes-7.6.html[7.6] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.5/breaking-changes-7.5.html[7.5] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.4/breaking-changes-7.4.html[7.4] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.3/breaking-changes-7.3.html[7.3] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.2/breaking-changes-7.2.html[7.2] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.1/breaking-changes-7.1.html[7.1] | {kibana-ref-all}/7.0/breaking-changes-7.0.html[7.0]

Enhancements and bug fixes

For detailed information about the 7.17.0 release, review the enhancements and bug fixes.

Enhancements

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 7.17.0 release information, refer to {security-guide}/release-notes.html[Elastic Security Solution Release Notes].

Lens & Visualizations

• Allow users to not render suggestions in Lens {kibana-pull}115946[#115946]

• Avoid to compute over time suggestion for expensive configurations in Lens {kibana-pull}115932[#115932]

Monitoring

Adds telemetry stats for legacy notifications system {kibana-pull}122472[#122472]

Operations

Replaces CentOS base image with Ubuntu {kibana-pull}118928[#118928]

Platform

• Response logs emitted by the elasticsearch service include the size of the response body {kibana-pull}123173[#123173]

• Adds event loop delay histogram percentiles to metrics.ops logger message and meta field {kibana-pull}120451[#120451]

• Displays event loop delay metrics in the Status page to assist with performance monitoring {kibana-pull}121052[#121052]

Bug Fixes

Alerting

Fixes call to update index alias to hidden {kibana-pull}122882[#122882]

Canvas

• Fixes an issue where a workpad element was breaking after changing the expression from expression editor and resizing {kibana-pull}122154[#122154]

• Repeat image bug with image height fixed {kibana-pull}121497[#121497]

Discover

• Fixes saved search hidden chart can’t be opened when returning to Discover {kibana-pull}122745[#122745]

• Fixes page up and down navigation in classic table {kibana-pull}122742[#122742]

• Fixes context view for document ids containing special characters {kibana-pull}122737[#122737]

• Adds {kib} services provider for embeddable {kibana-pull}121621[#121621]

Elastic Security

For the Elastic Security 7.17.0 release information, refer to {security-guide}/release-notes.html[Elastic Security Solution Release Notes].

Lens & Visualizations

• Fixes y-axis visibility for Percentile aggregation in XY charts {kibana-pull}122162[#122162]

• Runs the migration correctly for the drop last bucket in TSVB {kibana-pull}121734[#121734]

• Fixes percentage mode behavior when multiple metrics are placed on the same axis in XY charts {kibana-pull}121610[#121610]

• "Bucket script" and "Series Agg" should be active for "timerange" mode in TSVB {kibana-pull}121301[#121301]

Machine Learning

Fixes Anomaly detection’s custom url with special characters {kibana-pull}121411[#121411]

Management

• Fixes runtime field validations not supporting special script types {kibana-pull}122469[#122469]

• Allows fields named _timestamp to be non-date types {kibana-pull}121772[#121772]

Maps

Fixes map application crashes when leaving map while drawing filter {kibana-pull}122353[#122353]

Monitoring

Fixes telemetry for cases attached to alerts to work across spaces {kibana-pull}122477[#122477]

Observability

• Fixes Uptime alerting fly outs within alerting app {kibana-pull}123031[#123031]

• Overview link to Exploratory View should not filter by monitor in Uptime {kibana-pull}122907[#122907]

• Adds a global filter to exploratory view when there is only one series in Uptime {kibana-pull}122301[#122301]

• Fixes a problem in which the exploratory view would crash if no date ranges were selected in Uptime {kibana-pull}122163[#122163]

• Fixes a bug where the monitor step details would send more requests than necessary in Uptime {kibana-pull}121889[#121889]

• Drop requests for overview page data when filter not initialized in Uptime {kibana-pull}120031[#120031]

• Restores default chart timezone to 'local' in XY charts {kibana-pull}123264[#123264]

Security

• Adds tooltip for usernames on API Key management page {kibana-pull}122488[#122488]

• Kibana now shows a more helpful error message when the browser prevents it from using cookies {kibana-pull}120944[#120944]

For information about the features introduced in 7.17.0, refer to What’s new in 7.17.