Elasticsearch version 8.17.8

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Elasticsearch version 8.17.8

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Also see Breaking changes in 8.17.

Bug fixes

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Aggregations
  • Aggs: Fix significant terms not finding background docuemnts for nested fields #128472 (issue: #101163)
Authorization
  • Prevent invalid privileges in manage roles privilege #128532 (issue: #127496)
Codec
  • Use new source loader when lower docId is accessed #128320
Data streams
  • Bump APM data resource version #129539
Infra/Core
  • Update AbstractXContentParser to support parsers that don’t provide text characters #129005
Infra/Scripting
  • Register mustache size limit setting #119291
Machine Learning
  • Account for Java direct memory on machine learning nodes to prevent out-of-memory crashes. #128742
  • Ensure that anomaly detection job state update retries if master node is temoporarily unavailable #129391 (issue: #126148)
Searchable Snapshots
  • Adjust unpromotable shard refresh request validation to allow RefreshResult.NO_REFRESH #129176 (issue: #129036)
Security
  • Fix error message when changing the password for a user in the file realm #127621

Enhancements

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Authorization
  • Fix unsupported privileges error message during role and API key creation #129158 (issue: #128132)