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Kibana 8.17.7

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The 8.17.7 release includes the following known issues, enhancements, and fixes.

Known issues

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PDF and PNG reports time out and fail with an invalid header error if server.protocol is set to http2

Details
If you’ve changed the server.protocol value to http2, PDF and PNG reports will fail when you export them from the dashboard, visualization, or Canvas workpad that you’re generating a report for.

Workaround
To temporarily resolve the issue, set server.protocol to http1.

Resolved
This issue is resolved in 8.17.9, 8.18.4, 8.19.0 and later.

Enhancements

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Alerting
  • Ensures alerts created within Maintenance Windows trigger actions after the window expires (#219797).

Fixes

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Dashboards and Visualizations
  • Correctly applies default timezone in TSVB when the timezone parameter is set to default in Advanced Settings (#220658).
  • Removes extra icon from map visualization tooltips (#220134).
Discover
  • Fixes drill-down state not saving in by-value Discover sessions (#219857).
Elastic Observability Solution
  • Considers locations only if the array is not empty in a monitor status rule (#220983).
  • Uses update-by-query for semantic_text migration (#220255).
  • Prevents undefined errors in Transaction flyout (#220224).
  • Fixes broken Span Links flyout in Trace Explorer (#219763).
Elastic Security solution
For the Elastic Security 8.17.7 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
Kibana security
  • Reworks cookie and session storage to prevent unexpected logouts for certain users (#220430).