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Kibana 8.17.8

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Kibana 8.17.8

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The 8.17.8 release includes the following known issues and fixes.

The 8.17.8 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Check our security advisory for more details.

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.

Dashboard Copy link doesn’t work when sharing from a space other than the default space

This issue is resolved in versions 8.19.0, 8.18.4, and 8.17.9 (#227625).

Details
When attempting to share a dashboard from a space that isn’t the default space, the Copy link action never completes.

Workaround
To avoid this issue, don’t upgrade Kibana to one of the affected versions, or upgrade to a higher version that includes a fix for it.

Fixes

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Alerting
  • Fixes an issue causing the interface to freeze when an error occurred after deleting a connector (#221958).
Dashboards and Visualizations
  • Fixes an issue that prevented navigating through pages when inspecting a chart’s data (#223537).
  • Fixes an issue preventing Canvas embeddables from correctly refreshing (#221326).
  • Correctly applies default timezone in TSVB when the timezone parameter is set to default in Advanced Settings (#220658).
Data ingestion and Fleet
  • Fixes the UnenrollInactiveAgentsTask query to un-enroll only those agents that are inactive for longer than what is defined in the unenroll_timeout setting (#222592).
  • Fixes an issue preventing some integrations from correctly showing as installed (#221624).
Elastic Observability solution
  • Fixes network error handling on the Error details page in Synthetics (#224296).
  • Fixes an issue causing the screenshot of the first step to appear for each step of the last successful test run in Synthetics (#224220).
  • Fixes an accessibility issue in Synthetics settings, causing the focus to move out of the page when using cc and bcc elements in the email connector form (#223828).
  • Prevents loss of unsaved changes after manually running a Synthetics test (#222503).
  • Fixes an issue preventing metrics graphs from appearing on the Services Inventory page (#222439).
  • Fixes a navigation issue where clicking the error count on an APM waterfall item triggers a full page reload (#221664).
  • Fixes pagination not working on the Services Inventory page when progressive loading is enabled (#220514).
  • Fixes an issue with Uptime rules appearing in the Create rule modal even when the observability:enableLegacyUptimeApp setting is disabled (#220005).
Elastic Security solution
For the Elastic Security 8.17.8 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
Machine Learning
  • Fixes an issue with Anomaly Explorer where the selected overall swimlane bucket is not respected for viewBy jobId (#222845).
  • Fixes the inference endpoint assignment to the trained model object (#222076).
Installation and upgrade
  • Fixes an issue where /etc/default/kibana on Debian packages and /etc/sysconfig/kibana on RPM packages would be overwritten during upgrade (#221276).
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