Elastic Cloud Enterprise release notes

Review the changes, fixes, and more in each version of Elastic Cloud Enterprise.

To learn about security updates, go to Security announcements for the Elastic stack.

• During upgrades, made the stop docker container operation timeout respect the --timeout-factor parameter.
• Improved reliability of ECE upgrades by adding configurable retry settings for Docker operations.
• Added the --skip-steps flag to the ECE upgrader to bypass specific upgrade steps by name.
• Added --disable-rollback to the ECE upgrader to prevent automatic rollback on failure or cancel.

• Fixed timeout issues when searching for allocators in the admin console cluster.
• Added retry logic for data tier migration to handle eventual consistency when stopping ILM.
• Fixed an invalid redirect.
• Fixed template creation logic in the admin console UI.

• Added fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Refer to our security advisory for details.

• Added fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. See our security advisory for details.

• Added security updates through various dependencies upgrades.

This release introduces breaking changes.

• Compatibility updates: Refer to the Elastic Cloud Enterprise compatibility matrix to view the supported OS and container engine combinations for this version.
• Upgraded system deployments to Elastic Stack 8.18.0.
• Upgraded metricbeat and filebeat for allocator-metricbeat and beats-runner to version 8.18.0.
• Support for Elastic Stack 9.0.0

• Improved range request download performance for large heap dumps.
• Fixed a warning error incorrectly displaying due to a cache issue when trying to upgrade a deployment to a newer version.