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Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.19.16

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Security updates

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  • Upgrade npm to v11 in non-wolfi elastic-agent-complete Docker images. #14167
  • Fix missing authAgent in UploadChunk. #7020

New features

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  • Add Azure encoding extension to EDOT Collector. #13583

Enhancements

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  • Update Go to v1.26.3. #14168
  • Update EDOT SDK Kubernetes auto-instrumentation images to their latest versions. #12685
  • Update OTel Collector components to v0.152.0. #14366

Bug fixes

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  • Make enrollment retry backoff respect context cancellation. #13698
  • Clean up leftover artifacts when elastic-agent install fails. #13705
  • Stop the Windows service promptly during enrollment retries. #13878
  • Fix profiling agent DaemonSet deployment on Kubernetes v1.33+. #13894
  • Clamp non-positive agent.download.retry_sleep_init_duration values to the default of 30s to prevent download retry storms. #13974
  • Redact sensitive values in slice maps. #14007 #415
  • Ship config samples and endpoint resources zip without executable bits. #14117 #13960
  • Agent no longer fails to start when the upgrade marker file is corrupt. #14194
  • Fix silent early-return when removing stale enrollment and upgrade artifacts. #14234
  • Fix dangling symlink when rotating to a non-existent target. #14238
  • Prevent upgrade watcher panic when grace period expires. #14253