IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
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Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.4.0edit

Review important information about the Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.4.0 release.

Breaking changesedit

Breaking changes can prevent your application from optimal operation and performance. Before you upgrade, review the breaking changes, then mitigate the impact to your application.

xpack.agents.* are uneditable in UI when defined in kibana.yml

Details
When you configure setxpack.fleet.agents.fleet_server.hosts and xpack.fleet.agents.elasticsearch.hosts in kibana.yml, you are unable to update the fields on the Fleet UI. For more information, refer to #135669.

Impact
To configure setxpack.fleet.agents.fleet_server.hosts and xpack.fleet.agents.elasticsearch.hosts on the Fleet UI, avoid configuring the settings in kibana.yml.

Known issuesedit

Credentials error prevents Elastic Agent from ingesting AWS logs

Details

Elastic Agents configured to use the AWS integration may return an error similar to the following:

sqs ReceiveMessage failed: operation error SQS: ReceiveMessage, https response
error StatusCode: 403, RequestID: cb57783a-505f-5099-9160-23b8eea8ddbb,
api error SignatureDoesNotMatch: Credential should be scoped to a valid region.

This error was introduced by a breaking change in the AWS library.

Impact

Elastic Agent is unable to ingest AWS logs and some metrics. To resolve this error:

  • If you are using the default domain amazonaws.com, upgrade the AWS integration package to version 1.23.4 to apply the temporary fix added in PR #4103. If this does not solve your problem, set the AWS region (either from an environment variable, credentials or instance profile) where Elastic Agent is running.
  • Otherwise, wait to upgrade until the permanent fix added by PR #32921 is available in an upcoming stack release.

New featuresedit

The 8.4.0 release adds the following new and notable features.

Fleet
  • Allow user to force install an unverified package #136108
  • Add tag rename and delete feature #135712
  • Add UI to bulk update agent tags #135646
  • Add API to bulk update agent tags #135520
  • Add UI to add and remove agent tags #135320
  • Support sorting agent list #135218
  • Promote Logstash output support to GA #135028
  • Create new API to manage download_source setting for agent binary downloads #134889
Elastic Agent
  • Add @metadata.input_id and @metadata.stream_id when applying the inject stream processor #527
  • Improve Elastic Agent status reporting: add a liveness endpoint, allow the fleet-gateway component to report degraded state, and add the status update time and messages to the status output #390 #569
  • Redact sensitive information collected by the elastic-agent diagnostics collect command #241 #566

Enhancementsedit

Fleet
  • Remove Kubernetes package granularity #136622
  • Align Elastic Agent manifests with the elastic-agent repo and add comments #136394
  • Configure source URI in global settings and in agent policy settings #136263
  • Add Kubernetes in platforms selection list and update managed agent installation steps #136109
  • Enable user to write custom ingest pipelines for Fleet-installed datastreams #134578
  • Update manifests for agent on Kubernetes with new permissions #133495
  • Add support for a textarea type in integrations #133070
Elastic Agent
There are no enhancements beyond the new features added in this release

Bug fixesedit

Fleet
  • Use point in time for agent status query to provide accurate reporting #135816
Elastic Agent
  • Change default value of VerificationMode from empty string to full #184 #59
  • Add filemod times to contents of diagnostics collect command #570
  • Allow colon (:) characters in dynamic variables #624 #680
  • Allow dash (-) characters in variable names in EQL expressions #709 #710
  • Allow slash (/) characters in variable names in EQL and transpiler #715 #718
  • Fix problem with Elastic Agent incorrectly creating a Filebeat redis input when a policy contains a Packetbeat redis input #427 #700
  • Fix data duplication for standalone Elastic Agent on Kubernetes using the default manifest #31512 #742
  • Elastic Agent upgrades now clean up unneeded artifacts #693 #694 #752
  • Fix a panic caused by a race condition when installing the Elastic Agent #806 #823
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