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Kibana 8.19.22

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The 8.19.22 release includes the following fixes.

The 8.19.22 release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Check our security advisory for more details.

Fixes

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Alerting
  • Fix alerting resource installation using unbounded concurrency, which could exhaust Kibana heap when many contexts and namespaces install at once (#287643).
  • Fix the email connector HTTP test sending caller-supplied subject and message content. The test now sends fixed content (#288664).
Dashboards and Visualizations
  • Increase the TinyMath expression length limit so longer visualization formulas no longer fail (#290314).
  • Fix Canvas functions API creating data tables with more than 50 columns per row (#287935).
Data ingestion and Fleet
  • Fix deleting a managed integration policy leaving the agent listed as active (#290181).
  • Fix Elastic Defend metadata transforms accumulating as duplicates in Elasticsearch across stack upgrades (#288379) (#288902).
  • Fix comment-only values in Fleet agent policy advanced YAML settings leaving agents stuck on an outdated policy (#288430).
Data management
  • Fix Index Management moving component templates listed in ignore_missing_component_templates to the end of composed_of when you edit or clone an index template (#290171).
Developer tools
  • Fix Console treating request-like lines inside an unterminated triple-quoted string as standalone requests (#287547).
  • Fix Console body autocomplete preferring a same-name global rule over an explicit field rule (#286703).
Elastic Observability solution
  • Add a confirmation modal in Synthetics Alerting defaults settings when disabling an active default status or TLS rule. Custom synthetics rules are not affected (#287914).
  • Add a Can manage rules Synthetics sub-feature privilege so users with Synthetics Read can create and manage Synthetics and Uptime alert rules without monitor write access (#289952).
  • Add a Can run tests manually Synthetics sub-feature privilege so users with Synthetics Read can run a test without monitor write access (#282149).
  • Fix Custom threshold and Metric threshold grouped alerts recovering when If there is no data is set to Do nothing (#289623).
  • Fix Observability AI Assistant hanging on Help me understand this alert for custom threshold alerts that have no entity filters (#290244).
  • Fix a 500 error when hovering over AWS RDS instances in the Infrastructure Inventory map tooltip, caused by unquoted ARN identifiers containing : characters being misinterpreted as KQL field-value separators (#288209).
  • Fix Synthetics global parameters shared across all spaces being dropped from private location monitor configurations during all-spaces sync (#282575).
Elastic Security solution
For the Elastic Security 8.19.22 release information, refer to Elastic Security release notes.
Elasticsearch solution
  • Add an Expand role members toggle to ServiceNow connectors for compact document-level security (#288071).
Kibana platform
  • Hide the Activate user action on deactivated users when you have read-only access (#289801).
  • Fix PKI authentication sessions being invalidated when in-flight HTTP/2 requests are canceled, which logged you out. This affects deployments with server.protocol: http2 (#285153).
  • Fix Kibana failing to start when the file-based audit log appender cannot write. Kibana reports a degraded state instead (#282347).
  • Fix a failed audit log write after startup crashing Kibana. Kibana now reports a degraded state and turns the audit logger off instead (#287360).