8.8.0.asciidoc

8.8.0

Review important information about the 8.8.0 release.

New features

The 8.8.0 release adds the following new and notable features.

• Adding Cloud Defend Application To Elastic Agent. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2617[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2617] {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2551[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2551]

  Add support for providing the ssl key passphrase, or fleet-server service_token through a secret file.

• Add Support For Fleet-Server Secret Files. {Add support for providing the ssl key passphrase, or fleet-server service_token through a secret file.-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2424[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2424]

  spec

• Add Universal Profiling Symbolizer. {spec-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2401[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2401]

• Add Universal Profiling Collector. {spec-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2407[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2407]

Enhancements

• Add Hostpath To Kubernetes Manifest To Store The Elastic Agent State. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2550[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2550] Now the Elastic Agent logs to logs/elastic-agent-{hash} by default. The upgrade watcher also logs to this folder with the elastic-agent-watcher-[DATE] suffix. When collecting the logs, the diagnostics command also collects the watcher logs and the logs of a possible new version if the agent which failed during upgrade and then it was rolled back to the previous version. ::

• Change Default Logs Folder And Upgrade Watcher Logs Are Collected By Diagnostics Command. {Now the Elastic Agent logs to logs/elastic-agent-{hash} by default. The upgrade watcher also logs to this folder with the elastic-agent-watcher-[DATE] suffix. When collecting the logs, the diagnostics command also collects the watcher logs and the logs of a possible new version if the agent which failed during upgrade and then it was rolled back to the previous version. -pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2518[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2518]

  agent

• Make Download Of Elastic Agent Upgrade Artifacts Asynchronous During Fleet-Managed Upgrade And Increase The Download Timeout To 2 Hours. {agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2205[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2205]

• Make The Language Used In Cli Commands More Consistent. {agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2496[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2496]

  config-manager

• Increase Timeout, Add Config For Timeout In Fleet Setup. {config-manager-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2541[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2541]

Bug fixes

• Fix Action Acknowledgements Taking Up To 5 Minutes. Fixed Osquery Live Query Results Taking Up To Five Minutes To Show Up In Kibana. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2406[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2406] {-issue}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2410[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2410]

• Ensure Local Bin Directory Exists On Mac Os During Installation. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/2490[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/2490]

• Report Not Bootstrapped With Fleet-Server As An Error. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2505[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2505] {-issue}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2170[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2170]

• Fixed An Issue Where Inspect And Diagnostics Didn't Include The Local Elastic Agent Configuration. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2529[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2529] {-issue}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2390[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2390]

• Fix Pprof Diagnostics. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2617[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2617] {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2549[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2549] {-issue}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2530[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2530]

• Fix Container Service Token Path Issue. {-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2576[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2576]

  action handlers

• Fixes A Bug That Caused An Empty Proxy From A Fleet Managed Agent Policy To Override The Proxy Set By --Proxy-Url. {action handlers-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2468[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2468]

  agent

• Fix Parsing Of Paths From Container-Paths.yml File. {agent-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2340[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2340]

  config

• Fix System Config In Example Standalone Config File. {config-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2338[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2338]

  diagnostics

• Fix Diagnostic Zip File Handling Of Sub-Directories In Logs/. {diagnostics-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2523[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2523]

  elastic-agent

• Fixes A Bug That Logging.level Settings Were Not Being Respected, Coming Either From Fleet Ui Or A Config File. {elastic-agent-pull}2456[#2456] {elastic-agent-issue}2450[#2450]

  spec

• Re-Add Lumberjack Input To The Filebeat Spec. {spec-pull}https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2511[#https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/2511]