changelog/8.11.0.yaml

version: 8.11.0
entries:
    - kind: feature
      summary: Add support for processors in hints-based Kubernetes autodiscover.
      description: ""
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3107
      issue:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2959
      timestamp: 1691060806
      file:
        name: 1691060806-Processor-support-for-hints-autodiscover.yaml
        checksum: c55b54ba6747d5ac659649fd4e4a16e941364f8e
    - kind: feature
      summary: Print out Elastic Agent installation steps to show progress.
      description: ""
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3338
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1693427183
      file:
        name: 1693427183-install-progress.yaml
        checksum: fb4c231a3a23abd6be758a4342484d10ce73aa6c
    - kind: feature
      summary: Add colors to Agent messages printed by the elastic-agent logs command based on their level.
      description: ""
      component: CLI
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3345
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1693813219
      file:
        name: 1693813219-log-command-colors.yaml
        checksum: 53b5a44c3799fa9888ad7beba34c2858bca7b3e2
    - kind: enhancement
      summary: Support the NETINFO variable in Elastic Kubernetes manifests. Setting a new environmental variable `ELASTIC_NETINFO=false` globally disables the `netinfo.enabled` parameter of the `add_host_metadata` processor. This disables the indexing of `host.ip` and `host.mac` fields.
      description: ""
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3354
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1693920861
      file:
        name: 1693920861-netinfo-manifests.yaml
        checksum: e9e5a459e64a189b7b74f5689c57d41d4fbf442c
    - kind: bug-fix
      summary: The Elastic Agent uninstall process now finds and kills any running upgrade Watcher process. Uninstalls initiated within 10 minutes of a previous upgrade now work as expected.
      description: ""
      component: ""
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3384
      issue:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/3371
      timestamp: 1694187216
      file:
        name: 1694187216-Uninstall-finds-and-kills-any-running-watcher-process.yaml
        checksum: 31df28d9490d0c844b88d48f1aa3504cce2365ee
    - kind: enhancement
      summary: Fix the Kubernetes `deploy/kubernetes/creator_k8.sh` script to correcly exclude configmaps.
      description: ""
      component: ""
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3396
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1694439479
      file:
        name: 1694439479-fix_creatork8sscript.yaml
        checksum: c65f7e65ebac64f9332a407f2449c88e30bd4239
    - kind: bug-fix
      summary: Prevent a standalone Elastic Agent from being upgraded if an upgrade is already in progress.
      description: ""
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3473
      issue:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/issues/2706
      timestamp: 1695685534
      file:
        name: 1695685534-standalone-prevent-quick-upgrades.yaml
        checksum: 9df813abbdf5ae1558b16b1052a5bbc238cf7ae1
    - kind: feature
      summary: Enable tamper protection feature flag by default for Elastic Agent version 8.11.0.
      description: ""
      component: ""
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3478
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1695780865
      file:
        name: 1695780865-Enable-tamper-protection-feature-flag-by-default-for-Agent-8.11.0.yaml
        checksum: 46eac90f4af827db837fc7d19c1131328b011952
    - kind: bug-fix
      summary: Prevent multiple attempts to stop an already stopped service.
      description: ""
      component: runtime
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3482
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1695920792
      file:
        name: 1695920792-Prevent-multiple-stops-of-services.yaml
        checksum: 8a0b54855b27c98e6af3d60df1c9cb04f935efee
    - kind: breaking-change
      summary: Enable compression by default for Elasticsearch outputs
      description: 'The default compression level for Elasticsearch outputs is changing from 0 to 1. On typical workloads this is expected to decrease network data volume by 70-80%, while increasing cpu use by 20-25% and ingestion time by 10%. The previous behavior can be restored by adding ''compression_level: 0'' to the output configuration.'
      component: all
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/36681
      issue:
        - https://github.com/elastic/ingest-dev/issues/2458
      timestamp: 1696361138
      file:
        name: 1696361138-es-default-compression.yaml
        checksum: f3bee390b1af6bc5049315e25e5c14d0ff23240e
    - kind: bug-fix
      summary: Fix a bug that affected reporting progress of the Agent artifact download during an upgrade.
      description: ""
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3548
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1696530758
      file:
        name: 1696530758-bugfix-upgrade-progress-reporter.yaml
        checksum: a168f2ab2a26e7813bb230b5f663ecbeca9d624c
    - kind: enhancement
      summary: Increase Agent monitoring metrics interval from 10s to 60s to reduce the default ingestion load and long term storage requirements.
      description: ""
      component: monitoring
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3578
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1696955150
      file:
        name: 1696955150-Slow-down-agent-monitoring-metrics-interval-to-60s.yaml
        checksum: ead85ab471d5a6f609c367d57817d1c2299d93f2
    - kind: breaking-change
      summary: Elastic-agent-autodiscover to v0.6.4. Disables metadata for deployment and cronjob
      description: Elastic-agent-autodiscover library by default comes with add_resource_metadata.deployment=false and add_resource_metadata.cronjob=false. Pods that will be created from deployments or cronjobs will not have the extra metadata field for kubernetes.deployment or kubernetes.cronjob respectively.
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3593
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1697103197
      file:
        name: 1697103197-updating_agentautodiscovery_811.yaml
        checksum: b937c2a635860c3497502b018b8b997143ba5fc3
    - kind: security
      summary: Upgrade to Go 1.20.10.
      description: ""
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3601
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1697229987
      file:
        name: 1697229987-Upgrade-to-Go-1.20.10.yaml
        checksum: e31fa72a840bb0616000830d86a3b18f1a22aae6
    - kind: bug-fix
      summary:  Upgrade `elastic-agent-libs` to v0.6.0 to fix the Agent Windows service becoming unresponsive. Fixes Windows service timeouts during WMI queries and during service shutdown.
      description: ""
      component: agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3632
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1697662109
      file:
        name: 1697662109-upgrade-elastic-agent-libs-to-v0.6.0.yaml
        checksum: 70d3e8469fce838d73781c409d9dd7592adbddc8
    - kind: bug-fix
      summary: Increase wait period between service restarts on failure to 15s on Windows.
      description: This is the same value used by other Elastic windows services like endpoint-security.
      component: elastic-agent
      pr:
        - https://github.com/elastic/elastic-agent/pull/3657
      issue: []
      timestamp: 1698259940
      file:
        name: 1698259940-Increase-wait-period-between-service-restarts-on-failure-to-15s-on-Windows.yaml
        checksum: 12985bc12758581d4f236ebf0928fde307ffceca