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7.17.4

New Features:

  • SEAL Elastic Stack has been upgraded to use

    • Elasticsearch 7.17.20

    • Kibana 7.17.20

    • Filebeat 7.17.20

    (ELK-126)

  • SEAL Logrotate has been moved to a separate software bundle. You have to install it before you install SEAL Elastic Stack. (ELK-130)

  • The firewall.sh and firewall.ps1 scripts will start the firewall only, if it had been activated before. (ELK-127)

  • Concerning the Delete phase of accounting and audit data, the storage period default of the corresponding lifecycle policy has been significantly enhanced from 7 to 365 days. This way these data are stored in the Elasticsearch database in this period between 365 and 395 days. (ELK-139)

    Hint - new installations only

    As during updates, our configuration script leaves settings of index policies untouched, the new default only affects new installations.

    If you need changes concerning the long term storage, you have to adjust the settings manually.

7.17.3

New Features:

  • SEAL Elastic Stack provides a separate Filebeat service for SEAL Operator, named seal-operator-filebeat. (ELK-88)

  • The load-config configuration script is able to upload preconfigured roles, users and role mappings to Elasticsearch, if you have activated the minimal security. (ELK-112)

  • The load-config configuration script is able to upload preconfigured Kibana spaces to Elasticsearch. Besides, you can copy specific Kibana objects from the standard configuration into a Kibana space and this way, combined with a user and roll management in Elasticsearch, provide a limited Kibana user interface for specific users depending on the assigned Kibana space. (ELK-113)

  • The load-config configuration scipt updates index templates automatically every time. The -overwrite option is no longer needed. (ELK-118)

  • In preparation for future versions, path.data is now set in the kibana.yml file instead of the service configuration. (ELK-119)

  • Third party products in the original ELastic Stack:

    • Elasticsearch 7.17.12 contains Java 20.0.2 from July 18 2023.

    • Kibana 7.17.12 contains NodeJS 16.20.1.

    (ELK-119)

7.17.0

New Features:

  • Elasticsearch has been moved to the standard SEAL Sytems installation directory. Hence the paths and directories of Elasticsearch have changed to the standard paths and directories, see Directories and Files on Linux and Directories and Files on Windows. (ELK-69)

  • SEAL Elastic Stack uses Java 18.0.1 or later due to security vulnerabilities. (ELK-61)

  • SEAL Elastic Stack provides a Filebeat package for PLOSSYS 4 systems, which enables PLOSSYS 4 systems to upload accounting data to SEAL Elasticsearch. (ELK-66)

  • SEAL Elastic Stack uses Node.js 16.18.1. (ELK-93)

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