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8.17.3

New Features:

  • SEAL Elastic Stack has been upgraded to use

    • Elasticsearch 8.17.3

    • Kibana 8.17.3

    • Filebeat 8.17.3

    due to security issues. (ELK-175, ELK-160, 190)

  • The configuration directory and the installation script of SEAL Elastic Stack have been moved to the seal-elasticstack-configuration directory.

    This allows the configuration to be used independently of the local Elastic Stack installation, e. g. to import it into a hosted Elastic Stack System.

    The old configuration directory in the seal-kibana directory is renamed old-configuration.

    (ELK-142)

  • The load-config configuration script uses Node.js. (ELK-143)

  • SEAL Elastic Stack uses it own Node.js version, which is currently 20.16.0 or later. (ELK-157)

  • All Filebeat instances of SEAL Elastic Stack use the filestream input instead of the log input. (ELK-84)

  • The filebeat.log file has been granted 644 access authorization. This allows an administrator who is member of the seal user group to read the log file. (ELK-149)

  • SEAL Elastic Stack 8.x works with DPF 3.x, DPF 4, and PLOSSYS Distribution Engine. (ELK-171)

  • Runtime Fields for the accounting have benn changed to normal fields, which are written by a Pipeline. You have to re-index the accounting data after the update. (ELK-166)

  • The Filebeat configuration has been enhanced by the rotateonstartup: false option. This deactivates the rotation of the log files when Filebeat is started. In updates this option needs to be set manually. (ELK-137)

Bug-Fixes:

  • On the DPF admin dashboard, the duration of DPF jobs is displayed in the correct unit. (ELK-169)

  • The DPF configuration has been adjusted that log messages can be sorted into the correct index, despite of missing data fields. (ELK-173)

Known Issues:

  • If a job fails, because of errors in the printer language, the resulting error messages are missing in SEAL Elasticsearch. (ELK-155)

7.17.6

New Features:

  • The DPF_Support dashboard included in delivery shows metrics for output jobs, such as PrintJob Type. (ELK-193)

7.17.5

New Features:

  • SEAL Elastic Stack has been upgraded to use

    • Elasticsearch 7.17.23

    • Kibana 7.17.23

    • Filebeat 7.17.23

    due to security issues. (ELK-160)

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 role 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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