Version 7.17.9 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version. We recommend 7.17.9 over the previous patch versions in 7.17.x.
The 7.17.9 patch release contains a fix for a potential security vulnerability. Please see our security advisory for more details.
For details of the issues that have been fixed and a
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