IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
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Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.3.0

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Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.3.0

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Review important information about the Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.3.0 release.

New features

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The 8.3.0 release adds the following new and notable features.

Fleet
  • Changes to agent upgrade modal to allow for rolling upgrades #132421
Elastic Agent
  • Adds ability to set tags during Elastic Agent installation and enrollment #149 #336
  • Adds support for Cloudbeat #179
  • Adds support for Kubernetes cronjobs #279
  • Increases the download artifact timeout to 10 minutes and adds log download statistics #308
  • Saves the agent configuration and the state encrypted on the disk #535 #398
  • Supports scheduled actions and cancellation of pending actions #393 #419

Enhancements

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Fleet
  • Moves integration labels below title and normalizes styling #134360
  • Adds First Integration Multi Page Steps Flow MVP (cloud only) #132809
  • Optimizes package installation performance, phase 2 #131627
  • Adds APM instrumentation for package install process #131223
  • Adds "Label" column + filter to Agent list table #131070
  • Adds cache-control headers to key /epm endpoints in Fleet API #130921
  • Optimizes package installation performance, phase 1 #130906
  • Adds experimental features (feature flags) config to Fleet plugin #130253
  • Adds redesigned Fleet Server flyout #127786
Elastic Agent
  • Bumps node.js version for Heartbeat/synthetics to 16.15.0 #446
  • Adds extra k8s resources in clusterRole to better filter objects in dashboards and visualizations #424
  • Collects Endpoint Security logs on the elastic-agent diagnostics collect command #105 #242

Bug fixes

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Fleet
  • Bulk reassign kuery optimize #134673
  • Fixes flickering tabs layout in add agent flyout #133769
  • Adds $ProgressPreference to Windows install command in flyout #133756
  • Fixes sorting by size on data streams table #132833
Elastic Agent
  • Elastic Agent now logs stdout and stderr of applications run as processes #88
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