elasticsearch/docs/reference/release-notes/8.17.3.asciidoc

[[release-notes-8.17.3]]
== {es} version 8.17.3


Also see <<breaking-changes-8.17,Breaking changes in 8.17>>.

[[bug-8.17.3]]
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=== Bug fixes

Aggregations::
* Disable concurrency when `top_hits` sorts on anything but `_score` {es-pull}123610[#123610]

Allocation::
* Deduplicate allocation stats calls {es-pull}123246[#123246]

Authentication::
* Improve jwt logging on failed auth {es-pull}122247[#122247]

CRUD::
* Reduce license checks in `LicensedWriteLoadForecaster` {es-pull}123346[#123346] (issue: {es-issue}123247[#123247])

Data streams::
* Add `_metric_names_hash` field to OTel metric mappings {es-pull}120952[#120952]

EQL::
* Fix JOIN command validation (not supported) {es-pull}122011[#122011]

ES|QL::
* Fix ENRICH validation for use of wildcards {es-pull}121911[#121911]
* Fix listener leak in exchange service {es-pull}122417[#122417] (issue: {es-issue}122271[#122271])
* Speed up VALUES for many buckets {es-pull}123073[#123073]

Infra/Node Lifecycle::
* Block running ES 8.17 with JDK 24+ {es-pull}122517[#122517]

Ingest::
* Fix `ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException` in `ShardBulkInferenceActionFilter` {es-pull}122538[#122538]

Ingest Node::
* Canonicalize processor names and types in `IngestStats` {es-pull}122610[#122610]
* Deduplicate `IngestStats` and `IngestStats.Stats` identity records when deserializing {es-pull}122496[#122496]
* Fix redact processor arraycopy bug {es-pull}122640[#122640]
* Register `IngestGeoIpMetadata` as a NamedXContent {es-pull}123079[#123079]
* Use ordered maps for `PipelineConfiguration` xcontent deserialization {es-pull}123403[#123403]

Logs::
* Fix issues that prevents using search only snapshots for indices that use index sorting. This is includes Logsdb and time series indices. {es-pull}122199[#122199]
* Use min node version to guard injecting settings in logs provider {es-pull}123005[#123005] (issue: {es-issue}122950[#122950])

Mapping::
* Fix synthetic source bug that would mishandle nested `dense_vector` fields {es-pull}122425[#122425]
* fix stale data in synthetic source for string stored field {es-pull}123105[#123105] (issue: {es-issue}123110[#123110])

Stats::
* Fixing serialization of `ScriptStats` `cache_evictions_history` {es-pull}123384[#123384]

[[upgrade-8.17.3]]
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=== Upgrades

Authentication::
* Bump json-smart and oauth2-oidc-sdk {es-pull}122737[#122737]

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[[known-issues-8.17.3]]
=== Known issues

{esql}::

* Some valid queries using an `ENRICH` command can fail when a match field is used that is absent from some indices or shards, either with a 500 status code due to `NullPointerException` or `ClassCastException` or with a 400 status code and `IllegalArgumentException`. This is fixed in {es-pull}126187[#126187].