Version: SG FLX

Search Guard end of life policy

Summary

The Search Guard End of Life policy defines

  • which Elasticsearch versions receive new Search Guard features and bugfixes
  • which Elasticsearch version receive critical bugfixes for Search Guard
  • which Elasticsearch version is End of Life (EOL) and will not receive any Search Guard updates

The Search Guard EOL policy follows the Elasticsearch update policy.

Please also refer to Elasticsearch end of life policy to check whether your Elasticsearch version has reached End of Life in general.

Which Elasticsearch versions receive new features and bugfixes

  • All releases of the current minor version of the current Elasticsearch major version

Example: If the most recent version of Elasticsearch and Kibana is 8.6.2, then the following versions receive new Search Guard features and bugfixes:

  • Elasticsearch and Kibana 8.6.x

Which Elasticsearch versions receive critical bugfixes

  • All releases of the current minor version of the current Elasticsearch major version
  • Current version of the last Elasticsearch major version

Example: If the most recent version of Elasticsearch and Kibana is 8.6.2, then the following versions receive critical bugfixes

  • Elasticsearch and Kibana 8.6.x
  • Elasticsearch and Kibana 7.17.9

Which Elasticsearch versions receive no updates at all any longer



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