Search Guard 6.x-25.1

Release Date: 08.05.2019

• Upgrade Guide from 5.x to 6.x
• Upgrade Guide to 6.5.x

Security Fixes

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Fixes

Search Guard

• Make initialization more robust #691
  • There are rare situations where Search Guard was not initialized properly during a full cluster restart. This should now be fixed.
• Change logstash demo role to include cluster pipeline put+get permissions so that logstash and beats can manage their pipeline #692

Features

• Expert feature for OEM integrators: Add PUT and PATCH method for sgconfig endpoint #46
  • Needs to be enabled by setting searchguard.unsupported.restapi.allow_sgconfig_modification: true in elasticsearch.yml