Search Guard v14

Release Date: July 02, 2017

Note that with SG v14 our EOL policy takes effect.

Features

• Support for certificate revocation lists (CRL) (5.x only)
• BETA Support for Cross Cluster Search (>= 5.3.0)
• Backport to 2.4.5: Snapshot/Restore for regular users (2.4.5 only)
• Accept red cluster flag in sgadmin (>= 2.4.5)
  • sgadmin documentation
• X-Pack Monitoring and Alerting support (>= 5.3.0)
  • X-Pack Monitoring
• Support for PEM certificates in sgadmin (>= 2.4.5)
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/346
• noopenssl switch for sgadmin (>=2.4.5)
  • sgadmin documentation
• Improve sanity checks in sgadmin (>= 2.4.5)
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/344
• License notice output added (>= 2.4.5)

Fixes

• NPE when using POST for authinfo endpoint #335 (>= 2.4.5)
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/335
• Cache not flushed when updating single configuration files #334 (>= 2.4.5)
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/334
• Issue with deleting index with wildcards #332 (>= 2.4.5)
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/332
• Non final login failures are logged on ERROR level #329 (>= 2.4.5)
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/329
• Netty stacktrace displayed when accessing via HTTP instead of HTTPS
  • Issue was only present in SG >= 5.4.0
  • https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/issues/65