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Kibana 8.18.8

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Kibana 8.18.8

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The 8.18.8 release includes the following fixes.

This release contains fixes for potential security vulnerabilities. Check our security advisory for more details.

Fixes

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Dashboards and Visualizations
  • Fixes text kerning issues in PDF/PNG exports of dashboards and visualizations (#235516).
  • Updates dashboards to wait until controls are ready before rendering panels to prevent a double fetch of data (#237169).
  • Fixes an issue with the Lens table’s column sort order being different in the dashboard and the exported CSV (#236673).
  • Fixes an issue where the dashboard title would not get updated in the breadcrumb when edited from the list of dashboards (#236561).
Data ingestion and Fleet
  • Adds a unique count to improve accuracy of the number of transforms on the integrations overview page (#236177).
  • Validates the Logstash pipeline ID at the Kibana API level (#236347).
Discover
  • Clears sort by timestamp when navigating from classic to ES|QL mode (#235338).
Elastic Observability solution
  • Removes span documents from the getServiceAgent function (#236732).
Elastic Security solution
For the Elastic Security 8.18.8 release information, refer to [Elastic Security Solution Release Notes](docs-content://release-notes/elastic-security/index.md).
Kibana security
  • Allows xpack.spaces.defaultSolution to be configured through environment variables for Docker deployments (#236570).
  • Adds the ability to do partial matches and searches in the API keys section of Stack Management (#221959).
Machine Learning
  • Hides the show forecast checkbox when selecting a new job in the Single Metric Viewer (#236724).
  • Makes alerts visible in Anomaly Explorer to all Machine Learning-only users regardless of where they create rules (#236289).
  • Fixes the Job details flyout on the Analytics Map page (#236131).
  • Limits log rate analysis category requests to reduce msearch usage (#235611).
  • Fixes rendering of the dashboard panel in PDF reporting for the Anomaly Swim Lane (#235475).
Management
  • Fixes privilege requirements when reindexing indices through Upgrade Assistant. Previously, the superuser role was required, but now the cluster: manage and all privileges are sufficient (#237055).
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