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Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.16.6

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Review important information about the Fleet and Elastic Agent 8.16.6 release.

Enhancements

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Elastic Agent
  • Include all metadata that is sent to Fleet in the agent-info.yaml file in diagnostics by default. #7029

Bug fixes

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Fleet
  • Fix an issue with the Elastic Agent binary download field being blank when a policy uses the default download source. #214360
Elastic Agent
  • Add conditions to the copy_fields processors used with Elastic Agent self-monitoring to prevent spamming the debug logs. #6730 #5299
  • Make enroll command backoff more conservative and add backoff when using --delay-enroll. #6983 #6761
  • Add missing null checks to AST methods. #7009 #6999
  • Fix an issue where fixpermissions on Windows incorrectly returned an error message due to improper handling of Windows API return values. #7059 #6917
  • Support IPv6 hosts in enroll URL. #7036
  • Support IPv6 hosts in GRPC configuration. #7035
  • Rotate logger output file when writing to a symbolic link. #6938
  • Do not fail Windows permission updates on missing files or paths. #7305 #7301
  • Make otelcol script executable in the Docker image. #7345