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Connector release notes

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Connector release notes

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Prior to version 8.16.0, the connector release notes were published as part of the Enterprise Search documentation.

8.18.6

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No notable changes in this release.

8.18.5

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Bug fixes
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Resolves missing access control for “Everyone Except External Users” in SharePoint connector

Permissions granted to the “Everyone Except External Users” group were previously ignored, causing incomplete access control metadata in documents. This occurred because the connector did not recognize the group’s login name format. PR #3577 resolves this issue by recognizing the group’s login format and correctly applying its permissions to document access control metadata.

8.18.4

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No notable changes in this release.

8.18.3

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Enhancements

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  • Improve UUID handling by correctly parsing type 4 UUIDs and skipping unsupported type 3 with a warning. See PR 3459.
  • Confluence connector no longer swallows errors that may occur during ingestion. See PR 3384.

8.18.2

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No notable changes in this release.

8.18.1

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No notable changes in this release.

8.18.0

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Enterprise Search is discontinued in Elastic 9.0.0

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Elastic 9.0.0 and 8.18.0 are released at the same time. Please note that Enterprise Search is not available in Elastic 9.0+, including App Search, Workplace Search, the Elastic Web Crawler, and Elastic managed connectors. If you are an Enterprise Search user and want to upgrade to Elastic 9.0, refer to our Enterprise Search FAQ. It includes detailed steps, tooling, and resources to help you transition to supported alternatives in 9.x, such as Elasticsearch, the Open Web Crawler, and self-managed connectors.

Enhancements

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  • Updated the OSS Dockerfile in the Connectors repository to use a different base image for improved security.

    Users building custom docker images based on this Dockerfile may have to review their configuration for compatibility with the new base image. See PR 3063.

8.17.10

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Bug fixes
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Resolves missing access control for “Everyone Except External Users” in SharePoint connector

Permissions granted to the “Everyone Except External Users” group were previously ignored, causing incomplete access control metadata in documents. This occurred because the connector did not recognize the group’s login name format. PR #3577 resolves this issue by recognizing the group’s login format and correctly applying its permissions to document access control metadata.

8.17.9

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.8

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.7

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.6

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.5

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.4

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.3

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.2

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No notable changes in this release.

8.17.1

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  • Fixed an issue where full syncs could delete newly ingested documents if the document ID from the third-party source was numeric. See PR 3031

8.17.0

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No notable changes in this release.

8.16.1

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Bug fixes

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  • Fixed a bug in the Outlook Connector where having deactivated users could cause the sync to fail. See PR 2967.
  • Fixed a bug where the Confluence connector was not downloading some blog post documents due to unexpected response format. See PR 2984.

8.16.0

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Deprecation notices

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  • Direct index access for connectors and sync jobs

    Directly accessing connector and sync job state through .elastic-connectors* indices is deprecated, and will be disallowed entirely in a future release.

  • Instead, the Elasticsearch Connector APIs should be used. Connectors framework code now uses the Connector APIs by default. See PR 2902.

  • Docker enterprise-search namespace deprecation

    The enterprise-search Docker namespace is deprecated and will be discontinued in a future release.

    Starting in 8.16.0, Docker images are being transitioned to the new integrations namespace, which will become the sole location for future releases. This affects the Elastic Connectors and Elastic Data Extraction Service.

    During this transition period, images are published to both namespaces:

    • Example:

      Deprecated namespace
      docker.elastic.co/enterprise-search/elastic-connectors:v8.16.0
      New namespace

      docker.elastic.co/integrations/elastic-connectors:v8.16.0

      Users should migrate to the new integrations namespace as soon as possible to ensure continued access to future releases.

Enhancements

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  • Connectors now support working with index aliases. See PR 2796.
  • Docker images now use Chainguard’s Wolfi base image (docker.elastic.co/wolfi/jdk:openjdk-11-dev), replacing the previous ubuntu:focal base.
  • The Sharepoint Online connector now works with the Sites.Selected permission instead of the broader permission Sites.Read.All. See PR 2762.
  • Starting in 8.16.0, connectors will start using proper SEMVER, with MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, which aligns with Elasticsearch/Kibana versions. This drops the previous .BUILD suffix, which we used to release connectors between Elastic stack releases. Going forward, these inter-stack-release releases will be suffixed instead with +<timestamp>, aligning with Elastic Agent and conforming to SEMVER. See PR 2749.
  • Connector logs now use UTC timestamps, instead of machine-local timestamps. This only impacts logging output. See PR 2695.

Bug fixes

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  • The Dropbox connector now fetches the files from team shared folders. See PR 2718.
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