This section discusses the changes that you need to be aware of when migrating your application to {es} 7.17.
See also [release-highlights] and [es-release-notes].
coming::[7.17.6]
There are no breaking changes in {es} 7.17.
The following functionality has been deprecated in {es} 7.17 and will be removed in a future version. While this won’t have an immediate impact on your applications, we strongly encourage you take the described steps to update your code after upgrading to 7.17.
To find out if you are using any deprecated functionality, enable deprecation logging.
Set monitoring auth.password cluster settings deprecation level as critical
Details
Changing the deprecation level for the monitoring auth.password settings in cluster state to CRITICAL.
Impact
The upgrade assistant will block 8.0 upgrades on monitoring auth.password set in cluster state.