# New Search Guard releases and security fixes

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-search-guard-releases-and-security-fixes/336>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [December 13, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-search-guard-releases-and-security-fixes/336 "2016-12-13T19:49:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Post date:** [December 13, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-search-guard-releases-and-security-fixes/336/1 "2016-12-13T19:49:15Z")

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We’re happy to announce a bunch of releases today.

To obtain all important security fixes, we strongly recommend to update to this latest version.

Please find more details here: [GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard: Search Guard Plugin - Security for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues)

**Search Guard Version 9:**

- Add support for Elasticsearch 5.1.1
- Fix [DLS not picked up when getting documents by ID #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/issues/1)
- Fix [sgadmin timeout when updating a role with duplicated permissions #238](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/238)
  - by introducing a -ff (–fail-fast) flag which is not set by default

- Fix [Missing permissions when running JWT #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-jwt/issues/1)
- Fix composite handling (composite actions were not detected correctly)
- Fix [permissions resolution for certain index/type combinations](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues) (by Lucas Bremgartner)
- Fix [Redundant condition #248](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/248)
- Make error messages more verbose and give recommendations what the user can try to fix it  
Details: [GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard: Search Guard Plugin - Security for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki)

**Search Guard SSL Version 19:**

- Add support for Elasticsearch 5.1.1
- Add support for injecting external ssl context into client
- Introduce PrincipalExtractor which allows to customize x509 principal name extraction for transport layer

Details: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/wiki)

**DLS/FLS module Version 5:**

- Fix [DLS not picked up when getting documents by ID #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/issues/1)  
[GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls: DLS/FLS Module for Search Guard 5](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/wiki)

**LDAP module Version 5:**

- Fix rolesearch resolution of {1} placeholder
- Fix [#227 Enable TLSv1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/227)
- Fix [#2 Suppress stacktrace if user roles could not be filled](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/issues/2)

> **[Home · floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap Wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/wiki)**
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> \[OUTDATED\] LDAP Authentication- and Authorizationbackend for Search Guard - Home · floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap Wiki

Commercial support is available here [https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/](https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/)

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> Search Guard (®) is an Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication and authorisation.
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> It builds on Search Guard SSL and provides pluggable auth/auth modules in addition.

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**Author:** ![Gevork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Gevork](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/Gevork)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-search-guard-releases-and-security-fixes/336/2 "2016-12-25T17:41:32Z")

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Can you please help me with the initial config of this plugin. After install when I want to apply config files via

Sgadmin.sh says it cannot connect to 9300. When even I specify -p 9200 it fails to connect and apply configs. What to do?

How to open SSL port so that sgadmin can connect.

???

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> On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:49:15 UTC+1, Search Guard wrote:
> 
> > We’re happy to announce a bunch of releases today.
> 
> > To obtain all important security fixes, we strongly recommend to update to this latest version.
> 
> > Please find more details here: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues)
> 
> > 
> 
> > **Search Guard Version 9:**
> 
> > - Add support for Elasticsearch 5.1.1
> > - Fix [DLS not picked up when getting documents by ID #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/issues/1)
> > - Fix [sgadmin timeout when updating a role with duplicated permissions #238](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/238)
> > - by introducing a -ff (–fail-fast) flag which is not set by default
> > 
> > - Fix [Missing permissions when running JWT #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-jwt/issues/1)
> > - Fix composite handling (composite actions were not detected correctly)
> > - Fix [permissions resolution for certain index/type combinations](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues) (by Lucas Bremgartner)
> > - Fix [Redundant condition #248](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/248)
> > - Make error messages more verbose and give recommendations what the user can try to fix it  
> > Details: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki)
> 
> > 
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> > 
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> > **Search Guard SSL Version 19:**
> 
> > - Add support for Elasticsearch 5.1.1
> > - Add support for injecting external ssl context into client
> > - Introduce PrincipalExtractor which allows to customize x509 principal name extraction for transport layer
> 
> > Details: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/wiki)
> 
> > 
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> > 
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> > **DLS/FLS module Version 5:**
> 
> > - Fix [DLS not picked up when getting documents by ID #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/issues/1)  
> > [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/wiki)
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> > 
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> > 
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> > **LDAP module Version 5:**
> 
> > - Fix rolesearch resolution of {1} placeholder
> > - Fix [#227 Enable TLSv1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/227)
> > - Fix [#2 Suppress stacktrace if user roles could not be filled](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/issues/2)
> 
> > [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/wiki)
> 
> > 
> 
> > Commercial support is available here [https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/](https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/)
> 
> > 
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> > * * *
> 
> > Search Guard (®) is an Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication and authorisation.
> 
> > It builds on Search Guard SSL and provides pluggable auth/auth modules in addition.

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**Author:** ![Gevork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Gevork](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/Gevork)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-search-guard-releases-and-security-fixes/336/3 "2016-12-25T18:22:03Z")

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I think I have found the problem. It was because the ip was not 127.0.0.1

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> On Sunday, 25 December 2016 18:41:33 UTC+1, Gevork wrote:
> 
> > Can you please help me with the initial config of this plugin. After install when I want to apply config files via
> 
> > Sgadmin.sh says it cannot connect to 9300. When even I specify -p 9200 it fails to connect and apply configs. What to do?
> 
> > 
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> > How to open SSL port so that sgadmin can connect.
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> > 
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> > ???
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> > On Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:49:15 UTC+1, Search Guard wrote:
> > 
> > > We’re happy to announce a bunch of releases today.
> 
> > > To obtain all important security fixes, we strongly recommend to update to this latest version.
> 
> > > Please find more details here: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues)
> 
> > >
> 
> > > **Search Guard Version 9:**
> 
> > > - Add support for Elasticsearch 5.1.1
> > > - Fix [DLS not picked up when getting documents by ID #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/issues/1)
> > > - Fix [sgadmin timeout when updating a role with duplicated permissions #238](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/238)
> > > - by introducing a -ff (–fail-fast) flag which is not set by default
> > > 
> > > - Fix [Missing permissions when running JWT #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-jwt/issues/1)
> > > - Fix composite handling (composite actions were not detected correctly)
> > > - Fix [permissions resolution for certain index/type combinations](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/SecurityIssues) (by Lucas Bremgartner)
> > > - Fix [Redundant condition #248](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/248)
> > > - Make error messages more verbose and give recommendations what the user can try to fix it  
> > > Details: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki)
> 
> > >
> 
> > >
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> > > **Search Guard SSL Version 19:**
> 
> > > - Add support for Elasticsearch 5.1.1
> > > - Add support for injecting external ssl context into client
> > > - Introduce PrincipalExtractor which allows to customize x509 principal name extraction for transport layer
> 
> > > Details: [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-ssl/wiki)
> 
> > >
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> > >
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> > > **DLS/FLS module Version 5:**
> 
> > > - Fix [DLS not picked up when getting documents by ID #1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/issues/1)  
> > > [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-module-dlsfls/wiki)
> 
> > >
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> > >
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> > > **LDAP module Version 5:**
> 
> > > - Fix rolesearch resolution of {1} placeholder
> > > - Fix [#227 Enable TLSv1](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/227)
> > > - Fix [#2 Suppress stacktrace if user roles could not be filled](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/issues/2)
> 
> > > [https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/wiki](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-authbackend-ldap/wiki)
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Commercial support is available here [https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/](https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/)
> 
> > >
> 
> > > * * *
> 
> > > Search Guard (®) is an Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication and authorisation.
> 
> > > It builds on Search Guard SSL and provides pluggable auth/auth modules in addition.
