Search Guard v41 released

Hi all,

we’re happy to announce Search Guard v41, compatible with Elasticsearch 7.6.0 and above.

This release fixes several issues in Search Guard and the Kibana plugin, and also adds a bunch of new features, for example:

For example, we introduced a new "blocks" configuration which you can use to block requests on a global level based on usernames, IP addresses, or network masks:

The JSON web token authenticator now also supports JSON path expression which adds support for nested keys in JWT:

We also improved Signals Alerting regarding scripting and available attributed:

You can find the full changelogs here:

As always, we appreciate your feedback, questions and feature requests here on the forum.

Have fun!

Jochen and the Search Guad team


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