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Elasticsearch version 8.16.3

Also see Breaking changes in 8.16.

Bug fixes

CCS

Resolve/cluster should mark remotes as not connected when a security exception is thrown #119793

Data streams

Add missing traces ilm policy for OTel traces data streams #119449

ES|QL

Allow DATE_PARSE to read the timezones #118603 (issue: #117680)

ILM+SLM

Add missing timeouts to rest-api-spec ILM APIs #118837
Add missing timeouts to rest-api-spec SLM APIs #118958

Ingest Node

Add missing timeouts to rest-api-spec ingest APIs #118844
Expose BwC enrich cache setting in plugin #119131
Fixing GetDatabaseConfigurationAction response serialization #119233

Machine Learning

Fix loss of context in the inference API for streaming APIs #118999 (issue: #119000)
Fix spike detection for short spikes at the tail of the data #119637
Fix timeout ingesting an empty string into a semantic_text field #117840

Search

Fix: do not let _resolve/cluster hang if remote is unresponsive #119516
Handle exceptions in query phase can match #117469 (issue: #104994)

Enhancements

Authorization

Improve handling of nested fields in index reader wrappers #118757

Packaging

In this release we’ve introduced an image based on the hardened Wolfi image to provide secure containers to our self-managed customers, help with compliance regulations, and improve our supply chain security posture. #118684

Upgrades

Security

Upgrade Bouncy Castle FIPS dependencies #112989

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