ECS 9.3.0 RC1

Schema Changes

Added

• Added cloud and orchestrator as allowed values for entity.type. #2567
• Allow entity fields at root level. #2567
• Added entity.target for self-nesting. #2567
• Added the target field to be nested under host #2571

Improvements

• Added details for implementation of url.query to avoid ambiguity #2488

ECS 9.2.0

Schema Changes

Added

• Add device value to event.type #2524
• Add new device fields #2530
• Added entity fieldset as beta #2537

ECS 9.2.0 RC1

Schema Changes

Added

• Add device value to event.type #2524
• Add new device fields #2530
• Added entity fieldset as beta #2537

ECS 9.1.0

Schema Changes

Bugfixes

• Add origin_referrer_url and origin_url fields, which indicate the origin information to the file, process and dll schemas #2441
• Add thumbprint_sha256 to code_signature schema. #2452

Added

• Add gen_ai fields to schema as beta. #2475

Tooling and Artifact Changes

Bugfixes

• Fix otel urls for fieldsets with underscores. #2486

Improvements

• Allow Unicode characters in generated ECS yml files. #2478
• Update semconv version used in file generation to v1.34.0 #2483

ECS 9.0.0

Schema Changes

Breaking changes

• Remove deprecated fields from previous major release; process.pgid, service.node.role, and inherited users. #2410

Bugfixes

• Fix link rendering issues and usage of http in links. #2423
• Fix link rendering for additional fields. #2458

Added

• Add origin_referrer_url and origin_url fields, which indicate the origin information to the file, process and dll schemas. #2441

Improvements

• Define base encoding of x509.serial_number. #2383
• Restrict the encoding of x509.serial_number to base 16. #2398
• Promote beta fields to GA. #2411
• Set synthetic_source_keep = none on fields that represent sets. #2422
• Increase ignore_above value for url.query. #2424

Tooling and Artifact Changes

Added

• Add mapping between ECS and OpenTelemetry. #2415

ECS 9.0.0-rc1

Schema Changes

Breaking changes

• Remove deprecated fields from previous major release; process.pgid, service.node.role, and inherited users. #2410

Bugfixes

• Fix link rendering issues and usage of http in links. #2423

Added

• Add origin_referrer_url and origin_url fields, which indicate the origin information to the file, process and dll schemas. #2441

Improvements

• Increase ignore_above value for url.query. #2424
• Set synthetic_source_keep = none on fields that represent sets. #2422
• Promote beta fields to GA. #2411
• Restrict the encoding of x509.serial_number to base 16. #2398
• Define base encoding of x509.serial_number. #2383

Tooling and Artifact Changes

Added

• Add mapping between ECS and OpenTelemetry. #2415

Improvements

• Update data_stream.yml with top level type: group. #2414

ECS 8.17.0

Schema Changes

Bugfixes

• Fix link rendering issues and usage of http in links. #2423

Improvements

• Increase ignore_above value for url.query. #2424
• Set synthetic_source_keep = none on fields that represent sets. #2422

ECS 8.16.0

Schema Changes

Bugfixes

• Fix broken link in docs for vulnerability.id. #2328

Added

• Added volume.* as beta field set. #2269
• Advanced process.env_vars to GA. #2315
• Advanced process.io and process.tty fields to GA. #2317
• Added threat.indicator.id. #2324
• Added process.group to generated schemas. #2335

Improvements

• Define base encoding of x509.serial_number. #2383

Tooling and Artifact Changes

Bugfixes

• Fix broken link for vulnerabilty.id #2328

Added

• Documentation in README.md providing instruction on contributions to ECS during the OTel donation #2325

ECS 8.11.0

Schema Changes

Bugfixes

• Remove expected_values from threat.*.indicator.name fields. #2281

Tooling and Artifact Changes

Bugfixes

• Respect reusable.top_level in Beats generator #2278

ECS 8.10.0

ECS 8.10.0

Schema Changes

Added

• Added container.security_context.privileged to indicated whether a container was started in privileged mode. #2219, #2225, #2246
• Added process.thread.capabilities.permitted to contain the current thread's possible capabilities. #2245
• Added process.thread.capabilities.effective to contain the current thread's effective capabilities. #2245

Improvements

• Permit ignore_above if explicitly set on a flattened field. #2248

Tooling and Artifact Changes

Improvements

• Improved documentation formatting to better follow the contributing guide. #2226
• Bump gitpython dependency from 3.1.30 to 3.1.35 for security fixes. #2251, #2264, #2265