Version 7.17.4 of the Elastic Stack was released on May 24, 2022, and it is recommended to upgrade to this latest version over previous patch versions in the 7.17.x series. This release addresses a potential security vulnerability, with further details available in the security advisory. The update includes fixes for issues across various Elastic Stack products, such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security. Notably, it resolves a bug in the Elastic Security Solution related to a trusted applications path that caused a timeout error when users defined a matching Path value without wildcards. For comprehensive details of these fixes and changes, users are directed to consult the 7.17.4 release notes.