Version 8.2.1 of the Elastic Stack was released on May 24, 2022, bringing important security fixes and minor enhancements to the suite of tools, which includes Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Enterprise Search, and Elastic Observability. The update addresses two security vulnerabilities, with specific improvements noted for the APM component, such as resolving a bug where events within batches improperly shared metadata labels. Users are recommended to upgrade to this latest version to benefit from these security updates and improvements, and further details are available in the release notes.