Version 8.5.1 of the Elastic Stack has been released, with recommendations to upgrade from the previous 8.5.0 version to take advantage of the latest fixes and changes. The update affects various Elastic products, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Logstash, Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, APM, and Elastic Security. For a comprehensive list of the updates and resolved issues in this version, users are directed to consult the 8.5.1 Release Notes.