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@norrietaylor @lalit-satapathy @andrewkroh can we please get people from your time to review this?

Do we expect all packages to work on Elastic Agent 7.17 even when their manifest says they require Kibana 8.x? Or is this a special case because it's the system package?

As we never introduced any Agent version constraints in the package manifest then users would expect them to work. If you first upgrade your stack to 8.X and then upgrade all integrations before upgrading Agents you wouldn't expect them to be broken.

Are there CI tests for this package against 7.x?

I do not think so.

@pierrehilbert @cmacknz
Is this a valid scenario to expect an integration with ^8.x to work on 7.x agent?
This type of compatibility issue is likely common in many integrations where a feature has been introduced in version 8.x but is not supported in agent version 7.x.

@ishleenk17 That what would you recommend? It also means that 7.X users won't get fixes anymore or this will break their integrations?

Approving this for now as it's a conditional check.

@ishleenk17 That what would you recommend? It also means that 7.X users won't get fixes anymore or this will break their integrations?

In general, the recommendation would be to not have a mix of versions in the stack. There can be other uncovered incompatibilities as well.

For fixing an integration in older stack version, this approach can be followed.

In general, the recommendation would be to not have a mix of versions in the stack. There can be other uncovered incompatibilities as well.

I do agree but this is definitely not what users are doing and this can be easily proved by our telemetry.

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