The subscription link on Elastic website shows certain security features available with basic license but forum posts indicate otherwise. What's actually available with basic license?

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I have installed Elasticsearch via docker (version 6.5.4) not the oss image. As per my understanding it comes with a basic license. An API call to /_xpack/license shows this response

{
  "license" : {
    "status" : "active",
    "uid" : "aa2f181d-86ae-4101-b875-546bfe984ca1",
    "type" : "basic",
    "issue_date" : "2019-03-22T12:58:25.539Z",
    "issue_date_in_millis" : 1553259505539,
    "max_nodes" : 1000,
    "issued_to" : "my-elasticsearch-cluster",
    "issuer" : "elasticsearch",
    "start_date_in_millis" : -1
  }
}

Also, when I check the link https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions I can see that under Basic license, certain security features are marked as available

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But when I try to hit the API GET /_xpack/security/role, I get the response:

{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "security_exception",
        "reason": "current license is non-compliant for [security]",
        "license.expired.feature": "security"
      }
    ],
    "type": "security_exception",
    "reason": "current license is non-compliant for [security]",
    "license.expired.feature": "security"
  },
  "status": 403
}

Does this mean that security feature is not available with basic license? If yes, then is the subscription page providing inaccurate information or I didn't understand it properly? It would be great if anyone could clarify this.

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Security was made available as part of the basic license in version 6.8 so you will need to upgrade to use it. The subscriptions page shows the state as of the latest version.

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