# V7.13.0 breaks OSS distributions

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** libbeat\
**Created:** [June 1, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568 "2021-06-01T05:08:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Bason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dan_bason/32/89571_2.png) [@Dan\_Bason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Bason)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 5:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568/1 "2021-06-01T05:08:12Z")

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I've only tested with Metricbeat, but I assume most of the beats will be affected in v7.13.0. Connections to OSS distributions of Elasticsearch now fail due to a new license check introduced in libbeat (they throw an error about the \_license index). This also affects the OSS beats packages.

I believe [this](https://github.com/elastic/beats/commit/bef343badb83736992ca6c55c89a3af1e7228a42) is the commit that introduced the change, in particular, the new global callback:

```auto
elasticsearch.RegisterGlobalCallback(licenser.FetchAndVerify)

```

in the libbeat/cmd/root.go file.

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Bason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dan_bason/32/89571_2.png) [@Dan\_Bason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Bason)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 5:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568/2 "2021-06-01T05:16:50Z")

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Happy to raise a GH issue, but when I went to open one up it said to post here first.

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**Author:** ![Wolfram\_Haussig](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wolfram_haussig/32/70528_2.png) [@Wolfram\_Haussig](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Wolfram_Haussig)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568/3 "2021-06-01T10:41:37Z")

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Hello Dan,

Which Elasticsearch version do you have?

The Change was communicated in the [breaking changes](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/beats/libbeat/current/breaking-changes-7.13.html):

> In this release, Elastic is enabling a licensing change that was broadly communicated earlier in 2021 ([Licensing FAQ](https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing)). This change would imply that 7.13 instances of Beats **would fail to connect to 7.10 or earlier** open source distributions of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

Reading this I would guess you are running Elasticsearch 7.10 or earlier.

Best regards  
Wolfram

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Bason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dan_bason/32/89571_2.png) [@Dan\_Bason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Bason)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 7:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568/4 "2021-06-01T19:26:40Z")

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Hi Wolfram,

Thanks for those links; that is indeed the issue.

Regards  
Dan

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v7-13-0-breaks-oss-distributions/274568/5 "2021-06-29T21:27:08Z")

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