I am using elastic search server 7.17.0 in my java project and i am using maven version for elastic as 7.17.0 but i found some security vulnerability in this version, so i want to update the maven version to 7.17.1 or higher but i can't upgrade elastic server. So is there a way to achieve this?
Any help is highly appreciated.
You can always upgrade your client without upgrading the server so long as both are compatible with each other.
Looks like 7.17.0 -> 7.17.1 is a patch upgrade, it should not have any breaking changes.
From the documentation
The 7.0 client is able to communicate with any 7.x Elasticsearch node, while the 7.1 client is for sure able to communicate with 7.1, 7.2 and any later 7.x version, but there may be incompatibility issues when communicating with a previous Elasticsearch node version, for instance between 7.1 and 7.0, in case the 7.1 client supports new request body fields for some APIs that are not known by the 7.0 node(s).
