docs: Prepare Changelog for 8.17.3 (#42980) (#43029) (#43040)

* docs: Close changelog for 8.17.3

* Remove empty sections and update changelog entries

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CHANGELOG.asciidoc

@@ -3,6 +3,49 @@
 :issue: https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/
 :pull: https://github.com/elastic/beats/pull/
 
+[[release-notes-8.17.3]]
+=== Beats version 8.17.3
+https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.17.2\...v8.17.3[View commits]
+
+==== Bugfixes
+
+*Affecting all Beats*
+
+- Restored event Meta fields in the Elasticsearch output's error logs. {pull}42559[42559]
+
+*Filebeat*
+
+- [Journald] Fixes handling of `journalctl` restart. A known symptom was broken multiline messages when there was a restart of journalctl while aggregating the lines. {issue}41331[41331] {pull}42595[42595]
+- Fix entityanalytics activedirectory provider full sync use before initialization bug. {pull}42682[42682]
+- In the `http_endpoint` input, fix the check for a missing HMAC HTTP header. {pull}42756[42756]
+
+*Metricbeat*
+
+- Fixed panic caused by uninitialized meraki device wifi0 and wifi1 struct pointers in the device WiFi data fetching. {issue}42745[42745] {pull}42746[42746]
+- Only fetch cluster-level index stats summary. {issue}36019[36019] {pull}42901[42901]
+- Fixed an issue in Metricbeat's Windows module where data collection would fail if the data was unavailable. {issue}42802[42802] {pull}42803[42803]
+
+*Winlogbeat*
+
+- Sync missing changes in modules pipelines. {pull}42619[42619]
+
+==== Added
+
+*Affecting all Beats*
+
+- Update Go version to 1.22.12. {pull}42681[42681]
+
+*Filebeat*
+
+- Introduce ignore older and start timestamp filters for AWS S3 input. {pull}41804[41804]
+- Publish events progressively in the Okta provider of the Entity Analytics input. {issue}40106[40106] {pull}42567[42567]
+
+*Metricbeat*
+
+- Log every 401 response from Kubernetes API Server. {pull}42714[42714]
+- Collect more fields from ES node/stats metrics and only those that are necessary. {pull}42421[42421]
+
+
 [[release-notes-8.17.2]]
 === Beats version 8.17.2
 https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.17.1\...v8.17.2[View commits]

CHANGELOG.next.asciidoc

@@ -101,21 +101,6 @@ otherwise no tag is added. {issue}42208[42208] {pull}42403[42403]
 - Support Elastic Agent control protocol chunking support {pull}37343[37343]
 - Lower logging level to debug when attempting to configure beats with unknown fields from autodiscovered events/environments {pull}[37816][37816]
 - Set timeout of 1 minute for FQDN requests {pull}37756[37756]
-- Fix issue where old data could be saved in the memory queue after acknowledgment, increasing memory use {pull}41356[41356]
-- Ensure Elasticsearch output can always recover from network errors {pull}40794[40794]
-- Add `translate_ldap_attribute` processor. {pull}41472[41472]
-- Remove unnecessary debug logs during idle connection teardown {issue}40824[40824]
-- Remove unnecessary reload for Elastic Agent managed beats when apm tracing config changes from nil to nil {pull}41794[41794]
-- Fix incorrect cloud provider identification in add_cloud_metadata processor using provider priority mechanism {pull}41636[41636]
-- Prevent panic if libbeat processors are loaded more than once. {issue}41475[41475] {pull}41857[51857]
-- Allow network condition to handle field values that are arrays of IP addresses. {pull}41918[41918]
-- Fix a bug where log files are rotated on startup when interval is configured and rotateonstartup is disabled {issue}41894[41894] {pull}41895[41895]
-- Fix setting unique registry for non beat receivers {issue}42288[42288] {pull}42292[42292]
-- The Kafka output now drops events when there is an authorisation error {issue}42343[42343] {pull}42401[42401]
-- Fix autodiscovery memory leak related to metadata of start events {pull}41748[41748]
-- All standard queue metrics are now included in metrics monitoring, including: `added.{events, bytes}`, `consumed.{events, bytes}`, `removed.{events, bytes}`, and `filled.{events, bytes, pct}`. {pull}42439[42439]
-- The following output latency metrics are now included in metrics monitoring: `output.latency.{count, max, median, p99}`. {pull}42439[42439]
-- Restored event Meta fields in the Elasticsearch output's error logs. {pull}42559[42559]
 
 *Auditbeat*
 

libbeat/docs/release.asciidoc

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This section summarizes the changes in each release. Also read
 <<breaking-changes>> for more detail about changes that affect
 upgrade.
 
+* <<release-notes-8.17.3>>
 * <<release-notes-8.17.2>>
 * <<release-notes-8.17.1>>
 * <<release-notes-8.17.0>>