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@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ https://github.com/elastic/beats/compare/v8.8.1\...main[Check the HEAD diff]
 - Set timeout of 1 minute for FQDN requests {pull}37756[37756]
 - 'add_cloud_metadata' processor - improve AWS provider HTTP client overriding to support custom certificate bundle handling {pull}44189[44189]
 - Fixed case where Beats would silently fail due to invalid input configuration, now the error is correctly reported. {issue}43118[43118] {pull}45733[45733]
+- Fix a race condition during metrics initialization which could cause a panic. {issue}45822[45822] {pull}46054[46054]
 
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