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…4959) * Manual prebuilt rule updates support notice (#4934) * Add statement to relevant pages - Upgrade Elastic Security - Install and manage Elastic prebuilt rules * Update docs/detections/prebuilt-rules-management.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Benjamin Ironside Goldstein <[email protected]> * Update docs/upgrade/upgrade-security.asciidoc Co-authored-by: Nastasha Solomon <[email protected]> * Update docs/upgrade/upgrade-security.asciidoc --------- Co-authored-by: Benjamin Ironside Goldstein <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Nastasha Solomon <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 9ad5d70) # Conflicts: # docs/detections/prebuilt-rules-management.asciidoc * Delete docs/detections/prebuilt-rules-management.asciidoc Clean up merge conflict * Update rules-ui-manage.asciidoc Add note * Update docs/upgrade/upgrade-security.asciidoc Another fix --------- Co-authored-by: Joe Peeples <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/docs/detections/rules-ui-manage.asciidoc b/docs/detections/rules-ui-manage.asciidoc
@@ -62,10 +62,12 @@ You can then activate whichever rules you want. If you delete any prebuilt rules
 
 [NOTE]
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-Apart from the Elastic Endpoint rule, prebuilt rules are not activated by
+* Apart from the Elastic Endpoint rule, prebuilt rules are not activated by
 default. If you want to modify a prebuilt rule, you must first duplicate it, then make your changes to the duplicated rule. All Elastic prebuilt rules are tagged with the word `Elastic`.
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++
 To learn how to enable detection rules in Elastic Security, watch the <<enable-detection-rules, tutorial>> at the end of this topic.
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+* Automatic updates of Elastic prebuilt rules are supported for the current {elastic-sec} version and the latest three previous minor releases. For example, if you’re on {elastic-sec} 8.10, you’ll be able to use the Rules UI to update your prebuilt rules until {elastic-sec} 8.14 is released. After that point, you can still manually download and install updated prebuilt rules, but you must upgrade to the latest {elastic-sec} version to receive automatic updates.
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diff --git a/docs/upgrade/upgrade-security.asciidoc b/docs/upgrade/upgrade-security.asciidoc
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ IMPORTANT: You can upgrade to pre-release versions for testing,
 but upgrading from a pre-release to the Generally Available version is unsupported.
 You should use pre-release versions only for testing in a temporary environment.
 
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+=== Support for Elastic prebuilt detection rule automatic updates
+<<load-prebuilt-rules,Automatic updates of Elastic prebuilt detection rules>> are supported for the current {elastic-sec} version and the latest three previous minor releases. For example, if you’re upgrading to {elastic-sec} 8.10, you’ll be able to use the Rules UI to update your prebuilt rules until {elastic-sec} 8.14 is released. After that point, you can still manually download and install updated prebuilt rules, but you must upgrade to the latest {elastic-sec} version to receive automatic updates.
 
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