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 *Heartbeat*
 
+- Fixed rare issue where TLS connections to endpoints with x509 certificates missing either notBefore or notAfter would cause the check to fail with a stacktrace.  {pull}9566[9566]
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 *Journalbeat*
 
 *Metricbeat*