Fleet system index mappings are stored in elasticsearch repo. When making mapping changes, the version has to be incremented to apply correctly.
Versioning was introduced here: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/97934/files#diff-2ba90a8ade904611fce0a472e54c4ed346c40bc3ec5fd8481b995c0f8247d987
Pr where version is increased: elastic/elasticsearch#119087