The 8.12 release includes improved vector data handling with efficient search, query parallelization, enhanced pipeline features, remote search status, new maintenance windows, and ES|QL query editing in Dashboard.

Get started with ES|QL and learn how to use it to analyze, visualize, and get insights from your data. ES|QL accelerates your workflows by allowing you to create visualizations, calculations, and aggregations directly from one screen.

Elastic Stack 8.11 introduces an advanced query language known as ES|QL in the Discover application, making data exploration more straightforward and user friendly. The Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) is now generally available.