Elasticsearch version 8.8.1edit

Also see Breaking changes in 8.8.

Bug fixesedit

Data streams
  • Allow the removal of an in-use template if there are other ones matching the dependent data streams #96286
Geo
  • API rest compatibility for type parameter in geo_bounding_box query #96317
Rollup
  • Do not copy index.default_pipeline and index.final_pipeline #96494 (issue: #96478)
TSDB
  • Expand start and end time to nanoseconds during coordinator rewrite when needed #96035 (issue: #96030)
  • Fix NPE when indexing a document that just has been deleted in a tsdb index #96461
Transform
  • Improve error message on transform _update conflict #96432
  • Report version conflict on concurrent updates #96293 (issue: #96311)

Enhancementsedit

Query Languages
  • Reduce nesting of same bool queries #96265 (issue: #96236)