WARNING: Version 5.5 of Kibana has passed its EOL date.

This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be removed. If you are running this version, we strongly advise you to upgrade. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.

Elastic Docs ›Kibana User Guide [5.5] ›Release Notes
« 5.4.1 Release Notes 5.3.3 Release Notes »

5.4.0 Release Notesedit

Also see Breaking changes in 5.0.

Enhancementsedit

Core
  • Kibana Globalization - Phase 1 #7545 - community contribution by @hickeyma
  • Kibana Globalization - Phase 2 #8766 - community contribution by @hickeyma
  • Navbarextensions improvements #9871 - community contribution by @scampi
CLI
  • Replaces zip library and additional performance improvements #11145
  • Make dirs in correct location #11188
Dev Tools
  • Replace zeroclipboard with native copy #10639
  • Console support for HEAD requests #10611
Dashboard
  • Warn if the title is a duplicate #10321
  • Introducing view and edit modes #10585
Discover
  • Introduce autocompleting input as index pattern selector #10144
  • Do not expand index patterns by default #11155
  • When a date is selected in absolute mode, set to start/end of day #10433
  • Add link to switch to a view of an entrys surrounding documents #9198
Management
  • Indexed fields type filter #10708 - community contribution by @coverslide
  • Update Index Pattern header to use UI Framework components. #10390
Timepicker
  • Add Set To Now button to from field in absolute mode #10985
  • Allow setting a custom to interval in relative mode #10990
Visualize
  • Re-implement Visualize Wizard using Gallery component for selecting visualization type #10972
  • Highlight area chart when hovered #10460 - community contribution by @coverslide
  • Add percent tick formatter to Timelion #10917
  • Add advanced display options for Line, Bar, and Area Charts, such as overlaying multiple chart types, supporting horizontal layouts, and styling of axes and gridlines #9642
  • Add geocentroid support to Kibana. #10871
  • Add support for parent and sibling pipeline aggregations #10070, #10020, #10033
  • Add the Time Series Visual Builder UI #9725
  • Use unit formatters for y-axis labels in Timelion #9065
  • You can now zoom out to level 0 for WMS services #11399
Miscellaneous
  • Add shard allocation plugin #10482
  • adds missing editor param to vis-options #10564
  • Apply kui framework styles to single doc view #10200
  • babel 6 upgrade #9702 - community contribution by @coverslide
  • Bump jquery from 2.1.4 → 2.2.4 (latest in 2.x line) #10950
  • Bump makelogs to 3.2.3 #10510
  • do not use the jquery submit method since it makes a page reload and #11100 - community contribution by @scampi
  • Don’t add $$hashKey to filter objects #11064

Bug fixesedit

Core
  • [Fix for #10129] only check for url overflows when not hashing states #10878
  • [Fix for #10558 and #10255] Improve the design of the Tab components focused and selected states. #10560
  • [Fix for #10656] Rename Side Nav Link title and href attributes to label and url. Now hovering over a navigation item in the Side Nav wont display a browser tooltip. #10660
  • [Fix for #3430, #7505] Update document table when auto refresh contains document updates #10385
  • [Fix for #8449] ensure that multi.allow_explicit_index=true #10855
  • Fix focus states of Buttons inside of the ToolBar. Now these buttons display the correct focus state. #11129
  • Fix incorrect background-color when Basic Button in ToolBar was in a hover state. #10772
  • Force kuiLink to have cursor: pointer, even if there’s no href. Now the cursor will behave correctly when hovering over a link. #10625
  • Fix visual bugs with SavedObjectFinder UI. Replaces visually broken search input with the SearchInput component from the UI Framework. #11029
Dashboard
  • [Fix for #10121] Absolute time selection is now preserved when opening a dashboard #10152
  • [Fix part of #8633] Add info notifications when adding visualizations or searches to the dashboard #10310
  • [Fix for #4161] where the pager in a saved search would indicate the wrong number of total items #10827
Dev Tools
  • [Fix for #10241] Add _open and _close autosuggestions for indices in console #10614 - community contribution by @coverslide
Discover
  • [Fix for #10233] Fix issue where selected columns would persist when creating a new search #10357
  • [Fix for #6295, #10351] Fix interval drop-down for date histogram in discover #10384
  • [Fix for #5684] Allow sorting and filtering on _type field #10254
Management
  • [Fix for #4040] Use better logic for detecting non-default values #11036
  • [Fix for #5694, #6789, #7404, #7667, #8682, #9116, #9624 in Saved Object Importing] Fix the myriad problems with saved object importing related to order, errors, and formatting #10521 #10663 #10666 #10740 #10788 #11059
  • [Fix for #5826] where an error is displayed when saving a new scripted field #10820
  • [Fix for #8682] Prompt about overwriting existing saved objects #10663
  • [Fix for #9678] Breadcrumb urls in management flow #10084 - community contribution by @coverslide
Visualize
  • [Fix for #10202] Format the totals row correctly #10414 - community contribution by @trevan
  • [Fix for #10294] fixing heatmap rotate checkbox #10333
  • [Fix for #10296] fixing heatmap labels to use field formatters #10334
  • [Fix for #10419] Tooltip no longer flickers on heatmaps 10467[#10467] - community contribution by @coverslide
  • [Fix for #10423] Correctly clean up the tooltip when removing a filter #11146 - community contribution by @scampi
  • [Fix for #10476] Ensure Timelion charts do not go blank or continually flash #10486
  • [Fix for #10508] Use field formatters for heatmap legend #10529
  • [Fix for #6605] fixing pie chart tooltip custom label bug #10219
  • [Fix for #9156] fixes error with saving hidden metrics #10220
  • [Fix for #9492] Do not generate unnecessary requests to Elasticsearch #9658 - community contribution by @nreese
Miscellaneous
  • Fixes URL image formatters when using a basePath #11082
  • Indicate if index is time-based or not #10790

Deprecationsedit

  • Nothing is deprecated in Kibana 5.4.0
« 5.4.1 Release Notes 5.3.3 Release Notes »