Keeping up with Kibana: This week in Kibana for June 12, 2017

Welcome to Keeping up with Kibana! This is a weekly series of posts on new developments in the Kibana project and any related learning resources and events. This post actually covers the period between May 22 and June 12.

Design

  • [UI Framework] Added isInvalid states for TextInput, TextArea, and SearchInput components #11995
  • [UI Framework] Fixed bug with UI Framework background height not expanding to fit content #11880
  • [UI Framework] Added KuiKeyboardAccessible component to UI Framework. #11743
  • [UI Framework] Added snapshots for Warning Button tests #12202
  • [UI Framework] Simplified markup for CardGroup at the expense of added specificity in the styles #12183
  • [UI Framework] Fixed appearance of united CardGroup #121322c7583f6-470e-11e7-9ed0-68f36760e140.png
  • [UI Framework] Created a react prompt for items #12151a238558e-47a7-11e7-9dd1-9255f4e06ee2.png
  • [UI Framework] React pager #118020f7513e6-3982-11e7-8a13-9eb6b85c5249.png

 Discovery

  • Improved accessibility of the Datepicker. #11753
  • Structured filters: #11375
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  • Made the tiebreaking field configurable and now uses the _doc field instead of the _uid field by default to avoid filling up the fielddata cache #12096
  • Improved Filter Editor UI #12161
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  • Fixed discover table on-hover filter icon background occluding too much #11819

 Management

  • [Index Patterns] Disabled time-based options when needed #12011
  • [Scripted Field creation] Workaround until there is an ES API for listing available scripting languages #12051

 Operations

  • Bumped css-loader dependency to play nicely with Yarn. #12103
  • Replaced `module.exports` and `define()` (define!!!) with es6 exports for reliable module resolution #12084
  • Added eslint-plugin-import and use @elastic/eslint-import-resolver-kibana to resolve imports, clean up some incorrect module use and help prevent future problems #12025
  • Replaced outdated node-uuid module with uuid in Kibana 

Platform

  • Got rid of auto-release-sinon in favour of built-in sinon.sandbox functionality. #12099
  • Used proper Content-Type request header instead of kbn-version and kbnx-srf for server CSRF check. #12019
  • Documented merge conflict resolution process in CONTRIBUTING.md #12212 

Sharing

  • Fixed use of KuiButtons in Clone Modal. #12050
  • Changed flexbox rules of Dashboard Panel visualization containers so that they don't get squeezed by the spy. #12038
  • Moved drag handle attribute onto the button element itself within Dashboard Panel. #12030
  • Clone functionality now available for dashboards in view mode. #1092544e4dfa6-1467-11e7-98f2-aa971dea91d4.png
  • Fixed tag cloud resize issue when using full screen panel mode. #1200268634852-4142-11e7-9132-e1496b2b516f.gif
  • Fixed a firefox issue with the spy pane and not being able to scroll long panels in dashboard. #12031
  • Fixed an issue with dashboard not responding to url updates and a soft refresh. #12123
  • Removed encoding dashboard links that was preventing dashboards that had ids with spaces in them to be opened #12195
  • Fixed a bug that prevented dashboard from updating to changes made directly in the url, without a hard refresh #12123
  • Fixed an issue in firefox with panels not scrolling #12031
  • Fixed an issue with tagclouds not being resized properly after being maximized to full screen mode, and then minimized #12002
  • Introduced a new Stats API with basic saved object counts #11992
  • Fixed an issue where navigating back to the visualization tab after using the `add new visualization` button in dashboard failed to retrieve the newly saved visualization #11932

Visualizations

  • 5.4.1 fixes:
    • Resolved security vulnerability, which allowed XSS-attached with TSVB markdown support. #11770
    • Scrolled zooming on the map is disabled. This caused issues with navigating the Dashboard on Safari.
  • Starting at 5.5, Kibana will support two new visualizations:
    • Gauge visualization: use a gauge to show metric values, and compare to reference thresholds #10336.daea9c28-f2b8-11e6-9169-356d813a2cf9.png
    • Region map: create choropleth maps. These are thematic maps, where the color of boundary shapes - such as countries, or states - corresponds to the intensity of a metric. #10937
      • Due to this new addition, to improve clarity, the existing tile map visualization is now called “Coordinate Map”.  
  • Time Series Visual Builder enhancements:
    • Users can now opt-in (or opt-out) to use use the auto-apply feature #11460
    • A new label now shows the time-interval of the X-axis #11639
  • Timelion enhancements:
    • Timelion now shows the function reference after the user dismisses tutorial. #12006
    • Timelion now support multi-line queries. #11972
  • Other bug fixes:
    • Minimizing tag-cloud on a Dashboard now correctly reposition elements. #12006
    • Resovle toggling issue in the point series option panel #12065
    • Area charts now render with single data point. #12057
    • In the sidebar editor for point series, error message no longer display when they shouldn’t when changing aggregations in certain edge conditions #12000
  • Other UX improvements:
    • Users can now configure the amount of items of the listing pages for Visualizations and Dashboards. #11674
    • The apply-button in TSVB now correctly activates when  a user changes the panel options. #12114
    • Faint padding now no longer obscures the bottom of a line chart. #12191
    • The sidebar-editor can now be navigated with the TAB key.  #11754