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Elasticsearch version 8.14.0edit

Coming in 8.14.0.

Also see Breaking changes in 8.14.

Breaking changesedit

Security
  • Prevent DLS/FLS if replication is assigned #108600

Bug fixesedit

Aggregations
  • Cross check livedocs for terms aggs when index access control list is non-null #105714
  • ESQL: Enable VALUES agg for datetime #107016
  • Validate stats formatting in standard InternalStats constructor #107678 (issue: #107671)
Application
  • [Bugfix] Connector API - fix status serialisation issue in termquery #108365
  • [Connector API] Fix bug with filtering validation toXContent #107467
Authorization
  • Users with monitor privileges can access async_search/status endpoint even when setting keep_alive #107383
CAT APIs
CCR
  • Add ?master_timeout query parameter to ccr apis #105168
CRUD
  • Fix noop_update_total is not being updated when using the _bulk #105745 (issue: #105742)
  • Use correct system index bulk executor #106150
Cluster Coordination
  • Fix support for infinite ?master_timeout #107050
Data streams
  • Add non-indexed fields to ecs templates #106714
  • Fix bulk NPE when retrying failure redirect after cluster block #107598
  • Improve error message when rolling over DS alias #106708 (issue: #106137)
Downsampling
  • Fix downsample action request serialization #106919 (issue: #106917)
EQL
  • Use #addWithoutBreaking when adding a negative number of bytes to the circuit breaker in SequenceMatcher #107655
ES|QL
  • ESQL: Allow reusing BUCKET grouping expressions in aggs #107578
  • ESQL: Disable quoting in FROM command #108431
  • ESQL: Fix MV_DEDUPE when using data from an index #107577 (issue: #104745)
  • ESQL: Fix error message when failing to resolve aggregate groupings #108101 (issue: #108053)
  • ESQL: Fix treating all fields as MV in COUNT pushdown #106720
  • ESQL: Re-enable logical dependency check #105860
  • ESQL: median, count and count_distinct over constants #107414 (issues: #105248, #104900)
  • ES|QL fix no-length substring with supplementary (4-byte) character #107183
  • ES|QL: Fix usage of IN operator with TEXT fields #106654 (issue: #105379)
  • ES|QL: Improve support for TEXT fields in functions #106810
  • Fix docs generation of signatures for variadic functions #107865
Health
  • Don’t stop checking if the HealthNode persistent task is present #105449 (issue: #98926)
  • Health monitor concurrency fixes #105674 (issue: #105065)
Highlighting
  • Check preTags and postTags params for empty values #106396 (issue: #69009)
  • added fix for inconsistent text trimming in Unified Highlighter #99961 (issue: #101803)
Infra/CLI
  • Workaround G1 bug for JDK 22 and 22.0.1 #108571
Infra/Core
  • Add a check for the same feature being declared regular and historical #106285
  • Fix AffixSetting.exists to include secure settings #106745
  • Fix regression in get index settings (human=true) where the version was not displayed in human-readable format #107447
  • Nativeaccess: try to load all located libsystemds #108238 (issue: #107878)
  • Update several references to IndexVersion.toString to use toReleaseVersion #107828 (issue: #107821)
  • Update several references to TransportVersion.toString to use toReleaseVersion #107902
Infra/Logging
  • Log when update AffixSetting using addAffixMapUpdateConsumer #97072
Infra/Node Lifecycle
  • Consider ShardRouting roles when calculating shard copies in shutdown status #106063
  • Wait indefintely for http connections on shutdown by default #106511
Infra/Scripting
  • Painless: Apply true regex limit factor with FIND and MATCH operation #105670
Ingest Node
  • Catching StackOverflowErrors from bad regexes in GsubProcessor #106851
  • Fix uri_parts processor behaviour for missing extensions #105689 (issue: #105612)
  • Remove leading is_ prefix from Enterprise geoip docs #108518
  • Slightly better geoip databaseType validation #106889
License
Machine Learning
  • Fix NPE in ML assignment notifier #107312
  • Fix startOffset must be non-negative error in XLMRoBERTa tokenizer #107891 (issue: #104626)
  • Fix the position of spike, dip and distribution changes bucket when the sibling aggregation includes empty buckets #106472
  • Make OpenAI embeddings parser more flexible #106808
  • Remove ineffective optimizations for duplicate strings. #2652 (issue: #2130)
Mapping
  • Dedupe terms in terms queries #106381
  • Extend support of allowedFields to getMatchingFieldNames and getAllFields #106862
  • Handle infinity during synthetic source construction for scaled float field #107494 (issue: #107101)
  • Handle pass-through subfields with deep nesting #106767
Network
  • Fix HTTP corner-case response leaks #105617
Search
  • Add internalClusterTest for and fix leak in ExpandSearchPhase #108562 (issue: #108369)
  • Avoid attempting to load the same empty field twice in fetch phase #107551
  • Bugfix: Disable eager loading BitSetFilterCache on Indexing Nodes #105791
  • Cross-cluster painless/execute actions should check permissions only on target remote cluster #105360
  • Fix error 500 on invalid ParentIdQuery #105693 (issue: #105366)
  • Fix range queries for float/half_float fields when bounds are out of type’s range #106691
  • Fixing NPE when requesting [none] for stored_fields #104711
  • Fork when handling remote field-caps responses #107370
  • Handle parallel calls to createWeight when profiling is on #108041 (issues: #104131, #104235)
  • Replace UnsupportedOperationException with IllegalArgumentException for non-existing columns #107038
  • Unable to retrieve multiple stored field values #106575
  • Validate model_id is required when using the learning_to_rank rescorer #107743
Security
  • Disable validate when rewrite parameter is sent and the index access control list is non-null #105709
  • Fix field caps and field level security #106731
Snapshot/Restore
  • SharedBlobCacheService.maybeFetchRegion should use computeCacheFileRegionSize #106685
TSDB
  • Flip dynamic mapping condition when create tsid #105636
Transform
  • Consolidate permissions checks #106413 (issue: #105794)
  • Disable PIT for remote clusters #107969
  • Make force-stopping the transform always remove persistent task from cluster state #106989 (issue: #106811)
  • Only trigger action once per thread #107232 (issue: #107215)
  • [Transform] Auto retry Transform start #106243

Deprecationsedit

Mapping
  • Deprecate allowing fields in scenarios where it is ignored #106031

Enhancementsedit

Aggregations
  • Add a PriorityQueue backed by BigArrays #106361
  • All new shard_seed parameter for random_sampler agg #104830
Allocation
  • Add allocation stats #105894
  • Add index forecasts to /_cat/allocation output #97561
Application
  • [Profiling] Add TopN Functions API #106860
  • [Profiling] Allow to override index settings #106172
  • [Profiling] Speed up serialization of flamegraph #105779
Authentication
  • Support Profile Activate with JWTs with client authn #105439 (issue: #105342)
Authorization
  • Allow users to get status of own async search tasks #106638
  • [Security Solution] Add read permission for third party agent indices for kibana_system #107046
Data streams
  • Add data stream lifecycle to kibana reporting template #106259
ES|QL
  • Add ES|QL Locate function #106899 (issue: #106818)
  • Add ES|QL signum function #106866
  • Add status for enrich operator #106036
  • Add two new OGC functions ST_X and ST_Y #105768
  • Adjust array resizing in block builder #106934
  • Bulk loading enrich fields in ESQL #106796
  • ENRICH support for TEXT fields #106435 (issue: #105384)
  • ESQL: Add timers to many status results #105421
  • ESQL: Allow grouping key inside stats expressions #106579
  • ESQL: Introduce expression validation phase #105477 (issue: #105425)
  • ESQL: Log queries at debug level #108257
  • ESQL: Regex improvements #106429
  • ESQL: Sum of constants #105454
  • ESQL: Support ST_DISJOINT #107007
  • ESQL: Support partially folding CASE #106094
  • ESQL: Use faster field caps #105067
  • ESQL: extend BUCKET with spans #107272
  • ESQL: perform a reduction on the data node #106516
  • Expand support for ENRICH to full set supported by ES ingest processors #106186 (issue: #106162)
  • Introduce ordinal bytesref block #106852 (issue: #106387)
  • Leverage ordinals in enrich lookup #107449
  • Serialize big array blocks #106373
  • Serialize big array vectors #106327
  • Specialize serialization for ArrayVectors #105893
  • Specialize serialization of array blocks #106102
  • Speed up serialization of BytesRefArray #106053
  • Support ST_CONTAINS and ST_WITHIN #106503
  • Support ST_INTERSECTS between geometry column and other geometry or string #104907 (issue: #104874)
Engine
  • Add metric for calculating index flush time excluding waiting on locks #107196
Highlighting
  • Enable encoder and tags_schema highlighting settings at field level #107224 (issue: #94028)
ILM+SLM
  • Add a flag to re-enable writes on the final index after an ILM shrink action. #107121 (issue: #106599)
Indices APIs
  • Wait forever for IndexTemplateRegistry asset installation #105985
Infra/CLI
  • Enhance search tier GC options #106526
  • Increase KDF iteration count in KeyStoreWrapper #107107
Infra/Core
  • Add pluggable BuildVersion in NodeMetadata #105757
Infra/Metrics
  • Infrastructure for metering the update requests #105063
  • DocumentParsingObserver to accept an indexName to allow skipping system indices #107041
Infra/Scripting
Ingest Node
  • Add support for the Anonymous IP database to the geoip processor #107287 (issue: #90789)
  • Add support for the Enterprise database to the geoip processor #107377
  • Adding cache_stats to geoip stats API #107334
  • Support data streams in enrich policy indices #107291 (issue: #98836)
Machine Learning
  • Add GET _inference for all inference endpoints #107517
  • Added a timeout parameter to the inference API #107242
  • Enable retrying on 500 error response from Cohere text embedding API #105797
Mapping
  • Make int8_hnsw our default index for new dense-vector fields #106836
Ranking
  • Add retrievers using the parser-only approach #105470
Search
  • Add Lucene spanish plural stemmer #106952
  • Add modelId and modelText to KnnVectorQueryBuilder #106068
  • Add a SIMD (Neon) optimised vector distance function for int8 #106133
  • Add transport version for search load autoscaling #106377
  • CCS with minimize_roundtrips performs incremental merges of each SearchResponse #105781
  • Track ongoing search tasks #107129
Security
  • Invalidating cross cluster API keys requires manage_security #107411
  • Show owner realm_type for returned API keys #105629
Snapshot/Restore
  • Add setting for max connections to S3 #107533
  • Distinguish different snapshot failures by log level #105622
Stats
  • (API+) CAT Nodes alias for shard header to match CAT Allocation #105847
  • Add total size in bytes to doc stats #106840 (issue: #97670)
TSDB
  • Improve short-circuiting downsample execution #106563
  • Support non-keyword dimensions as routing fields in TSDB #105501
  • Text fields are stored by default in TSDB indices #106338 (issue: #97039)
Transform
  • Check node shutdown before fail #107358 (issue: #100891)
  • Do not log error on node restart when the transform is already failed #106171 (issue: #106168)

New featuresedit

Application
  • Allow typed_keys for search application Search API #108007
  • [Connector API] Support cleaning up sync jobs when deleting a connector #107253
ES|QL
  • ESQL: Values aggregation function #106065 (issue: #103600)
  • ESQL: allow sorting by expressions and not only regular fields #107158
  • Support ES|QL requests through the NodeClient::execute #106244
Indices APIs
  • Add granular error list to alias action response #106514 (issue: #94478)
Machine Learning
  • Add Cohere rerank to _inference service #106378
  • Add support for Azure OpenAI embeddings to inference service #107178
  • Create default word based chunker #107303
  • Text structure endpoints to determine the structure of a list of messages and of an indexed field #105660
Mapping
Security
  • Get and Query API Key with profile uid #106531
Vector Search
  • Adding support for hex-encoded byte vectors on knn-search #105393

Upgradesedit

Infra/Core
Ingest Node
  • Updating the tika version to 2.9.1 in the ingest attachment plugin #106315
Network
Packaging
  • Update bundled JDK to Java 22 (again) #108654
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