[[release-notes-7.8.1]]
== {es} version 7.8.1

Also see <<breaking-changes-7.8,Breaking changes in 7.8>>.

[[breaking-7.8.1]]
[discrete]
=== Breaking changes

License::
* Display enterprise license as platinum in /_xpack {es-pull}58217[#58217]



[[feature-7.8.1]]
[discrete]
=== New features

SQL::
* Implement SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG over literals {es-pull}56786[#56786] (issues: {es-issue}41412[#41412], {es-issue}55569[#55569])



[[enhancement-7.8.1]]
[discrete]
=== Enhancements

Authorization::
* Add read privileges for observability-annotations for apm_user {es-pull}58530[#58530] (issues: {es-issue}64796[#64796], {es-issue}69642[#69642], {es-issue}69881[#69881])

Features/Indices APIs::
* Change "apply create index" log level to DEBUG {es-pull}56947[#56947]
* Make noop template updates be cluster state noops {es-pull}57851[#57851] (issue: {es-issue}57662[#57662])
* Rename template V2 classes to ComposableTemplate {es-pull}57183[#57183] (issue: {es-issue}56609[#56609])

Machine Learning::
* Add exponent output aggregator to inference {es-pull}58933[#58933]

Snapshot/Restore::
* Allow read operations to be executed without waiting for full range to be written in cache {es-pull}58728[#58728] (issues: {es-issue}58164[#58164], {es-issue}58477[#58477])
* Allows SparseFileTracker to progressively execute listeners during Gap processing {es-pull}58477[#58477] (issue: {es-issue}58164[#58164])
* Do not wrap CacheFile reentrant r/w locks with ReleasableLock {es-pull}58244[#58244] (issue: {es-issue}58164[#58164])
* Use snapshot information to build searchable snapshot store MetadataSnapshot {es-pull}56289[#56289]

Transform::
* Improve update API {es-pull}57648[#57648] (issue: {es-issue}56499[#56499])



[[bug-7.8.1]]
[discrete]
=== Bug fixes

CCR::
* Ensure CCR partial reads never overuse buffer {es-pull}58620[#58620]

Cluster Coordination::
* Suppress cluster UUID logs in 6.8/7.x upgrade {es-pull}56835[#56835]
* Timeout health API on busy master {es-pull}57587[#57587]

Engine::
* Fix realtime get of numeric fields from translog {es-pull}58121[#58121] (issue: {es-issue}57462[#57462])

Features/ILM+SLM::
* Fix negative limiting with fewer PARTIAL snapshots than minimum required {es-pull}58563[#58563] (issue: {es-issue}58515[#58515])

Features/Indices APIs::
* Fix issue reading template mappings after cluster restart {es-pull}58964[#58964] (issues: {es-issue}58521[#58521], {es-issue}58643[#58643], {es-issue}58883[#58883])
* ITV2: disallow duplicate dynamic templates {es-pull}56291[#56291] (issues: {es-issue}28988[#28988], {es-issue}53101[#53101], {es-issue}53326[#53326])


Features/Stats::
* Fix unnecessary stats warning when swap is disabled {es-pull}57983[#57983]

Geo::
* Fix max-int limit for number of points reduced in geo_centroid {es-pull}56370[#56370] (issue: {es-issue}55992[#55992])
* Re-enable support for array-valued geo_shape fields. {es-pull}58786[#58786]

Infra/Core::
* Week based parsing for ingest date processor {es-pull}58597[#58597] (issue: {es-issue}58479[#58479])

Machine Learning::
* Allow unran/incomplete forecasts to be deleted for stopped/failed jobs {es-pull}57152[#57152] (issue: {es-issue}56419[#56419])
* Fix inference .ml-stats-write alias creation {es-pull}58947[#58947] (issue: {es-issue}58662[#58662])
* Fix race condition when force stopping data frame analytics job {es-pull}57680[#57680]
* Handle broken setup with state alias being an index {es-pull}58999[#58999] (issue: {es-issue}58482[#58482])
* Mark forecasts for force closed/failed jobs as failed {es-pull}57143[#57143] (issue: {es-issue}56419[#56419])
* Better interrupt handling during named pipe connection {ml-pull}1311[#1311]
* Trap potential cause of SIGFPE {ml-pull}1351[#1351] (issue: {ml-issue}1348[#1348])
* Correct inference model definition for MSLE regression models {ml-pull}1375[#1375]
* Fix cause of SIGSEGV of classification and regression {ml-pull}1379[#1379]
* Fix restoration of change detectors after seasonality change {ml-pull}1391[#1391]
* Fix potential SIGSEGV when forecasting {ml-pull}1402[#1402] (issue: {ml-issue}1401[#1401])

Network::
* Close channel on handshake error with old version {es-pull}56989[#56989] (issue: {es-issue}54337[#54337])

Percolator::
* Fix nested document support in percolator query {es-pull}58149[#58149] (issue: {es-issue}52850[#52850])

Recovery::
* Fix recovery stage transition with sync_id {es-pull}57754[#57754] (issues: {es-issue}57187[#57187], {es-issue}57708[#57708])

SQL::
* Fix behaviour of COUNT(DISTINCT <literal>) {es-pull}56869[#56869]
* Fix bug in resolving aliases against filters {es-pull}58399[#58399] (issues: {es-issue}57270[#57270], {es-issue}57417[#57417])
* Fix handling of escaped chars in JDBC connection string {es-pull}58429[#58429] (issue: {es-issue}57927[#57927])
* Handle MIN and MAX functions on dates in Painless scripts {es-pull}57605[#57605] (issue: {es-issue}57581[#57581])

Search::
* Ensure search contexts are removed on index delete {es-pull}56335[#56335]
* Filter empty fields in SearchHit#toXContent {es-pull}58418[#58418] (issue: {es-issue}41656[#41656])
* Fix exists query on unmapped field in query_string {es-pull}58804[#58804] (issues: {es-issue}55785[#55785], {es-issue}58737[#58737])
* Fix handling of terminate_after when size is 0 {es-pull}58212[#58212] (issue: {es-issue}57624[#57624])
* Fix possible NPE on search phase failure {es-pull}57952[#57952] (issues: {es-issue}51708[#51708], {es-issue}57945[#57945])
* Handle failures with no explicit cause in async search {es-pull}58319[#58319] (issues: {es-issue}57925[#57925], {es-issue}58311[#58311])
* Improve error handling in async search code {es-pull}57925[#57925] (issue: {es-issue}58995[#58995])
* Prevent BigInteger serialization errors in term queries {es-pull}57987[#57987] (issue: {es-issue}57917[#57917])
* Submit async search to not require read privilege {es-pull}58942[#58942]

Snapshot/Restore::
* Fix Incorrect Snapshot Shar Status for DONE Shards in Running Snapshots {es-pull}58390[#58390]
* Fix Memory Leak From Master Failover During Snapshot {es-pull}58511[#58511] (issue: {es-issue}56911[#56911])
* Fix NPE in SnapshotService CS Application {es-pull}58680[#58680]
* Fix Snapshot Abort Not Waiting for Data Nodes {es-pull}58214[#58214]
* Remove Overly Strict Safety Mechnism in Shard Snapshot Logic {es-pull}57227[#57227] (issue: {es-issue}57198[#57198])

Task Management::
* Cancel persistent task recheck when no longer master {es-pull}58539[#58539] (issue: {es-issue}58531[#58531])
* Ensure unregister child node if failed to register task {es-pull}56254[#56254] (issues: {es-issue}54312[#54312], {es-issue}55875[#55875])

Transform::
* Fix page size return in cat transform, add dps {es-pull}57871[#57871] (issues: {es-issue}56007[#56007], {es-issue}56498[#56498])



[[upgrade-7.8.1]]
[discrete]
=== Upgrades

Infra/Core::
* Upgrade to JNA 5.5.0 {es-pull}58183[#58183]


[[release-notes-7.8.0]]
== {es} version 7.8.0

Also see <<breaking-changes-7.8,Breaking changes in 7.8>>.

[[breaking-7.8.0]]
[discrete]
=== Breaking changes

Aggregations::
* `value_count` aggregation optimization {es-pull}54854[#54854]

Features/Indices APIs::
* Add auto create action {es-pull}55858[#55858]

Mapping::
* Disallow changing 'enabled' on the root mapper {es-pull}54463[#54463] (issue: {es-issue}33933[#33933])
* Fix updating include_in_parent/include_in_root of nested field {es-pull}54386[#54386] (issue: {es-issue}53792[#53792])


[[deprecation-7.8.0]]
[discrete]
=== Deprecations

Authentication::
* Deprecate the `kibana` reserved user; introduce `kibana_system` user {es-pull}54967[#54967]

Cluster Coordination::
* Voting config exclusions should work with absent nodes {es-pull}50836[#50836] (issue: {es-issue}47990[#47990])

Features/Features::
* Add node local storage deprecation check {es-pull}54383[#54383] (issue: {es-issue}54374[#54374])

Features/Indices APIs::
* Deprecate local parameter for get field mapping request {es-pull}55014[#55014]

Infra/Core::
* Deprecate node local storage setting {es-pull}54374[#54374]

Infra/Plugins::
* Add xpack setting deprecations to deprecation API {es-pull}56290[#56290] (issue: {es-issue}54745[#54745])
* Deprecate disabling basic-license features {es-pull}54816[#54816] (issue: {es-issue}54745[#54745])
* Deprecated xpack "enable" settings should be no-ops {es-pull}55416[#55416] (issues: {es-issue}54745[#54745], {es-issue}54816[#54816])
* Make xpack.ilm.enabled setting a no-op {es-pull}55592[#55592] (issues: {es-issue}54745[#54745], {es-issue}54816[#54816], {es-issue}55416[#55416])
* Make xpack.monitoring.enabled setting a no-op {es-pull}55617[#55617] (issues: {es-issue}54745[#54745], {es-issue}54816[#54816], {es-issue}55416[#55416], {es-issue}55461[#55461], {es-issue}55592[#55592])
* Restore xpack.ilm.enabled and xpack.slm.enabled settings {es-pull}57383[#57383] (issues: {es-issue}54745[#54745], {es-issue}55416[#55416], {es-issue}55592[#55592])



[[feature-7.8.0]]
[discrete]
=== New features

Aggregations::
* Add Student's t-test aggregation support {es-pull}54469[#54469] (issue: {es-issue}53692[#53692])
* Add support for filters to t-test aggregation {es-pull}54980[#54980] (issue: {es-issue}53692[#53692])
* Histogram field type support for Sum aggregation {es-pull}55681[#55681] (issue: {es-issue}53285[#53285])
* Histogram field type support for ValueCount and Avg aggregations {es-pull}55933[#55933] (issue: {es-issue}53285[#53285])

Features/Indices APIs::
* Add simulate template composition API _index_template/_simulate_index/{name}  {es-pull}55686[#55686] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])

Geo::
* Add geo_bounds aggregation support for geo_shape {es-pull}55328[#55328]
* Add geo_shape support for geotile_grid and geohash_grid {es-pull}55966[#55966]
* Add geo_shape support for the geo_centroid aggregation {es-pull}55602[#55602]
* Add new point field {es-pull}53804[#53804]

SQL::
* Implement DATETIME_FORMAT function for date/time formatting {es-pull}54832[#54832] (issue: {es-issue}53714[#53714])
* Implement DATETIME_PARSE function for parsing strings {es-pull}54960[#54960] (issue: {es-issue}53714[#53714])
* Implement scripting inside aggs {es-pull}55241[#55241] (issues: {es-issue}29980[#29980], {es-issue}36865[#36865], {es-issue}37271[#37271])



[[enhancement-7.8.0]]
[discrete]
=== Enhancements

Aggregations::
* Aggs must specify a `field` or `script` (or both) {es-pull}52226[#52226]
* Expose aggregation usage in Feature Usage API {es-pull}55732[#55732] (issue: {es-issue}53746[#53746])
* Reduce memory for big aggregations run against many shards {es-pull}54758[#54758]
* Save memory in on aggs in async search {es-pull}55683[#55683]

Allocation::
* Disk decider respect watermarks for single data node {es-pull}55805[#55805]
* Improve same-shard allocation explanations {es-pull}56010[#56010]

Analysis::
* Add preserve_original setting in ngram token filter {es-pull}55432[#55432]
* Add preserve_original setting in edge ngram token filter {es-pull}55766[#55766] (issue: {es-issue}55767[#55767])
* Add pre-configured “lowercase” normalizer {es-pull}53882[#53882] (issue: {es-issue}53872[#53872])

Audit::
* Update the audit logfile list of system users {es-pull}55578[#55578] (issue: {es-issue}37924[#37924])

Authentication::
* Let realms gracefully terminate the authN chain {es-pull}55623[#55623]

Authorization::
* Add reserved_ml_user and reserved_ml_admin kibana privileges {es-pull}54713[#54713]

Autoscaling::
* Rollover: refactor out cluster state update {es-pull}53965[#53965]

CRUD::
* Avoid holding onto bulk items until all completed {es-pull}54407[#54407]

Cluster Coordination::
* Add voting config exclusion add and clear API spec and integration test cases {es-pull}55760[#55760] (issue: {es-issue}48131[#48131])

Features/CAT APIs::
* Add support for V2 index templates to /_cat/templates {es-pull}55829[#55829] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])

Features/Indices APIs::
* Add HLRC support for simulate index template api {es-pull}55936[#55936] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Add prefer_v2_templates flag and index setting {es-pull}55411[#55411] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Add warnings/errors when V2 templates would match same indices as V1 {es-pull}54367[#54367] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Disallow merging existing mapping field definitions in templates {es-pull}57701[#57701] (issues: {es-issue}55607[#55607], {es-issue}55982[#55982], {es-issue}57393[#57393])
* Emit deprecation warning if multiple v1 templates match with a new index {es-pull}55558[#55558] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Guard adding the index.prefer_v2_templates settings for pre-7.8 nodes {es-pull}55546[#55546] (issues: {es-issue}53101[#53101], {es-issue}55411[#55411], {es-issue}55539[#55539])
* Handle merging dotted object names when merging V2 template mappings {es-pull}55982[#55982] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Throw exception on duplicate mappings metadata fields when merging templates {es-pull}57835[#57835] (issue: {es-issue}57701[#57701])
* Update template v2 api rest spec {es-pull}55948[#55948] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Use V2 index templates during index creation {es-pull}54669[#54669] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Use V2 templates when reading duplicate aliases and ingest pipelines {es-pull}54902[#54902] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])
* Validate V2 templates more strictly {es-pull}56170[#56170] (issues: {es-issue}43737[#43737], {es-issue}46045[#46045], {es-issue}53101[#53101], {es-issue}53970[#53970])

Features/Java High Level REST Client::
* Enable support for decompression of compressed response within RestHighLevelClient {es-pull}53533[#53533]

Features/Stats::
* Fix available / total disk cluster stats {es-pull}32480[#32480] (issue: {es-issue}32478[#32478])

Features/Watcher::
* Delay warning about missing x-pack {es-pull}54265[#54265] (issue: {es-issue}40898[#40898])

Geo::
* Add geo_shape mapper supporting doc-values in Spatial Plugin {es-pull}55037[#55037] (issue: {es-issue}53562[#53562])

Infra/Core::
* Decouple Environment from DiscoveryNode {es-pull}54373[#54373]
* Ensure that the output of node roles are sorted {es-pull}54376[#54376] (issue: {es-issue}54370[#54370])
* Reintroduce system index APIs for Kibana {es-pull}54858[#54858] (issues: {es-issue}52385[#52385], {es-issue}53912[#53912])
* Schedule commands in current thread context {es-pull}54187[#54187] (issue: {es-issue}17143[#17143])
* Start resource watcher service early {es-pull}54993[#54993] (issue: {es-issue}54867[#54867])

Infra/Packaging::
* Make Windows JAVA_HOME handling consistent with Linux {es-pull}55261[#55261] (issue: {es-issue}55134[#55134])


Infra/REST API::
* Add validation to the usage service {es-pull}54617[#54617]

Infra/Scripting::
* Scripting: stats per context in nodes stats {es-pull}54008[#54008] (issue: {es-issue}50152[#50152])

Machine Learning::
* Add effective max model memory limit to ML info {es-pull}55529[#55529] (issue: {es-issue}63942[#63942])
* Add loss_function to regression {es-pull}56118[#56118]
* Add new inference_config field to trained model config {es-pull}54421[#54421]
* Add failed_category_count to model_size_stats {es-pull}55716[#55716] (issue: {es-issue}1130[#1130])
* Add prediction_field_type to inference config {es-pull}55128[#55128]
* Allow a certain number of ill-formatted rows when delimited format is specified {es-pull}55735[#55735] (issue: {es-issue}38890[#38890])
* Apply default timeout in StopDataFrameAnalyticsAction.Request {es-pull}55512[#55512]
* Create an annotation when a model snapshot is stored {es-pull}53783[#53783] (issue: {es-issue}52149[#52149])
* Do not execute ML CRUD actions when upgrade mode is enabled {es-pull}54437[#54437] (issue: {es-issue}54326[#54326])
* Make find_file_structure recognize Kibana CSV report timestamps {es-pull}55609[#55609] (issue: {es-issue}55586[#55586])
* More advanced model snapshot retention options {es-pull}56125[#56125] (issue: {es-issue}52150[#52150])
* Return assigned node in start/open job/datafeed response {es-pull}55473[#55473] (issue: {es-issue}54067[#54067])
* Skip daily maintenance activity if upgrade mode is enabled {es-pull}54565[#54565] (issue: {es-issue}54326[#54326])
* Start gathering and storing inference stats {es-pull}53429[#53429]
* Unassign data frame analytics tasks in SetUpgradeModeAction {es-pull}54523[#54523] (issue: {es-issue}54326[#54326])
* Speed up anomaly detection for the lat_long function {ml-pull}1102[#1102]
* Reduce CPU scheduling priority of native analysis processes to favor the ES
JVM when CPU is constrained. This change is implemented only for Linux and macOS,
not for Windows {ml-pull}1109[#1109]
* Take `training_percent` into account when estimating memory usage for
classification and regression {ml-pull}1111[#1111]
* Support maximize minimum recall when assigning class labels for multiclass
classification {ml-pull}1113[#1113]
* Improve robustness of anomaly detection to bad input data {ml-pull}1114[#1114]
* Add new `num_matches` and `preferred_to_categories` fields to category output
{ml-pull}1062[#1062]
* Add mean squared logarithmic error (MSLE) for regression {ml-pull}1101[#1101]
* Add pseudo-Huber loss for regression {ml-pull}1168[#1168]
* Reduce peak memory usage and memory estimates for classification and regression
{ml-pull}1125[#1125].)
* Reduce variability of classification and regression results across our target
operating systems {ml-pull}1127[#1127]
* Switch data frame analytics model memory estimates from kilobytes to
megabytes {ml-pull}1126[#1126] (issue: {es-issue}54506[#54506])
* Add a {ml} native code build for Linux on AArch64 {ml-pull}1132[#1132],
{ml-pull}1135[#1135]
* Improve data frame analytics runtime by optimising memory alignment for intrinsic
operations {ml-pull}1142[#1142]
* Fix spurious anomalies for count and sum functions after no data are received
for long periods of time {ml-pull}1158[#1158]
* Improve false positive rates from periodicity test for time series anomaly
detection {ml-pull}1177[#1177]
* Break progress reporting of data frame analyses into multiple phases {ml-pull}1179[#1179]
* Really centre the data before training for classification and regression begins. This
means we can choose more optimal smoothing bias and should reduce the number of trees
{ml-pull}1192[#1192]

Mapping::
* Merge V2 index/component template mappings in specific manner {es-pull}55607[#55607] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])

Recovery::
* Avoid copying file chunks in peer covery {es-pull}56072[#56072] (issue: {es-issue}55353[#55353])
* Retry failed peer recovery due to transient errors {es-pull}55353[#55353]

SQL::
* Add BigDecimal support to JDBC {es-pull}56015[#56015] (issue: {es-issue}43806[#43806])
* Drop BASE TABLE type in favour for just TABLE {es-pull}54836[#54836]
* Relax version lock between server and clients {es-pull}56148[#56148]

Search::
* Consolidate DelayableWriteable {es-pull}55932[#55932]
* Exists queries to MatchNoneQueryBuilder when the field is unmapped  {es-pull}54857[#54857]
* Rewrite wrapper queries to match_none if possible {es-pull}55271[#55271]
* SearchService#canMatch takes into consideration the alias filter {es-pull}55120[#55120] (issue: {es-issue}55090[#55090])

Snapshot/Restore::
* Add GCS support for searchable snapshots {es-pull}55403[#55403]
* Allocate searchable snapshots with the balancer {es-pull}54889[#54889] (issues: {es-issue}50999[#50999], {es-issue}54729[#54729])
* Allow bulk snapshot deletes to abort {es-pull}56009[#56009] (issue: {es-issue}55773[#55773])
* Allow deleting multiple snapshots at once {es-pull}55474[#55474]
* Allow searching of snapshot taken while indexing {es-pull}55511[#55511] (issue: {es-issue}50999[#50999])
* Allow to prewarm the cache for searchable snapshot shards {es-pull}55322[#55322]
* Enable prewarming by default for searchable snapshots {es-pull}56201[#56201] (issue: {es-issue}55952[#55952])
* Permit searches to be concurrent to prewarming {es-pull}55795[#55795]
* Reduce contention in CacheFile.fileLock() method {es-pull}55662[#55662]
* Require soft deletes for searchable snapshots {es-pull}55453[#55453]
* Searchable Snapshots should respect max_restore_bytes_per_sec {es-pull}55952[#55952]
* Update the HDFS version used by HDFS Repo {es-pull}53693[#53693]
* Use streaming reads for GCS {es-pull}55506[#55506] (issue: {es-issue}55505[#55505])
* Use workers to warm cache parts {es-pull}55793[#55793] (issue: {es-issue}55322[#55322])

Task Management::
* Add indexName in update-settings task name {es-pull}55714[#55714]
* Add scroll info to search task description {es-pull}54606[#54606]
* Broadcast cancellation to only nodes have outstanding child tasks {es-pull}54312[#54312] (issues: {es-issue}50990[#50990], {es-issue}51157[#51157])
* Support hierarchical task cancellation {es-pull}54757[#54757] (issue: {es-issue}50990[#50990])

Transform::
* Add throttling {es-pull}56007[#56007] (issue: {es-issue}54862[#54862])



[[bug-7.8.0]]
[discrete]
=== Bug fixes

Aggregations::
* Add analytics plugin usage stats to _xpack/usage {es-pull}54911[#54911] (issue: {es-issue}54847[#54847])
* Aggregation support for Value Scripts that change types {es-pull}54830[#54830] (issue: {es-issue}54655[#54655])
* Allow terms agg to default to depth first {es-pull}54845[#54845]
* Clean up how pipeline aggs check for multi-bucket {es-pull}54161[#54161] (issue: {es-issue}53215[#53215])
* Fix auto_date_histogram serialization bug {es-pull}54447[#54447] (issues: {es-issue}54382[#54382], {es-issue}54429[#54429])
* Fix error massage for unknown value type {es-pull}55821[#55821] (issue: {es-issue}55727[#55727])
* Fix scripted metric in CCS {es-pull}54776[#54776] (issue: {es-issue}54758[#54758])
* Use Decimal formatter for Numeric ValuesSourceTypes {es-pull}54366[#54366] (issue: {es-issue}54365[#54365])

Allocation::
* Fix Broken ExistingStoreRecoverySource Deserialization {es-pull}55657[#55657] (issue: {es-issue}55513[#55513])


Features/ILM+SLM::
* ILM stop step execution if writeIndex is false {es-pull}54805[#54805]

Features/Indices APIs::
* Fix NPE in MetadataIndexTemplateService#findV2Template {es-pull}54945[#54945]
* Fix creating filtered alias using now in a date_nanos range query failed {es-pull}54785[#54785] (issue: {es-issue}54315[#54315])
* Fix simulating index templates without specified index {es-pull}56295[#56295] (issues: {es-issue}53101[#53101], {es-issue}56255[#56255])
* Validate non-negative priorities for V2 index templates {es-pull}56139[#56139] (issue: {es-issue}53101[#53101])

Features/Watcher::
* Ensure watcher email action message ids are always unique {es-pull}56574[#56574]

Infra/Core::
* Add generic Set support to streams {es-pull}54769[#54769] (issue: {es-issue}54708[#54708])

Machine Learning::
* Fix GET _ml/inference so size param is respected {es-pull}57303[#57303] (issue: {es-issue}57298[#57298])
* Fix file structure finder multiline merge max for delimited formats {es-pull}56023[#56023]
* Validate at least one feature is available for DF analytics {es-pull}55876[#55876] (issue: {es-issue}55593[#55593])
* Trap and fail if insufficient features are supplied to data frame analyses.
Otherwise, classification and regression got stuck at zero analyzing progress
{ml-pull}1160[#1160] (issue: {es-issue}55593[#55593])
* Make categorization respect the model_memory_limit {ml-pull}1167[#1167]
(issue: {ml-issue}1130[#1130])
* Respect user overrides for max_trees for classification and regression
{ml-pull}1185[#1185]
* Reset memory status from soft_limit to ok when pruning is no longer required
{ml-pull}1193[#1193] (issue: {ml-issue}1131[#1131])
* Fix restore from training state for classification and regression
{ml-pull}1197[#1197]
* Improve the initialization of seasonal components for anomaly detection
{ml-pull}1201[#1201] (issue: {ml-issue}#1178[#1178])

Network::
* Fix issue with pipeline releasing bytes early {es-pull}54458[#54458]
* Handle TLS file updates during startup {es-pull}54999[#54999] (issue: {es-issue}54867[#54867])

SQL::
* Fix DATETIME_PARSE behaviour regarding timezones {es-pull}56158[#56158] (issue: {es-issue}54960[#54960])

Search::
* Don't expand default_field in query_string before required {es-pull}55158[#55158] (issue: {es-issue}53789[#53789])
* Fix `time_zone` for  `query_string` and date fields {es-pull}55881[#55881] (issue: {es-issue}55813[#55813])

Security::
* Fix certutil http for empty password with JDK 11 and lower {es-pull}55437[#55437] (issue: {es-issue}55386[#55386])

Transform::
* Fix count when matching exact ids {es-pull}56544[#56544] (issue: {es-issue}56196[#56196])
* Fix http status code when bad scripts are provided {es-pull}56117[#56117] (issue: {es-issue}55994[#55994])



[[regression-7.8.0]]
[discrete]
=== Regressions

Infra/Scripting::
* Don't double-wrap expression values {es-pull}54432[#54432] (issue: {es-issue}53661[#53661])

