From 56224068d46f87654b434431c59cc6454f8e7531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Goodheart-Smithe Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 09:23:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Release highlights for 7.4.0 (#46963) Co-Authored-By: James Rodewig --- .../release-notes/highlights-7.4.0.asciidoc | 156 ++++++++++++++++++ .../release-notes/highlights.asciidoc | 6 +- 2 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/reference/release-notes/highlights-7.4.0.asciidoc diff --git a/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights-7.4.0.asciidoc b/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights-7.4.0.asciidoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..03a1b6dcf4f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights-7.4.0.asciidoc @@ -0,0 +1,156 @@ +[[release-highlights-7.4.0]] +== 7.4.0 release highlights +++++ +7.4.0 +++++ + +//NOTE: The notable-highlights tagged regions are re-used in the +//Installation and Upgrade Guide + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Results pinning + +You can use the new <> +to define the first records +(and the order in which they are returned) +in a result set directly within {es}. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== New `shape` field type + +A new <> field type has been added, +which allows you to position and query shapes +in a geometry of your choosing. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Circle ingest processor + +A new <> has been added, +which translates circles into regular polygons (bounded by the circles). +This makes ingesting, indexing, searching, and aggregating circles both easy and efficient. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Aggregations on range fields + +The <> +and <> +aggregations now support the <> field type. + +Range aggregations are useful +when counting ranges that overlap with specific buckets +(e.g. the number of phone calls that took place during a specific minute). + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Cumulative cardinality aggregation + +A new <> +has been added +as part of our ongoing effort to provide advanced aggregations. + +You can use this new pipeline aggregation +to calculate a net-new total of document occurrences +within a given time range. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Snapshot lifecycle management + +We’re introducing <>, +which allows an administrator to define policies, +via API or {kibana-ref}/index-lifecycle-policies.html[{kib} UI], +that manage when and how often snapshots are taken. +You can use SLM +to ensure that appropriate, recent backups are ready +if disaster strikes +or you need to restore {es} data. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== API key management + +New {stack-ov}/security-privileges.html[cluster privileges] to manage API keys have been added, +allowing cluster administrators to manage everything, +and regular users to manage their own keys. +Users can create API keys +and use them to provide long-term credentials +while interacting with {es}. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== TLS settings for email notifications + +Notifications may contain sensitive information that must be protected over the wire. This requires that communication with the mail server is encrypted and authenticated properly. +{es} now supports custom <> for email notifications, +allowing secure connections to servers with custom security configuration. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Automatic query cancellation + +{es} now automatically terminates queries +sent through the `_search` endpoint +when the initiating connection is closed. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Support for AdoptOpenJDK + +AdoptOpenJDK 13 is now supported and shipped with {es} as the pre-bundled JDK. + +If you want to use your own JDK, +you can still do so by setting `JAVA_HOME` before starting Elasticsearch. + +The availability of a notarized AdoptOpenJDK package +(per the new requirements for software running on macOS Catalina) +facilitates notarization of {es} for continued support on macOS. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== Regression analysis - Experimental + +{stack-ov}/dfa-regression.html[Regression analysis] is an experimental machine learning process +for estimating the relationships among a number of feature variables and a dependent variable, +then making further predictions based on the described relationship. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + +// tag::notable-highlights[] +[float] +==== New vector distance functions for document script scoring - Experimental + +Two experimential similarity measurements— +Manhattan distance (L1 norm) +and Euclidean distance (L2 norm)— +have been added. +Like the dot product and cosine similarity, +the Euclidean and Manhattan distances are provided as <> +so that they may be incorporated with other query elements +as part of a <> query. + +// end::notable-highlights[] + diff --git a/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights.asciidoc b/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights.asciidoc index 1b48c8118c6..dbf45641958 100644 --- a/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/release-notes/highlights.asciidoc @@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ [partintro] -- -This section summarizes the most important changes in each release. For the -full list, see <> and <>. +This section summarizes the most important changes in each release. For the +full list, see <> and <>. +* <> * <> * <> * <> @@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ full list, see <> and <>. -- +include::highlights-7.4.0.asciidoc[] include::highlights-7.3.0.asciidoc[] include::highlights-7.2.0.asciidoc[] include::highlights-7.1.0.asciidoc[]