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# Version history

OpenSearch version | Release highlights | Release date
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[1.2.4](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/blob/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.2.4.md) | Updates Performance Analyzer, SQL, and Security plugins to Log4j 2.17.1, Alerting and Job Scheduler to cron-utils 9.1.6, and gson in Anomaly Detection and SQL. | 18 January 2022
[1.2.3](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/blob/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.2.3.md) | Updates the version of Log4j used in OpenSearch to Log4j 2.17.0 as recommended by the advisory in [CVE-2021-45105](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-45105). | 22 December 2021
[1.2.0](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/blob/main/release-notes/opensearch.release-notes-1.2.0.md) | Adds observability, new validation API for Anomaly Detection, shard-level indexing back-pressure, new "match" query type for SQL and PPL, support for Faiss libraries in k-NN, and custom Dashboards branding. | 23 November 2021
[1.1.0](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/tree/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.1.0.md) | Adds cross-cluster replication, security for Index Management, bucket-level alerting, a CLI to help with upgrading from Elasticsearch OSS to OpenSearch, and enhancements to high cardinality data in the anomaly detection plugin. | 5 October 2021
[1.0.1](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/tree/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.0.1.md) | Bug fixes. | 1 September 2021
[1.0.0](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/tree/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.0.0.md) | General availability release. Adds compatibility setting for clients that require a version check before connecting. | 12 July 2021
[1.0.0-rc1](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/tree/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.0.0-rc1.md) | First release candidate. | 7 June 2021
[1.0.0-beta1](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-build/tree/main/release-notes/opensearch-release-notes-1.0.0-beta1.md) | Initial beta release. Refactors plugins to work with OpenSearch. | 13 May 2021
