7.12.0 Meta Ticket

[stevejgordon]

Priority Items for 7.12.0

These are the priority items for 7.12.0. The need further review and refinement to identify if changes are required in the client to fully support these use cases.

• Remove beta notices from runtime fields types.
• Add the frozen tier node role and ILM phase #68605 (issue: #60848) - PR Add frozen tier support to ILM phases #5354
• Fingerprint ingest processor #68415 (issue: #53578) - PR Add Fingerprint ingest processor #5345
• Network community_id processor for ingest pipelines #66534 (issue: #55685) - PR Add network community ID ingest processor #5347
• Network direction processor #66644 - PR Add network direction ingest processor #5360
• Sort field tiebreaker for PIT (point in time) readers #66093 (issue: #56828) - PR Add support for _shard_doc sort with pit #5374
• Add processor architectures to cluster stats #68264 - PR Add architecture stats to cluster node stats #5338
• Add multi_terms aggs #67597 (issue: #65623) - PR Add multi terms aggregation #5372
• Add max_single_primary_size as a condition for the rollover index API #67842 (issue: #63026) - PR Add rollover API support for max_primary_shard_size #5353
• Add support for search-time runtime fields #67643 (issue: #65147) - PR Support runtime fields on transforms #5377
• Add linear function to rank_feature query #67438 (issue: #49859) - PR Add linear function to rank_feature query #5373
• Add query param to limit highlighting to specified length #67325 (issue: #52155) - PR Add max_analyzed_offset to highlight #5383
• QL: "fields" api implementation in QL #68802 (issue: #67727) - No changes required. Client can already support the 7.12 format

Secondary Items

Additional items for consideration and further refinement.

Breaking changes

Mapping

• Returning nested data in fields API #67432 (issue: #63709)

New features

Authorization

• Add a cluster privilege to cancel tasks and delete async searches #68679 (issue: #67965)

Features/ILM+SLM

• Add support for partial searchable snapshots to ILM #68714 (issues: #68509, #68605)
• Support max_single_primary_size in Resize Action and exposed in ILM #67705 (issue: #65714)

Search

• Add minimum compatibility version to SearchRequest #65896 (issue: #63304)

Snapshot/Restore

• Add partial searchable snapshot support for a frozen tier #68509

Enhancements

MULTIPLE AREA LABELS

• Introduce eql search status API #68065 (issue: #66955)

Authorization

• Phase 2 support for operator privileges: Cluster settings #66684

Features/Ingest

• Configurable MIME type for mustache template encoding on set processor #65314 (issue: #65115)

Features/Stats

• Make GET _cluster/stats cancellable #68676 (issue: #55550)

Geo

• Implement IndexOrDocValuesQuery for geo_shape field #64688

Infra/Core

• Introduce "Feature States" for managing snapshots of system indices #63513 (issue: #61657)

Machine Learning

• Add new multi custom processor for data frame analytics and model inference #67362
• Improve resuming a data frame analytics job stopped during inference #67623
• Move find file structure to a new API endpoint #67123 (issue: #67001)

Search

• Add grok and dissect methods to runtime fields #68088 (issue: #67825)

Snapshot/Restore

• Add ClusterUUID to RepositoryData #68002

Transform

• Implement retention policy to delete data from a transform #67832 (issue: #67916)
• Report last search time in transform stats #66718 (issues: #66367, #66410, #66718)
• [Transform] refactor cat transform to show more useful information #68232 (issues: #66367, #66718)

Bug fixes

Infra/Core

• Allow the ",-" ("no-index") pattern for destructive actions when destructive_requires_name is true #68021 (issue: #67958)

[stevejgordon]

Closing as we've implemented the priority features for 7.12.0