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What’s new in 8.18

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Coming in 8.18.

Here are the highlights of what’s new and improved in Elasticsearch 8.18! For detailed information about this release, see the Release notes and Migration guide.

Other versions:

8.17 | 8.16 | 8.15 | 8.14 | 8.13 | 8.12 | 8.11 | 8.10 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.0

Add new experimental rank_vectors mapping for late-interaction second order ranking

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Late-interaction models are powerful rerankers. While their size and overall cost doesn’t lend itself for HNSW indexing, utilizing them as second order reranking can provide excellent boosts in relevance. The new rank_vectors mapping allows for rescoring over new and novel multi-vector late-interaction models like ColBERT or ColPali.

#118804

[[8_x_add_new_experimental_rank_vectors_mapping_for_late_interaction_second_order_ranking]] === [8.x] Add new experimental rank_vectors mapping for late-interaction second order ranking Backports the following commits to 8.x: - Add new experimental rank_vectors mapping for late-interaction second order ranking (#118804)

#119601

Enable LOOKUP JOIN in non-snapshot builds

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This effectively releases LOOKUP JOIN into tech preview. Docs will follow in a separate PR.

  • Enable the lexing/grammar for LOOKUP JOIN in non-snapshot builds.
  • Remove the grammar for the unsupported | JOIN ... command (without LOOKUP as first keyword). The way the lexer modes work, otherwise we’d also have to enable | JOIN ... syntax on non-snapshot builds and would have to add additional validation to provide appropriate error messages.
  • Remove grammar for LOOKUP JOIN index AS ... because qualifiers are not yet supported. Otherwise we’d have to put in additional validation as well to prevent such queries.

Also fix https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/121185

#121193