IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates
will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the
current release documentation.
7.7.0 Release Notes
edit7.7.0 Release Notes
editEnterprise Search
edit- The first generally available version of the Enterprise Search solution including a new Enterprise Search Home section within the UI allowing administrative users to choose which product they want to use.
- A new set of public APIs added allowing operators to check the health and collect monitoring information (metrics) of a deployment.
- Migration/upgrade code has been changed to provide detailed progress information in the logs making it easier to understand how long an upgrade may take.
- Embedded filebeat has been upgraded to 7.6.0.
App Search
editNew Features
edit- First version of App Search shipped with the combined Enterprise Search solution.
- Added support for automatic migrations from legacy App Search deployments running versions up to 7.6.x to Enterprise Search 7.7. For more information on the upgrade process, see Upgrading & migrating.
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Configurable Limits – this version of App Search allows you to change a number of internal product limits for your deployments of the product. Those limits include maximum document size, the limit on the number of fields per engine, full-text query size limits and many others. See the
config/enterprise-search.yml
configuration file for the full list of configurable limits and their default values. - Telemetry is now enabled by default and can be configured via the config file.
Breaking Changes
edit- API and Analytics logs and indexes now use ECS-compatible schema by default.
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All underlying index names for App Search have changed (index prefix has been changed to
.ent-search
) - Clickthrough analytics tags now have the same limit as analytics tags for search.
Bug Fixes
edit- Multiple improvements in read-only mode support, including an ability to perform migrations while in read-only mode and a new UI component notifying users about the read-only mode and its limitations.
- Long-running App Search version upgrades had a small chance of failing due to static timeouts on the upgrade process.
Workplace Search
editNew Features
edit- Workplace Search is now generally available and is shipped with the combined Enterprise Search solution.
- Introduction of Search API endpoints, which provides a programmatic interface for authenticated querying
- Document-level permission support for the Google Drive source