This documentation contains work-in-progress information for future Elastic Stack and Cloud releases. Use the version selector to view supported release docs. It also contains some Elastic Cloud serverless information. Check out our serverless docs for more details.
« Enhancements and bug fixes Kibana 8.0.0-alpha2 »
Elastic Docs ›Kibana Guide [master] ›Release notes

Kibana 8.0.0-beta1

edit

Kibana 8.0.0-beta1

edit

Review the Kibana 8.0.0-beta1 changes, then use the Upgrade Assistant to complete the upgrade.

Breaking changes

edit

Breaking changes can prevent your application from optimal operation and performance. Review the following breaking changes, then mitigate the impact to your application.

To review the breaking changes in previous versions, refer to the following:

8.0.0-alpha2 | 8.0.0-alpha1

Alerting

edit
Removes xpack.task_manager.index

Details
The xpack.task_manager.index setting has been removed. For more information, refer to #114558.

Impact
Before you upgrade to 8.0.0, remove xpack.task_manager.index from kibana.yml.

Removes ability to remove plugins

Details
The xpack.actions.enabled setting has been removed. For more information, refer to #113461.

Impact
Before you upgrade to 8.0.0, remove xpack.actions.enabled from kibana.yml.

Lens & visualizations

edit
Removes display options from legacy gauge

Details
The Display warnings option has been removed from the aggregation-based gauge visualization. For more information, refer to #113516.

Impact
When you create aggregation-based gauge visualizations, the Display warnings option is no longer available in Options > Labels.

Removes settings from visEditors plugins

Details
The following deprecated visEditors plugin settings have been removed:

  • metric_vis.enabled
  • table_vis.enabled
  • tagcloud.enabled
  • metrics.enabled
  • metrics.chartResolution
  • chartResolution
  • metrics.minimumBucketSize
  • minimumBucketSize
  • vega.enabled
  • vega.enableExternalUrls
  • vis_type_table.legacyVisEnabled
  • timelion_vis.enabled
  • timelion.enabled
  • timelion.graphiteUrls
  • timelion.ui.enabled

For more information, refer to #112643.

Impact
Before you upgrade, make the following changes in kibana.yml:

  • Replace metric_vis.enabled with vis_type_metric.enabled
  • Replace table_vis.enabled with vis_type_table.enabled
  • Replace tagcloud.enabled with vis_type_tagcloud.enabled
  • Replace metrics.enabled with vis_type_timeseries.enabled
  • Replace metrics.chartResolution and chartResolution with vis_type_timeseries.chartResolution
  • Replace metrics.minimumBucketSize and minimumBucketSize with vis_type_timeseries.minimumBucketSize
  • Replace vega.enabled with vis_type_vega.enabled
  • Replace vega.enableExternalUrls with vis_type_vega.enableExternalUrls
  • Remove vis_type_table.legacyVisEnabled
  • Replace timelion_vis.enabled with vis_type_timelion.enabled
  • Replace timelion.enabled with vis_type_timelion.enabled
  • Replace timelion.graphiteUrls with vis_type_timelion.graphiteUrls
  • Remove timelion.ui.enabled
Removes dimming opacity setting

Details
The Dimming opacity setting in Advanced Settings has been removed. For more information, refer to #111704.

Impact
When you upgrade to 8.0.0, you are no longer able to configure the dimming opactiy for visualizations.

Removes Less stylesheet support

Details
In TSVB, custom Less stylesheets have been removed. For more information, refer to #110985.

Impact
Existing less stylesheets are automatically converted to CSS stylesheets.

Disables the input string mode

Details
In TSVB, the Index pattern selection mode option has been removed. For more information, refer to #110571.

Impact
To use index patterns and Elasticsearch indices in TSVB visualizations:

  1. Open the main menu, then click Stack Management > Advanced Settings.
  2. Select Allow string indices in TSVB.
  3. Click Save changes.

Logs

edit
Removes deprecated alias config entries

Details
The deprecated xpack.infra.sources.default.logAlias and xpack.infra.sources.default.logAlias settings have been removed. For more information, refer to #115974.

Impact
Before you upgrade, remove the settings from kibana.yml, then configure the settings in Logs.

Removes configurable fields in settings

Details
The Logs and Metrics configurable fields settings have been removed. For more information, refer to #61302.

Impact
Configure the settings in ECS.

Machine learning

edit
Grants access to machine learning features when base privileges are used

Details
Machine learning features are included as base privileges. For more information, refer to #115444.

Impact
If you do not want to grant users privileges to machine learning features, update Users and Roles.

Maps

edit
Removes proxyElasticMapsServiceInMaps

Details
The map.proxyElasticMapsServiceInMaps setting has been removed. For more information, refer to #116184.

Impact
Install the on-prem version of the Elastic Maps Service, which is a Docker service that resides in the Elastic Docker registry, in an accessible location on your internal network. When you complete the installation, update kibana.yml to point to the service.

Operations

edit
Removes environment variables

Details
The CONFIG_PATH and DATA_PATH environment variables have been removed. For more information, refer to #111535.

Impact
Replace the CONFIG_PATH environment variable with KBN_PATH_CONF, and replace DATA_PATH with the path.data setting.

Platform

edit
Removes supports for csp.rules configuration

Details
Support for the csp.rules configuration property has been removed. For more information, refer to #114379.

Impact
Configuring the default csp.script_src, csp.workers_src, and csp.style_src values is not required.

Changes and removes deprecated core settings and deprecated settings from core plugins

Details
The deprecation notice for server.cors has changed from level:critical to level:warning.

The following settings have changed:

  • The xpack.banners.placement value has been renamed
  • The newsfeed.defaultLanguage newsfeed item retrieval method and default language has changed

Support for the following configuration settings has been removed:

  • newsfeed.defaultLanguage
  • cpu.cgroup.path.override
  • cpuacct.cgroup.path.override
  • server.xsrf.whitelist
  • xpack.xpack_main.xpack_api_polling_frequency_millis
  • KIBANA_PATH_CONF

For more information, refer to #113653.

Impact
* The header value provided to the xpack.banners.placement configuration has been renamed to top * The newsfeed.defaultLanguage newsfeed items are retrieved based on the browser locale and default to English * Replace cpu.cgroup.path.override with ops.cGroupOverrides.cpuPath * Replace cpuacct.cgroup.path.override with ops.cGroupOverrides.cpuAcctPath * Replace server.xsrf.whitelist with server.xsrf.allowlist * Replace xpack.xpack_main.xpack_api_polling_frequency_millis with xpack.licensing.api_polling_frequency * Replace KIBANA_PATH_CONF path to the Kibana configuration file using the KBN_PATH_CONF environment variable

Removes enabled settings from plugins

Details
Using {plugin_name}.enabled to disable plugins has been removed. Some plugins, such as telemetry, newsfeed, reporting, and the various vis_type plugins will continue to support this setting. All other Kibana plugins will not support this setting. Any new plugin will support this setting only when specified in the configSchema. For more information, refer to #113495.

The xpack.security.enabled setting has been removed. For more information, refer to #111681.

Impact
Before you upgrade to 8.0.0:

  • Remove {plugin_name}.enabled from kibana.yml. If you use the setting to control user access to Kibana applications, use Features controls instead.
  • Replace xpack.security.enabled with xpack.security.enabled in elasticsearch.yml.
Removes --plugin-dir cli option

Details
The plugins.scanDirs setting and --plugin-dir cli option have been removed. For more information, refer to #113367.

Impact
Before you upgrade to 8.0.0, remove plugins.scanDirs from kibana.yml.

Removes support for optimize.* settings

Details
The legacy optimize.* settings have been removed. If your configuration uses the following legacy optimize.* settings, Kibana fails to start:

  • optimize.lazy
  • optimize.lazyPort
  • optimize.lazyHost
  • optimize.lazyPrebuild
  • optimize.lazyProxyTimeout
  • optimize.enabled
  • optimize.bundleFilter
  • optimize.bundleDir
  • optimize.viewCaching
  • optimize.watch
  • optimize.watchPort
  • optimize.watchHost
  • optimize.watchPrebuild
  • optimize.watchProxyTimeout
  • optimize.useBundleCache
  • optimize.sourceMaps
  • optimize.workers
  • optimize.profile
  • optimize.validateSyntaxOfNodeModules

For more information, refer to #113296.

Impact
To run the @kbn/optimizer separately in development, pass --no-optimizer to yarn start. For more details, refer to #73154.

Removes so/server/es settings

Details
Some of the so/server/es settings have been removed. If your configuration uses the following settings, Kibana fails to start:

  • savedObjects.indexCheckTimeout
  • server.xsrf.token
  • elasticsearch.preserveHost
  • elasticsearch.startupTimeout

For more information, refer to #113173.

Impact
Before you upgrade to 8.0.0., remove these settings from kibana.yml.

Adds requirement for inline scripting

Details
To start Kibana, you must enable inline scripting in Elasticsearch. For more information, refer to #113068.

Impact
Enable inline scripting.

Removes kibana.index settings

Details
The kibana.index, xpack.reporting.index, and xpack.task_manager.index settings have been removed. For more information, refer to #112773.

Impact
Use spaces, cross-cluster replication, or cross-cluster search. To migrate to spaces, export your saved objects from a tenant into the default space. For more details, refer to #82020.

Removes legacy logging

Details
The logging configuration and log output format has changed. For more information, refer to #112305.

Impact
Use the new logging system configuration.

Reporting

edit
Removes reporting settings

Details
The following settings have been removed:

  • xpack.reporting.capture.concurrency
  • xpack.reporting.capture.settleTime
  • xpack.reporting.capture.timeout
  • xpack.reporting.kibanaApp

For more information, refer to #114216.

Impact
Before you upgrade to 8.0.0, remove the settings from kibana.yml.

REST API

edit
Removes /api/settings

Details
The /api/settings REST API has been removed. For more information, refer to #114730.

Impact
Use /api/stats.

Security

edit
Removes legacy audit logger

Details
The legacy audit logger has been removed. For more information, refer to #116191.

Impact
Audit logs will be written to the default location in the new ECS format. To change the output file, filter events, and more, use the audit logging settings.

Deprecations

edit

Deprecated functionality does not have an immediate impact on your application, but we strongly recommend you make the necessary updates after you complete the upgrade.

To review the 8.0.0 depcrecations, refer to the 8.0.0-alpha1 release notes.

Features

edit

The 8.0.0-beta1 release adds the following new and notable features.

Dashboard
Elastic Security
For the Elastic Security 8.0.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
Machine Learning
  • Addition of new Model Management tab #115772
Platform
  • Changes edit view to json read-only view #112034

Enhancements

edit

The 8.0.0-beta1 release includes the following enhancements.

Canvas
Elastic Security
For the Elastic Security 8.0.0 release information, refer to Elastic Security Solution Release Notes.
Lens & Visualizations
  • Handle removal of deprecated date histogram interval in Vega #109090
  • Adds value labels to Heatmap in Lens #106406
Logs
  • Make Alerts page use shared Kibana time range #115192
Machine Learning
  • Adds support to Fleet Integrations for installing ML models #107710
  • Adds Index data visualizer grid embeddable as extra view within Discover #107184
Maps
  • Use Elastic Maps Service v8.0 #116217
  • Use desaturated map tiles instead of bright map tiles by default #116179
  • Use ES mvt #114553
Security
  • Register "minimal" feature privileges regardless of the current license level #115992
Uptime
  • Uptime index config using kibana.yml #115775

Bug fixes

edit

The 8.0.0-beta1 release includes the following bug fixes.

Management
  • Removes freeze action from Cold phase #116160
  • Disallow creating runtime and scripted fields with * in the name #116119
Querying & Filtering
  • Fixes Add filter button doesnt close popup after openning #111917
« Enhancements and bug fixes Kibana 8.0.0-alpha2 »