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OpenSearch Project Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 4

Jun 08, 2023 • community

The OpenSearch Project is pleased to present our newsletter. Distributed monthly, the newsletter is a great way to learn more about the latest OpenSearch news, relevant content from the community,...

OpenSearch 2.8 is here!

Jun 06, 2023 • releases

OpenSearch 2.8.0 is now available, with a host of new features and enhancements and experimental functionality that are sure to generate excitement within the community! This release includes new tools...

Announcing Data Prepper 2.3.0

Jun 06, 2023 • releases

Data Prepper 2.3.0 is now available for download! This release introduces a number of changes that improve Data Prepper’s ability to process complex expressions with functions, arithmetic operations, and string...

OpenSearch Dashboards: Community Insights

Jun 01, 2023 • community

In February of 2023, the OpenSearch Project conducted user interviews with seven OpenSearch community members about their experience using OpenSearch Dashboards. These community members were selected because they responded to...

Searchable snapshots are generally available in OpenSearch 2.7

May 23, 2023 • technical-post

The OpenSearch Project is excited to announce the general availability of searchable snapshots in OpenSearch. With searchable snapshots, you can search indexes that are stored as snapshots within remote repositories...

OpenSearchCon 2023: CFP is Now Closed

May 18, 2023 • community

The Call for Presentations window for OpenSearchCon 2023 is now closed.

Discontinuing the custom Logstash distribution

May 16, 2023 •

One of the core OpenSearch Project principles is that OpenSearch can be used everywhere: in businesses, software, and projects. Among the many people already using OpenSearch, a large number use...

Reduce compute costs and increase throughput with segment replication, generally available in OpenSearch 2.7

May 04, 2023 • technical-post

We are excited to announce that segment replication---a new replication strategy introduced as experimental in OpenSearch 2.3---is generally available in OpenSearch 2.7. Implemented as an alternative to document replication, segment...

Get Started with OpenSearch 2.7.0

May 02, 2023 • releases

OpenSearch 2.7.0 is ready for download! The latest version of OpenSearch offers a range of new capabilities for search, analytics, observability, and security applications, along with significant enhancements to administration...

Announcing Data Prepper 2.2.0

Apr 19, 2023 • releases

Data Prepper 2.2.0 is now available for download! This release introduces a number of changes that help with Data Prepper’s reliability and data delivery assurances.

OpenSearch Project Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue 3

Apr 10, 2023 • community

The OpenSearch Project is pleased to present our newsletter. Distributed monthly, the newsletter is a great way to learn more about the latest OpenSearch news, relevant content from the community,...

You can now see ML model status in OpenSearch Dashboards

Apr 10, 2023 • technical-post

Before OpenSearch 2.6, checking the status of a deployed machine learning (ML) model in OpenSearch could only be done by using the ML Commons Profile API. Although the Profile API...

Technical roadmap: OpenSearch extensibility

Apr 05, 2023 • technical-post

The OpenSearch plugin framework presents a number of challenges for users and developers. To solve these, we've embarked on a journey to replace the plugin mechanism with extensions.

Meet your new OpenSearch Project Slack workspace

Apr 03, 2023 • community

The OpenSearch Project is happy to announce a new Slack community workspace to provide open communication channels for anyone interested in OpenSearch.

The ABCs of semantic search in OpenSearch: Architectures, benchmarks, and combination strategies

Mar 30, 2023 • technical-post

In an earlier blog post, we described different ways of building a semantic search engine in OpenSearch. In this post, we'll dive further into the science behind it. We'll discuss...