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Version history
| OpenSearch version | Release highlights | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| 2.18.0 | Adds a redesigned home page, updated Discover interface, and collaborative workspaces to OpenSearch Dashboards. Includes improvements to ML inference processor and query grouping. Introduces reranking by field and paginated CAT APIs. Includes experimental OpenSearch Dashboards Assistant capabilities. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 05 November 2024 |
| 2.17.1 | Includes bug fixes for ML Commons, anomaly detection, k-NN, and security analytics. Adds various infrastructure and maintenance updates. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 1 October 2024 |
| 2.17.0 | Includes disk-optimized vector search, binary quantization, and byte vector encoding in k-NN. Adds asynchronous batch ingestion for ML tasks. Provides search and query performance enhancements and a new custom trace source in trace analytics. Includes application-based configuration templates. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 17 September 2024 |
| 2.16.0 | Includes built-in byte vector quantization and binary vector support in k-NN. Adds new sort, split, and ML inference search processors for search pipelines. Provides application-based configuration templates and additional plugins to integrate multiple data sources in OpenSearch Dashboards. Includes an experimental Batch Predict ML Commons API. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 06 August 2024 |
| 2.15.0 | Includes parallel ingestion processing, SIMD support for exact search, and the ability to disable doc values for the k-NN field. Adds wildcard and derived field types. Improves performance for single-cardinality aggregations, rolling upgrades to remote-backed clusters, and more metrics for top N queries. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 25 June 2024 |
| 2.14.0 | Includes performance improvements to hybrid search and date histogram queries with multi-range traversal, ML model integration within the Ingest API, semantic cache for LangChain applications, low-level vector query interface for neural sparse queries, and improved k-NN search filtering. Provides an experimental tiered cache feature. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 14 May 2024 |
| 2.13.0 | Makes agents and tools and the OpenSearch Assistant Toolkit generally available. Introduces vector quantization within OpenSearch. Adds LLM guardrails and hybrid search with aggregations. Adds the Bloom filter skipping index for Apache Spark data sources, I/O-based admission control, and the ability to add an alerting cluster that manages all alerting tasks. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 2 April 2024 |
| 2.12.0 | Makes concurrent segment search and conversational search generally available. Provides an experimental OpenSearch Assistant Toolkit, including agents and tools, workflow automation, and OpenSearch Assistant for OpenSearch Dashboards UI. Adds a new match-only text field, query insights to monitor top N queries, and k-NN search on nested fields. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 20 February 2024 |
| 2.11.1 | Includes maintenance changes and bug fixes for cross-cluster replication, alerting, observability, OpenSearch Dashboards, index management, machine learning, security, and security analytics. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 30 November 2023 |
| 2.11.0 | Adds multimodal and sparse neural search capability and the ability to take shallow snapshots that refer to data stored in remote-backed storage. Makes the search comparison tool generally available. Includes a simplified workflow to create threat detectors in Security Analytics and improved security in OpenSearch Dashboards. Experimental features include a new framework and toolset for distributed tracing and updates to conversational search. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 16 October 2023 |
| 2.10.0 | Makes remote-backed storage generally available. Adds hybrid search capability, custom log types for Security Analytics, IP2Geo ingest processor, and delimited term frequency token filter. Includes a new look and feel for OpenSearch Dashboards and updates the Discover tool. Adds Microsoft Teams webhook support for notifications. Experimental features include concurrent segment search and conversational search. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 25 September 2023 |
| 2.9.0 | Makes search pipelines and the Neural Search plugin generally available. Adds ML model access control and integration with external ML tools. Implements k-NN byte vectors and efficient filtering with the Faiss engine. Integrates alerting and anomaly detection with OpenSearch Dashboards and adds composite monitors. Adds two new index codec algorithm options. Includes a new ingestion schema for Security Analytics, geoshape aggregations, and extensions—a new mechanism for extending OpenSearch functionality. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 24 July 2023 |
| 2.8.0 | Adds cross-cluster query with PPL, search pipelines, an option to turn on segment replication as the default replication type, improved searchable snapshot performance, and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless support with SigV4 authentication for multiple data sources. Includes the UI for the flush, refresh, and clear cache operations in OpenSearch Dashboards. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 06 June 2023 |
| 2.7.0 | Includes searchable snapshots and segment replication, which are now generally available. Adds multiple data sources, observability features, dynamic tenant management, component templates, and shape-based map filters in OpenSearch Dashboards. Includes the flat object field type, hot shard identification, and a new automatic reloading mechanism for ML models. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 02 May 2023 |
| 2.6.0 | Includes simple schema for observability, index management UI enhancements, Security Analytics enhancements, search backpressure at the coordinator node level, and the ability to add maps to dashboards. Experimental features include a new ML model health dashboard, new text embedding models in ML, and SigV4 authentication in Dashboards. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 28 February 2023 |
| 2.5.0 | Includes index management UI enhancements, multi-layer maps, Jaeger support for observability, Debian distributions, returning cluster health by awareness attribute, cluster manager task throttling, weighted zonal search request routing policy, and query string support in index rollups. Experimental features include request-level durability in remote-backed storage and GPU acceleration for ML nodes. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 24 January 2023 |
| 2.4.1 | Includes maintenance changes and bug fixes for gradle check and indexing pressure tests. Adds support for skipping changelog. | 13 December 2022 |
| 2.4.0 | Includes Windows support, Point-in-time search, custom k-NN filtering, xy_point and xy_shape field types for Cartesian coordinates, GeoHex grid aggregation, and resilience enhancements, including search backpressure. In OpenSearch Dashboards, this release adds snapshot restore functionality, multiple authentication, and aggregate view of saved objects. This release includes the following experimental features: searchable snapshots, Compare Search Results, multiple data sources in OpenSearch Dashboards, a new Model Serving Framework in ML Commons, a new Neural Search plugin that supports semantic search, and a new Security Analytics plugin to analyze security logs. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 15 November 2022 |
| 2.3.0 | This release includes the following experimental features: segment replication, remote-backed storage, and drag and drop for OpenSearch Dashboards. Experimental features allow you to test new functionality in OpenSearch. Because these features are still being developed, your testing and feedback can help shape the development of the feature before it’s official released. We do not recommend use of experimental features in production. Additionally, this release adds maketime and makedate datetime functions for the SQL plugin. Creates a new OpenSearch Playground demo site for OpenSearch Dashboards. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 14 September 2022 |
| 2.2.1 | Includes gradle updates and bug fixes for gradle check. | 01 September 2022 |
| 2.2.0 | Includes support for Logistic Regression and RCF Summarize machine learning algorithms in ML Commons, Lucene or C-based Nmslib and Faiss libraries for approximate k-NN search, search by relevance using SQL and PPL queries, custom region maps for visualizations, and rollup enhancements. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 11 August 2022 |
| 2.1.0 | Includes support for dedicated ML node in the ML Commons plugin, relevance search and other features in SQL, multi-terms aggregation, and Snapshot Management. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 07 July 2022 |
| 2.0.1 | Includes bug fixes and maintenance updates for Alerting and Anomaly Detection. | 16 June 2022 |
| 2.0.0 | Includes document-level monitors for alerting, OpenSearch Notifications plugins, and Geo Map Tiles in OpenSearch Dashboards. Also adds support for Lucene 9 and bug fixes for all OpenSearch plugins. For a full list of release highlights, see the Release Notes. | 26 May 2022 |
| 2.0.0-rc1 | The Release Candidate for 2.0.0. This version allows you to preview the upcoming 2.0.0 release before the GA release. The preview release adds document-level alerting, support for Lucene 9, and the ability to use term lookup queries in document level security. | 03 May 2022 |
| 1.3.19 | Includes bug fixes and maintenance updates for OpenSearch security, OpenSearch security Dashboards, and anomaly detection. | 27 August 2024 |
| 1.3.18 | Includes maintenance updates for OpenSearch security. | 16 July 2024 |
| 1.3.17 | Includes maintenance updates for OpenSearch security and OpenSearch Dashboards security. | 06 June 2024 |
| 1.3.16 | Includes bug fixes and maintenance updates for OpenSearch security, index management, performance analyzer, and reporting. | 23 April 2024 |
| 1.3.15 | Includes bug fixes and maintenance updates for cross-cluster replication, SQL, OpenSearch Dashboards reporting, and alerting. | 05 March 2024 |
| 1.3.14 | Includes bug fixes and maintenance updates for OpenSearch security and OpenSearch Dashboards security. | 12 December 2023 |
| 1.3.13 | Includes bug fixes for Anomaly Detection, adds maintenance updates and infrastructure enhancements. | 21 September 2023 |
| 1.3.12 | Adds maintenance updates for OpenSearch security and OpenSearch Dashboards observability. Includes bug fixes for observability, OpenSearch Dashboards visualizations, and OpenSearch security. | 10 August 2023 |
| 1.3.11 | Adds maintenance updates for OpenSearch security, OpenSearch Dashboards security, and ML Commons. | 29 June 2023 |
| 1.3.10 | Adds infrastructure enhancements and maintenance updates for anomaly detection, observability, and security. Includes bug fixes for index management and OpenSearch security. | 18 May 2023 |
| 1.3.9 | Adds Debian support. Includes upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance updates for OpenSearch core, k-NN, and OpenSearch security. | 16 March 2023 |
| 1.3.8 | Adds OpenSearch security enhancements. Updates tool scripts to run on Windows. Includes maintenance updates and bug fixes for Anomaly Detection and OpenSearch security. | 02 February 2023 |
| 1.3.7 | Adds Windows support. Includes maintenance updates and bug fixes for error handling. | 13 December 2022 |
| 1.3.6 | Includes maintenance updates and bug fixes for tenancy in the OpenSearch Security Dashboards plugin. | 06 October 2022 |
| 1.3.5 | Includes maintenance updates and bug fixes for gradle check and OpenSearch security. | 01 September 2022 |
| 1.3.4 | Includes maintenance updates and bug fixes for OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards. | 14 July 2022 |
| 1.3.3 | Adds enhancements to Anomaly Detection and ML Commons. Bug fixes for Anomaly Detection, Observability, and k-NN. | 09 June 2022 |
| 1.3.2 | Bug fixes for Anomaly Detection and the Security Dashboards Plugin, adds the option to install OpenSearch using RPM, as well as enhancements to the ML Commons execute task, and the removal of the job-scheduler zip in Anomaly Detection. | 05 May 2022 |
| 1.3.1 | Bug fixes when using document-level security, and adjusted ML Commons to use the latest RCF jar and protostuff to RCF model serialization. | 30 March 2022 |
| 1.3.0 | Adds Model Type Validation to Validate Detector API, continuous transforms, custom actions, applied policy parameter to Explain API, default action retries, and new rollover and transition conditions to Index Management, new ML Commons plugin, parse command to SQL, Application Analytics, Live Tail, Correlation, and Events Flyout to Observability, and auto backport and support for OPENSEARCH_JAVA_HOME to Performance Analyzer. Bug fixes. | 17 March 2022 |
| 1.2.4 | Updates Performance Analyzer, SQL, and Security plugins to Log4j 2.17.1, Alerting and Job Scheduler to cron-utils 9.1.6, and gson in Anomaly Detection and SQL. | 18 January 2022 |
| 1.2.3 | Updates the version of Log4j used in OpenSearch to Log4j 2.17.0 as recommended by the advisory in CVE-2021-45105. | 22 December 2021 |
| 1.2.0 | Adds observability, new validation API for Anomaly Detection, shard-level indexing back-pressure, new “match” query type for SQL and PPL, support for Faiss libraries in k-NN, and custom Dashboards branding. | 23 November 2021 |
| 1.1.0 | Adds cross-cluster replication, security for Index Management, bucket-level alerting, a CLI to help with upgrading from Elasticsearch OSS to OpenSearch, and enhancements to high cardinality data in the anomaly detection plugin. | 05 October 2021 |
| 1.0.1 | Bug fixes. | 01 September 2021 |
| 1.0.0 | General availability release. Adds compatibility setting for clients that require a version check before connecting. | 12 July 2021 |
| 1.0.0-rc1 | First release candidate. | 07 June 2021 |
| 1.0.0-beta1 | Initial beta release. Refactors plugins to work with OpenSearch. | 13 May 2021 |