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Kibana 4.2 Release Notes
editKibana 4.2 Release Notes
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Starting with the 2.0 release of Elasticsearch, you can no longer
reference fields by leafnode. For example, the
geoip.country_codefield can no longer support searches such ascountry_code:US. Instead, use the entire field name. This change affects saved searches, visualizations, and dashboards from previous versions of Kibana. - Kibana no longer features copy-to-clipboard functionality.
Enhancements
edit- Issue 2855: Configurable Kibana log levels.
- Issue 4204: Plugin manager for Kibana server.
- Issue 4218: New interface for switching between plugins.
- Issue 3270: Server status page.
- Issue 2245: Customizable visualization descriptions.
- Issue 2906: Dark theme added to dashboards.
- Issue 1902: Tile maps support configurable WMS-compliant map servers.
- Issue 2245: Customize legends for the Filter aggregation.
- Issue 4817: Advanced Settings option maps values to colors.
- Issue 2874: Advanced Settings option to change default timepicker value.
- Issue 2760: Adds ability to filter by clicking on a legend.
- Issue 485: Adds color rationalization across visualizations.
Bug Fixes
edit- Issue 4902: Fixes a problem with object export logic.
- Issue 3694: Improves timezone handling in visualizations as a result of Olson timezone support in ES.
- Issue 4261: Improves highlighting on embedded searches in dashboards.
- Issue 4816: Improves history limit setting to clear past history.
- Issue 4670: Fixes issue with range aggregation.
- Issue 4244: Fixes issue with pie chart labels.
Kibana 4.2.2
edit- Fixes XSS vulnerability (CVE pending) - Thanks to Vladimir Ivanov for responsibly reporting.
- Pull Request 5078: Fixes broken links when copying examples from URL formatter.
- Pull Request 5288: Fixes compatibility issue with large result sets in Elasticsearch 2.1.
- Pull Request 5337: Allow base path to be configured for reverse proxies.
- Pull Request 5398: Fixes incorrect sorting on bar charts in some situations.
- Pull Request 5418: Fixes fatal error in Firefox when attempting to overwrite an index pattern.
- Pull Request 5460: Fixes a caching issue when creating new index patterns.
- Pull Request 5509: Prevents exception on discover panel when using non-time-based patterns.
- Pull Request 5525: Non-standard cookie format no longer causes fatal error.
- Pull Request 5536: Fixes broken image links on URL formatter.
- Pull Request 5542: Uses a modern cipher list for TLS.
- Pull Request 5560: Removes brushing ability when dealing with non-time-based indices.
- Pull Request 5572: Improves Elasticsearch version verification.
- Pull Request 5582: No longer relabels legend when only one series exists.
- Pull Request 5586: Fixes fatal error when trying to "export all" on large datasets.
- Pull Request 5587: Fixes xsrf-token-related fatal error when server restarts.
- Pull Request 5598: Allows passing node flags via NODE_OPTIONS.
- Pull Request 5603: Bump node.js version from 0.12.7 to 0.12.9 due to security fixes in node.