5.2.1 Release Notes

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Also see Breaking changes in 5.0.

Security fix

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When previous versions of Kibana 5 are configured for SSL client access, file descriptors will fail to be cleaned up after certain requests and will accumulate over time until the process crashes. Requests that are canceled before data is sent can also crash the process.
ESA-2017-02 (#10225)

Bug fixes

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Core
  • Bump Node.js to version 6.9.5. This was a low severity security release for Node.js, which has minimal impact to Kibana, but is still worth upgrading. #10135
Discover
  • Prevented a background action that was causing unnecessary CPU cycles #10036
Management
  • Delete button for color formatters no longer overlaps format dropdown #8864
Visualize
  • Fixed regression where certain visualizations were being limited to 25 series #10132
  • Fixed typo on a tag cloud warning message #10092
  • Fixed a bug where data table visualizations would incorrectly appear empty in certain circumstances #9757