5.4.0 Release Notes

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Also see Breaking changes in 5.0.

Enhancements

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Core
  • Kibana Globalization - Phase 1 #7545 - community contribution by @hickeyma
  • Kibana Globalization - Phase 2 #8766 - community contribution by @hickeyma
  • Navbarextensions improvements #9871 - community contribution by @scampi
CLI
  • Replaces zip library and additional performance improvements #11145
  • Make dirs in correct location #11188
Dev Tools
  • Replace zeroclipboard with native copy #10639
  • Console support for HEAD requests #10611
Dashboard
  • Warn if the title is a duplicate #10321
  • Introducing view and edit modes #10585
Discover
  • Introduce autocompleting input as index pattern selector #10144
  • Do not expand index patterns by default #11155
  • When a date is selected in absolute mode, set to start/end of day #10433
  • Add link to switch to a view of an entrys surrounding documents #9198
Management
  • Indexed fields type filter #10708 - community contribution by @coverslide
  • Update Index Pattern header to use UI Framework components. #10390
Timepicker
  • Add Set To Now button to from field in absolute mode #10985
  • Allow setting a custom to interval in relative mode #10990
Visualize
  • Re-implement Visualize Wizard using Gallery component for selecting visualization type #10972
  • Highlight area chart when hovered #10460 - community contribution by @coverslide
  • Add percent tick formatter to Timelion #10917
  • Add advanced display options for Line, Bar, and Area Charts, such as overlaying multiple chart types, supporting horizontal layouts, and styling of axes and gridlines #9642
  • Add geocentroid support to Kibana. #10871
  • Add support for parent and sibling pipeline aggregations #10070, #10020, #10033
  • Add the Time Series Visual Builder UI #9725
  • Use unit formatters for y-axis labels in Timelion #9065
  • You can now zoom out to level 0 for WMS services #11399
Miscellaneous
  • Add shard allocation plugin #10482
  • adds missing editor param to vis-options #10564
  • Apply kui framework styles to single doc view #10200
  • babel 6 upgrade #9702 - community contribution by @coverslide
  • Bump jquery from 2.1.4 → 2.2.4 (latest in 2.x line) #10950
  • Bump makelogs to 3.2.3 #10510
  • do not use the jquery submit method since it makes a page reload and #11100 - community contribution by @scampi
  • Don’t add $$hashKey to filter objects #11064

Bug fixes

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Core
  • [Fix for #10129] only check for url overflows when not hashing states #10878
  • [Fix for #10558 and #10255] Improve the design of the Tab components focused and selected states. #10560
  • [Fix for #10656] Rename Side Nav Link title and href attributes to label and url. Now hovering over a navigation item in the Side Nav wont display a browser tooltip. #10660
  • [Fix for #3430, #7505] Update document table when auto refresh contains document updates #10385
  • [Fix for #8449] ensure that multi.allow_explicit_index=true #10855
  • Fix focus states of Buttons inside of the ToolBar. Now these buttons display the correct focus state. #11129
  • Fix incorrect background-color when Basic Button in ToolBar was in a hover state. #10772
  • Force kuiLink to have cursor: pointer, even if there’s no href. Now the cursor will behave correctly when hovering over a link. #10625
  • Fix visual bugs with SavedObjectFinder UI. Replaces visually broken search input with the SearchInput component from the UI Framework. #11029
Dashboard
  • [Fix for #10121] Absolute time selection is now preserved when opening a dashboard #10152
  • [Fix part of #8633] Add info notifications when adding visualizations or searches to the dashboard #10310
  • [Fix for #4161] where the pager in a saved search would indicate the wrong number of total items #10827
Dev Tools
  • [Fix for #10241] Add _open and _close autosuggestions for indices in console #10614 - community contribution by @coverslide
Discover
  • [Fix for #10233] Fix issue where selected columns would persist when creating a new search #10357
  • [Fix for #6295, #10351] Fix interval drop-down for date histogram in discover #10384
  • [Fix for #5684] Allow sorting and filtering on _type field #10254
Management
  • [Fix for #4040] Use better logic for detecting non-default values #11036
  • [Fix for #5694, #6789, #7404, #7667, #8682, #9116, #9624 in Saved Object Importing] Fix the myriad problems with saved object importing related to order, errors, and formatting #10521 #10663 #10666 #10740 #10788 #11059
  • [Fix for #5826] where an error is displayed when saving a new scripted field #10820
  • [Fix for #8682] Prompt about overwriting existing saved objects #10663
  • [Fix for #9678] Breadcrumb urls in management flow #10084 - community contribution by @coverslide
Visualize
  • [Fix for #10202] Format the totals row correctly #10414 - community contribution by @trevan
  • [Fix for #10294] fixing heatmap rotate checkbox #10333
  • [Fix for #10296] fixing heatmap labels to use field formatters #10334
  • [Fix for #10419] Tooltip no longer flickers on heatmaps 10467[#10467] - community contribution by @coverslide
  • [Fix for #10423] Correctly clean up the tooltip when removing a filter #11146 - community contribution by @scampi
  • [Fix for #10476] Ensure Timelion charts do not go blank or continually flash #10486
  • [Fix for #10508] Use field formatters for heatmap legend #10529
  • [Fix for #6605] fixing pie chart tooltip custom label bug #10219
  • [Fix for #9156] fixes error with saving hidden metrics #10220
  • [Fix for #9492] Do not generate unnecessary requests to Elasticsearch #9658 - community contribution by @nreese
Miscellaneous
  • Fixes URL image formatters when using a basePath #11082
  • Indicate if index is time-based or not #10790

Deprecations

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  • Nothing is deprecated in Kibana 5.4.0