elasticsearch/docs/reference/release-notes/8.13.0.asciidoc

[[release-notes-8.13.0]]
== {es} version 8.13.0

Also see <<breaking-changes-8.13,Breaking changes in 8.13>>.

[[known-issues-8.13.0]]
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=== Known issues

* Searches involving nodes upgraded to 8.13.0 and a coordinator node that is running on version
  8.12 or earlier can produce duplicate buckets when running `date_histogram` or `histogram`
  aggregations. This can happen during a rolling upgrade to 8.13 or while running cross-cluster
  searches. (issue: {es-issue}108181[#108181]).

* Due to a bug in the bundled JDK 22 nodes might crash abruptly under high memory pressure.
  We recommend <<jvm-version,downgrading to JDK 21.0.2>> asap to mitigate the issue.

* Nodes upgraded to 8.13.0 fail to load downsampling persistent tasks. This prevents them from joining the cluster, blocking its upgrade (issue: {es-issue}106880[#106880])
+
This affects clusters running version 8.10 or later, with an active downsampling
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/downsampling-ilm.html[configuration]
or a configuration that was activated at some point since upgrading to version 8.10 or later.

[[breaking-8.13.0]]
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=== Breaking changes

ES|QL::
* ESQL: Grammar - FROM METADATA no longer requires [] {es-pull}105221[#105221]
* ES|QL: remove PROJECT keyword from the grammar {es-pull}105064[#105064]
* [ESQL] Remove is_nan, is_finite, and `is_infinite` {es-pull}104091[#104091]

TSDB::
* Change `index.look_ahead_time` index setting's default value from 2 hours to 30 minutes. {es-pull}103898[#103898]
* Lower the `look_ahead_time` index setting's max value from 7 days to 2 hours. {es-pull}103434[#103434]

[[bug-8.13.0]]
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=== Bug fixes

Aggregations::
* Disable parallel collection for terms aggregation with `min_doc_count` equals to 0 {es-pull}106156[#106156]
* `GlobalOrdCardinalityAggregator` should use `HyperLogLogPlusPlus` instead of `HyperLogLogPlusPlusSparse` {es-pull}105546[#105546]

Allocation::
* Fix disk computation when initializing new shards {es-pull}102879[#102879]
* Fix disk computation when initializing unassigned shards in desired balance computation {es-pull}102207[#102207]

Application::
* Fix Search Applications bug where deleting an alias before deleting an application intermittently caused errors {es-pull}106329[#106329]
* Use search to determine if cluster contains data {es-pull}103920[#103920]
* [Connector API] Bugfix: support list type in filtering advenced snippet value {es-pull}105633[#105633]
* [Connector API] Fix default ordering in `SyncJob` list endpoint {es-pull}105945[#105945]
* [Connector API] Fix serialisation of script params in connector index service {es-pull}106060[#106060]

Authentication::
* Execute SAML authentication on the generic threadpool {es-pull}105232[#105232] (issue: {es-issue}104962[#104962])

Authorization::
* Adjust interception of requests for specific shard IDs {es-pull}101656[#101656]

Client::
* Validate settings in `ReloadSecureSettings` API {es-pull}103176[#103176]

Data streams::
* Apm-data: fix `@custom` component templates {es-pull}104182[#104182]
* Avoid false-positive matches on intermediate objects in `ecs@mappings` {es-pull}105440[#105440] (issue: {es-issue}102794[#102794])
* Execute lazy rollover with an internal dedicated user #104732 {es-pull}104905[#104905] (issue: {es-issue}104732[#104732])
* Fix write index resolution when an alias is pointing to a TSDS {es-pull}104440[#104440] (issue: {es-issue}104189[#104189])
* x-pack/plugin/core: add `match_mapping_type` to `ecs@mappings` dynamic templates {es-pull}103035[#103035]

Distributed::
* Fix logger Strings.format calls {es-pull}104573[#104573]
* Request indexing memory pressure in APM node metrics publisher {es-pull}103520[#103520]

ES|QL::
* ESQL: Add single value checks on LIKE/RLIKE pushdown {es-pull}103807[#103807] (issue: {es-issue}103806[#103806])
* ESQL: Correct out-of-range filter pushdowns {es-pull}99961[#99961] (issue: {es-issue}99960[#99960])
* ESQL: Fix Analyzer to not interpret escaped * as a pattern {es-pull}105325[#105325] (issue: {es-issue}104955[#104955])
* ESQL: Fix a bug loading unindexed text fields {es-pull}104553[#104553]
* ESQL: Fix bug in grammar that allowed spaces inside id pattern {es-pull}105476[#105476] (issue: {es-issue}105441[#105441])
* ESQL: Fix replacement of nested expressions in aggs with multiple parameters {es-pull}104718[#104718] (issue: {es-issue}104706[#104706])
* ESQL: Fix wrong attribute shadowing in pushdown rules {es-pull}105650[#105650] (issue: {es-issue}105434[#105434])
* ESQL: Improve pushdown of certain filters {es-pull}103538[#103538] (issue: {es-issue}103536[#103536])
* ESQL: allow `null` in date math {es-pull}103610[#103610] (issue: {es-issue}103085[#103085])
* ESQL: make `cidr_match` foldable {es-pull}105403[#105403] (issue: {es-issue}105376[#105376])
* ES|QL: Disable optimizations that rely on Expression.nullable() {es-pull}105691[#105691]
* ES|QL: Improve type validation in aggs for UNSIGNED_LONG better support for VERSION {es-pull}104911[#104911] (issue: {es-issue}102961[#102961])
* ES|QL: better management of exact subfields for TEXT fields {es-pull}103510[#103510] (issue: {es-issue}99899[#99899])
* Fix error on sorting unsortable `geo_point` and `cartesian_point` {es-pull}106351[#106351] (issue: {es-issue}106007[#106007])
* For empty mappings use a `LocalRelation` {es-pull}105081[#105081] (issue: {es-issue}104809[#104809])
* Resume driver when failing to fetch pages {es-pull}106392[#106392] (issue: {es-issue}106262[#106262])
* Review KEEP logic to prevent duplicate column names {es-pull}103316[#103316]
* `ProjectOperator` should not retain references to released blocks {es-pull}105848[#105848]

Engine::
* Consider currently refreshing data in the memory usage of refresh {es-pull}104122[#104122]
* Release `TranslogSnapshot` buffer after iteration {es-pull}106398[#106398] (issue: {es-issue}106390[#106390])

Health::
* Make Health API more resilient to multi-version clusters {es-pull}105789[#105789] (issue: {es-issue}90183[#90183])
* Stop the periodic health logger when es is stopping {es-pull}105272[#105272]

ILM+SLM::
* Remove `hashCode` and `equals` from `OperationModeUpdateTask` {es-pull}104265[#104265] (issue: {es-issue}100871[#100871])
* [ILM] Delete step deletes data stream with only one index {es-pull}105772[#105772]

Indices APIs::
* Fix `require_alias` implicit true value on presence {es-pull}104099[#104099] (issue: {es-issue}103945[#103945])

Infra/CLI::
* Fix server cli to always pass through exit code {es-pull}104943[#104943]

Infra/Core::
* Do not enable APM agent 'instrument', it's not required for manual tracing {es-pull}105055[#105055]
* Fix bogus assertion tripped by force-executed tasks {es-pull}104581[#104581] (issue: {es-issue}104580[#104580])
* Metrics: Allow `AsyncCounters` to switch providers {es-pull}103025[#103025]
* Metrics: Handle null observations in observers {es-pull}103091[#103091]

Infra/Node Lifecycle::
* Close rather than stop `HttpServerTransport` on shutdown {es-pull}102759[#102759] (issue: {es-issue}102501[#102501])

Ingest Node::
* Add stable `ThreadPool` constructor to `LogstashInternalBridge` {es-pull}105163[#105163]
* Adding `executedPipelines` to the `IngestDocument` copy constructor {es-pull}105427[#105427]
* Revert "x-pack/plugin/apm-data: download geoip DB on pipeline creation" {es-pull}104505[#104505]
* X-pack/plugin/apm-data: fix `@custom` pipeline support {es-pull}104113[#104113]

Machine Learning::
* Allow GET inference models by user a with read only permission {es-pull}105346[#105346]
* Avoid computing `currentInferenceProcessors` on every cluster state {es-pull}106057[#106057]
* Catch all the potential exceptions in the ingest processor code {es-pull}105391[#105391]
* Changed system auditor to use levels {es-pull}105429[#105429]
* During ML maintenance, reset jobs in the reset state without a corresponding task {es-pull}106062[#106062]
* Fix `categorize_text` aggregation nested under empty buckets {es-pull}105987[#105987] (issue: {es-issue}105836[#105836])
* Fix resetting a job if the original reset task no longer exists. {es-pull}106020[#106020]
* Retry updates to model snapshot ID on job config {es-pull}104077[#104077]
* The OpenAI model parameter should be in service settings not task settings. Move the configuration field to service settings {es-pull}105458[#105458]
* Undeploy elser when inference model deleted {es-pull}104230[#104230]

Mapping::
* Fix parsing of flattened fields within subobjects: false {es-pull}105373[#105373]

Network::
* Fix use-after-free at event-loop shutdown {es-pull}105486[#105486]

Search::
* Correct profiled rewrite time for knn with a pre-filter {es-pull}104150[#104150]
* Force execution of `SearchService.Reaper` {es-pull}106544[#106544] (issue: {es-issue}106543[#106543])
* Move `TransportTermsEnumAction` coordination off transport threads {es-pull}104408[#104408]
* Remove `SearchException` usages without a proper status code {es-pull}105150[#105150]
* Require the name field for `inner_hits` for collapse {es-pull}104666[#104666]
* add validation on _id field when upsert new doc {es-pull}103399[#103399] (issue: {es-issue}102981[#102981])

Security::
* Revert "Validate settings in `ReloadSecureSettings` API" {es-pull}103310[#103310]

Snapshot/Restore::
* Do not record s3 http request time when it is not available {es-pull}105103[#105103]
* `URLRepository` should not block shutdown {es-pull}105588[#105588]

TLS::
* Respect --pass option in certutil csr mode {es-pull}106105[#106105]

Transform::
* Fix `_reset` API when called with `force=true` on a failed transform {es-pull}106574[#106574] (issue: {es-issue}106573[#106573])
* Fix a bug where destination index aliases are not set up for an unattended transform {es-pull}105499[#105499]
* Remove duplicate checkpoint audits {es-pull}105164[#105164] (issue: {es-issue}105106[#105106])
* Return results in order {es-pull}105089[#105089] (issue: {es-issue}104847[#104847])
* Use deduced mappings for determining proper fields' format even if `deduce_mappings==false` {es-pull}103682[#103682] (issue: {es-issue}103115[#103115])

Vector Search::
* Fix bug when nested knn pre-filter might match nested docs {es-pull}105994[#105994]

Watcher::
* Handling exceptions on watcher reload {es-pull}105442[#105442] (issue: {es-issue}69842[#69842])

[[deprecation-8.13.0]]
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=== Deprecations

Distributed::
* `DesiredNode:` deprecate `node_version` field and make it optional (unused) in current parser {es-pull}104209[#104209]

Infra/Core::
* Deprecate `client.type` {es-pull}104574[#104574]

[[enhancement-8.13.0]]
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=== Enhancements

Aggregations::
* Add index mapping parameter for `counted_keyword` {es-pull}103646[#103646]
* Introduce an `AggregatorReducer` to reduce the footprint of aggregations in the coordinating node {es-pull}105207[#105207]
* Release resources in `BestBucketsDeferringCollector` earlier {es-pull}104893[#104893]
* Support sampling in `counted_terms` aggregation {es-pull}103846[#103846]

Allocation::
* Account for reserved disk size {es-pull}103903[#103903]
* Derive expected replica size from primary {es-pull}102078[#102078]

Application::
* Add serverless scopes for Connector APIs {es-pull}104063[#104063]
* [Connector API] Change required privileges to indices:data/read(write) {es-pull}105289[#105289]
* [Connector API] Implement update `index_name` action {es-pull}104648[#104648]
* [Connector API] Support filtering by name, index name in list action {es-pull}105131[#105131]
* [Connector API] Support filtering connectors by service type and a query {es-pull}105178[#105178]
* [Connector API] Support updating configuration values only {es-pull}105249[#105249]
* [Connectors API] Add new field `api_key_secret_id` to Connector {es-pull}104982[#104982]
* [Connectors API] Implement connector status update action {es-pull}104750[#104750]
* [Connectors API] Implement update native action endpoint {es-pull}104654[#104654]
* [Connectors API] Implement update service type action {es-pull}104643[#104643]
* [Connectors API] Relax strict response parsing for get/list operations {es-pull}104909[#104909]
* [Profiling] Extract properties faster from source {es-pull}104356[#104356]
* [Profiling] Mark all templates as managed {es-pull}103783[#103783]
* [Profiling] Speed up processing of stacktraces {es-pull}104674[#104674]
* [Profiling] Support downsampling of generic events {es-pull}104730[#104730]
* [Profiling] Use shard request cache consistently {es-pull}103643[#103643]

Authentication::
* Expose API key authentication metrics {es-pull}103178[#103178]
* Expose realms authentication metrics {es-pull}104200[#104200]
* Expose service account authentication metrics {es-pull}104043[#104043]
* Expose token authentication metrics {es-pull}104142[#104142]
* Hot-reloadable LDAP bind password {es-pull}104320[#104320]
* Support of `match` for the Query API Key API {es-pull}104594[#104594]

Authorization::
* [Security Solution] Allow write permission for `kibana_system` role on endpoint response index {es-pull}103555[#103555]

CRUD::
* Avoid wrapping searchers multiple times in mget {es-pull}104227[#104227] (issue: {es-issue}85069[#85069])

Client::
* Add rest spec for Query User API {es-pull}104529[#104529]

Cluster Coordination::
* Add troubleshooting docs link to `PeerFinder` logs {es-pull}104787[#104787]
* Report current master in `PeerFinder` {es-pull}104396[#104396]

Data streams::
* Introduce lazy rollover for mapping updates in data streams {es-pull}103309[#103309] (issue: {es-issue}89346[#89346])
* Use new `ignore_dynamic_beyond_limit` in logs and metric data streams {es-pull}105180[#105180]
* X-pack/plugin/apm-data: add dynamic setting for enabling template registry {es-pull}104386[#104386] (issue: {es-issue}104385[#104385])
* X-pack/plugin/core: rename `double_metrics` template {es-pull}103033[#103033]
* x-pack/plugin/apm-data: Add a new field transaction.profiler_stack_trace_ids to traces-apm@mappings.yaml {es-pull}105223[#105223]
* x-pack/plugin/apm-data: Map some APM fields as flattened and fix error.grouping_name script {es-pull}103032[#103032]
* x-pack/plugin/core: make automatic rollovers lazy {es-pull}105273[#105273] (issue: {es-issue}104083[#104083])

Discovery-Plugins::
* Set read timeout for fetching IMDSv2 token {es-pull}104407[#104407] (issue: {es-issue}104244[#104244])

Downsampling::
* Support patch transport version from 8.12 {es-pull}104406[#104406]

ES|QL::
* Add ES|QL async delete API {es-pull}103628[#103628]
* Avoid humongous blocks {es-pull}103340[#103340]
* ESQL: Add TO_UPPER and TO_LOWER functions {es-pull}104309[#104309]
* ESQL: Add option to drop null fields {es-pull}102428[#102428]
* ESQL: Add plan consistency verification after each optimizer {es-pull}105371[#105371]
* ESQL: Check field exists before load from `_source` {es-pull}103632[#103632]
* ESQL: Delay finding field load infrastructure {es-pull}103821[#103821]
* ESQL: Expand shallow copy with vecs {es-pull}103681[#103681] (issue: {es-issue}100528[#100528])
* ESQL: Extend STATS command to support aggregate expressions {es-pull}104958[#104958]
* ESQL: Infer not null for aggregated fields {es-pull}103673[#103673] (issue: {es-issue}102787[#102787])
* ESQL: Nested expressions inside stats command {es-pull}104387[#104387] (issue: {es-issue}99828[#99828])
* ESQL: Pre-allocate rows in TopNOperator {es-pull}104796[#104796]
* ESQL: Referencing expressions that contain backticks requires <<esql-identifiers,escaping those backticks>>. {es-pull}100740[#100740] (issue: {es-issue}100312[#100312])
* ESQL: Simpify IS NULL/IS NOT NULL evaluation {es-pull}103099[#103099] (issue: {es-issue}103097[#103097])
* ESQL: Speed up reading many nulls {es-pull}105088[#105088]
* ESQL: Support loading shapes from source into WKB blocks {es-pull}104269[#104269]
* ESQL: Track the rest of `DocVector` {es-pull}103727[#103727]
* ESQL: `MV_FIRST` and `MV_LAST` {es-pull}103928[#103928]
* ESQL: add `date_diff` function {es-pull}104118[#104118] (issue: {es-issue}101942[#101942])
* ESQL: push down "[text_field] is not null" {es-pull}105593[#105593]
* ES|QL Async Query API {es-pull}103398[#103398]
* Prepare enrich plan to support multi clusters {es-pull}104355[#104355]
* Reading points from source to reduce precision loss {es-pull}103698[#103698]
* Remove deprecated Block APIs {es-pull}103592[#103592]
* Reserve bytes before serializing page {es-pull}105269[#105269]
* Support ST_CENTROID over spatial points {es-pull}104218[#104218] (issue: {es-issue}104656[#104656])
* Support cross clusters query in ESQL {es-pull}101640[#101640]
* Support enrich ANY mode in cross clusters query {es-pull}104840[#104840]
* Support enrich coordinator mode {es-pull}104936[#104936]
* Support enrich remote mode {es-pull}104993[#104993]

Geo::
* Add support for Well Known Binary (WKB) in the fields API for spatial fields {es-pull}103461[#103461]
* Add the possibility to transform WKT to WKB directly {es-pull}104030[#104030]

Health::
* Add APM metrics to `HealthPeriodicLogger` {es-pull}102765[#102765]
* Extend `repository_integrity` health indicator for unknown and invalid repos {es-pull}104614[#104614] (issue: {es-issue}103784[#103784])

ILM+SLM::
* Add "step":"ERROR" to ILM explain response for missing policy {es-pull}103720[#103720] (issue: {es-issue}99030[#99030])
* Add default rollover conditions to ILM explain API response {es-pull}104721[#104721] (issue: {es-issue}103395[#103395])
* ILM/SLM history policies forcemerge in hot and dsl configuration {es-pull}103190[#103190]

Infra/CLI::
* Add replay diagnostic dir to system jvm options {es-pull}103535[#103535]

Infra/Circuit Breakers::
* Lower G1 minimum full GC interval {es-pull}105259[#105259]

Infra/Core::
* Adding threadpool metrics {es-pull}102371[#102371]
* ES - document observing with rejections {es-pull}104859[#104859]
* Thread pool metrics {es-pull}104500[#104500]

Infra/Metrics::
* Modify name of threadpool metric for rejected {es-pull}105015[#105015]

Infra/Node Lifecycle::
* Wait for async searches to finish when shutting down {es-pull}101487[#101487]

Infra/Transport API::
* Make `ParentTaskAssigningClient.getRemoteClusterClient` method also return `ParentTaskAssigningClient` {es-pull}100813[#100813]

Ingest Node::
* Adding `ActionRequestLazyBuilder` implementation of `RequestBuilder` {es-pull}104927[#104927]
* Adding a `RequestBuilder` interface {es-pull}104778[#104778]
* Adding a custom exception for problems with the graph of pipelines to be applied to a document {es-pull}105196[#105196]
* Improving the performance of the ingest simulate verbose API {es-pull}105265[#105265]
* Ingest geoip processor cache 'no results' from the database {es-pull}104092[#104092]
* Limiting the number of nested pipelines that can be executed {es-pull}105428[#105428]
* Modifying request builders {es-pull}104636[#104636]

Java Low Level REST Client::
* Set thread name used by REST client {es-pull}103160[#103160]

Machine Learning::
* Add optional pruning configuration (weighted terms scoring) to text expansion query {es-pull}102862[#102862]
* Add text_embedding inference service with multilingual-e5 and custom eland models {es-pull}104949[#104949]
* Add 3 automatic restarts for `pytorch_inference` processes that stop unexpectedly {es-pull}104433[#104433]
* Add support for Cohere inference service {es-pull}104559[#104559]
* Always test for spikes and dips as well as changes in the change point aggregation {es-pull}103922[#103922]
* Apply windowing and chunking to long documents {es-pull}104363[#104363]
* Automatically download the ELSER model when PUT in `_inference` {es-pull}104334[#104334]
* Better handling of number of allocations in pytorch_inference in the case that hardware_concurrency fails {ml-pull}2607[#2607]
* Change detection aggregation improvements {es-pull}102824[#102824]
* Conditionally send the dimensions field as part of the openai requests {es-pull}105299[#105299] (issue: {es-issue}105005[#105005])
* Endpoint to find positions of Grok pattern matches {es-pull}104394[#104394]
* Ensure unique IDs between inference models and trained model deployments {es-pull}103996[#103996]
* Expose some ML metrics via APM {es-pull}102584[#102584]
* Make `task_type` optional in `_inference` APIs {es-pull}104483[#104483]
* Update `missingTrainedModel` message to include: you may need to create it {es-pull}104155[#104155]
* Upgrade MKL to version 2024.0 on Linux x86_64 {ml-pull}2619[#2619]
* Upgrade PyTorch to version 2.1.2. {ml-pull}2588[#2588]
* Upgrade zlib to version 1.2.13 on Windows {ml-pull}2588[#2588]
* Use Boost.JSON for JSON processing {ml-pull}2614[#2614]
* Validate inference model ids {es-pull}103669[#103669]


Mapping::
* Add `index.mapping.total_fields.ignore_dynamic_beyond_limit` setting to ignore dynamic fields when field limit is reached {es-pull}96235[#96235]
* Make field limit more predictable {es-pull}102885[#102885]

Network::
* Prune unnecessary information from TransportNodesStatsAction.NodeStatsRequest {es-pull}102559[#102559] (issue: {es-issue}100878[#100878])

Percolator::
* Return `matched_queries` in Percolator {es-pull}103084[#103084] (issue: {es-issue}10163[#10163])

Query Languages::
* Introduce Alias.unwrap method {es-pull}104575[#104575]

Search::
* Dyamically adjust node metrics cache expire {es-pull}104460[#104460]
* Enhancement: Metrics for Search Took Times using Action Listeners {es-pull}104996[#104996]
* Field caps performance pt2 {es-pull}105941[#105941]
* Field-caps field has value lookup use map instead of looping array {es-pull}105770[#105770]
* Flag in `_field_caps` to return only fields with values in index {es-pull}103651[#103651]
* Include better output in profiling & `toString` for automaton based queries {es-pull}105468[#105468]
* Metrics for search latencies {es-pull}102557[#102557]
* Ref count search response bytes {es-pull}103763[#103763] (issue: {es-issue}102657[#102657])
* Remove leniency in msearch parsing {es-pull}103232[#103232]
* Resolve Cluster API {es-pull}102726[#102726]
* Reuse number field mapper tests in other modules {es-pull}99142[#99142] (issue: {es-issue}92947[#92947])
* S3 first byte latency metric {es-pull}102435[#102435]
* Update s3 latency metric to use micros {es-pull}103633[#103633]
* Upgrade to Lucene 9.10.0 {es-pull}105578[#105578]

Security::
* Add Query Users API {es-pull}104033[#104033]
* Add `ApiKey` expiration time to audit log {es-pull}103959[#103959]
* Add expiration time to update api key api {es-pull}103453[#103453]
* Add stricter validation for api key expiration time {es-pull}103973[#103973]
* Add support for the `simple_query_string` to the Query API Key API {es-pull}104132[#104132]
* Add support for the `type` parameter, for sorting, to the Query API Key API {es-pull}104625[#104625]
* Aggs support for Query API Key Information API {es-pull}104895[#104895]
* Hot-reloadable remote cluster credentials {es-pull}102798[#102798]

Snapshot/Restore::
* Add s3 `HeadObject` request to request stats {es-pull}105105[#105105]
* Expose `OperationPurpose` in S3 access logs using a https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/LogFormat.html#LogFormatCustom[custom query-string parameter] {es-pull}105044[#105044]
* Fix blob cache race, decay, time dependency {es-pull}104784[#104784]
* Pause shard snapshots on graceful shutdown {es-pull}101717[#101717]
* Retry indefinitely for s3 indices blob read errors {es-pull}103300[#103300]

Store::
* List hidden shard stores by default {es-pull}103710[#103710]

TLS::
* 'elasticsearch-certutil cert' now verifies the issuing chain of the generated certificate {es-pull}103948[#103948]

TSDB::
* Improve storage efficiency for non-metric fields in TSDB {es-pull}99747[#99747]
* Introduce experimental pass-through field type {es-pull}103648[#103648]
* Nest pass-through objects within objects {es-pull}105062[#105062]
* Restrict usage of certain aggregations when in sort order execution is required {es-pull}104665[#104665]
* Small time series agg improvement {es-pull}106288[#106288]

Transform::
* Allow transforms to use PIT with remote clusters again {es-pull}105192[#105192] (issue: {es-issue}104518[#104518])
* Transforms: Adding basic stats API param {es-pull}104878[#104878]

Vector Search::
* Add new int8_flat and flat vector index types {es-pull}104872[#104872]
* Add support for more than one `inner_hit` when searching nested vectors {es-pull}104006[#104006]
* Making `k` and `num_candidates` optional for knn search {es-pull}101209[#101209] (issue: {es-issue}97533[#97533])

[[feature-8.13.0]]
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=== New features

Data streams::
* Add `require_data_stream` parameter to indexing requests to enforce indexing operations target a data stream {es-pull}101872[#101872] (issue: {es-issue}97032[#97032])
* Redirect failed ingest node operations to a failure store when available {es-pull}103481[#103481]

ES|QL::
* ESQL: Introduce mode setting for ENRICH {es-pull}103949[#103949]
* ESQL: add =~ operator (case insensitive equality) {es-pull}103656[#103656]

Health::
* Create a DSL health indicator as part of the health API {es-pull}103130[#103130]

Infra/Core::
* Add gradle tasks and code to modify and access mappings between version ids and release versions {es-pull}103627[#103627]

Mapping::
* Add `unmatch_mapping_type`, and support array of types {es-pull}103171[#103171] (issues: {es-issue}102807[#102807], {es-issue}102795[#102795])

Search::
* Added Duplicate Word Check Feature to Analysis Nori {es-pull}103325[#103325] (issue: {es-issue}103321[#103321])
* [Synonyms] Mark Synonyms as GA {es-pull}103223[#103223]

[[upgrade-8.13.0]]
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=== Upgrades

Query Languages::
* Upgrade ANTLR4 to 4.13.1 {es-pull}105334[#105334] (issue: {es-issue}102953[#102953])

Search::
* Upgrade to Lucene 9.9.0 {es-pull}102782[#102782]
* Upgrade to Lucene 9.9.1 {es-pull}103387[#103387]
* Upgrade to Lucene 9.9.2 {es-pull}104753[#104753]