From e243f741f33122fb7959b0ce10b8524b227d1eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Echeverri Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:48:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Adds release notes for Kibana 4.2, minor cleanup elsewhere. --- docs/index.asciidoc | 3 ++- docs/introduction.asciidoc | 6 +++--- docs/releasenotes.asciidoc | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/tilemap.asciidoc | 3 +-- docs/whats-new.asciidoc | 34 ---------------------------------- 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/releasenotes.asciidoc delete mode 100644 docs/whats-new.asciidoc diff --git a/docs/index.asciidoc b/docs/index.asciidoc index ac9fff2a5ec717..aedd424cf6fe66 100644 --- a/docs/index.asciidoc +++ b/docs/index.asciidoc @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ :ref: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ :shield: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current :k4pull: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/ +:k4issue: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/ include::introduction.asciidoc[] @@ -25,4 +26,4 @@ include::settings.asciidoc[] include::production.asciidoc[] -include::whats-new.asciidoc[] +include::releasenotes.asciidoc[] diff --git a/docs/introduction.asciidoc b/docs/introduction.asciidoc index 384c2a7e960f01..7defd9245c59ed 100644 --- a/docs/introduction.asciidoc +++ b/docs/introduction.asciidoc @@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ dashboards that display changes to Elasticsearch queries in real time. Setting up Kibana is a snap. You can install Kibana and start exploring your Elasticsearch indices in minutes -- no code, no additional infrastructure required. -NOTE: This guide describes how to use Kibana 4.1. For information about what's new -in Kibana 4.1, see <>. For earlier versions of Kibana 4, see the -http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.0/index.html[Kibana 4 User Guide]. For information about Kibana 3, see the +NOTE: This guide describes how to use Kibana 4.2. For information about what's new +in Kibana 4.2, see the <>. For earlier versions of Kibana 4, see the +http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/4.1/index.html[Kibana 4.1 User Guide]. For information about Kibana 3, see the http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/3.0/index.html[Kibana 3 User Guide]. [float] diff --git a/docs/releasenotes.asciidoc b/docs/releasenotes.asciidoc new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..344a47fcea28a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/releasenotes.asciidoc @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +[[releasenotes]] +== Kibana 4.2 Release Notes + +* Starting with the 2.0 release of Elasticsearch, you can https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/9670[no longer] +reference fields by leafnode. For example, the `geoip.country_code` field can no longer support searches such as +`country_code:US`. Instead, use the entire field name. This change affects saved searches, visualizations, and dashboards +from previous versions of Kibana. + +[float] +[[key-features]] +== Key Features + +* {k4issue}2855[Issue 2855]: You can now configure Kibana log levels. +* {k4issue}4204[Issue 4204]: Kibana now has a plugin manager. +* {k4pull}4951[Pull Request 4951]: New UI to support plugin context changes. +* {k4issue}3270[Issue 3270]: Kibana now displays a server status page. + +[float] +[[improvements]] +== Improvements + +* {k4issue}2245[Issue 2245]: You can now customize the descriptions shown in the visualization. +* {k4pull}4702[Pull Request 4702]: Dark theme added to dashboards. +* {k4issue}1902[Issue 1902]: Tile maps support configurable WMS-compliant map servers. diff --git a/docs/tilemap.asciidoc b/docs/tilemap.asciidoc index ab16d234824c96..a89d5a45e01d28 100644 --- a/docs/tilemap.asciidoc +++ b/docs/tilemap.asciidoc @@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ Coordinates* on a single chart. A multiple chart split must run before any other Tile maps use the *Geohash* aggregation as their initial aggregation. Select a field, typically coordinates, from the drop-down. The *Precision* slider determines the granularity of the results displayed on the map. See the documentation for the {ref}/search-aggregations-bucket-geohashgrid-aggregation.html#_cell_dimensions_at_the_equator[geohash grid] -aggregation for details on the area specified by each precision level. As of the 4.1 release, Kibana supports a maximum -geohash length of 7. +aggregation for details on the area specified by each precision level. Kibana supports a maximum geohash length of 7. NOTE: Higher precisions increase memory usage for the browser displaying Kibana as well as for the underlying Elasticsearch cluster. diff --git a/docs/whats-new.asciidoc b/docs/whats-new.asciidoc deleted file mode 100644 index 2f6d3823bb7e4a..00000000000000 --- a/docs/whats-new.asciidoc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -[[whats-new]] -== What's New in Kibana 4.1 - -[float] -[[key-features]] -=== Key Features - -* {k4pull}2518[Pull Request 2518]: You can pin filters to make the filter persist across Kibana functionality, from -the Visualize tab to Discover to a Dashboard. -* {k4pull}2731[Pull Request 2731]: Field formatting options now supported in Settings. -* {k4pull}3154[Pull Request 3154]: New chart: Bubble chart, derived from the basic line chart. -* {k4pull}3212[Pull Request 3212]: You can now install Kibana on Linux with a package manager such as `apt-get`. -* {k4pull}3271[Pull Request 3271] and {k4pull}3262[3262]: New aggregations: IPv4 and Date range aggregations enable -you to specify buckets for these qualities. -* {k4pull}3290[Pull Request 3290]: You can select a time interval for the Discover display of time series data. -* {k4pull}3470[Pull Request 3470]: New metric: Percentile ranks. -* {k4pull}3573[Pull Request 3573]: Kibana objects (visualizations, dashboards, and searches) can be imported and -exported. -* {k4pull}3830[Pull Request 3830]: New chart: Heatmap, a tile map display variant. - -[float] -[[improvements]] -=== Improvements - -* {k4pull}3164[Pull Request 3164]: You can now store a specific time range with a dashboard. -* {k4pull}3233[Pull Request 3233]: New Y axis scale options, log scale and square root scale. -* {k4pull}3237[Pull Request 3237]: Dat Histogram bucket aggregation now supports custom intervals, from seconds to -years. -* {k4pull}3273[Pull Request 3273]: Line smoothing for for line and area charts. -* {k4pull}3464[Pull Request 3464]: You can now specify the extent of the Y axis for charts. -* {k4pull}3526[Pull Request 3526]: You can add columns to Discover's list of results directly from an entry's table of -fields. -* {k4pull}3671[Pull Request 3671]: Tile maps now support latitude/longitude filtering. -* {k4pull}3800[Pull Request 3800]: You can now pause auto-refresh on a dashboard.