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George Kobar
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Summary

Elasticsearch 7.14 introduces several enhancements aimed at improving geospatial capabilities, performance, and usability across its platform. Building on Apache Lucene 8.9.0, this release includes the addition of runtime fields for geo_shape queries, leading to more efficient geospatial data analysis. It offers a 15% faster geotile grid aggregation and introduces a new field type, match_only_text, which reduces storage requirements by 10%. The update also enhances aggregation performance, particularly for single bucket date_histograms, and optimizes composite aggregation memory usage. New APIs facilitate the migration of node attributes to node roles and support new range aggregations over histogram fields, aiding data analysis in observability and security contexts. Elasticsearch 7.14 also brings improvements to its machine learning features, such as support for top metric aggregation in transforms and a simplified anomaly detection reset job API. The release highlights Elastic's commitment to making Elasticsearch a powerful, efficient tool for data search and analysis, with updates also extending to Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security solutions.