In the July 2019 update for Kibana, significant developments were highlighted, including the completion of key changes to integrate authentication into the new platform, the introduction of feature privileges that can be excluded from base privileges to facilitate transitions for ML and Reporting, and numerous enhancements across various Kibana components. The security plugin migration issues have been resolved, and efforts are ongoing to migrate the Saved Object Client to the new platform. Changes were made to the Alerting Service, including schema updates, error handling improvements, and the addition of security support. The Kibana App Architecture saw progress with embeddables and actions, while the Lens visual editor introduced the concept of "layers" for combining data tables, although the related PR has not been merged yet. Elastic Charts version 8.0.2 introduced breaking changes and new features, such as the ability to override computed colors for series. Additionally, the Canvas embeddables project aims to enhance the creation and flexibility of personalized content, while design explorations for graph visualizations and menu systems are underway. The update concluded with the removal of a charting library from EUI, marking a breaking change, and the end of life for certain Sass mixins and K6 themes.