The weekly update on Kibana from July 9th, 2018, highlights several significant developments and improvements in the platform. The Elastic Maps Service now has a dedicated landing page to facilitate data integration with Elasticsearch in region maps, while enhancements to Canvas, such as automatic expression formatting and case-insensitive functions, have been introduced to improve usability. Efforts in platform localization are advancing, with key features becoming translatable, and the new platform foundation is ready on the server side, focusing on services like saved objects and Elasticsearch. Security updates include modifications to deprecation logging and integration tests, and the design team is resolving bugs and working on new prototypes. In management, progress is being made on rollup index patterns, and the visualizations team is removing Angular dependencies to prepare for rendering with the Canvas pipeline. Finally, experimental features like the EuiXYChart in EUI have been added, and various bug fixes and enhancements have been implemented across the platform.