The Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene update for March 13, 2020, highlights several advancements, including the introduction of Async search APIs and Data Streams. The Async search APIs, currently in incubation, aim to enhance Kibana by allowing asynchronous search requests, enabling users to bypass the 30-second timeout starting with release 7.7 and improving dashboard functionality in subsequent versions. Data Streams formalize time series data management, offering a new configuration and API to improve user interaction and internal management without relying on aliases. Additionally, Index Templates v2 introduces "component templates" to resolve issues with merging existing templates, while recent performance testing revealed regressions linked to changes in Apache Lucene and Elasticsearch's query cancellation. Furthermore, enhancements in geometry queries were made, optimizing CPU usage by specializing shape calculations, and SimpleFSDirectory is deprecated due to redundancy with NIOFSDirectory and performance considerations across operating systems.