Kibana's recent updates have focused on enhancing visualization capabilities, improving user interface elements, and integrating geospatial data with Elasticsearch. Key developments include the merging of a PR to support Elasticsearch 7 in GDAL, facilitating the ingestion of shapefiles into Elasticsearch, and the expansion of elastic-charts with new features like custom tooltips and crosshair cursors. The Lens application is nearing the integration of new visualization types, including data tables and metrics, alongside configuration options for terms and date histograms. Canvas has introduced alignment and distribution options for layout precision, further enriched by keyboard shortcuts for element positioning. The ongoing efforts in application architecture include a comprehensive embeddables API and dashboard migrations, while design improvements in Elastic UI (EUI) focus on components for KQL auto-complete and CSS in JS. These updates collectively aim to streamline data visualization and manipulation for users, enhancing the overall functionality and user experience of Kibana.