Releasesby GlyphElastic 9.5: Columnar, VectorDB index mode & auto-calibration, and AI-driven alert triage
Today, we are pleased to announce the GA of Elastic 9.5 as the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform. This release includes a range of new features, including Columnar Mode, VectorDB index mode, and Agent Builder enhancements. Learn more.
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Workspace sharing in Declarative Native Apps (Public Preview)
Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing (General availability)
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing is now generally available. Use gateway model monitors to track drift and performance for inference services behind a Snowflake Gateway, compare baseline and challenger services during live traffic splits, and evaluate results in Snowsight or with SQL. For more information, see Gateway monitoring & A/B testing .
Multi-party Approval (General availability)
Multi-party Approval (MPA) is now generally available. When a Multi-party Approval policy is attached to your account, MPA enforces a mandatory second-person (“four-eyes”) verification step for critical account operations. A Multi-party Approval policy defines which operations require approval and who can approve them.
Unity Gateway is now generally available
Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers to control access and costs. Monitor usage, cost, access, and lineage from one place.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix .
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share .
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What's new in ECK 3.5
ECK 3.5 brings dynamic namespace management via label selectors, pause orchestration for safe maintenance windows, mutual TLS across all stack components, simplified resource specs, and a reduced operator memory footprint.
Elastic Stack 9.5.2 released
Version 9.5.2 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 9.5.2 over the previous versions 9.5.1 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes .
Elastic Stack 9.4.6 released
Version 9.4.6 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 9.4.6 over the previous versions 9.4.5 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.
Elastic Stack 8.19.21 released
Version 8.19.21 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 8.19.21 over the previous versions 8.19.21 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes.
Elastic Stack 9.5.3 released
Version 9.5.3 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 9.5.3 over the previous versions 9.5.2 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes .
Elastic Stack 9.4.7 released
Version 9.4.7 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 9.4.7 over the previous versions 9.4.6 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes .
Elastic Stack 9.5.4 released
Version 9.5.4 of the Elastic Stack was released today. We recommend you upgrade to this latest version . We recommend 9.5.4 over the previous versions 9.5.3 For details of the issues that have been fixed and a full list of changes for each product in this version, please refer to the release notes .
Elastic announces GA of cross-project search on Serverless, enabling teams to query across all linked projects without moving a byte
Cross-project search is now GA on Elastic Cloud Serverless. Link multiple projects and query all of them from a single Discover or ES|QL session: no certificates, no remote cluster config, and three clicks to set up. Available from September 1, 2026.