- Added new ingest and search pipeline features: fingerprint processor, strict allow‑templates, allowlist for common processors, SortResponseProcessor/SplitResponseProcessor, and query‑group schema/header support.
- Improved performance and reliability with remote store low‑priority rate limiting, date‑histogram rewrite for range aggregations, composite directory integrated with file cache, pre‑computed cluster stats, tiered‑caching lock optimizatio...
- Deprecated bulk API batch‑size parameter, introduced iterative parsers (WKT, FilterPath, Grok), updated cat command help, and applied numerous dependency version bumps.