# 🎉 Elastic 8.0: A new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity

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**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-0-a-new-era-of-speed-scale-relevance-and-simplicity/297028 "2022-02-11T23:21:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-0-a-new-era-of-speed-scale-relevance-and-simplicity/297028/1 "2022-02-11T23:21:12Z")

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**🎉 Elastic 8.0 is here: A new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity**

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 8.0. With enhancements to Elasticsearch’s vector search capabilities, native support for modern natural language processing models, increasingly simplified data onboarding, and a streamlined security experience, Elastic 8.0 ushers in a new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity.

Learn more with the release post:

> **[Elastic 8.0: A new era of speed, scale, relevance, and simplicity](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-8-0-0)**
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> With a new approximate nearest neighbor search capability, native support for modern natural language processing models, and a streamlined security experience — Elastic 8.0 lays the foundation for the next generation of search-powered solutions.

**Ready to get started?** Elastic 8.0 is [available now on Elastic Cloud](https://cloud.elastic.co/registration?elektra=whats-new-elastic-8-0-blog) — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

New to Elastic? Welcome aboard. You can get started today with a [free 14-day trial of Elastic Cloud](https://cloud.elastic.co/registration?elektra=whats-new-elastic-7-16-blog). Or, if the [benefits of using a managed service](https://www.elastic.co/cloud) have yet to win you over, you can always [download](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/) a self-managed version of the Elastic Stack for free.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-0-a-new-era-of-speed-scale-relevance-and-simplicity/297028/2 "2022-02-11T23:22:39Z")

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**Post date:** [February 25, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-0-a-new-era-of-speed-scale-relevance-and-simplicity/297028/3 "2022-02-25T23:22:51Z")

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-8-0-a-new-era-of-speed-scale-relevance-and-simplicity/297028/4 "2022-03-08T21:32:23Z")

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