# 🎉 Elastic Stack 8.8 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [June 1, 2023, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-8-8-released/334691 "2023-06-01T08:45:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2023, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-8-8-released/334691/1 "2023-06-01T08:45:33Z")
## 🎉 What’s new in Elastic 8.8 Building modern search experiences, observing distributed systems, and protecting against complex threats has never been easier with Elastic. Discover the broad set of new capabilities in the Elasticsearch Platform and its three built-in solutions for search, observability, and security. Learn more about Elastic 8.8, featuring performant semantic search with the Elastic Learned Sparse Encoder, general availability of Synthetic Monitoring and Elastic native connectors, direct log ingestion into Elastic Cloud via Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, and more. - **[Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html)**: [Encode using 40, 48 and 56 bits per value](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#encode_using_40_48_56_bits_per_value), [Add support for Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) to the search API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#add_support_for_reciprocal_rank_fusion_rrf_to_search_api), [Add new](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#add_new_similarity_field_to_knn_clause_in_search)`similarity` [field to](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#add_new_similarity_field_to_knn_clause_in_search)`knn` [clause in](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#add_new_similarity_field_to_knn_clause_in_search)`_search, ` [GA release of the JWT realm](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#ga_release_of_jwt_realm), [The Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) model](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.8/release-highlights.html#elser-model) - **[Enterprise Search](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/8.8/release-notes-8.8.0.html)**: Support for ELSER, MongoDB and MySQL connectors are GA, Microsoft SQL and PostgreSQL connectors (Beta), Use [Search Applications](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/8.8/search-applications.html) (technical preview) to simplify adding search features to your application, improvements to [Behavioral Analytics](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/enterprise-search/8.8/analytics-overview.html) (beta) - **[Observability](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html)**: [Synthetic Monitoring Goes GA](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_synthetic_monitoring_goes_ga), [Ingest logs from Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_ingest_logs_from_amazon_kinesis_data_firehose), [APM Server binary](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_apm_server_binary), [Service-level objectives in beta](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_service_level_objectives_in_beta), [Enhanced rule definition with context attributes](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_enhanced_rule_definition_with_context_attributes), [Alert details view](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_alert_details_view), [Easier filtering, previewing hosts and viewing logs and alerts in Infrastructure Hosts](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.8/whats-new.html#_easier_filtering_previewing_hosts_and_viewing_logs_and_alerts_in_infrastructure_hosts) - **[Security](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html)**: [Detection rules enhancements](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_detection_rules_enhancements), [Alerts enhancements](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_alerts_enhancements), [Visualization actions and inline actions added to more places in the Elastic Security app](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_visualization_actions_and_inline_actions_added_to_more_places_in_the_elastic_security_app), [Cloud Security enhancements](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_cloud_security_enhancements), [New "execute" response console command](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_new_execute_response_console_command), [Delete notes in Timeline](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_delete_notes_in_timeline), [Cases enhancements](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.8/whats-new.html#_cases_enhancements) Elastic 8.8 is [available now on Elastic Cloud](https://cloud.elastic.co/registration) — 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). 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. Learn more with our release blog posts: # Release blogs > **[Enhance synthetics monitoring, semantic search, and security with Elastic 8.8](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-8-8-0)** > > Elastic 8.8 features Elastic's new Learned Sparse EncodeR model, the general availability of synthetics monitoring and Elastic native connectors, direct log ingestion into Elastic Cloud via Amazon Kin... > **[Elastic Enterprise Search 8.8: Semantic search in a few clicks](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-enterprise-search-8-8-0)** > > In Elastic Enterprise Search 8.8, semantic search is the default. Evolving AI search experiences, powered by Elastic’s new machine learning model are now packaged with our catalog of Elastic integrati... > **[Elastic Security 8.8: Powerful endpoint response, alert triage, and data...](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-security-8-8-0)** > > Elastic Security 8.8 helps security practitioners efficiently triage alerts, reduce MTTR, gain insight into data quality, and better secure cloud environments through integrated SIEM, cloud security, ... > **[Elastic Observability 8.8: Efficient operations with GitOps-based synthetics...](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-observability-8-8-0)** > > Elastic Observability 8.8 delivers the general availability release of synthetic monitoring, the ability to ingest data directly to Elastic Cloud from Amazon Kinesis Firehose, and new capabilities for... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-8-8-released/334691/2 "2023-06-15T08:45:35Z")
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