# 🎉 What’s new in Elastic 8.11
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-s-new-in-elastic-8-11/346653
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [November 7, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-s-new-in-elastic-8-11/346653 "2023-11-07T20:34:42Z")
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-s-new-in-elastic-8-11/346653/1 "2023-11-07T20:34:42Z")
# 🎉 What’s new in Elastic 8.11
Learn about Elastic 8.11 which includes the GA of the Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER) and the technical preview of Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), a new piped query language to simplify data investigations across Elastic solutions. Also, check out Elastic AI Assistant support for Amazon Bedrock, Elasticsearch Relevance Engine™ (ESRE) improvements in vector search, and much more.
[Elastic Observability](https://www.elastic.co/observability) transforms metrics, logs, and traces into actionable IT insights to unify observability across the digital ecosystem. [This 8.11 release](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-observability-8-11-0) brings the technical preview of ES|QL applied to Observability, improved whole-system visibility with [Elastic Universal Profiling™ and APM integration](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.11/whats-new.html#_better_together_universal_profiling_and_apm_integration), the technical preview of SLO updates, [conditional actions in alerting rules](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.11/whats-new.html#_conditional_actions_in_alerting_rules), [faster-loading and consistent host views](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.11/whats-new.html#_faster_loading_and_consistent_host_views), [synthetic monitoring automatic retesting](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.11/whats-new.html#_synthetic_monitoring_automatic_retesting), [new Integrations](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/observability/8.11/whats-new.html#_new_integrations) (AWS API Gateway, Amazon EMR, Azure App Service, and Azure Functions) and more.
[Elastic Security](https://www.elastic.co/security) unifies SIEM, endpoint security, and cloud security to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at cloud scale. [The 8.11 release](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-security-8-11-0) brings the technical preview of [ES|QL applied to Security](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.11/whats-new.html#_detection_rules_and_alerts_enhancements), [new Elastic AI Assistant support for Amazon Bedrock](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.11/whats-new.html#_new_amazon_bedrock_connector), the beta of deepened integrations with Okta and Microsoft Entra ID, the beta of data integrations with Wiz and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, GA of Kafka output for Elastic Defend, [latest risk scoring engine](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/security/8.11/whats-new.html#_latest_risk_scoring_engine), and more.
[Elastic Search](https://www.elastic.co/enterprise-search) helps developers implement modern search and discovery experiences. [This 8.11 release](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-search-8-11-0) brings the GA of the Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR model (ELSER), new and enriched connectors to sync searchable data from private data sources, the beta of binary content extraction on edge for large files, and more.
All of Elastic’s out-of-the box solutions are built on one platform — [the Elasticsearch® Platform](https://www.elastic.co/products/). All users, regardless of use case, benefit from core enhancements:
- [technical preview of ES|QL](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.11/release-highlights.html#es_ql_new_query_language_for_flexible_iterative_analytics_in_technical_preview) and how it has been [added to Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_esql_in_discover)
- [Elasticsearch Relevance Engine™ improvements](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_elser_is_improved_and_is_now_generally_available) in scale (i.e., vector search scaling to 4096 dimensions)
- reroute processor simplification of data ingestion
- configurable look back time for TSDB metric storage
- [cross-cluster search status details](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_cross_cluster_search_ccs_query_inspector) in Kibana® Inspector
- tech preview of a [links panel](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_links_panel) to easily navigate from one Kibana dashboard to another by linking them
- [Lens inline editing in dashboards](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_lens_inline_editing_in_dashboards)
- [Color mapping for enhanced data visualization](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_color_mapping_for_enhanced_data_visualization)
- [Individual annotation editing from the library](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_individual_annotation_editing_from_the_library)
- [New inference APIs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_inference_apis) (preview)
- [AIOps: Log rate analysis supports text fields](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_aiops_log_rate_analysis_supports_text_fields) (preview)
- [Data drift workflows](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_data_drift_workflows) (preview)
- [Improvements in anomaly detection embeddability and data frame analytics pipelines
](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/8.11/whats-new.html#_improvements_in_anomaly_detection_embeddability_and_data_frame_analytics_pipelines)
- [The data stream lifecycle](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.11/release-highlights.html#data_stream_lifecycle_in_technical_preview) is now in Technical Preview
More details are in the [Elasticsearch platform highlights blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elasticsearch-platform-8-11-0) or in the [8.11 release notes](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/starting-with-the-elasticsearch-platform-and-its-solutions/current/index.html)
# Deploy / Download / Upgrade now!
Elastic 8.11 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.
# Release blogs
Learn more with our release blog posts:
> **[Elastic 8.11 includes ES|QL and Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER)](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-8-11-0)**
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> Elastic 8.11 includes the GA of the Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR (ELSER), tech preview of ES|QL, Elastic AI Assistant support for Amazon Bedrock, and Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE) improvemen...
> **[Elastic Stack 8.11 introduces an advanced query language, ES|QL](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elasticsearch-platform-8-11-0)**
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> Elastic Stack 8.11 introduces an advanced query language known as ES|QL in the Discover application, making data exploration more straightforward and user friendly. The Elastic Learned Sparse EncodeR ...
> **[Elastic Search 8.11: ELSER model is now GA and customers can use it in...](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-search-8-11-0)**
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> Elastic Search 8.11 allows users to run Elastic’s retrieval model ELSER in production to perform semantic search to retrieve more relevant search results. This model provides search results based on c...
> **[Elastic Security 8.11 adds piped queries, enhanced AI assistance, user and...](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-security-8-11-0)**
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> Elastic Security 8.11 brings ES|QL piped queries, AI Assistant upgrades, and data integrations for Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Wiz, and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud....
> **[Elastic Observability 8.11: ES|QL, Universal profiling in APM, and enhanced SLOs](https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elastic-observability-8-11-0)**
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> Elastic Observability introduces ES|QL for Observability, Universal Profiling and Elastic APM integration, and new SLO enhancements for Elastic Observability....
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-s-new-in-elastic-8-11/346653/2 "2023-11-08T03:07:27Z")