Kibana 5.0.0-alpha1 docs / release notes

[tbragin]

Note: Rows with checkboxes require doc changes.

Enhancements

• Improve layout, navigation, and visual design of Kibana (issue: Kibana 5.0 navigation / layout tweaks #6387)
• Add ability to install packs to Kibana plugin installer (PR: Plugin pack installer #6402)
• Implement number field formatter for durations (issue: Format number as time duration #5130, PR: Implemented number field formatter for durations #6499)
• Make default columns in Discover table configurable (issue: Make default column configurable #2964, PR: Make default columns configurable #5696)
• Title Case string formatter (issue: Add title case to transform for string fields #6379 PR: Add a title case string formatter. #6413)
• Add server name to config (PR: [config] server name #6610)
• Enable better caching of time-based requests by Elasticsearch (PR: Don't use extended_bounds for time filter in date_histogram #6643)

Bug fixes

• Add ability to aggregate on non-indexed fields (issue: Allow terms agregation on _field_names field #5914, PR: [indexPattern/field] remove "bucketable" property of fields #5806)
• Allow 'exists' filter for unindexed fields (issue: Unable to filter field exists for unindexed field #6142, PR: Allow exists filter for unindexed fields #6143)
• Fix sorting issue with boolean values (PR: [pagintaedTable] sort booleans so true floats up first #6158)
• Fix stale state issue with "Show empty buckets" in histograms (issue: Histogram extended bounds persists after deselection #5898, PR: fix histogram extended bounds persisting after deselection #5960)
• Make the default of pingTimeout match the docs (PR: [es/pingTimeout] use requestTimeout as default #6627)

Breaking changes

• Remove support for Github from plugin installer (issue: Remove support for Github from plugin installer #5591, PR: [plugin installer] removed github support #5592, backported to 4.4)

Plugins, APIs, Development

• Inject buttons in navbar via plugin (issue: Inject buttons in navbar via plugin #5198, PRs: Navbar extensions uiExports #5938 Navbar directive #5940)
• Allow plugins to export settings pages (issue: Allow plugins to export settings pages #6016, PRs: Settings sections registry #6077)
• Make doc table pluggable (issue: Formatting plugins for JSON results #5214, PR: Add registry for doc table details #6105)
• "Hacks" plugins (PRs: [plugins] allow breaking a nut #6122 [hacks] goodbye sledgehammers #6222)
• Allow nested plugins (PR: [plugins] re-enable publicDir option, but require that it is "public" #6054)
• Allow plugins to add their own prefixes to config (issue: Add Plugin Configuration Prefix #6304, PR: Implement plugin config prefix #6554)
• Allow plugins to exist outside Kibana source tree (PR: optimizer - allow out-of-band plugins #6177)
• Changes to plugin dependencies autoloading (PR: [autoloading] opt into autoloading with require #5871)
• Move to ES6 (too many PRs to list)
• API for creating index patterns (issue: Ingest API #5199, PR: Create an Ingest API #5213)
• _count API for retrieving index pattern document count (PR: Count API - count the number of documents in an index pattern #6534)
• More explicit error when Kibana server can’t start due to a code-level issue (PR: [uiAppTemplate] display errors on screen when resources fail to load #5870)

Note: These are just some of the internal changes pertaining to development in Kibana. Plugin framework and APIs are not formally documented and not guaranteed to be backward compatible from release to release.

[epixa]

Will you be updating this list with any changes that go in between now and alpha1 release?

[tbragin]

@epixa that was the plan - it's a living document (at least until @palecur materializes something in the docs).

[epixa]

Awesome

[tbragin]

@epixa Keep in mind that the enhancement and bug list is curated - I omitted some of the smaller enhancements as bug fixes (see below). And as mentioned, the Plugins/Dev list is also partial per my subjective judgement :)

Enahncements

• Add a "Less Info" button to toast messages (PR: Added a "Less Info" button to toast messages #6540)
• Set the tooltip of type icons in doc table (PR: Set the tooltip of type icons in doc table #6243)
• Make only spy tab clickable, not entire row (PR: make only spy tab clickable, not entire row #5985)

Bug fixes

• Stop tooltip from being cut off when mousing over dashboard name (issue: Histogram extended bounds persists after deselection #5898, PR: Stopped tooltip from being cut off when mousing over dashboard name #6464)
• Rename "CustomLabel" to "Custom Label" (issue: CustomLabel vs "Custom label" #6242, PR:
  [filters/label] use _.words and _.capitalize #6249)

[epixa]

@tbragin Do you happen to have the raw list of changes anywhere? That'll be incredibly useful when building the PR verification checklist for release QA, otherwise we'll just repeat the work you've already done to sort through issues.

[tbragin]

@epixa Sure - I shared it with you.

[epixa]

Thanks

[palecur]

PR #6753 is up to accomodate these changes; I've taken the liberty of assigning @epixa, but feel free to reassign as suitable.

[palecur]

Closed by abovementioned PR.

[dalenewman]

is defaultColumns an array or strings defined like this? [ "column1", "column2", "etc" ] or something else? I ask because an array of strings didn't work for me.