Elasticsearch
- Category
- Databases and data
- Latest
- 9.5.6
- Released
- Nov 2, 2026
- Docs outline
- 14 sections
Official docs outline
elastic.co- Data Store: Indices, Documents and Mappings
Documents, indices, JSON storage, near-real-time search and the data store overview.
- Mapping and Field Types
Explicit versus dynamic mapping, field types, keyword vs text, multi-fields and mapping explosion.
- Text Analysis
Analyzers, tokenizers, token filters, normalizers and index-time vs search-time analysis.
- Ingest and Pipelines
Bulk indexing, ingest pipelines, processors and data enrichment.
- Full-Text Search and Relevance
Match queries, BM25 relevance scoring, boosting and relevance tuning.
- Query DSL
Leaf and compound queries, bool, filter context versus query context, term-level queries.
- Aggregations
Bucket, metric and pipeline aggregations, analytics over documents.
- ES|QL
Piped query language for filtering, transforming and aggregating data.
- Vector and Semantic Search
dense_vector, kNN search, embeddings, semantic_text and hybrid search.
- Clusters, Nodes and Shards
Primary and replica shards, node roles, shard allocation, cluster state and resilience.
- Data Streams
Time-series append-only data, backing indices, rollover and data stream design.
- Index Lifecycle Management
Hot, warm, cold and frozen tiers, rollover, retention and ILM policies.
- Snapshot and Restore
Repositories, snapshot lifecycle and cluster recovery.
- Security
Authentication, role-based access control, TLS and API keys.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.
Versions and support
6 release lines| Line | Released | Latest | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.5 | Aug 4, 2026 | 9.5.6 | Supported |
| 9.4 | May 5, 2026 | 9.4.9 | Supported |
| 9.3 | Feb 3, 2026 | 9.3.8 | Ended Aug 4, 2026 |
| 9.2 | Oct 23, 2025 | 9.2.8 | Ended May 5, 2026 |
| 9.1 | Jul 29, 2025 | 9.1.10 | Ended Feb 3, 2026 |
| 8.19 | Jul 29, 2025 | 8.19.24 | Until Jul 15, 2027 |
Source: endoflife.date