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39 changes: 28 additions & 11 deletions docs/reference/release-notes/highlights.asciidoc
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Expand Up @@ -46,22 +46,39 @@ search lets you run these searches in the background instead. See
[[transform-top-metrics-support]]
=== Transforms: support for top metrics

{transforms-cap} are now able to support the
{ref}/search-aggregations-metrics-top-metrics.html[top metrics aggregation].
This improves performance when grouping by many fields. If these fields are
descriptive and have the same cardinality (for example, customer first and last
name describe their customer_id), then using top metrics significantly reduces
the work needed to be done by aggregations. It is also a usability improvement
if configuring top or last value, which previously would have required a
{transforms-cap} are now able to support the
{ref}/search-aggregations-metrics-top-metrics.html[top metrics aggregation].
This improves performance when grouping by many fields. If these fields are
descriptive and have the same cardinality (for example, customer first and last
name describe their customer_id), then using top metrics significantly reduces
the work needed to be done by aggregations. It is also a usability improvement
if configuring top or last value, which previously would have required a
scripted metric.

[discrete]
[[ml-anomaly-detection-reset-job]]
=== {anomaly-detect-cap}: reset job API

The {ref}/ml-reset-job.html[reset job API] makes it easier to start
{anomaly-jobs} again from scratch, to put a job back to the state it was in
immediately after creation – equivalent to deleting it and recreating it, but
without the need to remember the configuration. It also simplifies support, as
The {ref}/ml-reset-job.html[reset job API] makes it easier to start
{anomaly-jobs} again from scratch, to put a job back to the state it was in
immediately after creation – equivalent to deleting it and recreating it, but
without the need to remember the configuration. It also simplifies support, as
users will be able to reset their job by a single click.

[discrete]
[[match-only-text]]
=== New `match_only_text` field type

{ref}/text.html#match-only-text-field-type[`match_only_text`] is a new
space-optimized variant of `text` that disables scoring and performs slower
on queries that need positions. It is best suited for indexing log messages.

[discrete]
[[composite-aggs-without-global-ordinals]]
=== More memory-efficient composite aggregations

Composite aggregations on `keyword` fields no longer use
{ref}/eager-global-ordinals.html[global ordinals], which for high cardinality
fields could use a lot of heap memory as part of the
{ref}/modules-fielddata.html[field data cache].
// end::notable-highlights[]