Update docs for v8.11.0 release (elastic#100670)

docs/reference/release-notes/8.11.0.asciidoc

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Infra/Core::
 
 Aggregations::
 * Allow parsing on non-string routing fields {es-pull}97729[#97729]
-* Fix cardinality agg for `const_keyword` {es-pull}99814[#99814] (issue: {es-issue}99776[#99776])
 * Support runtime fields in synthetic source {es-pull}99796[#99796] (issue: {es-issue}98287[#98287])
 
 Allocation::
@@ -27,6 +26,9 @@ Allocation::
 Application::
 * [Profiling] Tighten resource creation check {es-pull}99873[#99873]
 
+CCR::
+* CCR: Use local cluster state request {es-pull}100323[#100323]
+
 CRUD::
 * Change `GetFromTranslog` to indices action {es-pull}99300[#99300]
 * Wait for cluster to recover before resolving index template {es-pull}99797[#99797]
@@ -37,21 +39,24 @@ Cluster Coordination::
 Data streams::
 * Propagate cancellation in `DataTiersUsageTransportAction` {es-pull}100253[#100253]
 
-Distributed::
-* Skip settings validation during desired nodes updates {es-pull}99946[#99946]
-
 Downsampling::
 * Make downsample target index replicas configurable {es-pull}99712[#99712]
 
 ES|QL::
 * "params" correctly parses the values including an optional "type" {es-pull}99310[#99310] (issue: {es-issue}99294[#99294])
 * Account for an exception being thrown when building a `BytesRefArrayBlock` {es-pull}99726[#99726] (issue: {es-issue}99472[#99472])
-* Add ESQL own flavor of arithmetic operators {es-pull}98628[#98628]
+* Add arithmetic operators {es-pull}98628[#98628]
 * Better management of not stored TEXT fiels with synthetic source {es-pull}99695[#99695]
 * Continue resolving attributes for Eval {es-pull}99601[#99601] (issue: {es-issue}99576[#99576])
 * Create a Vector when needed for IN {es-pull}99382[#99382] (issue: {es-issue}99347[#99347])
+* ESQL: Add identity check in Block equality {es-pull}100377[#100377] (issue: {es-issue}100374[#100374])
+* ESQL: Fix NPE when aggregating literals {es-pull}99827[#99827]
+* ESQL: Limit how many bytes `concat()` can process {es-pull}100360[#100360]
+* ESQL: Page shouldn't close a block twice {es-pull}100370[#100370] (issues: {es-issue}100356[#100356], {es-issue}100365[#100365])
+* ESQL: Remove aliasing inside Eval {es-pull}100238[#100238] (issue: {es-issue}100174[#100174])
+* ESQL: support metric tsdb fields while querying index patterns {es-pull}100351[#100351] (issue: {es-issue}100144[#100144])
 * Implement serialization of `InvalidMappedField` {es-pull}98972[#98972] (issue: {es-issue}98851[#98851])
-* Make ESQL more resilient to non-indexed fields {es-pull}99588[#99588] (issue: {es-issue}99506[#99506])
+* Resilience to non-indexed fields {es-pull}99588[#99588] (issue: {es-issue}99506[#99506])
 * Skip synthetic attributes when planning the physical fragment {es-pull}99188[#99188] (issue: {es-issue}99170[#99170])
 * Support queries that don't return underlying fields {es-pull}98759[#98759] (issue: {es-issue}98404[#98404])
 * Use exact attributes for data source extraction {es-pull}99874[#99874] (issue: {es-issue}99183[#99183])
@@ -61,31 +66,28 @@ Geo::
 
 Health::
 * Fix NPE in `StableMasterHealthIndicatorService` {es-pull}98635[#98635]
+* Propagate cancellation in `GetHealthAction` {es-pull}100273[#100273]
 
 Highlighting::
 * Correctly handle `ScriptScoreQuery` in plain highlighter {es-pull}99804[#99804] (issue: {es-issue}99700[#99700])
 
 ILM+SLM::
 * Compute SLM retention from `RepositoryData` {es-pull}100092[#100092] (issue: {es-issue}99953[#99953])
-* ILM introduce the `check-ts-end-time-passed` step {es-pull}100179[#100179] (issue: {es-issue}99696[#99696])
-* ILM the delete action waits for a TSDS index time/bounds to lapse {es-pull}100207[#100207]
 
 Infra/Core::
 * Add `java.net.NetPermission` to APM module's permissions {es-pull}99474[#99474]
 * Revert "Kibana system index does not allow user templates to affect it" {es-pull}98888[#98888]
 * Specify correct current `IndexVersion` after 8.10 release {es-pull}98574[#98574] (issue: {es-issue}98555[#98555])
+* Tracing: Use `doPriv` when working with spans, use `SpanId` {es-pull}100232[#100232]
 
 Ingest Node::
 * Update enrich execution to only set index false on fields that support it {es-pull}98038[#98038] (issue: {es-issue}98019[#98019])
-* Validate enrich index before completing policy execution {es-pull}100106[#100106]
 
 Machine Learning::
-* Adding retry logic for start model deployment API {es-pull}99673[#99673]
 * Avoid risk of OOM in datafeeds when memory is constrained {es-pull}98915[#98915] (issue: {es-issue}89769[#89769])
-* Defend against negative datafeed start times {es-pull}100284[#100284]
+* Fix for inference requests being sent to every node with a model allocation. If there are more nodes than items in the original request then empty requests were sent. {es-pull}100388[#100388] (issue: {es-issue}100180[#100180])
 * Preserve order of inference results when calling the _infer API with multiple inputs on a model deployment with more than one allocation the output results order was not guaranteed to match the input order. The fix ensures the output order matches the input order. {es-pull}100143[#100143]
 * Safely drain deployment request queues before allowing node to shutdown {es-pull}98406[#98406]
-* Using 1 MB chunks for elser model storage {es-pull}99677[#99677]
 
 Mapping::
 * Automatically disable `ignore_malformed` on datastream `@timestamp` fields {es-pull}99346[#99346]
@@ -99,30 +101,26 @@ Percolator::
 * Fix percolator query for stored queries that expand on wildcard field names {es-pull}98878[#98878]
 
 Search::
-* Close expired search contexts on SEARCH thread {es-pull}99660[#99660]
 * Fix UnsignedLong field range query gt "0" can get the result equal to 0 {es-pull}98843[#98843]
 * Fix `advanceExact` for doc values from sources {es-pull}99685[#99685]
-* Fix fields API for `geo_point` fields inside other arrays {es-pull}99868[#99868] (issue: {es-issue}99781[#99781])
 * Fork response-sending in `OpenPointInTimeAction` {es-pull}99222[#99222]
+* Search of remote clusters with no shards results in successful status {es-pull}100354[#100354]
 * [CI] `SearchResponseTests#testSerialization` failing resolved {es-pull}100020[#100020] (issue: {es-issue}100005[#100005])
 * fix fuzzy query rewrite parameter not work {es-pull}97642[#97642]
 
 Snapshot/Restore::
 * Fix thread context in `getRepositoryData` {es-pull}99627[#99627]
 * Frozen index input clone copy cache file {es-pull}98930[#98930]
-* Support $ and / in restore rename replacements {es-pull}99892[#99892] (issue: {es-issue}99078[#99078])
+* Improve `RepositoryData` BwC {es-pull}100401[#100401]
+* Reinstate `RepositoryData` BwC {es-pull}100447[#100447]
 
 TSDB::
 * Don't ignore empty index template that have no template definition {es-pull}98840[#98840] (issue: {es-issue}98834[#98834])
 * Make tsdb settings public in Serverless {es-pull}99567[#99567] (issue: {es-issue}99563[#99563])
 
 Transform::
-* Do not use PIT in the presence of remote indices in source {es-pull}99803[#99803]
-* Ignore "index not found" error when `delete_dest_index` flag is set but the dest index doesn't exist {es-pull}99738[#99738]
-* Let `_stats` internally timeout if checkpoint information can not be retrieved {es-pull}99914[#99914]
-
-Vector Search::
-* Update version range in `jvm.options` for the Panama Vector API {es-pull}99846[#99846]
+* Fix possible NPE when getting transform stats for failed transforms {es-pull}98061[#98061] (issue: {es-issue}98052[#98052])
+* Shutdown the task immediately when `force` == `true` {es-pull}100203[#100203]
 
 Watcher::
 * Treating watcher webhook response header names as case-insensitive {es-pull}99717[#99717]
@@ -151,9 +149,6 @@ Audit::
 Authentication::
 * Allow native users/roles to be disabled via setting {es-pull}98654[#98654]
 
-Authorization::
-* Add manage permission for fleet managed threat intel indices {es-pull}99231[#99231]
-
 CAT APIs::
 * Add 'dataset' size to cat indices and cat shards {es-pull}98622[#98622] (issue: {es-issue}95092[#95092])
 
@@ -176,8 +171,8 @@ ES|QL::
 * Mark counter fields as unsupported {es-pull}99054[#99054]
 * Serialize the source in expressions {es-pull}99956[#99956]
 * Simple check if all blocks get released {es-pull}100199[#100199]
-* Support unsigned long in sqrt and log10 for ESQL {es-pull}98711[#98711]
-* Use DEBUG log level to report ESQL execution steps {es-pull}99303[#99303]
+* Support unsigned long in sqrt and log10 {es-pull}98711[#98711]
+* Use DEBUG log level to report execution steps {es-pull}99303[#99303]
 
 Engine::
 * Use `IndexWriter.flushNextBuffer()` to reclaim memory from indexing buffers {es-pull}94607[#94607]
@@ -186,9 +181,6 @@ Health::
 * Avoiding the use of nodes that are no longer in the cluster when computing master stability {es-pull}98809[#98809] (issue: {es-issue}98636[#98636])
 * When a primary is inactive but this is considered expected, the same applies for the replica of this shard. {es-pull}99995[#99995] (issue: {es-issue}99951[#99951])
 
-Highlighting::
-* Implement matches() on `SourceConfirmedTextQuery` {es-pull}100134[#100134]
-
 Infra/Core::
 * APM Metering API {es-pull}99832[#99832]
 * Update the elastic-apm-agent version {es-pull}100064[#100064]
@@ -203,9 +195,6 @@ Infra/REST API::
 * Add component info versions to node info in a pluggable way {es-pull}99631[#99631]
 * Return a 410 (Gone) status code for unavailable API endpoints {es-pull}97397[#97397]
 
-Ingest Node::
-* Show concrete error when enrich index not exist rather than NPE {es-pull}99604[#99604]
-
 Machine Learning::
 * Add new _inference API {es-pull}99224[#99224]
 * Adding an option for trained models to be platform specific {es-pull}99584[#99584]
@@ -225,7 +214,6 @@ Recovery::
 
 Search::
 * Add additional counters to `_clusters` response for all Cluster search states {es-pull}99566[#99566] (issue: {es-issue}98927[#98927])
-* Add checks in term and terms queries that input terms are not too long {es-pull}99818[#99818] (issue: {es-issue}99802[#99802])
 * Adding support for exist queries to `sparse_vector` fields {es-pull}99775[#99775] (issue: {es-issue}99319[#99319])
 * Make `_index` optional for pinned query docs {es-pull}97450[#97450]
 * Optimize ContentPath#pathAsText {es-pull}98244[#98244] (issue: {es-issue}94544[#94544])
@@ -282,9 +270,6 @@ ES|QL::
 [float]
 === Upgrades
 
-Packaging::
-* Upgrade bundled JDK to Java 21 {es-pull}99724[#99724]
-
 Search::
 * Upgrade main to Lucene 9.8.0 {es-pull}100138[#100138]
 

docs/reference/release-notes/highlights.asciidoc

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ endif::[]
 // tag::notable-highlights[]
 
 [discrete]
-[[introducing_es_ql_new_query_language_for_flexible_iterative_analytics]]
-=== Introducing ES|QL — A new query language for flexible, iterative analytics
+[[es_ql_new_query_language_for_flexible_iterative_analytics_in_technical_preview]]
+=== ES|QL — a new query language for flexible, iterative analytics in technical preview
 As the Elastic Platform has become more widely adopted for search, security, observability, and general analytics,
 analyst users require the ability to take data-as-ingested, transform it to fit their investigative needs
 post-ingestion, and derive insights from underlying Elasticsearch index data. They need a concise, integrated,