Elasticsearch version 8.1.1
  
Also see Breaking changes in 8.1.
Bug fixes
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Analysis
 
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Fix 
min_hash configuration settings names #84753 (issue: #84578)
 
 
 
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EQL
 
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Clean any used memory by the sequence matcher and circuit breaker used bytes in case of exception #84451
 
 
 
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Engine
 
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Increase store ref before snapshotting index commit #84776
 
 
 
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ILM+SLM
 
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Invoke initial 
AsyncActionStep for newly created indices #84541 (issue: #77269)
 
 
 
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Indices APIs
 
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Remove existing 
indices/datastreams/aliases before simulating index template #84675 (issue: #84256)
 
 
 
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Infra/Core
 
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Fix 
NullPointerException in SystemIndexMetadataUpgradeService hidden alias handling #84780 (issue: #81411)
 
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Require and preserve content type for filtered rest requests #84914 (issue: #84784)
 
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Wrap thread creation in 
doPrivileged call #85180
 
 
 
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Infra/REST API
 
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Correctly return 
_type field for documents in V7 compatiblity mode #84873 (issue: #84173)
 
 
 
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Ingest
 
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Backport mark 
GeoIpDownloaderTask as completed after cancellation #84028 #85014 (issues: #84028, #84652)
 
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CompoundProcessor should also catch exceptions when executing a processor #84838 (issue: #84781)
 
 
 
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Machine Learning
 
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Fix Kibana date format and similar overrides in text structure endpoint #84967
 
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Fixes for multi-line start patterns in text structure endpoint #85066
 
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Return all datafeeds in get anomaly detection jobs API #84759
 
 
 
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Packaging
 
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Remove use of Cloudflare zlib #84680
 
 
 
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Search
 
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Fix point visitor in 
DiskUsage API #84909
 
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DotExpandingXContentParser to expose the original token location #84970
 
 
 
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Snapshot/Restore
 
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Don’t fail if there no symlink for AWS Web Identity Token #84697
 
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Lookup AWS Region for STS Client from STS endpoint #84585 (issue: #83826)
 
 
 
 
Enhancements
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SQL
 
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Forward warning headers to JDBC driver #84499
 
 
 
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Watcher
 
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Add list of allowed domains for Watcher email action #84894 (issue: #84739)