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+## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-breaking-changes]
+_There are no breaking changes associated with this release._
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+## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-deprecations]
+_There are no deprecations associated with this release._
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+## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-release-notes-2025-01-13]
+### Features and enhancements [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-features-enhancements]
+* [Traces][Discover] Fix double scroll in fullscreen flyouts. [#247744](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247744) 
+* [Discover][Traces] Prevent nested button in full traces in discover. [#247808](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247808) 
+
+**Dashboards and Visualizations**
+* [Controls Anywhere] Feature Branch. [#245588](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/245588) 
+
+**Data ingestion and Fleet**
+* [Fleet] Implement agent upgrade rollback. [#247398](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247398) 
+
+**Discover**
+* [ES|QL] Mark MATCH_PHRASE second argument as constantOnly . [#247003](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247003) 
+
+**Distributed**
+* Settings registration and test for logging hot-threads on large management queue size.
+  % [#5195](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-serverless/pull/5195)
+
+
+**ES|QL**
+* ESQL: Add timezone to add and sub operators, and ConfigurationAware planning support. [#140101](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140101) 
+* Convert `PackedValuesBlockHash.bytes` to `BreakingBytesRefBuilder` for better memory tracking. [#140171](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140171) 
+* ESQL: Improve Lookup Join performance with CachedDirectoryReader. [#139314](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/139314) 
+* ES|QL: add syntax support and parsing for SET approximate. [#139908](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/139908) 
+
+**Elastic Observability solution**
+* Feat(slo): instance selector visible when current instance is not defined. [#247638](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247638) 
+
+**Elastic Security solution**
+* [Entity Analytics][Privmon] Prepare Monitoring Entity Source CRUD APIs for GA. [#246978](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/246978) 
+* [Attack discovery] Improves Attack discovery hallucination detection. [#247965](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247965) 
+
+**Machine learning**
+* [ML] Trained Models: Adds button to synchronize saved objects. [#247691](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247691) 
+* [ML] Inference/AI Connector: mark 429 errors as user errors. [#246640](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/246640) 
+
+**Management**
+* [Observability:Streams][Streamlang] Add uppercase, lowercase and trim processors. [#246540](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/246540) 
+* [Streams] [Streamlang] Expose range to the UI. [#243011](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/243011) 
+
+**Network**
+* Always log connection failure at WARN level for sniffed node. [#140149](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140149) 
+
+**Operations**
+* [build] Set heap limit to min(75%, 4gb) for containers if unset. [#246073](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/246073) 
+
+**Search**
+* Trigger topology checks when nodes leave the cluster.
+  % [#5166](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-serverless/pull/5166)
+
+* Search: Change fielddata circuit breaker/indices cache defaults.
+  % [#5053](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-serverless/pull/5053)
+
+* Display the API key tab if the user has permission. [#246979](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/246979) 
+* Fix the inference endpoints pull-down on semantic text UI. [#247417](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247417) 
+
+**Vector search**
+* DiskBBQ tail centroids should always be block encoded too. [#139835](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/139835) 
+* Dense vector docvalues: add base64 format. [#140094](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140094) 
+* Improve locality by placing parent - child centroids next to each other. [#140293](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140293) 
+
+### Fixes [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-fixes]
+* [Cases] Update total event in ES document when attaching an event. [#247996](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247996) 
+* [Discover] Fix `ToolbarSelector` when clicking on tabs. [#247836](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247836) 
+* [Cases] Encode search term in cases page. [#247992](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247992) 
+* [APM][Discover] Fix trace links calculating date range incorrectly. [#247531](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247531) 
+* [Lens][Data Table] Fix link's color contrast. [#247721](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247721) 
+* Use simplified retriever, and log requests and error responses. [#247877](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247877) 
+
+**Dashboards and Visualizations**
+* [Lens] Increase default top values from 3/5 to 9 categories. [#247015](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247015) 
+* [ES|QL] Refetches controls options when the timerange changes. [#248068](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248068) 
+
+**Elastic Observability solution**
+* [Synthetics] Only update relevant monitors where maintenance windows exists. [#246088](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/246088) 
+* [Synthetics] Fix validation of maintenance windows in project monitors. [#247880](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247880) 
+* [Obs AI] Fix product documentation not available callout icon. [#247885](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247885) 
+* [Synthetics] Default Rule creation. [#245441](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/245441) 
+
+**Elastic Security solution**
+* [Security Solution][Attacks/Alerts][Attacks page][Table section] Hide tabs for generic attack groups. [#248444](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248444) 
+* [Security Solution][Attack Discovery][Bug] Attack-Discovery misclassified system error "Security AI Anonymization settings configured to not allow any fields" (#246595). [#248439](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248439) 
+* [Security Solution] Changes placement of `Migrations` and `Inventory` in Security Solution Nav. [#247002](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247002) 
+* [Security solution] Fix API doesn't use an associated conversation's system prompt . [#248020](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248020) 
+* [Security Solution][Detection Engine] fixes "Rule settings pop-up remain open on clicking 'Save' button after enabling/ disabling auto gap fill.". [#247678](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247678) 
+* [Security Solution] Change alert suppression icon. [#247964](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247964) 
+* [Security Solution] Encode URL Components for entities. [#247707](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247707) 
+
+**Inference**
+* Include rerank in supported tasks for IBM watsonx integration. [#140331](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140331) 
+
+**Machine learning**
+* [ML] Data Visualizer: fixes display of map view for small screen sizes. [#247615](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247615) 
+* [ML] Disable ES|QL field stats for TS command. [#247641](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247641) 
+
+**Reindex**
+* Disable _delete_by_query and _update_by_query for CCS/stateful. [#140301](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140301) 
+
+**Search**
+* Bugfix: Deleted async search won't show on any API. [#140385](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140385) 
+* Fix API key visibility toggle accessibility on search homepage. [#247982](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/247982) 
+* [Bug] [Search Homepage] Disable API keys on insufficient permissions. [#248072](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248072) 
+* Fix OpenAI connector header focus order. [#248204](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248204) 
+* [Search] Fix: Only run ML saved object check if saving semantic text mapping. [#248462](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/248462) 
+
+% **Snapshot and restore**
+% * Fix read/write counts for copy in repo analysis. [#140086](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140086) 
+
+**TSDB**
+* Retrieve routing hash from synthetic id for translog operations. [#140221](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140221) 
+
+### Documentation [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-docs]
+% * Applies_to syntax changes. [#140275](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/140275) 
+% * Add API reference links to longform Elasticsearch REST examples. [#138466](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/138466) 
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+## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-known-issues]
+_There are no known issues associated with this release._
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 # {{serverless-full}} breaking changes [elastic-cloud-serverless-breaking-changes]
 
+:::{include} _snippets/2025-01-13/breaking-changes.md
+:::
+
 ## October 27, 2025 [serverless-changelog-10272025-breaking]
 
 :::{dropdown} Implement native synthetic source for normalized keywords

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 % Description of the deprecation and steps to update implementation.
 % For more information, check [PR #](PR link).
 
+:::{include} _snippets/2025-01-13/deprecations.md
+:::
+
 ## February 2, 2026 [elastic-cloud-serverless-02022026-deprecations]
 * Removes the URL limit from {{kib}} and deprecates the `storeInSessionStorage` setting. For more information, refer to [#242972]({{kib-pull}}242972).
 * Removes the `--stats` flag on `build_api_docs`. For more information, refer to [#249305]({{kib-pull}}249305).

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+# Changelog Configuration
+# This file configures the valid values for changelog fields using the pivot structure.
+# Place this file as `changelog.yml` in the `docs/` directory
+
+# Products configuration (optional)
+# If not specified, all products from products.yml are allowed
+products:
+  # List of available product IDs (empty = all from products.yml)
+  available:
+    - elasticsearch
+    - cloud-serverless
+  # Default products when --products not specified
+  # default:
+  #   - product: elasticsearch
+  #     lifecycle: ga
+
+# Extraction configuration
+# Controls automatic extraction of information from PR descriptions
+extract:
+  # Auto-extract release notes from PR descriptions (default: true)
+  # Can be overridden by CLI --no-extract-release-notes
+  release_notes: true
+  # Auto-extract issues from PR body (default: true)
+  # Looks for patterns like "Fixes #123", "Closes #456", etc.
+  issues: true
+
+# Available lifecycle values (strongly typed: preview, beta, ga)
+lifecycles:
+  - preview
+  - beta
+  - ga
+
+# Pivot configuration for types, subtypes, and areas with label mappings.
+# By default we render entries grouped by type > subtype > area.
+# NOTE: subtype and area are optional and either may be omitted.
+# Labels are specified in a "label -> value" format
+# pivot:
+  # Type definitions with optional labels
+  # Keys are type names, values can be:
+  #   - simple string: comma-separated label list (e.g., ">bug, >fix")
+  #   - empty/null: no labels for this type
+  #   - object: { labels: "...", subtypes: {...} } for breaking-change type only
+  # types:
+    # Complex object form with subtypes (ONLY allowed for breaking-change)
+    # Subtypes help categorize breaking changes by their nature
+    # breaking-change:
+      # labels: ">breaking"
+    #   subtypes:
+      #   api: ">api-breaking"
+      #   behavioral: ">behavioral-breaking"
+      #   configuration: ">config-breaking"
+      #   dependency: ">dependency-breaking"
+      #   subscription: ">subscription-breaking"
+      #   plugin: ">plugin-breaking"
+      #   security: ">security-breaking"
+        # other: ">breaking-java"
+    # Simple string form: labels as comma-separated string
+    # bug-fix: ">bug"
+    # deprecation: ">deprecation"
+    # docs: "documentation"
+    # enhancement: ">enhancement"
+    # feature: ">feature"
+    # known-issue: "release_note:known-issue" 
+    # regression: ">regression"
+    # security: "release_note:security"
+    # other: ">upgrade"
+
+  # Area definitions with labels
+  # Keys are area display names, values are label strings
+  # Multiple labels can be comma-separated
+  # areas:
+    # Example mappings - customize based on your label naming conventions
+    # Aggregations: ":Analytics/Aggregations"
+    # Analysis: ":Search Relevance/Analysis"
+    # Application: ":EnterpriseSearch/Application"
+    # Authorization: ":Security/Authorization"
+    # "CAT APIs": ":Data Management/CAT APIs"
+    # CRUD: ":Distributed Indexing/CRUD"
+    # Client: ":Security/Client"
+    # "Data streams": ":Data Management/Data streams, :StorageEngine/Data streams"
+    # Distributed: ":Distributed Coordination/Distributed"
+    # DLM: ":Data Management/DLM"
+    # Downsampling: ":StorageEngine/Downsampling"
+    # Engine: ":Distributed Indexing/Engine, :Analytics/Compute Engine"
+    # "ES|QL": ":Search Relevance/ES|QL, :StorageEngine/ES|QL, :ml/ES|QL, :Analytics/ES|QL"
+    # EQL: ":Query Languages/EQL, :Analytics/EQL"
+    # Experiences: ":SearchOrg/Experiences"
+    # "Extract and transform": ":SearchOrg/Extract&Transform"
+    # # Features: TBD
+    # Geo: ":Analytics/Geo"
+    # # Graph: TBD
+    # Highlighting: ":Search Relevance/Highlighting"
+    # "Indices APIs": ":Data Management/Indices APIs"
+    # Inference: ":SearchOrg/Inference"
+    # "Infra/REST API": ":Core/Infra/REST API"
+    # "Infra/Resiliency": ":Core/Infra/Resiliency"
+    # "Infra/Scripting": ":Core/Infra/Scripting"
+    # "Infra/Settings": ":Core/Infra/Settings"
+    # # Ingest: TBD
+    # "Ingest node": ":Distributed/Ingest Node"
+    # "Java High Level REST Client": ":Clients/Java High Level REST Client"
+    # "Java Low Level REST Client": ":Clients/Java Low Level REST Client"
+    # # Logging: TBD
+    # Logs: ":StorageEngine/Logs, StorageEngine/Logs"
+    # "Machine learning": ":ml"
+    # Mapping: ":StorageEngine/Mapping, :Search Foundations/Mapping"
+    # Network: ":Distributed Coordination/Network"
+    # Percolator: ":Search Relevance/Percolator"
+    # Performance: ":Performance"
+    # "Query languages": ":Query Languages/EQL, :Query Languages/SQL"
+    # Ranking: ":Search Relevance/Ranking"
+    # Recovery: ":Distributed Indexing/Recovery"
+    # Reindex: ":Distributed Indexing/Reindex"
+    # Relevance: ":Search Relevance/Search, :SearchOrg/Relevance"
+    # Rollup: ":StorageEngine/Rollup"
+    # Search: ":Search/Search, :Search Foundations/Search"
+    # Security: ":Security/Security"
+    # SQL: ":Query Languages/SQL, :Analytics/SQL"
+    # Store: ":Distributed Indexing/Store"
+    # Suggesters: ":Search Relevance/Suggesters"
+    # "Task management": ":Distributed Coordination/Task Management"
+    # TLS: ":Security/TLS"
+    # Transform: ":ml/Transform"
+    # TSDB: ":StorageEngine/TSDB"
+    # "Vector search": ":Search Relevance/Vectors"
+
+# Product-specific label blockers (optional)
+# Maps product IDs to lists of labels that prevent changelog creation for that product
+# If you run the changelog add command with the --prs option and a PR has any of these labels, the changelog is not created
+
+# Block configuration - combined create and publish blockers
+block:
+  # Global labels that block changelog creation for all products (comma-separated string)
+  # create: ">non-issue, >test, >refactoring, :Delivery/Build, :Delivery/Tooling"
+  # Block changelog entries from publishing based on entry type or area
+  # publish:
+    # types:
+      # - docs
+  #   areas:
+  #     - "Internal"
+  # Product-specific overrides (override global blockers, don't merge)
+  # Dictionary key can be a single product ID or comma-separated product IDs
+  product:
+    'cloud-serverless':
+      # create: ">non-issue, >test, >refactoring, :Delivery/Build, :Delivery/Tooling, :Distributed Coordination/Allocation, :Security/Audit, :Security/Authentication, :Distributed Coordination/Autoscaling, :Distributed Indexing/CCR, :Search Foundations/CCS, :Distributed Coordination/Cluster Coordination, :StorageEngine/Codec, :Distributed Coordination/Discovery-Plugins, :Security/FIPS, :Distributed/Health, :StorageEngine/ILM, :Data Management/ILM+SLM, :Security/IdentityProvider, :Core/Infra/CLI, :Core/Infra/Circuit Breakers, :Core/Infra/Core, :Core/Infra/Entitlements, :Core/Infra/Logging, :Core/Infra/Metrics, :Core/Infra/Node Lifecycle, :Core/Infra/Plugins, :Core/Infra/Transport API, :Security/License, :Core/Infra/Monitoring, :Delivery/Packaging, :Distributed Indexing/Searchable Snapshots, :Distributed/SLM, :Distributed Coordination/Snapshot/Restore, :Data Management/Stats, :Data Management/Watcher, :Data Management/Other"
+      publish:
+        areas:
+          - Allocation
+          - Audit
+          - Authentication
+          - Autoscaling
+          - CCR
+          - CCS
+          - "Cluster coordination"
+          - Codec
+          - "Discovery-Plugins"
+          - Engine
+          - FIPS
+          - Health
+          - ILM
+          - IdentityProvider
+          - "Infra/Circuit breakers"
+          - "Infra/CLI"
+          - "Infra/Core"
+          - "Infra/Entitlements"
+          - "Infra/Logging"
+          - "Infra/Metrics"
+          - "Infra/Node lifecycle"
+          - "Infra/Plugins"
+          - "Infra/Transport API"
+          - License
+          - Monitoring
+          - Packaging
+          - "Searchable snapshots"
+          - SLM
+          - "Snapshot and restore"
+          - Stats
+          - Watcher
+        types:
+          - docs
+# Bundle configuration (profiles and defaults)
+bundle:
+  # Input directory containing changelog YAML files
+  # directory: docs/changelog
+  # Output directory for bundled changelog files
+  # output_directory: docs/releases
+  # Whether to resolve (copy contents) by default
+  resolve: true
+
+  # Named bundle profiles for different release scenarios
+  # profiles:
+    # Example: Elasticsearch release profile
+    # elasticsearch-release:
+    #   products: "elasticsearch {version} {lifecycle}"
+    #   output: "elasticsearch-{version}.yaml"
+
+    # Example: Serverless release profile
+    # serverless-release:
+    #   products: "cloud-serverless {version} *"
+    #   output: "serverless-{version}.yaml"
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 # {{serverless-full}} changelog [elastic-cloud-serverless-changelog]
 Review the changes, fixes, and more to {{serverless-full}}.
 
+:::{include} _snippets/2025-01-13/index.md
+:::
+
 ## February 2, 2026 [serverless-changelog-02022026]
 
 ### Features and enhancements [serverless-changelog-02022026-features-enhancements]
@@ -233,7 +236,7 @@ Review the changes, fixes, and more to {{serverless-full}}.
 * Uses a sub keyword block loader with `ignore_above` for text fields [#140622]({{es-pull}}140622)
 * Fixes auto-expand code for replicas
 
-## January 13, 2026 [serverless-changelog-01132026]
+## Old January 13, 2026 [serverless-changelog-01132026]
 
 ### Features and enhancements [serverless-changelog-01132026-features-enhancements]
 

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Known issues are significant defects or limitations that may impact your impleme
 % **Workaround** 
 % Workaround description.
 
+:::{include} _snippets/2025-01-13/known-issues.md
+:::
+
 ## Active
 
 :::{dropdown} Deploying integrations using AWS CloudFormation doesn't work
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		## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-breaking-changes]
		_There are no breaking changes associated with this release._
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		## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-deprecations]
		_There are no deprecations associated with this release._
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		## 2025-01-13 [elasticsearch-serverless-2025-01-13-known-issues]
		_There are no known issues associated with this release._