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+# OpenSearch Documentation Website 2.18.0 Release Notes
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+The OpenSearch 2.18.0 documentation includes the following additions and updates.
+
+## New documentation for 2.18.0
+
+- Update SQL/PPL multiple value field limitation [#8646](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8646)
+- Add new use cases to ML Inference Search Response Processor [#8639](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8639)
+- Documentation for query field name and datatype in query shape [#8631](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8631)
+- add document for Query Insights health_stats API [#8627](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8627)
+- Add new indexing parameter and update performance tuning instruction [#8623](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8623)
+- Update default engine from nmslib to faiss [#8620](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8620)
+- Update documentation for coordination settings and batch size [#8604](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8604)
+- Update JDK version for 2.x distributions [#8603](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8603)
+- Add documentation for star tree index feature [#8598](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8598)
+- Add URI paths for cluster stats filtering. [#8595](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8595)
+- Adding documentation for _list APIs [#8594](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8594)
+- Adds documentation about byField rerank processor [#8593](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8593)
+- Updating tiered caching settings [#8592](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8592)
+- Add documentation changes for cluster level dynamic limit settings to block cat/indices, _cat/shards and _cat/segments [#8590](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8590)
+- Add doc for dynamic threadpool settings [#8588](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8588)
+- Add value range for the search backpressure settings [#8555](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8555)
+- Add new rename_alias parameters for restore-snapshot [#8544](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8544)
+- Add SQL PIT reference [#8541](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8541)
+- Document cluster.default_number_of_replicas and update index.number_of_replicas [#8526](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8526)
+- Msearch template API returns status code in each search response [#8522](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8522)
+- document the new `analysis-phonenumber` plugin [#8469](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8469)
+- Adds documentation for providing search pipeline id in the search/msearch request [#8372](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8372)
+- Data Stream support for Audit- Log [#8356](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8356)
+- Update documentation to reflect k-NN FAISS AVX512 support  [#8307](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8307)
+- [Feature]: add ignore missing to text chunking processor [#8266](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8266)
+- Add documentation for workload management [#8228](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8228)
+
+## In progress documentation for 2.18.0
+
+- [Workspace] Add documentation for workspace and ACL [#8643](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8643)
+- add wlm feature overview [#8632](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8632)
+- Add querygroup lifecycle api documentation [#8628](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8628)
+- [Workload Management] Querygroup Lifecyle API docs [#8249](https://github.com/opensearch-project/documentation-website/pull/8249)