2.8.0 Platform Upgrades for Plugins (Feature Anywhere, Point in time, Node 18,+)

[ashwin-pc]

For all issues labeled 2.8.0, PRs must be opened by 2023-04-16 to be considered on track.

In general, the time to first review SLA for OpenSearch Dashboards is 7 days. Each PR will be assigned to a maintainer as the primary point of contact.

2.8

GA feature launches

1. [Feature Anywhere] Enable plugins to augment visualizations with additional data and context #2880

Dashboards plugin blockers

Features and fixes

1. [Multiple Datasource] Support Amazon OpenSearch Serverless #3957
2. [Initiative] Remove AngularJS as dependency #1560 (Partial)

Known PRs

https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+label%3Av2.8.0

• [Multiple Datasource] Support Amazon OpenSearch Serverless #3957
• Add new advanced settings for vis augmenter #3961
• [Feature anywhere] Add annotation click handler #3777
• Finalize eligibility check for augmenting visualizations by vis augmenter #3687
• [Feature Anywhere] Add view events flyout #3415
• Remove timeline application  #3971
• Replace re2 with RegExp in timeline and add unit tests #3908
• Bump node.js from v14.21.3 to v18.15.0 #3608
• Adds plugin manifest config to define OpenSearch plugin dependency and verifies if it is installed on the cluster #3116

2.9

Feature launches

1. We will be pushing the feature anywhere PRs to 2.next for the sake of the Node bump upgrade since the impact of the changes is large in scope but is required as Node 14 has been EOL since the previous 2.x release.

[zhongnansu]

Add 1 more PR #4126

[kavilla]

Feature anywhere stuff pushed to 2.9. Node bump made. Closing as no more upgrades for stabilization.