## Version 2.5.0 Release Notes

### 🛡 Security

- Introduce guidelines for reporting vulnerable dependencies ([#2674](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2674))
- Bump decode-uri-component from 0.2.0 to 0.2.2 ([3009](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3009))
- [CVE-2022-25912] Bump simple-git from 3.4.0 to 3.15.0 ([#3036](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3036))
- [CVE-2022-35256] Bump node version from 14.20.0 to 14.20.1 [#3166](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3166))
- [CVE-2022-46175] Bump json5 version from 1.0.1 and 2.2.1 to 1.0.2 and 2.2.3 ([#3201](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3201))

### 📈 Features/Enhancements

- [CLI] Enhance `yarn opensearch snapshot` to facilitate installing plugins on an OpenSearch cluster ([#2734](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2734))
- [I18n] Register ru, ru-RU locale ([#2817](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2817))
- [Multi DataSource] Introduce validation of new or modified connections to external data sources ([#2973](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2973), [#3110](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3110))
- [VisBuilder] Create global data persistence for VisBuilder #2896 ([#2896](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2896))
- [VisBuilder] Introduce Redux store persistence ([#3088](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3088))
- [VisBuilder] Enable persistence for app filter and query without using state containers ([#3100](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3100))
- [Data] Make the newly created configurations get added to beginning of the `aggConfig` array when using `createAggConfig` ([#3160](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3160))
- [Optimizer] Increase the amount of time an optimizer worker is provided to exit before throwing an error ([#3193](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3193))

### 🚞 Infrastructure

- Bump the version of the `2.x` branch to 2.5.0 ([#2884](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2884))
- [CI] Create workflows that test and build on Windows ([#2966](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2966))
- [CI] Automate ChromeDriver installation for running functional tests ([#2990](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2990))
- Create the Release Notes for the 1.3.7 release ([#3066](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3066))
- [CI] Improve workflows by retaining Yarn's cache folder ([#3194](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3194))

### 📝 Documentation

- Publish the release runbook ([#2533](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2533))
- Document the capabilities of the Charts plugin and its current usage ([#2695](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2695))
- Document the correct version selection switch in `@osd/plugin-helpers` ([#2810](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2810))
- Document the global query persistence ([#3001](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3001))
- Document data persistence for plugins ([#3081](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3081))

### 🪛 Refactoring

- [VisBuilder] Extend the use of i18n ([#2867](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2867))
- [Console] Switch to using `core.http` when calling OSD APIs in console ([#3080]https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3080))
- [Table Visualization] Refactor table visualization using React and DataGrid component ([#2863](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2863))

### 🐛 Bug Fixes

- Upgrade the `del` library to fix a race condition on macOS ([#2847](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2873))
- [Table Visualization] Fix a problem with table visualizations that prevented URLs from being rendered correctly ([#2918](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2918))
- [Embaddable] Fix a misleading error message ([#3043](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3043))
- Fix rendering issues when the obsolete `v8 (beta)` theme was carried over by an upgrade ([#3045](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3045))
- [Multi Datasource] Replace the mock URL in tests ([#3099](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3099))
- [CI] Increase Yarn's timeout for installing dependencies in workflows ([#3118](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3118))
- [VisBuilder] Fix an issue that caused a crash when certain filters were added to a table visualization ([#3210](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3210))
- [VisBuilder] Fix errors throws when pipeline aggregations, like cumulative sum, were used in VisBuilder ([#3137](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3137))
- [Region Maps] Fix the problem of join fields being unusable ([#3213](Fix bug that prevents selected join field to be used))
- [Multi DataSource] Update test connection button text([#3247](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3247))

### 🔩 Tests

- Enable retrying of flaky tests ([#2967](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2967))
- Enhance cross-platform testing of plugin installation on cluster snapshots ([#2994](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/2994))
- [Tests] Bump `chromedriver` to v107 ([#3017](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3017))
- [CI] Disable the execution of the Build and Test workflow when the changes are limited to the docs folder ([#3197](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3197))
- Correct the linting logic for `no-restricted-path` to ignore trailing slashes ([#3020](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3020))
- [VisBuilder] Create unit tests for field utilities ([#3211](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3211))

### 🛠 Maintenance

- Remove an unused dependency on `github-checks-reporter` ([#3126](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3126))
- Introduce `vega-lite@5`, aliased as `vega-lite-next` ([#3151](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards/pull/3151))