Release OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards 3.3.0

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How to use this issue

This Release Issue

This issue captures the state of the OpenSearch release, its assignee (Release Manager) is responsible for driving the release. Please contact them or @mention them on this issue for help. There are linked issues on components of the release where individual components can be tracked. For more information check the the Release Process OpenSearch Guide.

Please refer to the following link for the release version dates: Release Schedule and Maintenance Policy.

Entrance Criteria

Criteria	Status	Description	Comments
Each component release issue has an assigned owner	🟢
Documentation draft PRs are up and in tech review for all component changes	🟢
Sanity testing is done for all components	🟢
Code coverage has not decreased (all new code has tests)	🟢
Release notes are ready and available for all components	🟢
Roadmap is up-to-date (information is available to create release highlights)	🟢
Release ticket is cut, and there's a forum post announcing the start of the window	🟢
Any necessary security reviews are complete	🟢

OpenSearch 3.3.0 exit criteria status:

Criteria	Status	Description	Comments
Performance tests are run, results are posted to the release ticket and there no unexpected regressions	🟢
No unpatched vulnerabilities of medium or higher severity that have been publicly known for more than 60 days	🟢
Documentation has been fully reviewed and signed off by the documentation community.	🟢
All integration tests are passing	🟢
Release blog is ready	🟢

OpenSearch-Dashboards 3.3.0 exit criteria status:

Criteria	Status	Description	Comments
Documentation has been fully reviewed and signed off by the documentation community	🟢
No unpatched vulnerabilities of medium or higher severity that have been publicly known for more than 60 days	🟢
All integration tests are passing	🟢
Release blog is ready	🟢

Preparation

• Release manager assigned.
• Update release page on the website with release manager and release issue details. Sample PR
• Existence of label in each component repo. For more information check the release-label section.
• Increase the build frequency.
• Release Issue.

Campaigns

• Component Release Issue.
• Release Campaigns.

Version Increment - Ends 2025/09/29

• Core Version Increment.
• Components Version Increment.

Feature Freeze - Ends 2025/09/29

• OpenSearch / OpenSearch-Dashboards core and components teams finalize their features.

Code Complete - Ends 2025/09/29

• Mark this as done once the Code Complete is reviewed.
• Create/Verify pull requests to add each component to relase input manifests/3.3.0/opensearch-3.3.0.yml and manifests/3.3.0/opensearch-dashboards-3.3.0.yml.

Release Branch, Release Candidate Creation and Testing - Ends 2025/09/30

• Core Release Branch.
• Components Release Branch.
• Generate Release Candidate.
• Docker Scan.
• Integ Test.
  • TAR
  • RPM
  • DEB
  • Windows
• Backwards Compatibility Tests.
• Broadcast and Communication.
• Release Candidate Lock.
• Stop Release Candidate periodic auto builds

Performance testing validation - Ends 2025/10/07

• Post the benchmark-tests
• Longevity tests do not show any issues.

Pre Release - Ends 2025/10/14

• Release Labeled Issues.
• Go or No-Go.
• Release Notes.

Release - Ends 2025/10/14

• Central Promotion Workflow.
• Collaboration with the Project Management Team.

Release Checklist.

Release Checklist

Pre-Release activities

• Promote Repos.
  • • OS
  • • OSD
• Promote Artifacts.
  • • Windows
  • • Linux Debian
  • • Linux RPM
  • • Linux TAR
• Consolidated Release Notes.

Release activities

• Docker Promotion.
• Release Validation part 1.
  • • OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboard Validation.
  • • Validate the native plugin installation.
• Merge consolidated release notes PR.
• Website and Documentation Changes.
  • • Merge staging website PR.
  • • Promote the website changes to prod.
  • • Add website alert.
• Release Validation part 2.
  • • Validate the artifact download URL's and signatures.
• Release Validation part 3.
  • • Trigger the validation build (Search for Completed validation for <> in the logs).
• Maven Promotion.
• Publish blog posts.
• Advertise on Social Media.
• Post on public slack and Github Release issue.

Post Release

• Release Tags.
• Input Manifest Update.
• OpenSearch Build Release notes.
• Decrease the Build Frequency.
• Retrospective Issue.
• Helm and Ansible Playbook release.
• Upcoming Release Preparation.

Components

Replace with links to all component tracking issues.

Component	On track	Release Notes
{COMPONENT_ISSUE_LINK}	{INDICATOR}	{STATUS}

Legend

Symbol	Meaning
🟢	On track with overall release
🟡	Missed last milestone
🔴	Missed multiple milestones

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Onboarding OS:

• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 OpenSearch#19069
  • Introduced new setting search.query.max_query_string_length OpenSearch#19491
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 notifications#1065
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 notifications#1065
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT notifications#1064
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 geospatial#789
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT geospatial#788
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 search-relevance#222
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT search-relevance#221
  • Upgrade Commons Lang Depedency to 3.19 search-relevance#251
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 opensearch-learning-to-rank-base#218
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT opensearch-learning-to-rank-base#217
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 observability#1942
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT observability#1941
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 opensearch-system-templates#94
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT opensearch-system-templates#93
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 job-scheduler#816
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT job-scheduler#815
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 reporting#1119
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT reporting#1118
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 common-utils#866
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT common-utils#865
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 asynchronous-search#762
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT asynchronous-search#761
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 security-analytics#1565
  • Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT security-analytics#1574
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 skills#627
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT skills#626
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 alerting#1919
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT alerting#1918
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 k-NN#2851
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT k-NN#2849
  • Add lateInteractionFunction k-NN#2909
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 anomaly-detection#1548
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT anomaly-detection#1547
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 notifications#1066
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT notifications#1064
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 user-behavior-insights#120
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT user-behavior-insights#127
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 neural-search#1512
  • Upgrade commons-lang to commons-lang3 neural-search#1589
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT neural-search#1511
  • Add batch semantic highlighting support neural-search#1520
  • Adding remote model agentic search integration tests neural-search#1588
  • Adding AgenticSearch remote model integration tests neural-search#1591
  • Add stats API for batch semantic highlighting neural-search#1592
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 performance-analyzer#838
  • Increment to 3.3.0.0 and run ./gradlew updateSHAs and check in latest sha files performance-analyzer#846
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 opensearch-remote-metadata-sdk#240
  • Increment version to 3.3.0 opensearch-remote-metadata-sdk#239
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 index-management#1468
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT index-management#1467
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 custom-codecs#272
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT custom-codecs#271
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 flow-framework#1213
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT flow-framework#1212
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 sql#4037
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT sql#4036
  • Update version to 3.3 with fallback sql#4251
  • Version bump: 3.3 sql#4417
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 cross-cluster-replication#1572
  • Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT cross-cluster-replication#1573
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 ml-commons#4115
  • Fix failing UTs and increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT ml-commons#4132
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 security#5562
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT security#5561
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 query-insights#405
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0-SNAPSHOT query-insights#404

Onboarding OSD:

• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 OpenSearch-Dashboards#10457
  • Discover:Traces feature flag and bug fixes OpenSearch-Dashboards#10611
  • [AI] AG-UI compliant Langgraph ReAct agent implementation OpenSearch-Dashboards#10612
  • Add explore experience modal  OpenSearch-Dashboards#10607
  • [AI] Add experimental AI Chat and Context Provider plugins for OpenSearch Dashboards OpenSearch-Dashboards#10600
  • Add explore experience modal  OpenSearch-Dashboards#10607
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 security-analytics-dashboards-plugin#1326
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 security-analytics-dashboards-plugin#1325
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-search-relevance#628
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-search-relevance#623
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 opensearch-dashboards-functional-test#1844
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0 opensearch-dashboards-functional-test#1843
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-notifications#372
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-notifications#371
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 index-management-dashboards-plugin#1348
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 index-management-dashboards-plugin#1347
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-maps#756
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-maps#755
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-assistant#606
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-assistant#605
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 anomaly-detection-dashboards-plugin#1090
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 anomaly-detection-dashboards-plugin#1089
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-query-workbench#493
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-query-workbench#492
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 security-dashboards-plugin#2301
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 security-dashboards-plugin#2300
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-reporting#623
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-reporting#622
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 ml-commons-dashboards#444
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 ml-commons-dashboards#443
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 query-insights-dashboards#337
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 query-insights-dashboards#332
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-flow-framework#767
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-flow-framework#766
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 dashboards-observability#2495
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 dashboards-observability#2494
  • Update cypress/requests dashboards-observability#2507
• [RELEASE] Release version 3.3.0 alerting-dashboards-plugin#1284
  • [AUTO] Increment version to 3.3.0.0 alerting-dashboards-plugin#1283

Issues:

• Update bundled JDK to JDK25 OpenSearch#19314
  • Add Temurin JDK25 and JRE25 version 25.0.0-36 to scoop ScoopInstaller/Java#560
  • Add JDK25 to all ci images #5739
  • Update JDK25 on packer and jenkins instances opensearch-ci#617
• [PROPOSAL] Enable mandatory CI checks on distribution component repositories .github#368
• [AUTOCUT] Distribution Build Failed for k-NN-3.3.0 k-NN#2873
  • Distribution k-NN build failure fix. k-NN#2899
  • Add commons-lang3, commons-codec to plugin-cli OpenSearch#19387
• LTR failing windows: https://build.ci.opensearch.org/blue/organizations/jenkins/distribution-build-opensearch/detail/distribution-build-opensearch/11402/pipeline/
• Gradle 9.1 failing: [AUTOCUT] Distribution Build Failed for OpenSearch-3.3.0 OpenSearch#19401 (comment)
  • Revert back to Gradle 8.14.3 OpenSearch#19405
• [Bug]: Local build artifacts cannot be assembled #5742
  • Fix the URL syntax when the target is a file #5743
• SA rules:
  • Move rules to config directory from classpath resources security-analytics#1580
  • Allow plugins to copy folders into their config dir during installation OpenSearch#19343
• [Release 3.3.0] ML Jarhell ml-commons#4202
  • Revert "Introduce a configurable remote metadata client AND migrate LockService to the client (#831)" to avoid jarHell in downstream plugins. job-scheduler#836
• Revert "Bump log4j2 from 2.21.0 to 2.25.1" OpenSearch#19430
  • Fix flaky test RemoteClusterStateServiceTests.testReadClusterStateInParallel_ExceptionDuringRead OpenSearch#19437
  • https://opensearch.slack.com/archives/C0561HRK961/p1758900240860709
  • [AUTOCUT] Distribution Build Failed for performance-analyzer-3.3.0 performance-analyzer#844
  • [AUTOCUT] Distribution Build Failed for custom-codecs-3.3.0 custom-codecs#276
• Removing error_prone dependencies k-NN#2907
• Query Insights Dashboards integTest requires core plugin WLM to install by default.
  • Workload Management Core Plugin to be installed before integTest run of Query Insights Plugin #5745
• [AUTOCUT] Distribution Build Failed for securityAnalyticsDashboards-3.3.0 security-analytics-dashboards-plugin#1327
  • Security Analytics Dash failed to build on 3.3.0 for RC1.

Pending RC1:

• OSD core PRs
  • Discover:Traces feature flag and bug fixes OpenSearch-Dashboards#10611
  • [AI] AG-UI compliant Langgraph ReAct agent implementation OpenSearch-Dashboards#10612
  • Add explore experience modal  OpenSearch-Dashboards#10607
  • [AI] Add experimental AI Chat and Context Provider plugins for OpenSearch Dashboards OpenSearch-Dashboards#10600
  • Add explore experience modal  OpenSearch-Dashboards#10607
  • Bumps cypress-request to 3.0.9 OpenSearch-Dashboards#10618
• OS core PR
  • Introduced new setting search.query.max_query_string_length OpenSearch#19491
• k-NN PR:
  • Add lateInteractionFunction k-NN#2909
• Neural PR
  • Add stats API for batch semantic highlighting neural-search#1592
• ML PR:
  • fix: refactor memory delete by query API to avoid anti pattern ml-commons#4234
  • [FEATURE] Agent Execute Stream ml-commons#4212
  • Add output transformation support with mean pooling for ML inference processors ml-commons#4236
  • Onboards to centralized resource access control mechanism for ml-model-group ml-commons#3715
• Security:
  • Force dep resolution in libs/opensaml even though classes are excluded from shadow security#5674
• OBS Dash:
  • Update cypress/requests dashboards-observability#2507

PRs:

• Update