# Elastic community newsletter -- August 2026

DevFeed: [Elastic community newsletter -- August 2026](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/elastic-community-newsletter-august-2026-4798.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.elastic.co/blog/devrel-newsletter-august-2026>)

Author: Elastic DevRel team

Published: 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Elastic Blog - Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ELK Stack](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/elastic-blog-elasticsearch-kibana-and-elk-stack.md>)

Topics: [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>), [devrel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devrel.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [quantization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/quantization.md>), [AI search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-search.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tracing.md>)

Tags: [audio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audio.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [devrel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devrel.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elasticsearch.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/images.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [pdf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pdf.md>), [quantization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/quantization.md>), [tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tracing.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>)

## AI overview

The Elastic community newsletter covers Elasticsearch 9.5, including native PromQL, the Dashboards API, Columnar Mode, vector search improvements, multimodal semantic search, and Elastic Agent Builder tracing in technical preview.

## Source excerpt

In this newsletter, we cover version 9.5 of Elasticsearch, the latest blogs and videos, and upcoming events.