# New Release: Search Guard 46

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-release-search-guard-46/1984>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [October 6, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-release-search-guard-46/1984 "2020-10-06T13:37:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![nils](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d6d6ee/32.png) [@nils](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/nils)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-release-search-guard-46/1984/1 "2020-10-06T13:37:44Z")

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We are glad to announce that the next Search Guard release is now available.

Search Guard 46.0.0 brings these new features:

[Excluded Permissions](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/roles-permissions#permission-exclusions)

Role definitions in Search Guard can now also define permissions a user must not have - besides the permissions a user is granted. Thus, for example, you can now easily create a role which grants access to all indices except specific ones.

[Multi-Valued User Attributes for Index Patterns](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/changelog-searchguard-7.x-46_0_0#using-regular-expressions-for-supporting-multi-valued-attributes-in-index-patterns)

The new-style user attributes introduced in Search Guard 45 got a new function which allows to generate regular expressions from user attributes. Thus, you can create index patterns which match several indices from user attributes.

[New-style User Attributes in Internal User Database](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/changelog-searchguard-7.x-46_0_0#multi-valued-attributes-for-internal-user-database)

The internal user database now also supports the new-style user attributes.

You can find the full changelogs here:

- [**Search Guard v46 changelogs**](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/changelog-searchguard-7.x-46_0_0)
- [**Kibana plugin v46 changelogs**](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/changelog-kibana-7.x-46_0_0)

You can find all versions here:

[Search Guard Version Matrix](https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/search-guard-versions)

As always, we appreciate your feedback, questions, and feature requests here on the forum.

Have fun!

Many greetings from the Search Guard team

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/system/32/1870_2.png) [@system](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/new-release-search-guard-46/1984/2 "2020-10-20T13:37:57Z")

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