# Now Available: Technical preview for the next generation of Search Guard **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [September 16, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/now-available-technical-preview-for-the-next-generation-of-search-guard/2214 "2021-09-16T10:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![searchguard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/searchguard/32/1830_2.png) [@searchguard](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/searchguard)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/now-available-technical-preview-for-the-next-generation-of-search-guard/2214/1 "2021-09-16T10:45:59Z")
We are glad to announce an important milestone towards the next generation of Search Guard. Today, we are releasing a Search Guard technical preview; it brings a number of important and fundamental improvements: - Support for **OpenSearch** and OpenSearch Dashboards - New **session-based login** for Dashboards/Kibana - fixing lots of outstanding issues with Kibana login and cookies - New easy-to-use and lightweight **command line administration tool** for Search Guard **For download links and documentation go here: [https://docs.search-guard.com/tech-preview/](https://docs.search-guard.com/tech-preview/)** Please note: This technical preview is a pre-release version; it should be thus not used for production systems. For a quick local test on a Linux or MacOS system, we also offer new **demo scripts**. Just download one of these scripts and run them. These will automatically all components you need and configure them ready for start: - [OpenSearch 1.0.0](https://maven.search-guard.com/search-guard-suite-alpha/com/floragunn/search-guard-opensearch-plugin/tp2-os-1.0.0/search-guard-opensearch-plugin-tp2-os-1.0.0-demo-installer.sh) - [ES 7.10.2](https://maven.search-guard.com/search-guard-suite-alpha/com/floragunn/search-guard-elasticsearch-plugin/tp2-es-7.10.2/search-guard-elasticsearch-plugin-tp2-es-7.10.2-demo-installer.sh) - [ES 7.14.1](https://maven.search-guard.com/search-guard-suite-alpha/com/floragunn/search-guard-elasticsearch-plugin/tp2-es-7.14.1/search-guard-elasticsearch-plugin-tp2-es-7.14.1-demo-installer.sh) See also the [docs](https://docs.search-guard.com/tech-preview/demo-installer) on the demo installation scripts. Note: Due to limited packaging choices of OpenSearch, the OpenSearch script right now only works for Linux. The ES 7.14.1 script works for MacOS and Linux. **We are eager to hear your feedback!** So, if you encounter any problems, or if you have suggestions or other feedback on the functionality, go ahead and share it on the available channels: - [Search Guard Forum](https://forum.search-guard.com/) - [Search Guard Gitlab Repository](https://git.floragunn.com/search-guard/search-guard-suite-enterprise) - [`sgctl` Gitlab Repository](https://git.floragunn.com/search-guard/sgctl) Many greetings from the Search Guard team Search Guard (®) is an Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication, and authorization. Coded with love in Berlin, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Ukraine and the US. Search Guard is a trademark of floragunn GmbH, registered in the U.S. and in other countries. Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats are trademarks of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S. and in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![searchguard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.search-guard.com/searchguard/32/1830_2.png) [@searchguard](https://forum.search-guard.com/u/searchguard)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/now-available-technical-preview-for-the-next-generation-of-search-guard/2214/3 "2021-09-29T09:42:15Z")
We have now released a minor update for the technical preview. It mostly fixes bugs and brings support for Elasticsearch 7.10.2. You can find all download links here: > **[Search Guard Documentation](https://docs.search-guard.com/tech-preview/)** > > Official documentation for Search Guard 7, the enterprise security and alerting suite for Elasticsearch. ---
**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 13, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/now-available-technical-preview-for-the-next-generation-of-search-guard/2214/4 "2021-10-13T09:43:00Z")
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