# Release - Federate 8.2.3 - 28.1

**URL:** <https://community.siren.io/t/release-federate-8-2-3-28-1/542>\
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**Created:** [September 20, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://community.siren.io/t/release-federate-8-2-3-28-1/542 "2022-09-20T07:29:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![renaud.delbru](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.siren.io/renaud.delbru/32/13_2.png) [@renaud.delbru](https://community.siren.io/u/renaud.delbru)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2022, 7:29am UTC](https://community.siren.io/t/release-federate-8-2-3-28-1/542/1 "2022-09-20T07:29:37Z")

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We’re happy to announce today a new release of Siren Federate version 28 - which is compatible with Elasticsearch version 8.2.3. This release includes the following:

New features:

- Added a new REST API `_siren/nodes/benchmark` that can be used to evaluate different aspects of the Federate plugin.

Enhancements:

- Improved networking performance of the `search-project` task.
- Updated default values for the following settings:
  - The setting `siren.io.pipeline.hash.partitions_per_node` that sets the number of partitions per node used in the `HASH_JOIN` algorithm, now defaults to the number of CPUs - 1.
  - The setting `siren.io.pipeline.max_packet_size` that sets the size of data packets sent between nodes of the cluster now defaults to 1MB.

Bug fixes:

- Fixed the retrieval of dynamic and node-level settings `siren.io.pipeline.*` in Federate tasks.
- Fixed an issue that could cause a node to cache failed statistics.

Download it [here](https://siren.io/downloads/?product=siren-federate).