Elasticsearch 5.5.1 and 2.4.6 released

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Elasticsearch 5.5.1, based on Lucene 6.5.1, and the bug fix release of Elasticsearch 2.4.6, the final release in the 2.x series. Elastisearch 5.5.1 is the latest stable release, and is already available for deployment on Elastic Cloud, our Elasticsearch-as-a-service platform.

Latest stable release in 5.x:

Latest stable release in 2.x:

Please download Elasticsearch 5.5.1, try it out, and let us know what you think on Twitter (@elastic) or in our forum. You can report any problems on the GitHub issues page.