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5.0.0-alpha1 Release Notes (Changes previously released in 2.x)

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The changes listed below were first released in the 2.x series. Changes released for the first time in Elasticsearch 5.0.0-alpha1 are listed in 5.0.0-alpha1 Release Notes.

Breaking changes

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Index APIs
  • Change Field stats API response to include both number and string based min and max values #14674 (issue: #14404)
  • Add Force Merge API, deprecate Optimize API #13778
Internal
Logging
Mapping
  • Add per-index setting to limit number of nested fields #15989 (issue: #14983)
Nested Docs
  • If sorting by nested field then the nested_path should always be specified #13429 (issue: #13420)
Scripting
  • Filter classes loaded by scripts #15262
  • Lock down javascript and python script engines better #13924
Search
  • Limit the size of the result window to a dynamic property #13188 (issue: #9311)

Breaking Java changes

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Allocation
  • Speed up shard balancer by reusing shard model while moving shards that can no longer be allocated to a node #16926

New features

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Aggregations
  • Adds geo_centroid metric aggregator #13846 (issue: #13621)
  • Add percentiles_bucket pipeline aggregation #13186
  • Add stats_bucket / extended_stats_bucket pipeline aggs #13128
Geo
  • Add CONTAINS relation to geo_shape query #14810 (issue: #14713)
  • Add support for Lucene 5.4 GeoPoint queries #14537
  • Add GeoPointV2 Field Mapping #14536
Network
  • Allow binding to multiple addresses. #13954 (issue: #13592)
Plugin Analysis Phonetic
  • Add support for daitch_mokotoff #14834
Plugin Cloud AWS
Plugins
  • Decentralize plugin security #14108
Search

Enhancements

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Aliases
  • Add support to _aliases endpoint to specify multiple indices and aliases in one action #15305 (issue: #15186)
Allocation
  • Skip capturing least/most FS info for an FS with no total #16001 (issue: #15919)
  • Speed improvements for BalancedShardsAllocator #15678 (issue: #6372)
  • Simplify delayed shard allocation #14808
  • Add cluster-wide setting for total shard limit #14563 (issue: #14456)
  • Early terminate high disk watermark checks on single data node cluster #13882 (issue: #9391)
  • Also use PriorityComparator in shard balancer #13256 (issue: #13249)
  • Add support for filtering by publish IP address #8801
Analysis
  • Add detail response support for _analyze API #11660 (issue: #11076)
CAT API
  • Add sync_id to cat shards API #14712 (issue: #14705)
  • Add duration field to /_cat/snapshots #14385
  • Add cat API for repositories and snapshots #14247 (issue: #13919)
  • Adds disk used by indices to _cat/allocation #13783 (issue: #13529)
Cluster
  • Shard state action request logging #16396
  • Safe cluster state task notifications #15777
  • Reroute once per batch of shard failures #15510
  • Add callback for publication of new cluster state #15494 (issue: #15482)
  • Use general cluster state batching mechanism for shard started #15023 (issues: #14725, #14899)
  • Use general cluster state batching mechanism for shard failures #15016 (issues: #14725, #14899)
  • Set an newly created IndexShard’s ShardRouting before exposing it to operations #14918 (issue: #10708)
  • Uniform exceptions for TransportMasterNodeAction #14737
Core
  • Remove log4j exception hiding #16834
  • Avoid cloning MessageDigest instances #16479
  • Add a hard check to ensure we are running with the expected lucene version #16305 (issue: #16301)
  • If we can’t get a MAC address for the node, use a dummy one #15266 (issue: #10099)
  • Simplify shard inactive logging #15259 (issue: #15252)
  • Simplify IndexingMemoryController#checkIdle #15252 (issue: #15251)
  • IndexingMemoryController should not track shard index states #15251 (issues: #13918, #15225)
  • Verify Checksum once it has been fully written to fail as soon as possible #13896
Discovery
  • Don’t allow nodes with missing custom meta data to join cluster #15401 (issue: #13445)
Exceptions
  • Added file name to exceptions when failing to read index state #16850 (issue: #16713)
  • Add Exception class name to message in NotSerializableExceptionWrapper #16325
  • Deduplicate cause if already contained in shard failures #14432
  • Give a better exception when running from freebsd jail without enforce_statfs=1 #14135 (issue: #12018)
  • Make root_cause of field conflicts more obvious #13976 (issue: #12839)
  • Use a dedicated id to serialize EsExceptions instead of it’s class name. #13629
Fielddata
  • Update GeoPoint FieldData for GeoPointV2 #14345
Geo
  • Upgrade GeoPointField to use Lucene 5.5 PrefixEncoding #16482
  • Geo: Fix toString() in GeoDistanceRangeQuery and GeoPolygonQuery #15026
  • Enable GeoPointV2 with backward compatibility testing #14667 (issues: #10761, #11159, #9859)
  • Refactor Geo utilities to Lucene 5.4 #14339
Index APIs
  • Add option to disable closing indices #14169 (issue: #14168)
Index Templates
  • Disallow index template pattern to be the same as an alias name #15184 (issue: #14842)
Internal
  • Implement available for all StreamInput classes #17218
  • Cleanup search sub transport actions and collapse o.e.action.search.type package into o.e.action.search #16758 (issue: #11710)
  • Simplify the Text API. #15511
  • Simpler using compressed oops flag representation #15509 (issue: #15489)
  • Info on compressed ordinary object pointers #15489 (issues: #13187, #455)
  • Explicitly log cluster state update failures #15428 (issues: #14899, #15016, #15023)
  • Use transport service to handle RetryOnReplicaException to execute replica action on the current node #15363
  • Make IndexShard operation be more explicit about whether they are expected to run on a primary or replica #15282
  • Avoid trace logging allocations in TransportBroadcastByNodeAction #15221
  • Only trace log shard not available exceptions #14950 (issue: #14927)
  • Transport options should be immutable #14760
  • Fix dangling comma in ClusterBlock#toString #14483
  • Improve some logging around master election and cluster state #14481
  • Add System#exit(), Runtime#exit() and Runtime#halt() to forbidden APIs #14473 (issue: #12596)
  • Simplify XContent detection. #14472
  • Add threadgroup isolation. #14353
  • Cleanup plugin security #14311
  • Add workaround for JDK-8014008 #14274
  • Refactor retry logic for TransportMasterNodeAction #14222
  • Remove MetaDataSerivce and it’s semaphores #14159 (issue: #1296)
  • Cleanup IndexMetaData #14119
  • Add SpecialPermission to guard exceptions to security policy. #13854
  • Clean up scripting permissions. #13844
  • Factor groovy out of core into lang-groovy #13834 (issue: #13725)
  • More helpful error message on parameter order #13737
  • Factor expressions scripts out to lang-expression plugin #13726 (issue: #13725)
  • Cleanup InternalClusterInfoService #13543
  • Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.base.Throwables #13409 (issue: #13224)
  • Remove cyclic dependencies between IndexService and FieldData / BitSet caches #13381
  • Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.base.Objects #13355 (issue: #13224)
  • Enable indy (invokedynamic) compile flag for Groovy scripts by default #8201 (issue: #8184)
Java API
  • Add created flag to IndexingOperationListener#postIndex #17340 (issue: #17333)
  • Align handling of interrupts in BulkProcessor #15527 (issue: #14833)
  • BulkProcessor backs off exponentially by default #15513 (issue: #14829)
  • Reject refresh usage in bulk items when using and fix NPE when no source #15082 (issue: #7361)
  • BulkProcessor retries after request handling has been rejected due to a full thread pool #14829 (issue: #14620)
Logging
  • Log suppressed stack traces under DEBUG #16627 (issues: #12991, #15329, #16622)
  • Add circuit breaker name to logging package #14661
  • Move logging for the amount of free disk to TRACE #14403 (issue: #12843)
  • Map log-level trace to JDK-Level FINEST #14234
Mapping
  • Expose the reason why a mapping merge is issued. #16059 (issue: #15989)
  • Add sub-fields support to bool fields. #15636 (issue: #6587)
  • Improve cross-type dynamic mapping updates. #15633 (issue: #15568)
  • Make mapping updates more robust. #15539
  • Make mapping serialization more robust. #15480
  • Make mappings immutable. #15313 (issue: #9365)
  • Make MappedFieldType.checkTypeName part of MappedFieldType.checkCompatibility. #15245
  • Register field mappers at the node level. #14896 (issue: #14828)
Network
  • Provide better error message when an incompatible node connects to a node #17182 (issue: #17090)
  • Add additional fallback to http.publish_port and restrict fallback to transport.publish_port #16626 (issue: #14535)
  • only allow code to bind to the user’s configured port numbers/ranges #14549
  • Port of publishAddress should match port of corresponding boundAddress #14535 (issues: #14503, #14513, #14514)
Packaging
  • Windows service: Use JAVA_HOME environment variable in registry #16552 (issue: #13521)
  • Default standard output to the journal in systemd #16159 (issues: #15315, #16134)
  • Use egrep instead of grep -E for Solaris #15755 (issue: #15628)
  • punch thru symlinks when loading plugins/modules #15311
  • set ActiveProcessLimit=1 on windows #15055
  • set RLIMIT_NPROC = 0 on bsd/os X systems. #15039
  • Drop ability to execute on Solaris #14200
  • Nuke ES_CLASSPATH appending, JarHell fail on empty classpath elements #13880 (issues: #13812, #13864)
  • improve seccomp syscall filtering #13829
  • Block process execution with seccomp on linux/amd64 #13753
  • Get lang-javascript, lang-python, securemock ready for script refactoring #13695
  • Remove some bogus permissions only needed for tests. #13620
  • Remove java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks" #13603
  • Remove JAVA_HOME detection from the debian init script #13514 (issues: #13403, #9774)
Plugin Cloud AWS
  • Add ap-northeast-2 (seoul) endpoints for EC2 discovery and S3 snapshots #16167 (issue: #16166)
  • Add aws canned acl #14297 (issue: #14103)
  • Improved building of disco nodes #14155
  • Enable S3SignerType #13360 (issue: #13332)
Plugin Cloud Azure
  • Add support for secondary azure storage account #13779 (issue: #13228)
Plugin Cloud GCE
  • cloud-gce plugin should check discovery.type #13809 (issue: #13614)
  • Adding backoff from retries on GCE errors #13671 (issue: #13460)
Plugin Discovery EC2
Plugin Ingest Attachment
Plugins
  • Expose http.type setting, and collapse al(most all) modules relating to transport/http #15434 (issue: #14148)
  • Ban RuntimePermission("getClassLoader") #15253
  • Add nicer error message when a plugin descriptor is missing #15200 (issue: #15197)
  • Don’t be lenient in PluginService#processModule(Module) #14306
  • Adds a validation for plugins script to check if java is set #13633 (issue: #13613)
  • Output plugin info only in verbose mode #12908 (issue: #12907)
Query DSL
  • Allow CIDR notation in query string query #14773 (issue: #7464)
  • Internal: simplify filtered query conversion to lucene query #13312 (issue: #13272)
REST
Recovery
  • Handle cancel exceptions on recovery target if the cancel comes from the source #15309
  • Decouple routing and primary operation logic in TransportReplicationAction #14852
Reindex API
  • Implement helpful interfaces in reindex requests #17032
  • Reindex should timeout if sub-requests timeout #16962
  • Teach reindex to retry on rejection #16556 (issue: #16093)
Scripting
  • Remove suppressAccessChecks permission for Groovy script plugin #16839 (issue: #16527)
  • Class permission for Groovy references #16660 (issue: #16657)
  • Scripting: Allow to get size of array in mustache #16193
  • Enhancements to the mustache script engine #15661
  • Add property permissions so groovy scripts can serialize json #14500 (issue: #14488)
  • Remove ScriptEngineService.unwrap. #13958
  • Remove ScriptEngineService.execute. #13956
Search
  • Caching Weight wrappers should propagate the BulkScorer. #14317
  • fix numerical issue in function score query #14085
  • Optimize scrolls for constant-score queries. #13311
Settings
  • Log warning if max file descriptors too low #16506
Snapshot/Restore
  • Support wildcards for getting repositories and snapshots #15151 (issue: #4758)
  • Add ignore_unavailable parameter to skip unavailable snapshot #14471 (issue: #13887)
  • Simplify the BlobContainer blob writing interface #13434
Stats
  • Pull Fields instance once from LeafReader in completion stats #15090 (issue: #6593)
  • Add os.allocated_processors stats #14409 (issue: #13917)
  • Adds stats counter for failed indexing requests #13130 (issue: #8938)
Top Hits
  • Put method addField on TopHitsBuilder #14597 (issue: #12962)
Translog
  • Check for tragic event on all kinds of exceptions not only ACE and IOException #15535
Tribe Node
  • Tribe nodes should apply cluster state updates in batches #14993 (issues: #14725, #14899)

Bug fixes

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Aggregations
  • Prevents exception being raised when ordering by an aggregation which wasn’t collected #17379 (issue: #17225)
  • Setting other bucket on empty aggregation #17264 (issue: #16546)
  • Build empty extended stats aggregation if no docs collected for bucket #16972 (issues: #16812, #9544)
  • Set meta data for pipeline aggregations #16516 (issue: #16484)
  • Filter(s) aggregation should create weights only once. #15998
  • Make missing on terms aggs work with all execution modes. #15746 (issue: #14882)
  • Run pipeline aggregations for empty buckets added in the Range Aggregation #15519 (issue: #15471)
  • [Children agg] fix bug that prevented all child docs from being evaluated #15457
  • Correct typo in class name of StatsAggregator #15321 (issue: #14730)
  • Fix significant terms reduce for long terms #14948 (issue: #13522)
  • Fix NPE in Derivative Pipeline when current bucket value is null #14745
  • Pass extended bounds into HistogramAggregator when creating an unmapped aggregator #14742 (issue: #14735)
  • Added correct generic type parameter on ScriptedMetricBuilder #14018 (issue: #13986)
  • Pipeline Aggregations at the root of the agg tree are now validated #13475 (issue: #13179)
Aliases
Allocation
  • IndicesStore checks for allocated elsewhere for every shard not alocated on the local node #17106
  • Prevent peer recovery from node with older version #15775
  • Fix calculation of next delay for delayed shard allocation #14765
  • Take ignored unallocated shards into account when making allocation decision #14678 (issue: #14670)
  • Only allow rebalance operations to run if all shard store data is available #14591 (issue: #14387)
  • Delayed allocation can miss a reroute #14494 (issues: #14010, #14011, #14445)
  • Check rebalancing constraints when shards are moved from a node they can no longer remain on #14259 (issue: #14057)
Analysis
  • Analysis : Allow string explain param in JSON #16977 (issue: #16925)
  • Analysis : Fix no response from Analyze API without specified index #15447 (issue: #15148)
Bulk
  • Bulk api: fail deletes when routing is required but not specified #16675 (issues: #10136, #16645)
  • Do not release unacquired semaphore #14909 (issue: #14908)
CAT API
  • Fix column aliases in _cat/indices, _cat/nodes and _cat/shards APIs #17145 (issue: #17101)
  • Properly set indices and indicesOptions on subrequest made by /_cat/indices #14360
CRUD
  • Throw exception if content type could not be determined in Update API #15904 (issue: #15822)
  • Index name expressions should not be broken up #13691 (issue: #13665)
Cache
  • Handle closed readers in ShardCoreKeyMap #16027
Cluster
  • Index deletes not applied when cluster UUID has changed #16825 (issue: #11665)
  • Only fail the relocation target when a replication request on it fails #15791 (issue: #15790)
  • Handle shards assigned to nodes that are not in the cluster state #14586 (issue: #14584)
  • Bulk cluster state updates on index deletion #11258 (issue: #7295)
Core
  • BitSetFilterCache duplicates its content. #15836 (issue: #15820)
  • Limit the max size of bulk and index thread pools to bounded number of processors #15585 (issue: #15582)
  • AllTermQuery’s scorer should skip segments that never saw the requested term #15506
  • Include root-cause exception when we fail to change shard’s index buffer #14867
  • Restore thread interrupt flag after an InterruptedException #14799 (issue: #14798)
  • Record all bytes of the checksum in VerifyingIndexOutput #13923 (issues: #13848, #13896)
  • When shard becomes active again, immediately increase its indexing buffer #13918 (issue: #13802)
  • Close TokenStream in finally clause #13870 (issue: #11947)
  • LoggingRunnable.run should catch and log all errors, not just Exception? #13718 (issue: #13487)
Exceptions
  • Fix ensureNodesAreAvailable’s error message #14007 (issue: #13957)
Expressions
  • Check that _value is used in aggregations script before setting value to specialValue #17091 (issue: #14262)
Fielddata
  • Don’t cache top level field data for fields that don’t exist #14693
Geo
  • Remove .geohash suffix from GeoDistanceQuery and GeoDistanceRangeQuery #15871 (issue: #15179)
  • Geo: Allow numeric parameters enclosed in quotes for geohash_grid aggregation #14440 (issue: #13132)
  • Resync Geopoint hashCode/equals method #14124 (issue: #14083)
  • Fix GeoPointFieldMapper to index geohash at correct precision. #13649 (issue: #12467)
Highlighting
  • Don’t override originalQuery with request filters #15793 (issue: #15689)
  • Fix spans extraction to not also include individual terms. #15516 (issues: #13239, #15291)
Index APIs
  • Field stats: Index constraints should remove indices in the response if the field to evaluate is empty #14868
  • Field stats: Fix NPE for index constraint on empty index #14841
  • Field stats: Added format option for index constraints #14823 (issue: #14804)
  • Forbid index name . and .. #13862 (issue: #13858)
Inner Hits
  • Query and top level inner hit definitions shouldn’t overwrite each other #16222 (issue: #16218)
Internal
  • Log uncaught exceptions from scheduled once tasks #15824 (issue: #15814)
  • FunctionScoreQuery should implement two-phase iteration. #15602
  • Make sure the remaining delay of unassigned shard is updated with every reroute #14890 (issue: #14808)
  • Throw a meaningful error when loading metadata and an alias and index have the same name #14842 (issue: #14706)
  • fixup issues with 32-bit jvm #14609
  • Failure to update the cluster state with the recovered state should make sure it will be recovered later #14485
  • Gateway: a race condition can prevent the initial cluster state from being recovered #13997
  • Verify actually written checksum in VerifyingIndexOutput #13848
  • An inactive shard is activated by triggered synced flush #13802
  • Remove all setAccessible in tests and forbid #13539
  • Remove easy uses of setAccessible in tests. #13537
  • Ban setAccessible from core code, restore monitoring stats under java 9 #13531 (issue: #13527)
Logging
  • Add missing index name to indexing slow log #17026 (issue: #17025)
  • ParseFieldMatcher should log when using deprecated settings. #16988
  • Don’t log multi-megabyte guice exceptions. #13782
  • Moving system property setting to before it can be used #13660 (issue: #13658)
Mapping
  • Put mapping operations must update metadata of all types. #16264 (issue: #16239)
  • Fix serialization of search_analyzer. #16255
  • Reuse metadata mappers for dynamic updates. #16023 (issue: #15997)
  • Fix MapperService#searchFilter(…​) #15923 (issue: #15757)
  • Fix initial sizing of BytesStreamOutput. #15864 (issue: #15789)
  • MetaDataMappingService should call MapperService.merge with the original mapping update. #15508
  • MapperService: check index.mapper.dynamic during index creation #15424 (issue: #15381)
  • Only text fields should accept analyzer and term vector settings. #15308
  • Mapper parsers should not check for a tokenized property. #15289
  • Validate that fields are defined only once. #15243 (issue: #15057)
  • Check mapping compatibility up-front. #15175 (issue: #15049)
  • Don’t treat default as a regular type. #15156 (issue: #15049)
  • Don’t ignore mapping merge failures. #15144 (issue: #15049)
  • Treat mappings at an index-level feature. #15142
  • Make _type use doc values #14783 (issue: #14781)
Network
  • Only accept transport requests after node is fully initialized #16746 (issue: #16723)
Packaging
  • Fix waiting for pidfile #16718 (issue: #16717)
  • Fix Windows service installation failure #15549 (issue: #15349)
  • Enable es_include at init #15173
  • Handle system policy correctly #14704 (issue: #14690)
  • Startup script exit status should catch daemonized startup failures #14170 (issue: #14163)
  • Don’t let ubuntu try to install its crazy jayatana agent. #13813 (issue: #13785)
Parent/Child
  • Check that parent_type in Has Parent Query has child types #16923 (issue: #16692)
  • Has child query forces default similarity #16611 (issues: #16550, #4977)
Percolator
  • Don’t replace found fields if map unmapped fields as string is enabled #16043 (issue: #10500)
  • mpercolate api should serialise start time #15938 (issue: #15908)
Plugin Delete By Query
Plugin Discovery GCE
  • Add setFactory permission to GceDiscoveryPlugin #16860 (issue: #16485)
Plugin Mapper Attachment
  • Fix toXContent() for mapper attachments field #15110
Plugin Repository S3
  • Hack around aws security hole of accessing sun.security.ssl, s3 repository works on java 9 again #13538 (issue: #432)
Plugins
  • Fix plugin list command error message #14288 (issue: #14287)
  • Fix HTML response during redirection #11374 (issue: #11370)
Query DSL
  • Fix FunctionScore equals/hashCode to include minScore and friends #15676
  • Min should match greater than the number of optional clauses should return no result #15571 (issue: #15521)
  • Return a better exception message when regexp query is used on a numeric field #14910 (issue: #14782)
REST
  • Remove detect_noop from REST spec #16386
  • Make text parsing less lenient. #15679
  • Throw exception when trying to write map with null keys #15479 (issue: #14346)
  • Fix OOM in AbstractXContentParser #15350 (issue: #15338)
  • XContentFactory.xContentType: allow for possible UTF-8 BOM for JSON XContentType #14611 (issue: #14442)
  • RestUtils.decodeQueryString ignores the URI fragment when parsing a query string #13365 (issue: #13320)
Recovery
  • Try to renew sync ID if flush=true on forceMerge #17108 (issue: #17019)
  • CancellableThreads should also treat ThreadInterruptedException as InterruptedException #15318
Reindex API
  • Properly register reindex status #17125
  • Make search failure cause rest failure #16889 (issue: #16037)
Scripting
  • Add permission to access sun.reflect.MethodAccessorImpl from Groovy scripts #16540 (issue: #16536)
  • Security permissions for Groovy closures #16196 (issues: #16194, #248)
Search
  • Do not apply minimum_should_match on auto generated boolean query if the coordination factor is disabled. #16155
  • Do not apply minimum-should-match on a boolean query if the coords are disabled #16078 (issue: #15858)
  • Fix blended terms take 2 #15894 (issue: #15860)
  • Fix NPE when a segment with an empty cache gets closed. #15202 (issue: #15043)
  • Fix the quotes in the explain message for a script score function without parameters #11398
Settings
  • TransportClient should use updated setting for initialization of modules and service #16095
  • ByteSizeValue.equals should normalize units #13784
Snapshot/Restore
  • Prevent closing index during snapshot restore #16933 (issue: #16321)
  • Add node version check to shard allocation during restore #16520 (issue: #16519)
  • Snapshot restore and index creates should keep index settings and cluster blocks in sync #13931 (issue: #13213)
  • Fix blob size in writeBlob() method #13574 (issue: #13434)
Stats
  • Fix recovery translog stats totals when recovering from store #16493 (issue: #15974)
  • Fix calculation of age of pending tasks #15995 (issue: #15988)
  • Add extra validation into cluster/stats #14699 (issue: #7390)
  • Omit current* stats for OldShardStats #13801 (issue: #13386)
Task Manager
  • Fix TaskId#isSet to return true when id is set and not other way around #17307
  • Don’t wait for completion of list tasks tasks when wait_for_completion flag is set #17231
Translog
  • Never delete translog-N.tlog file when creation fails #15788
  • Close recovered translog readers if createWriter fails #15762 (issue: #15754)
  • Fail and close translog hard if writing to disk fails #15420 (issue: #15333)
  • Prevent writing to closed channel if translog is already closed #15012 (issue: #14866)
  • Don’t delete temp recovered checkpoint file if it was renamed #14872 (issue: #14695)
  • Translog recovery can repeatedly fail if we run out of disk #14695
  • Pending operations in the translog prevent shard from being marked as inactive #13759 (issue: #13707)
Tribe Node
  • Passthrough environment and network settings to tribe client nodes #16893
  • Tribe node: pass path.conf to inner tribe clients #16258 (issue: #16253)
  • Fix tribe node to load config file for internal client nodes #15300 (issues: #13383, #14573)

Regressions

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Analysis
  • Add PathHierarchy type back to path_hierarchy tokenizer for backward compatibility with 1.x #15785 (issue: #15756)
Internal
Plugin Cloud Azure
REST
  • Don’t return all indices immediately if count of expressions >1 and first expression is * #17033 (issue: #17027)

Upgrades

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Core
  • Upgrade to Lucene 5.5.0 official release #16742
  • Upgrade to lucene 5.5.0-snapshot-850c6c2 #16615
  • Upgrade to lucene 5.5.0-snapshot-4de5f1d #16400 (issues: #16373, #16399)
  • Update lucene to r1725675 #16114
  • Upgrade to lucene-5.5.0-snapshot-1721183. #15575
  • Upgrade Lucene to 5.4.0-snapshot-1715952 #14951
  • Upgrade Lucene to 5.4.0-snapshot-1714615 #14784
  • Upgrade to lucene-5.4.0-snapshot-1712973. #14619
  • update to lucene-5.4.x-snapshot-1711508 #14398
  • Upgrade to lucene-5.4-snapshot-1710880. #14320
  • Upgrade to lucene-5.4-snapshot-1708254. #14074
  • upgrade lucene to r1702265 #13439
  • Upgrade master to lucene 5.4-snapshot r1701068 #13324
Geo
  • Update to spatial4j 0.5 for correct Multi-Geometry #14269 (issue: #9904)
Internal
Plugin Cloud AWS
Plugin Cloud Azure
Plugin Discovery Azure
Plugin Discovery EC2
  • Upgrade to aws 1.10.33 #14672
Plugin Lang JS
  • upgrade rhino for plugins/lang-javascript #14466
Scripting
  • Upgrade groovy dependency in lang-groovy module to version 2.4.6 #16830 (issue: #16527)
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