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Elasticsearch version 6.1.0
editElasticsearch version 6.1.0
editBreaking Changes
edit- Network
- REST
- Scroll
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- Fail queries with scroll that explicitely set request_cache #27342
- Search
Breaking Java Changes
editDeprecations
edit- Aggregations
- Allocation
- Analysis
- Geo
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- [GEO] 6x Deprecate ShapeBuilders and decouple geojson parse logic #27345
- Mapping
- Plugin Repository Azure
- Search
New Features
editEnhancements
edit- Aggregations
- Allocation
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- Tie-break shard path decision based on total number of shards on path #27039 (issue: #26654)
- Balance shards for an index more evenly across multiple data paths #26654 (issue: #16763)
- Expand "NO" decision message in NodeVersionAllocationDecider #26542 (issue: #10403)
- _reroute’s retry_failed flag should reset failure counter #25888 (issue: #25291)
- Analysis
- CRUD
- Core
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- Fix classes that can exit #27518
- Replace empty index block checks with global block checks in template delete/put actions #27050 (issue: #10530)
- Allow Uid#decodeId to decode from a byte array slice #26987 (issue: #26931)
- Use separate searchers for "search visibility" vs "move indexing buffer to disk #26972 (issues: #15768, #26802, #26912, #3593)
- Add ability to split shards #26931
- Make circuit breaker mutations debuggable #26067 (issue: #25891)
- Dates
- Discovery
- Engine
- Geo
- Ingest
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- add json-processor support for non-map json types #27335 (issue: #25972)
- Introduce templating support to timezone/locale in DateProcessor #27089 (issue: #24024)
- Add support for parsing inline script (#23824) #26846 (issue: #23824)
- Consolidate locale parsing. #26400
- Accept ingest simulate params as ints or strings #23885 (issue: #23823)
- Internal
- Java High Level REST Client
- Logging
- Mapping
- Nested Docs
- Network
- Percolator
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- Use Lucene’s CoveringQuery to select percolate candidate matches #27271 (issues: #26081, #26307)
- Add support to percolate query to percolate multiple documents simultaneously #26418
- Hint what clauses are important in a conjunction query based on fields #26081
- Add support for selecting percolator query candidate matches containing range queries #25647 (issue: #21040)
- Plugin Discovery EC2
- Plugin Lang Painless
- Plugin Repository Azure
- Plugin Repository S3
- Plugins
- Query DSL
- Reindex API
- Rollover
- Scripting
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- Script: Convert script query to a dedicated script context #26003
- Search
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- Make fields optional in multi_match query and rely on index.query.default_field by default #27380
- fix unnecessary logger creation #27349
-
ObjectParser
: replaceIllegalStateException
withParsingException
#27302 (issue: #27147) - Uses norms for exists query if enabled #27237
- Cross-cluster search: make remote clusters optional #27182 (issues: #26118, #27161)
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Enhances exists queries to reduce need for
_field_names
#26930 (issue: #26770) - Change ParentFieldSubFetchPhase to create doc values iterator once per segment #26815
- Change VersionFetchSubPhase to create doc values iterator once per segment #26809
- Change ScriptFieldsFetchSubPhase to create search scripts once per segment #26808 (issue: #26775)
- Make sure SortBuilders rewrite inner nested sorts #26532
- Extend testing of build method in ScriptSortBuilder #26520 (issues: #17286, #26490)
- Accept an array of field names and boosts in the index.query.default_field setting #26320 (issue: #25946)
- Reject IPv6-mapped IPv4 addresses when using the CIDR notation. #26254 (issue: #26078)
- Rewrite range queries with open bounds to exists query #26160 (issue: #22640)
- Sequence IDs
- Settings
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- Allow affix settings to specify dependencies #27161
- Represent lists as actual lists inside Settings #26878 (issue: #26723)
- Remove Settings#getAsMap() #26845
- Replace group map settings with affix setting #26819
- Throw exception if setting isn’t recognized #26569 (issue: #25607)
- Settings: Move keystore creation to plugin installation #26329 (issue: #26309)
- Snapshot/Restore
- Stats
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- Adds average document size to DocsStats #27117 (issue: #27004)
- Stats to record how often the ClusterState diff mechanism is used successfully #27107 (issue: #26973)
- Expose adaptive replica selection stats in /_nodes/stats API #27090
- Add cgroup memory usage/limit to OS stats on Linux #26166
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Add segment attributes to the
_segments
API. #26157 (issue: #26130)
- Suggesters
Bug Fixes
edit- Aggregations
- Cluster
- Core
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- Do not set data paths on no local storage required #27587 (issue: #27572)
- Ensure threadcontext is preserved when refresh listeners are invoked #27565
- Ensure logging is configured for CLI commands #27523 (issue: #27521)
- Protect shard splitting from illegal target shards #27468 (issue: #26931)
- Avoid NPE when getting build information #27442
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Fix
ShardSplittingQuery
to respect nested documents. #27398 (issue: #27378) - When building Settings do not set SecureSettings if empty #26988 (issue: #316)
- Engine
- Geo
- Index Templates
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- Prevent constructing an index template without index patterns #27662
- Ingest
- Inner Hits
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- Return an empty _source for nested inner hit when filtering on a field that doesn’t exist #27531
- Internal
- Java High Level REST Client
- Mapping
- Nested Docs
- Network
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- Throw UOE from compressible bytes stream reset #27564 (issue: #24927)
- Bubble exceptions when closing compressible streams #27542 (issue: #27540)
- Do not set SO_LINGER on server channels #26997
- Do not set SO_LINGER to 0 when not shutting down #26871 (issue: #26764)
- Close TcpTransport on RST in some Spots to Prevent Leaking TIME_WAIT Sockets #26764 (issue: #26701)
- Packaging
- Percolator
- Plugin Analysis ICU
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- Catch InvalidPathException in IcuCollationTokenFilterFactory #27202
- Plugin Lang Painless
- Plugin Repository GCS
- Recovery
- Reindex API
- Scroll
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- Fix scroll query with a sort that is a prefix of the index sort #27498
- Search
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- Fix profiling naming issues #27133
- Fix max score tracking with field collapsing #27122 (issue: #23840)
- Apply missing request options to the expand phase #27118 (issues: #26649, #27079)
- Calculate and cache result when advanceExact is called #26920 (issue: #26817)
- Filter unsupported relation for RangeQueryBuilder #26620 (issue: #26575)
- Handle leniency for phrase query on a field indexed without positions #26388
- Sequence IDs
- Settings
- Snapshot/Restore
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- Do not swallow exception in ChecksumBlobStoreFormat.writeAtomic() #27597
- Delete shard store files before restoring a snapshot #27476 (issues: #20220, #26865)
- Fix snapshot getting stuck in INIT state #27214 (issue: #27180)
- Fix default value of ignore_unavailable for snapshot REST API (#25359) #27056 (issue: #25359)
- Do not create directory on readonly repository (#21495) #26909 (issue: #21495)
- Stats
Upgrades
edit- Core
- Plugin Discovery EC2
- Plugin Discovery GCE
- Plugin Lang Painless
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- Upgrade Painless from ANTLR 4.5.1-1 to ANTLR 4.5.3. #27153