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- Security
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Added new security limitations:
- When a user’s role enables document level security for an index and suggesters are specified, the specified suggesters are ignored. For more information about suggesters, see Suggesters.
- When document level security is enabled, search requests cannot be profiled. For more information about profiling, see the Profile API.
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- Machine Learning
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- Fixed a race condition when simultaneous close requests are made for the same job.
- Security
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Prevented 6.0 nodes from joining clusters with un-upgraded version 5
.securityindices. For upgrade instructions, see Upgrading the Elastic Stack. -
Enabled read-only access to the index audit log by the
_xpackinternal user. For more information, see Internal Users. -
Updated the concrete security index such that it is now always named
.security-6. In 6.0 beta and RC releases, it was sometimes named.security-v6. - Fixed handling of exceptions when retrieving roles from a native roles store. For more information about configuring a native realm, see Native User Authentication.
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Prevented 6.0 nodes from joining clusters with un-upgraded version 5