Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2 released
Today, we are happy to announce the release of Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2, based on Lucene 5.2.1. This is the last planned beta release before the 2.0.0 release candidate.
IMPORTANT: This is a beta release and is intended for testing purposes only. Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2 is not compatible with 2.0.0-beta1, and there is no guarantee that Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2 will be compatible with Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA.
DO NOT DEPLOY IN PRODUCTION
You can download Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2 and read the full changes list here.
Thank you to those of you who tested out 2.0.0-beta1 and reported problems. The changes in Elasticsearch core since 2.0.0-beta1 consist mostly of bug fixes and tidy ups.
Our commercial plugins, however, deliver some important new features in this release, which you can read about in Shield and Watcher 2.0.0-beta2 released. The highlights are as follows:
- Document- and field-level security
- Shield now offers the ability to define roles which restrict access to the documents in an index using a query, and even to limit access to particular fields within a document. Unlike filtered aliases, these restrictions apply both when searching for documents and when retrieving documents by ID. See Field- and Document-level Security for more.
- User impersonation
- It is now possible to grant certain users the ability to impersonate other users and to execute requests on their behalf. This is particularly useful when authentication is performed by an application, which then needs to make requests to Elasticsearch which respect the permissions level of the user. See Submitting Requests for Other Users for more.
- Pluggable authentication realms
- In this release we’ve opened up the authentication realms infrastructure for third party extensions. If you have special authentication requirements that Shield doesn’t support out of the box — perhaps you’re required to use an internal identity management system — you can now write a plugin that introduces a new authentication realm to handle those requirements. See Custom Realms for more.
- Pausable watches
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A new
active/inactivestate was added to watches which allows them to be paused and reactivated on demand. See Active State for more. - New actions for chatrooms
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This release introduces the
slackandhipchatactions which allow Watcher to send notifications either to a team chatroom or directly to a user in Slack or Hipchat. See Slack action and Hipchat action for more.
Have a look at these blog posts for more information about this release:
- Elasticsearch 2.0.0.beta1 released
- Elasticsearch 2.0.0.beta1 coming soon!
- The Great Mapping Refactoring
- Store compression in Lucene and Elasticsearch
- Better query execution coming to Elasticsearch 2.0
- Out of this world aggregations
- Staying in Control with Moving Averages - Part 1
- Staying in Control with Moving Averages - Part 2
- The Delete by Query API Is now a plugin
- Elasticsearch unplugged - Networking changes in 2.0
Also see the documentation for Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2, and especially the list of breaking changes in 2.0.
The Elasticsearch Migration Plugin will help you to check whether you need to upgrade your indices, or take any other action, before trying out Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2. It will detect issues like ancient Lucene 3 indices and problematic mappings that will no longer work in the upcoming 2.0.0.
You can find the instructions for this plugin in the Elasticsearch Migration repository.
The more beta testers we have, the sooner we can release Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA, so please download Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta2, try it out, and let us know what you think on Twitter (@elastic) or on our forum. You can report any problems on the GitHub issues page.