Elasticsearch 2.0.0-rc1 released
Today, we are happy to announce the release of Elasticsearch 2.0.0-rc1, based on Lucene 5.2.1. Elasticsearch 2.0 is feature frozen. This is the last planned release candidate before 2.0.0 GA.
IMPORTANT: This is a release candidate and is intended for testing purposes only. Elasticsearch 2.0.0-rc1 is not compatible with 2.0.0-beta1 or 2.0.0-beta2, and there is no guarantee that it will be compatible with Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA.
DO NOT DEPLOY IN PRODUCTION
You can download Elasticsearch 2.0.0-rc1 and read the full changes list here.
Change logs for the commercial plugins can be found here:
The changes in this release candidate consist mostly of minor bug fixes and tidy ups, with the occasional enhancement like the points_only optimization for geo-shape fields and, in Shield, a caching interface which can be used by custom realms.
Thank you to those of you who tested out 2.0.0-beta1 and 2.0.0-beta2 and reported problems. Given that this is the last planned preview release before 2.0.0 GA, we would appreciate as many testers as possible so that we can catch and fix issues before releasing the GA.
See the documentation for Elasticsearch 2.0.0-rc1, and especially the list of breaking changes in 2.0.
Also have a look at these blog posts for more information about this release:
- Elasticsearch 2.0.0.beta2 released
- 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
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-rc1. It will to 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-rc1, 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.