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5.0.0-alpha2 Release Notes
edit5.0.0-alpha2 Release Notes
editAlso see Breaking changes in 5.0.
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Breaking changes
edit- Analysis
- Cluster
- Indexed Scripts/Templates
- Packaging
- Percolator
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Remove
.percolator
type in favour ofpercolator
field type #17560
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Remove
- REST
- Settings
Breaking Java changes
edit- Settings
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- Remove Settings.settingsBuilder. #17619
Deprecations
edit- Query DSL
- Query Refactoring
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Splits
phrase
andphrase_prefix
in match query intoMatchPhraseQueryBuilder
andMatchPhrasePrefixQueryBuilder
#17508
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Splits
New features
edit- Analysis
- Plugin Analysis ICU
Enhancements
edit- CAT API
- Cache
- Circuit Breakers
- Cluster
- Core
- Geo
- Index APIs
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- Fail hot_threads in a better way if unsupported by JDK #15909
- Ingest
- Internal
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- Makes Script type writeable #17908 (issue: #17753)
- FiltersAggregatorBuilder: Don’t create new context for inner parsing #17851
- Clean up serialization on some stats #17832 (issue: #17085)
- Normalize registration for SignificanceHeuristics #17830 (issue: #17085)
- Make (read|write)NamedWriteable public #17829 (issue: #17682)
- Use try-with-resource when creating new parser instances where possible #17822
- Don’t pass XContentParser to ParseFieldRegistry#lookup #17794
- Internal: Remove threadlocal from document parser #17764
- Cut range aggregations to registerAggregation #17757 (issue: #17085)
- Remove ParseFieldMatcher from AbstractXContentParser #17756 (issue: #17417)
- Remove parser argument from methods where we already pass in a parse context #17738
- Switch SearchAfterBuilder to writeGenericValue #17735 (issue: #17085)
- Remove StreamableReader #17729 (issue: #17085)
- Cleanup nested, has_child & has_parent query builders for inner hits construction #17719 (issue: #11118)
- Make AllocationCommands NamedWriteables #17661
- Isolate StreamableReader #17656 (issue: #17085)
- Create registration methods for aggregations similar to those for queries #17653 (issues: #17085, #17389)
- Turn RestChannel into an interface #17643 (issue: #17133)
- Remove PROTOTYPEs from QueryBuilders #17632 (issue: #17085)
- Remove registerQueryParser #17608
- ParseField#getAllNamesIncludedDeprecated to not return duplicate names #17504
- Rework a query parser and improve registration #17458
- Clean up QueryParseContext and don’t hold it inside QueryRewrite/ShardContext #17417
- Mapping
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Automatically upgrade analyzed strings with an analyzer to
text
. #17861 - Support dots in field names when mapping already exists #17759 (issue: #15951)
- Use the new points API to index numeric fields. #17746 (issues: #11513, #16751, #17007, #17700)
- Simplify AllEntries, AllField and AllFieldMapper: #17613
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Automatically upgrade analyzed strings with an analyzer to
- Network
- Packaging
- Percolator
- Plugins
- Query DSL
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- Add MatchNoDocsQuery, a query that matches no documents and prints the reason why in the toString method. #17780
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Adds
ignore_unmapped
option to geo queries #17751 -
Adds
ignore_unmapped
option to nested and P/C queries #17748 - SimpleQueryParser should call MappedFieldType.termQuery when appropriate. #17678
- REST
- Recovery
- Reindex API
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- Properly mark reindex’s child tasks as child tasks #17770
- Search
- Settings
- Stats
- Store
- Suggesters
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- Add bwc support for reading pre-5.0 completion index #17602
- Task Manager
Bug fixes
edit- Aggregations
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- Adds serialisation of sigma to extended_stats_bucket pipeline aggregation #17703 (issue: #17701)
- Fixes NPE when no window is specified in moving average request #17556 (issue: #17516)
- Fixes Filter and FiltersAggregation to work with empty query #17542 (issue: #17518)
- ExtendedStatsAggregator should also pass sigma to emtpy aggs. #17388 (issue: #17362)
- Allocation
- Core
- Ingest
- Internal
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- Fix BulkItemResponse.Failure.toString #17871
- Logging
- Mapping
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Fix cross type mapping updates for
boolean
fields. #17882 (issue: #17879) - Fix dynamic check to properly handle parents #17864 (issues: #17644, #17854)
- Fix array parsing to remove its context when finished parsing #17768
- Disallow fielddata loading on text fields that are not indexed. #17747
- Fail if an object is added after a field with the same name. #17568 (issue: #17567)
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Fix cross type mapping updates for
- Packaging
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- Fix exit code #17082
- Plugin Discovery EC2
- Plugins
- Query DSL
- REST
- Reindex API
- Settings
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- convert settings for ResourceWatcherService to new infrastructure #17948
- Snapshot/Restore
- Task Manager
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- Shard level tasks in Bulk Action lose reference to their parent tasks #17743
- Term Vectors
Upgrades
edit- Core
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- Upgrade to lucene 6 release #17657