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Elasticsearch version 7.0.0-alpha1
editElasticsearch version 7.0.0-alpha1
editThe changes listed below have been released for the first time in Elasticsearch 7.0.0-alpha1.
Breaking changes
edit- Aggregations
- Analysis
- Audit
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- Logfile auditing settings remove after deprecation #35205
- Authentication
- Authorization
- CRUD
- Distributed
- Features/Indices APIs
- Features/Ingest
- Features/Stats
- Geo
- Infra/Circuit Breakers
- Infra/Core
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- Core: Default node.name to the hostname #33677
- Remove bulk fallback for write thread pool #29609
- CCS: Drop http address from remote cluster info #29568 (issue: #29207)
- Remove the index thread pool #29556
- Main response should not have status 503 when okay #29045 (issue: #8902)
- Automatically prepare indices for splitting #27451
-
Don’t refresh on
_flush
_force_merge
and_upgrade
#27000 (issue: #26972)
- Infra/Packaging
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- Packaging: Remove windows bin files from the tar distribution #30596
- Infra/REST API
- Infra/Scripting
- Infra/Settings
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- Remove config prompting for secrets and text #27216
- Mapping
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- Match phrase queries against non-indexed fields should throw an exception #31060
- Remove legacy mapping code. #29224
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Reject updates to the
_default_
mapping. #29165 (issues: #15613, #28248) -
Remove the
update_all_types
option. #28288 -
Remove the
_default_
mapping. #28248 -
Reject the
index_options
parameter for numeric fields #26668 (issue: #21475)
- Network
- Percolator
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- remove deprecated percolator map_unmapped_fields_as_string setting #28060
- Ranking
- Search
-
-
Remove deprecated url parameters
_source_include
and_source_exclude
#35097 (issues: #22792, #33475) - Disallow negative query boost #34486 (issue: #33309)
-
Forbid negative
weight
in Function Score Query #33390 (issue: #31927) - In the field capabilities API, remove support for providing fields in the request body. #30185
- Remove deprecated options for query_string #29203 (issue: #25551)
- Fix Laplace scorer to multiply by alpha (and not add) #27125
- Remove _primary and _replica shard preferences #26791 (issue: #26335)
- Limit the number of expanded fields it query_string and simple_query_string #26541 (issue: #25105)
- Make purely negative queries return scores of 0. #26015 (issue: #23449)
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Remove deprecated url parameters
- Snapshot/Restore
- Store
- Suggesters
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- Fix threshold frequency computation in Suggesters #34312 (issue: #34282)
- Make Geo Context Mapping Parsing More Strict #32821 (issues: #32202, #32412)
- Make Geo Context Parsing More Strict #32412 (issue: #32202)
- Remove the ability to index or query context suggestions without context #31007 (issue: #30712)
Breaking Java changes
editDeprecations
editNew features
edit- Analysis
- CCR
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- Generalize search.remote settings to cluster.remote #33413
- Distributed
- Features/Ingest
- Features/Java High Level REST Client
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- GraphClient for the high level REST client and associated tests #32366
- Features/Monitoring
- Infra/Core
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-
Skip shard refreshes if shard is
search idle
#27500
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Skip shard refreshes if shard is
- Infra/Logging
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- Logging: Unify log rotation for index/search slow log #27298
- Infra/Plugins
- Infra/REST API
- Machine Learning
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- [ML] Filter undefined job groups from update job calendar actions #30757
- Mapping
- Ranking
- Recovery
- SQL
- Search
-
- Add “took” timing info to response for _msearch/template API #30961 (issue: #30957)
- Expose the lucene Matches API to searches [ISSUE] #29631
- Add allow_partial_search_results flag to search requests with default setting true #28440 (issue: #27435)
- Enable adaptive replica selection by default #26522 (issue: #24915)
- Suggesters
Enhancements
edit- Aggregations
- Discovery-Plugins
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- Rename discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes [ISSUE] #14058
- Engine
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- Remove versionType from translog #31945
- do retry if primary fails on AsyncAfterWriteAction #31857 (issues: #31716, #31755)
- handle AsyncAfterWriteAction exception before listener is registered #31755 (issue: #31716)
- Use IndexWriter#flushNextBuffer to free memory #27753
- Remove pre 6.0.0 support from InternalEngine #27720
- Features/Indices APIs
- Features/Ingest
- Features/Java High Level REST Client
- Features/Stats
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- Stats to record how often the ClusterState diff mechanism is used successfully #26973
- Features/Watcher
- Infra/Circuit Breakers
- Infra/Core
- Infra/Packaging
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- Choose JVM options ergonomically #30684
- Infra/REST API
- Infra/Scripting
- Infra/Settings
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- Settings: Add keystore creation to add commands #26126
- Infra/Transport API
- Network
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- Add cors support to NioHttpServerTransport #30827 (issue: #28898)
- Reintroduce mandatory http pipelining support #30820
- Make http pipelining support mandatory #30695 (issues: #28898, #29500)
- Add nio http server transport #29587 (issue: #28898)
- Add class for serializing message to bytes #29384 (issue: #28898)
- Selectors operate on channel contexts #28468 (issue: #27260)
- Unify nio read / write channel contexts #28160 (issue: #27260)
- Create nio-transport plugin for NioTransport #27949 (issue: #27260)
- Add elasticsearch-nio jar for base nio classes #27801 (issue: #27802)
- Ranking
-
- Add k parameter to PrecisionAtK metric #27569
- SQL
- Search
-
- Make limit on number of expanded fields configurable #35284 (issues: #26541, #34778)
- Search: Simply SingleFieldsVisitor #34052
- Don’t count hits via the collector if the hit count can be computed from index stats. #33701
- Limit the number of concurrent requests per node #31206 (issue: #31192)
- Default max concurrent search req. numNodes * 5 #31171 (issues: #30783, #30994)
- Change ScriptException status to 400 (bad request) #30861 (issue: #12315)
- Change default value to true for transpositions parameter of fuzzy query #26901
-
Introducing "took" time (in ms) for
_msearch
#23767 (issue: #23131)
- Snapshot/Restore
- Store
- ZenDiscovery
-
- [Zen2] Introduce vote withdrawal #35446
- Zen2: Add basic Zen1 transport-level BWC #35443
- Zen2: Add diff-based publishing #35290
- [Zen2] Introduce auto_shrink_voting_configuration setting #35217
- Introduce transport API for cluster bootstrapping #34961
- [Zen2] Reconfigure cluster as its membership changes #34592 (issue: #33924)
- Zen2: Fail fast on disconnects #34503
- [Zen2] Add storage-layer disruptions to CoordinatorTests #34347
- [Zen2] Add low-level bootstrap implementation #34345
- [Zen2] Gather votes from all nodes #34335
- Zen2: Add Cluster State Applier #34257
- [Zen2] Add safety phase to CoordinatorTests #34241
- [Zen2] Integrate FollowerChecker with Coordinator #34075
- Integrate LeaderChecker with Coordinator #34049
- Zen2: Trigger join when active master detected #34008
- Zen2: Update PeerFinder term on term bump #33992
- [Zen2] Calculate optimal cluster configuration #33924
- [Zen2] Introduce FollowersChecker #33917
- Zen2: Integrate publication pipeline into Coordinator #33771
- Zen2: Add DisruptableMockTransport #33713
- [Zen2] Implement basic cluster formation #33668
- [Zen2] Introduce LeaderChecker #33024
- Zen2: Add leader-side join handling logic #33013
- [Zen2] Add PeerFinder#onFoundPeersUpdated #32939
- [Zen2] Introduce PreVoteCollector #32847
- [Zen2] Introduce ElectionScheduler #32846
- [Zen2] Introduce ElectionScheduler #32709
- [Zen2] Add HandshakingTransportAddressConnector #32643 (issue: #32246)
- [Zen2] Add UnicastConfiguredHostsResolver #32642 (issue: #32246)
- Zen2: Cluster state publication pipeline #32584 (issue: #32006)
- [Zen2] Introduce gossip-like discovery of master nodes #32246
- Add core coordination algorithm for cluster state publishing #32171 (issue: #32006)
- Add term and config to cluster state #32100 (issue: #32006)
Bug fixes
edit- Aggregations
- Analysis
- Authorization
- Docs Infrastructure
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- Docs build fails due to missing nexus.png [ISSUE] #33101
- Features/Indices APIs
- Features/Ingest
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- INGEST: Fix Deprecation Warning in Script Proc. #32407
- Features/Java High Level REST Client
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- HLRC: Drop extra level from user parser #34932
- Features/Java Low Level REST Client
- Features/Watcher
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- Watcher: Ignore system locale/timezone in croneval CLI tool #33215
- Geo
-
-
[build] Test
GeoShapeQueryTests#testPointsOnly
fails [ISSUE] #27454
-
[build] Test
- Infra/Core
- Infra/Settings
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- Change format how settings represent lists / array #26723
- Infra/Transport API
- License
- Mapping
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- Ensure that field aliases cannot be used in multi-fields. #32219
- Network
- Search
-
-
Ensure realtime
_get
and_termvectors
don’t run on the network thread #33814 (issue: #27500) - [bug] fuzziness custom auto #33462 (issue: #33454)
- Fix inner hits retrieval when stored fields are disabled (none) #33018 (issue: #32941)
- Set maxScore for empty TopDocs to Nan rather than 0 #32938
- Handle leniency for cross_fields type in multi_match query #27045 (issue: #23210)
- Raise IllegalArgumentException instead if query validation failed #26811 (issue: #26799)
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Ensure realtime
- Security
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- Handle 6.4.0+ BWC for Application Privileges #32929
- ZenDiscovery
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- [Zen2] Remove duplicate discovered peers #35505