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Elasticsearch version 8.1.0
editElasticsearch version 8.1.0
editAlso see Breaking changes in 8.1.
Known issues
edit-
Parsing a request when the last element in an array is filtered out
(for instance using
_source_includes
) fails. This is due to a bug in Jackson parser. Fixed in Elasticsearch 8.6.1 (#91456)
Breaking changes
editBug fixes
edit- Aggregations
- Allocation
- Authorization
- Autoscaling
- Client
- Distributed
- Engine
- Geo
- ILM+SLM
-
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Fix
PolicyStepsRegistry
'scachedSteps
null handling #84588
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Fix
- Indices APIs
- Infra/Core
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- Always re-run Feature migrations which have encountered errors #83918 (issue: #83917)
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Copy
trace.id
in threadcontext stash #83218 -
Preserve context in
ResultDeduplicator
#84038 (issue: #84036) -
Registration of
SystemIndexMigrationTask
named xcontent objects #84192 (issue: #84115) -
Update system index mappings if
_meta
is null #83896 (issue: #83890)
- Infra/REST API
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- Do not allow safelisted media types on Content-Type #83448
- Infra/Scripting
- Ingest
- Machine Learning
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- Allow autoscaling to work when vertical scaling is possible #84242 (issue: #84198)
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Correctly capture min stats for
inference.ingest_processors
in ML usage #82352 - Fail queued inference requests with cause if the process crashes #81584
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Fix NLP tokenization
never_split
handling around punctuation #82982 -
Fix
ZeroShotClassificationConfig
update mixing fields #82848 - Fix bug where initial scale from 0→1 could scale too high #84244
- Fix submit after shutdown in process worker service #83645 (issue: #83633)
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Fixes
categorize_text
parameter validation to be parse order independent #82628 (issue: #82629) - Record node shutdown start time for each node #84355
- Register the named X-content parser for snapshot upgrade params #84420 (issue: #84419)
- Retry anomaly detection job recovery during relocation #83456
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Return
zxx
forlang_ident_model_1
if no valid text is found for language identification #82746 (issue: #81933) - Text structure finder caps exclude lines pattern at 1000 characters #84236 (issue: #83434)
- Validate vocabulary on model deployment #81548 (issue: #81470)
- Wait for model process to stop in stop deployment #83644
- Mapping
- Network
- Packaging
- Recovery
- SQL
-
- Fix txt format for empty result sets #83376
- Search
- Security
- Snapshot/Restore
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Adjust
LinuxFileSystemNatives.allocatedSizeInBytes
for aarch64 architectures #81376 (issues: #80437, #81362) - Distinguish "missing repository" from "missing repository plugin" #82457 (issue: #81758)
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Fix
DirectBlobContainerIndexInput
cloning method #84341 (issue: #84238) - Move get snapshots serialization to management pool #83215
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Preserve context in
snapshotDeletionListeners
#84089 (issue: #84036)
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Adjust
- TSDB
-
- Fix time series timestamp meta missing #80695
- Transform
- Watcher
Deprecations
edit- CRUD
- Cluster Coordination
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- Remove last few mentions of Zen discovery #80410
- Search
- SQL
Enhancements
edit- Aggregations
- Allocation
- Analysis
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- Expose Japanese completion filter to kuromoji analysis plugin #81858
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Cluster Coordination
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- Add detail to slow cluster state warning message #83221
- Batch Index Settings Update Requests #82896 (issue: #79866)
- Improve node-join task descriptions #80090
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Make
PeerFinder
log messages happier #83222 - More compact serialization of metadata #82608 (issue: #77466)
- Paginate persisted cluster state #78875
- Reduce verbosity-increase timeout to 3 minutes #81118
- Use network recycler for publications #80650 (issue: #80111)
- Data streams
- ILM+SLM
- Indices APIs
- Infra/Circuit Breakers
- Infra/Core
- Infra/REST API
- Infra/Scripting
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- Add $ syntax as a shortcut for field in Painless #80518
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Add
BinaryDocValuesField
to replaceBytesRef
(ScriptDocValues)
#79760 - Add a geo point field for the scripting fields api #81395
- Add date fields to the scripting fields api #81272
- Add half float mapping to the scripting fields API #82294
- Add scaled float to the scripting fields API #82275
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Add support for
GeoShape
to the scripting fields API #81617 - Fields API for IP mapped type #81396
- Fields API for byte, double, float, integer, long, short #81126 (issue: #79105)
- Fields API for flattened mapped type #82590
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Fields API for x-pack
constant_keyword
#82292 - Fields API for x-pack version, doc version, seq no, mumur3 #81476
- Improve support for joda datetime to java datetime in Painless #83099
- Keyword fields API support #81266
- Make wildcard accessible from the scripting field API #82763
- Ordinal field data plumbing #80970 (issue: #79105)
- Support boolean fields in Fields API #80043 (issue: #79105)
- Time series compile and cache evict metrics #79078 (issue: #62899)
- Infra/Settings
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Optimize duplicated code block in
MetadataUpdateSettingsService
#82048
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Optimize duplicated code block in
- Machine Learning
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- Add ability to update the truncation option at inference #80267
- Add error counts to trained model stats #82705
- Add latest search interval to datafeed stats #82620 (issue: #82405)
- Adds new MPNet tokenization for NLP models #82234
- Force delete trained models #80595
- Improve error message on starting scrolling datafeed with no matching indices #81069 (issue: #81013)
- Report thread settings per node for trained model deployments #81723 (issue: #81149)
- Set default value of 30 days for model prune window #81377
- Track token positions and use source string to tag NER entities #81275
- Warn when creating job with an unusual bucket span #82145 (issue: #81645)
- Mapping
- Monitoring
- Network
- Recovery
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Adjust
indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec
according to external settings #82819
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Adjust
- SQL
- Search
-
-
Add
scripted_metric
agg context tounsigned_long
#64422 (issue: #64347) - Add field usage support for vectors #80608
- Allow doc-values only search on boolean fields #82925 (issues: #82409, #81210, #52728)
- Allow doc-values only search on date types #82602 (issues: #82409, #81210, #52728)
- Allow doc-values only search on ip fields #82929 (issues: #82409, #81210, #52728)
- Allow doc-values only search on keyword fields #82846 (issues: #82409, #81210, #52728)
- Allow doc-values only search on number types #82409 (issues: #81210, #52728)
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Rewrite
match
andmatch_phrase
queries toterm
queries onkeyword
fields #82612 (issue: #82515) - Short cut if reader has point values #80268
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Support combining
_shards
preference param with<custom-string>
#80024 (issue: #80021)
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Add
- Security
- Snapshot/Restore
- Stats
- TSDB
- Transform