This Week in Elasticsearch - October 09, 2013

Welcome to This week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the Github repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch core

  • Upgrade to Lucene 4.5 (commit, 0.90 & master)
  • Elasticsearch now uses HPPC instead of trove (commit, 0.90 & master)
  • Better logic ignoring filters when parsing (there is a difference when a filter is empty, one cannot simply do a match all or none filter)  (#3838, 0.90 & master)
  • The @Required annotation has been removed (commit, 0.90 & master)
  • Parsing of completion field content got more strict (commit, 0.90 & master)
  • A race condition when indexing and merging mapping updates from master was fixed (#3844, 0.90 & master)
  • Warm-up of merged segments can be improved without configuring warm-up queries (#3819, 0.90 & master)
  • Calling bin/plugin with wrong parameters could lead to accidental removing of the bin directory (#3847, 0.90 & master)

Elasticsearch Ecosystem

Here's some more information about what is happening in the ecosystem we are maintaining around Elasticsearch, including plugin and driver releases, as well as news about Logstash and Kibana.

Slides

Where to find Us

Germany

  • Simon Willnauer will speak at GOTO Berlin on "With a hammer in your hand ... Elasticsearch". Simon's talk is scheduled for Friday, October 18th at 11:30 AM and he'll be hanging out with our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn in the exhibits hall throughout the conference. Stop by the Elasticsearch stand and say hello!
  • The Berlin Elasticsearch User Group will convene for their regular monthly meeting on October 29th.

Hungary

Honza Kral will talk about Elasticsearch at RuPy in Budapest on October 12th. RuPy is a conference to bring together programmers and communities of different programming languages like Ruby, Python, Clojure or JavaScript.

Netherlands

You can meet almost all of the Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash developers tomorrow in Amsterdam at the Elasticsearch Netherlands Meetup and ask us whatever you want to know. In addition to our Q&A session, Drew Raines will talk about running Elasticsearch on bare metal and Costin Leau will talk about our Hadoop integration.

United Kingdom

Richard Pijnenburg will give a talk at JAX London about how to Level Up Your Logging on Wednesday, October 30th.

United States

Where to Find You

Are you hosting an Elasticsearch meetup or giving a talk about Elasticsearch? We would love to know so we can feature that information in future editions of This Week in Elasticsearch. Just let our Community Manager know what you're up to and we're happy to help promote your efforts.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note.  We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: