This Week in Elasticsearch - August 06, 2014

By
Alexander Reelsen

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

  • Packaging: Don't remove ancestors on deb removal (#7078, master and 1.4)
  • Term Vectors API: generate all possible TVs of a document (#7061, master and 1.4)
  • Bulk API: Cluster block with auto create index bulk action can cause bulk execution to not return (#7109, master, 1.4 and 1.3)
  • Sorting: Allow many to many geo point in geo distance sorting (#3926, master and 1.4)
  • Mapping: Generate timestamp when path is null (#7036, master and 1.4)
  • Search Exists API: Checks if any matching documents exist for a given query (#6995, master and 1.4)
  • Mappings: Fix copy_to behavior on nested documents (#7079, master and 1.4)
  • Aggregations: Fix infinite loop in the histogram reduce logic (#7022, master and 1.4)
  • Sort: Make ignore_unmapped work for cross-index queries (#7039, master and 1.4)
  • Aggregations: Added filters aggregation (#6118, master and 1.4)
  • Suggestions: CompletionMapper throws misleading error on null value (#6399, master and 1.4)
  • Reroute API: Fix serialization bug (#7135, master, 1.4 and 1.3)
  • Netty: Support defaults for tcpNoDelay and tcpKeepAlive (#7136, master and 1.4)
  • CLI: Added a cli infrastructure (#7094, master and 1.4)
  • Aggregations: Add Google normalized distance and chi square to significant terms (#6858, master and 1.4)
  • Get API: Add parameter to GET for checking if generated fields can be retrieved (#6676, master and 1.4)
  • Percolator: Cache index field data instances (#7081, master, 1.4 and 1.3)
  • Mapping: add new default option for timestamp field (#7036, master and 1.4)

Elasticsearch Ecosystem

Here's some more information about what is happening in the ecosystem we are maintaining around the ELK stack - that's Elasticsearch plus Logstash and Kibana - including plugin and driver releases.

Slides & Videos

For those of you who want to get your hands dirty with the ES-PHP client, here's a nice intro tutorial for you to sing along with.


Were you at OSCON a few weeks back? The Elasticsearch team was and there were some great talks from our merry band of humans - including this one from our intrepid community manager Leslie Hawthorn.


And lest we forget, there were also a few great OSCON presentations from our amazing Elasticsearch community members, including this presentation from our friends at Mozilla.

Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Germany

If you're heading to FrOSCON on August 23rd & 24th, we're happy to bring you bouncy castle love this year. And make sure to see Isabel Drost-Fromm on Your Search Doesn't Work.

Poland

The Warsaw Java Users Group is holding a Microservices Hackathon on August 9th from 10 AM to 10 PM. You can spend those twelve hours hacking on the ELK stack and a variety of other tools. Register now to attend.

United States

Heading to Chicago for LinuxCon and Cloud Open North America? Say hello to Leslie Hawthorn, and check out her panel Empowering Your Corporate Open Source Software Developers.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

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 Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Training

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

  • Sao Paulo - August 14, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • Rio de Janeiro - August 18, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • Boston - August 27, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • New York - August 27, 2014 (ELK workshop)
  • San Francisco - August 28, 2014 (ELK workshop)
  • London - September 2, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • London - September 4, 2014 (ELK workshop)
  • Paris - September 9, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • San Francisco - September 9, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • Boulder - September 16, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • Berlin - September 17, 2014 (core Elasticsearch training)
  • Austin - September 18, 2014 (ELK workshop)
  • Paris - September 25, 2014 (ELK workshop)