This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - June 30, 2015

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Top News

Elasticsearch Core

  • Internal: Remove XContentParser.map[Ordered]AndClose() (#11846, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Consolidate shard level abstractions (#11847, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Render strucutred exception in multi search (#11849, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Allow IBM J9 2.8+ in version check (#11850, 2.0.0)
  • Mappings: Remove close() from Mapper (#11863, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Mark translog as upgraded in the engine even if a legacy generation exists (#11860, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Make translog file name parsing strict (#11875, 2.0.0)
  • Cluster State: Rename cluster state uuid to updateId (#11862, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Rename caches (#11893, 2.0.0)
  • Docs: clarification of allocation awareness w.r.t. rack failures (#11908, 2.0.0)
  • Recovery: Fix RecoveryState timestamps (#11871, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Cache: Store filter cache statistics at the shard level instead of index (#11886, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Don't convert possibly corrupted bytes to UTF-8 (#11911, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Add mocking for securitymanager environment (#11913, 2.0.0)
  • Security Manager: Steps to remove dangerous security permissions (#11898, 2.0.0)
  • Nested: Add min score mode. (#11909, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Load plugins into classpath in bootstrap (#11918, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Fix running of rest tests against external cluster (#11906, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Extract all shard-level snapshot operation into dedicated SnapshotShardsService (#11756, 2.0.0)
  • Cache: Give the filter cache a smaller maximum number of cached filters (#11833, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Fix FieldDataTermsFilter.equals() (#11835, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Search: Always return metadata in get/search APIs (#11816, 2.0.0)
  • Parsing: add list parse methods to XContentParser (#10455, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Fix endless looping if starting fails (#11836, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Mapping: Restrict fields with the same name in different types to have the same core settings (#11812, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Add a null-check for XContentBuilder#field for BigDecimals (#11790, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Highlighting: Fix exception for plain highlighter and huge terms for Lucene 4.x (#11683, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Aggregations: Add cumulative sum aggregation (#11825, 2.0.0)
  • Dates: Allow for backwards compatibility for unix timestamp in pre 2.x indices (#11515, 2.0.0)
  • Logging: add the ability to specify an alternate logging configuration location (#10852, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Aborting snapshot might not abort snapshot of shards in very early stages in the snapshot process (#11839, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Logging: ClusterStateObserver should log on trace on timeout (#11722, 2.0.0)
  • Network: Make sure messages are fully read even in case of EOS markers (#11768, 2.0.0)

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