This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - October 6th 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Internal: Clean up scripting permissions. (#13844, 3.0.0, 2.2.0)
  • Tests: add lang-groovy to plugin vagrant test (#13856, 3.0.0, 2.2.0)
  • Internal: Add SpecialPermission to guard exceptions to security policy. (#13854, 3.0.0, 2.2.0)
  • Query refactoring: set has_parent/has_child types context properly (#13863, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove ClusterSerivce/IndexSettingsService dependency from IndexShard (#13853, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Verify actually written checksum in VerifyingIndexOutput (#13848, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Engine: Remove the disabled autogenerated id optimization from InternalEngine (#13857, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Start making RecoverySourceHandler unit testable (#13840, 3.0.0)
  • Dependencies: Update to forbidden-apis 2.0 (#13876, 3.0.0, 2.2.0)
  • Packaging: Nuke ES_CLASSPATH appending, JarHell fail on empty classpath elements (#13880, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: Update version incompatibility message for plugin manager (#13883, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Close TokenStream in finally clause (#13870, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.io.Resources (#13908, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.collect.ImmutableCollection (#13909, 3.0.0)
  • Core: Verify Checksum once it has been fully written to fail as soon as possible (#13896, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Allocation: Early terminate high disk watermark checks on single data node cluster (#13882, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.hash.* (#13907, 3.0.0)
  • Index creation: Forbid index name . & .. (#13862, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Logging: settings in log config file should not overwrite custom parameters (#13934, 2.2.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Record all bytes of the checksum in VerifyingIndexOutput (#13923, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Remove shard-level injector (#13881, 3.0.0)
  • SecurityManager: lock down javascript and python script engines better (#13924, 3.0.0, 2.2.0)
  • Internal: Remove unneeded Module abstractions (#13944, 3.0.0)
  • Testing: Move back some test from groovy plugin to core (#13945, 3.0.0, 2.2.0)
  • Plugin Cloud GCE: cloud-gce plugin should check discovery.type (#13809, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Fix blob size in `writeBlob()`` method (#13574, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • CAT API: Adds disk used by indices to _cat/allocation (#13783, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: discovery-ec2 plugin should check discovery.type (#13814, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Snapshot restore operations throttle more than specified (#13828, 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0, 1.7.3)

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