Product release

Elasticsearch 1.7.2 released

Today, we are happy to announce the bug fix release of Elasticsearch 1.7.2, based on Lucene 4.10.4. This is the latest stable release. Users are advised to upgrade if they find themselves affected by any of the bugs which have been fixed.

You can download Elasticsearch 1.7.2 and read the full changes list here.

Previous blog posts about the 1.7 series:

This release contains a number of bug fixes including:

  • improved shard allocation logic when using shard allocation awareness (#13512, #12551),
  • a bug fix for a rare recovery issue discovered by randomized testing (#12667),
  • a fix for the snapshot/restore API which stopped accepting index options like ignore_unavailable (#13357),
  • and a couple of improvements to delayed shard allocation (#12532, #12515).

Please download Elasticsearch 1.7.2, try it out, and let us know what you think on Twitter (@elastic) or on our forum. You can report any problems on the GitHub issues page.