This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - July 7, 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Packaging: Don't jarhell check system jars (#11979, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Parameterized exception messages (#11981, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: really ban exitVM with security policy (#11982, 2.0.0)
  • Transport: Do not make the buffer skip while a stream is open (#11988, 2.0.0)
  • Mapping: Move short name access out of field type (#11977, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Don't add CWD to classpath when ES_CLASSPATH isn't set (#12001, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Promote headers to first class citizens on exceptions (#12006, 2.0.0)
  • Status: Replacing sigar (#11995, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Don't special-case on ElasticsearchWrapperException in toXContent (#12015, 2.0.0)
  • Stats: Remove sigar completely (#12010, 2.0.0)
  • ZenDiscovery: #11960 failed to remove eager reroute from node join (#12019, 2.0.0, 1.7.0)
  • Build: change groupIds & artifactIds (#12029, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Update maven-invoker-plugin to 2.0.0 (#11990, 2.0.0)
  • Mapping: Completely move doc values and fielddata settings to field types (#12014, 2.0.0)
  • Scroll: Append the shard top docs in such a way to prevent AOOBE (#11978, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Build: Update to Apache Maven PMD Plugin 3.5 (#12065, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Add integration tests for analysis plugins (#12070, 2.0.0)
  • Bulk: Use correct OpType on failure in BulkItemResponse (#12060, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Ban java serialization (#11910, 2.0.0)
  • Search Templates: Adds API endpoint to render search templates as a response (#11570, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Add simple plugins smoke tester (#11957, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Cut over to writeable for TransportAddress (#11949, 2.0.0)
  • Allocation: Reroute after node join is processed (#11960, 2.0.0, 1.7.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Improve repository verification failure message (#11925, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Packaging: Detect jar hell before installing a plugin (#11963, 2.0.0)
  • Recovery: Fix wrong reused file bytes in Recovery API reports (#11965, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Aggregations: Makes ValueFormat and ValueFormatter never null (#11943, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Postrm script should not fail (#11678, 2.0.0, 1.6.1)
  • Aggregations: Makes SKIP Gap Policy work correctly for Bucket Script aggregation (#11970, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Adds other bucket to filters aggregation (#11948, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Adds a new GapPolicy NONE (#11951, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Pipeline Aggregation to filter buckets based on a script (#11941, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Carry on rest status if exceptions are not serializable (#11973, 2.0.0)
  • Mapping: Rename root mappers to "metadata" mappers (#11962, 2.0.0)
  • Percolator: Use time as field name in serialization (#11954, 2.0.0)
  • Aliases: Parse aliases at search time and never cache parsed alias filters (#11930, 2.0.0)
  • Build: include in plugins only needed jars (#11944, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: make sure ParseField is always used in combination with parse flags (#11859, 2.0.0)
  • Discovery: Don't join master nodes or accept join requests of old and too new nodes (#11972, 2.0.0)
  • Field stats: added index_constraint option (#11259, 2.0.0)
  • Update API: Upsert does not use ttl value (#8715, 2.0.0)
  • Dates: More strict parsing of ISO dates (#6227, 2.0.0)

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