0.11.0 Released

ElasticSearch version 0.11.0 has just been released. You can download it here. This is a major release for elasticsearch, both in terms of feature set as well as stability.

Major list of features include:

Zero Conf Persistency

Out of the box long term persistency using a “local” gateway dubbed zero conf persistency.

River

Generic support for river which are services running within the elasticsearch cluster indexing streams of data. Rivers exists for twitter, couchdb, and rabbitmq.

Bulk API

A new API to do bulk indexing of data, greatly increasing the throughput of the indexing process. Details here.

Thrift REST Transport

A Thrift based REST transport (mimicking HTTP) for faster execution compared with plain HTTP.

Minor Features

Minor features include _source fields and the ability to use them in plain fields, named_filters, improved geo support, faster query_string and field queries execution, and of course, bug fixes.

-shay.banon