This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - September 8 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Tests: Remove stress tests (#13291, 2.1.0)
  • Tests: Rename test suffix so we only use Tests (#13294, 2.1.0)
  • Packaging: Don't surround `-Xloggc log filename with quotes (#13296, 2.0.0)
  • Network: Improve situation when network.host is set to wildcard (e.g. 0.0.0.0) (#13299, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Optimize scrolls for constant-score queries (#13311, 2.1.0)
  • Query DSL: Internal: simplify filtered query conversion to lucene query (#13312, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Bump master (3.0-snapshot) to java 8 (#13314, 3.0.0)
  • Test: Workaround pitfall in Java 8 target-type inference (#13318, 3.0.0)
  • Core: Upgrade master to lucene 5.4-snapshot r1701068 (#13324, 3.0.0)
  • Network: Remove broadcast address check. (#13328, 2.0.0)
  • Cleanup: remove non needed resources (#13321, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Fix deprecations introduced by the upgrade to Lucene 5.3 (#13308, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Query DSL: simple_query_string overrides boost coming from lucene (#13331, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: span_containing/withinoverride default boost coming from lucene (#13339, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove use of underscore as an identifier (#13353, 3.0.0)
  • Shadow Replicas: Allow deleting closed indices with shadow replicas (#13309, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Shade joda-convert (#13358, 1.7.2, 1.6.3)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.base.Objects (#13355, 3.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Enable S3SignerType for repository-s3 (#13360, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid the use of com.google.common.base.Predicate(s) (#13349, 3.0.0)
  • Core: fix exception handling for unavailable shards in broadcast replicatio… (#13341, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Build: move heapdump to target/heapdump dir (#13342, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Remove the scan/count search types. (#13310, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove cyclic dependencies between IndexService and FieldData / BitSet caches (#13381, 3.0.0)
  • Release: Add script to validate mvn repositories (#13306, 3.0.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Install all plugins during bats tests (#13076, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Mapping: Fix numerous checks for equality and compatibility in mapper field types (#13206, 2.1.0)
  • Analysis: Lithuanian analysis (#13244, 2.1.0)
  • Tests: Improve jacoco coverage (#13263, 2.1.0)
  • Search: Allow reads on shards that are in POST_RECOVERY (#13246, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Build: remove shaded elasticsearch version (#13252, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: More bats backports (#13255, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Clean up more bats tests (#13083, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Scripting: Propagate Headers and Context through to ScriptService (#12982, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Java API: Add qa smoke test client module (#13271, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Tests: print test start and end of test setup and cleanup (#13268, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Tests: Remove test class exclusion for Abstract prefix and rename classes accordingly (#13282, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Add listeners for postIndex, postCreate, and postDelete (#13203, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Optimize counts on simple queries. (#13037, 2.1.0)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Split cloud-aws into repository-s3 and discovery-ec2 (#13097, 3.0.0)
  • Query DSL: match_phrase_prefix to take boost into account (#13142, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Geo: Refactor ignore_malformed and coerce GeoPointFieldType to Builder (#13289, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Add percentiles_bucket pipeline aggregation (#13186, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Core: Manual synchronization when iterating over listeners in InternalClusterInfoService (#13270, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Add stats_bucket/extended_stats_bucket pipeline aggs (#13128, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Packaging: Test upgrading from an older version (#13287, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Geo: Refactor geopoint `validate & normalize_` for 2.0 (#12300, 2.0.0)
  • Search Templates: Adds template support to _msearch resource (#12414, 2.1.0)

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