This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - July 15, 2015

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene! With this weekly series, we're bringing you an update on all things Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene at Elastic, including the latest on commits, releases and other learning resources.

Elasticsearch Core

  • Cluster: Remove double call to elect primaries (#12147, 2.0.0)
  • Index: Use IndexWriter.hasPendingChanges() to detect if a flush is needed (#12146, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Testing: allow settings to be passed to client for external test cluster (#12155, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: Fix pluginmanager permissions for bin/ scripts (#12157, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: remove elasticsearch- from name of official plugins (#12158, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: strip elasticsearch- and es- from any plugin name (#12160, 2.0.0)
  • Backport to 1.7: Snapshot info should contain version of elasticsearch that created the snapshot (#12162, 1.7.0)
  • Internal: Make 2.0.0.beta1-SNAPSHOT the current version (#12151, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Adds new script API to ValuesSourceMetricsAggregationBuilder (#12152, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Free all pending search contexts if index is closed or removed (#12180, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Build: Allow rpm to be build as part of package phase (#12181, 2.0.0)
  • Aliases: Don't require fields in alias filters to exist in the mapping (#12150, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: jsr166e was left out of shaded jar (#12194, 2.0.0)
  • Term Query: Be more strict during parsing (#12195, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Only clear open search ctx if the index is delete or closed via API (#12199, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Exceptions: Throw LockObtainFailedException exception when we can't lock index directory (#12203, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Versioning: updated the elasticsearch versioning format (#12210, 2.0.0)
  • Stats: Failure during the fetch phase of scan should invoke the failed fetch… (#12087, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Give a better exception when a jar contains same classfile twice. (#12093, 2.0.0)
  • Stats: Update fs stats (#12053, 2.0.0)
  • Scripting: Simplify CacheKey used for scripts (#12092, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Allow use of bouncycastle (#12102, 2.0.0)
  • Tests: Add unit tests for JarHell (#12106, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Default fuzzy transpositions to true (#12090, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Harden integration tests setup/teardown more (#12107, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Change JarHell to operate on Path instead of URL (#12109, 2.0.0)
  • Test: print PID when starting ES in integ tests too. (#12111, 2.0.0)
  • Mapping: Remove AbstractFieldMapper (#12089, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Fix tophints noise (#12112, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Get integration tests working on windows. (#12117, 2.0.0)
  • phonetic plugin: move integration tests to REST tests (#12095, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Consolidate ShardRouting construction (#12125, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Cleanup ShardRoutingState uses and hide implementation details of ClusterInfo (#12126, 2.0.0)
  • Stats: Update process stats (#12043, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: move integration tests to REST tests (#12128, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Expose Lucene's new TopTermsBlendedFreqScoringRewrite (#12129, 2.0.0)
  • Stats: Update OS stats (#12049, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove mapper references from Engines (#12130, 2.0.0)
  • Bulk: Add support for retrieving fields in bulk updates (#12114, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Add validation of snapshot FileInfo during parsing (#12108, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Search: Clean up handling of missing values when merging shard results on the coordinating node. (#12127, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Calculate artifact checksums in maven (#12085, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Refactor MetaData to split off the concrete index name logic to a dedicated service (#12058, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: Simplify Plugin Manager for official plugins (#11805, 2.0.0)
  • Shadow Replicas: Fail engine without marking it as corrupt when recovering on SharedFS (#11933, 2.0.0, 1.7.0)
  • Query API: Fix FuzzyQuery to properly handle Object, number, dates or String. (#12020, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Special case the _index field in queries (#12027, 2.0.0)
  • Build: cloud-aws doesn't register s3 repos anymore (#12036, 2.0.0)
  • Term Vectors: Only load term statistics if required (#11737, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Startup: Do not prompt for node name twice (#11668, 2.0.0, 1.7.0, 1.6.1)
  • Aggregations: Add cost minimizer to tune moving_avg parameters (#11881, 2.0.0)
  • Inner hits: Properly support named queries for both nested and parent child inner hits (#11880, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Snapshot info should contain version of elasticsearch that created the snapshot (#11985, 2.0.0)
  • Allocation: Shard Started messages should be matched using an exact match (#11999, 2.0.0, 1.7.0)
  • Java API: Treat path object as a simple value instead of Iterable in XContentBuilder (#11903, 2.0.0)
  • Settings: change CORS allow origin default to allow no origins (#11890, 2.0.0)
  • Cluster: Add MetaData.uuid to ClusterState.toXContent (#11832, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Minor fixes to the match query (#8352, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: add serial differencing pipeline aggregation (#11196, 2.0.0)
  • Scripting: Add script type and script name to error messages (#11449, 2.0.0)

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