This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - August 25 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.

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Network: Remove support for address resolving in InetSocketTransportAddress (#13020, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Network: Don't print lots of noise on IPv4 only hosts. (#13026, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Exceptions: Fix formatting of startup/configuration errors (#13029, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Network: Move multicast discovery to a plugin (#13027, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Search: Never cache match_all queries. (#13032, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Aggregations: Aggregation: Fix AggregationPath.subPath() to not throw ArrayStoreException (#13035, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Packaging: Improve java version comparison and explicitly enforce a version format (#13010, 2.1.0)
  • Java API: Add missing support for escape to QueryStringQueryBuilder (#13016, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Index APIs: Limit type name length (#13036, 2.0.0-beta1, 2.0.0)
  • Settings: Do not swallow exceptions thrown while parsing settings (#13039, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Exceptions: Use StartupError to format all exceptions hitting the console (#13041, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Settings: Do not permit multiple settings files (#13043, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Exceptions: Improve startup exceptions (especially file permissions etc) (#13050, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugins: Lucene SPI support for plugins. (#13051, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Internal: Cleanup bootstrap package. (#13053, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Internal: Remove SpawnModules (#13034, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Add plugin modules before (almost all) others (#13061, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Stats: The queue_size value should be shown as an integer. (#13063, 2.1.0)
  • Release: Prevent running whole mvn lifecycle twice (#13066, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Query DSL: Remove unsupported rewrite option from match query builder (#13069, 2.1.0)
  • Core: Don't check if directory is present to prevent races (#13049, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • REST: Add favicon (#13054, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Make mlockall configuration easier. (#13057, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Remove unsupported rewrite from multi_match query builder (#13073, 2.1.0)
  • : Fix some issues developing Elasticsearch with Eclipse (#13070, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: [cloud-aws] Update AWS SDK to 1.10.12 (#13090, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Detect duplicate settings keys on startup (#13086, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Query DSL: remove attempted (not working) support for array in not query parser (#12890, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Network: Remove usage of InetAddress#getLocalHost (#12959, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Internal: Simplify custom repository type setup (#12948, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugins: Ensure additionalSettings() do not conflict (#12967, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Dependencies: Drop commons-lang dependency (#12972, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Java: Workaround JDK bug 8034057 (#12970, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugins: Simplify Plugin API for constructing modules (#12952, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Exceptions: Improve console logging on startup exception (#12976, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Exceptions: Add serialization support for InterruptedException (#12981, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Dates: Add millisecond parser for dynamic date fields mapped from yyyy/MM/dd (#12977, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Network: Log network configuration at debug level (#12979, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugins: Add build short hash to the download manager headers to identify staging builds (#12936, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Network: Only resolve host if explicitly allowed. (#12986, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Aggregations: Throw error if cardinality aggregator has sub aggregations (#12989, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Testing: fail with better error message if elasticsearch was started already (#12965, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Aggregations: Make ValueParser.DateMath aware of timezone setting (#12886, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove CachedDfSource (#12973, 2.1.0)
  • Network: Deduplicate addresses from resolver. (#12995, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Build: RPM module should be build on machine with /usr/bin/rpmbuild (#12990, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Scroll: Optimize sorted scroll when sorting by _doc. (#12983, 2.1.0)
  • Search: Deprecate the scan search type. (#12994, 2.1.0)
  • Discovery: Default to unicast discovery, with default host list of 127.0.0.1, [::1] (#12999, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Allocation: Add expectedShardSize to ShardRouting and use it in path.data allocation (#12947, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Remove cloud.account/key settings (#12978, 2.1.0)
  • Index Templates: Accumulate validation errors when validating index templates (#12901, 2.1.0)
  • Build: Refactor script for RC creation (#12985, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • REST: Suppress rest exceptions by default and log them instead (#12991, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Packaging: Clean up the tar tests (#12903, 2.1.0)
  • Java API: Remove execution from TermsQueryBuilder as it has no effect (#12884, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Build: [maven] Remove elasticsearch- prefix from artifacts (#12879, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugins: Use 'name' from plugin descriptor file to determine plugin name (#12775, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Don't show access_key/filter_key in S3 repository settings (#12845, 2.0.0-beta1)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Update AWS SDK to 1.10.10 (#12859, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)

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