This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - September 22 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Packaging: Remove some bogus permissions only needed for tests. (#13620, 3.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Use a dedicated id to serialize EsExceptions instead of it's class name. (#13629, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Tests: Better simulate problematic plugins permissions in unit tests. (#13638, 3.0.0)
  • Build: Add Intellij support for plugins with extra permissions. (#13647, 3.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Rename QueryParsingException to a more generic ParsingException (#13631, 3.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud Azure: Add documentation for setting network.host with azure discovery (#13637, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Update AWS SDK version to 1.10.19 (#13655, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Plugins: Adds a validation for plugins script to check if java is set (#13633, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Get lang-javascript, lang-python, securemock ready for script refactoring (#13695, 3.0.0)
  • Build: Disable doclint (#13689, 3.0.0)
  • Build: Fix all javadocs issues, re-enable compiler warnings (but disable on java 9 where maven is broken) (#13702, 3.0.0)
  • Test: Move a couple more rest-api-spec resource dirs into resources (#13704, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Add a BaseParser helper for stream parsing (#13615, 3.0.0)
  • Packaging: Fix vagrant plugin tests (#13696, 3.0.0)
  • Test: Add SLES-12 to list of tested virtual machines (#13675, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Test: Remove esoteric apt-get in Vagrantfile (#13644, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Dependencies: Update to randomizedtesting 2.1.17 (#13713, 3.0.0)
  • Settings: Remove index.buffer_size setting (#13563, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Prevent losing stacktraces when exceptions occur (#13587, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • SecurityManager: Remove `java.lang.reflect.ReflectPermission "suppressAccessChecks"`` (#13603, 3.0.0)
  • Core: Fix InternalEngineTests.testTranslogReplayWithFailure to expect AssertionError as well (#13609, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Fix centos-6 vagrant tests (#13594, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Add opensuse-13 to vagrant packaging tests (#13593, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud GCE: Cloud GCE documentation update (#13598, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: Move rest-api-spec for plugins into test resources (#13611, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Tests: Prevent certain index templates from being wiped in between tests (#13606, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugin Discovery EC2: Move integration tests to unit tests (#13502, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.primitives.Ints (#13596, 3.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud Azure: Enable SSL for Azure blob storage (#13573, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Tribe Node: Increment tribe node version on updates (#13566, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0, 1.7.3)
  • Packaging: Remove JAVA_HOME detection from the debian init script (#13514, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Test: make sure JAVA_HOME is set before tests are run (#13124, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Packaging test for filesystem scripts (#13262, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Build: maven assembly, elasticsearch is already excluded (#13387, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Plugin Cloud Azure: Split azure plugin in 3 plugins (#13330, 3.0.0)
  • REST: RestUtils.decodeQueryString ignores the URI fragment when parsing a query string (#13365, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Test: fix hanging testRefreshDoesNotMissShards (#13343, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Enable indy (invokedynamic) compile flag for Groovy scripts by default (#8201, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)

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