This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - September 29 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Internal: Factor expressions scripts out to lang-expression plugin (#13726, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Reduced the number of ClusterStateUpdateTask variants (#13735, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: More helpful error message on parameter order (#13737, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove ExpressionScriptCompilationException/ExpressionScriptExecutionException (#13742, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Pending operations in the translog prevent shard from being marked as inactive (#13759, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0, 1.7.3)
  • Internal: block process execution with seccomp on linux/amd64 (#13753, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Packaging: Give vagrant boxes 2gb of ram (#13765, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Move ShardPercolateService creation into IndexShard (#13777, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Move ShardTermVectorService to be on indices level as TermVectorService (#13786, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove ES internal deletion policies in favour of Lucenes implementations (#13794, 3.0.0)
  • Settings: ByteSizeValue.equals should normalize units (#13784, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Logging: Don't log multi-megabyte guice exceptions (#13782, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Remove reflection hacks from ElasticsearchException (#13796, 3.0.0)
  • Exceptions: Make ElasticsearchException ids for 2.0 consistent with master (#13805, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Removes and bans ImmutableSet (#13754, 3.0.0)
  • Packaging: Don't let ubuntu try to install its crazy jayatana agent (#13813, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: An inactive shard is activated by triggered synced flush (#13802, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0, 1.7.3)
  • Core: LoggingRunnable.run should catch and log all errors, not just Exception? (#13718, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Remove TranslogService and fold it into synchronous IndexShard API (#13707, 3.0.0)
  • Geo: Fix GeoPointFieldMapper to index geohash at correct precision. (#13649, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Network: Expose all addresses that the transports are bound to (#13586, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Remove and ban ImmutableMap#entrySet (#13724, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Fix ping timeout settings inconsistencies (#13701, 3.0.0)
  • CRUD: Index name expressions should not be broken up (#13691, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)
  • Index APIs: Date math index names should work too when an index doesn't exist (#13570, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0)

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