IMPORTANT: No additional bug fixes or documentation updates will be released for this version. For the latest information, see the current release documentation.
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Prerequisiteedit

The Java High Level Rest Client requires Java 1.8 and can be used to send requests to an Elasticsearch cluster in a compatible version.

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