Setting changesedit

Command line flagsedit

Command line flags using single dash notation must be now specified as the first arguments. For example if previously using:

./elasticsearch --node.name=test_node -Des.path.conf=/opt/elasticsearch/conf/test_node

This will now need to be changed to:

./elasticsearch -Des.path.conf=/opt/elasticsearch/conf/test_node --node.name=test_node

for the flag to take effect.

Scripting settingsedit

The script.disable_dynamic node setting has been replaced by fine-grained script settings described in the scripting docs. The following setting previously used to enable dynamic or inline scripts:

script.disable_dynamic: false

It should be replaced with the following two settings in elasticsearch.yml that achieve the same result:

script.inline: true
script.indexed: true

Units required for time and byte-sized settingsedit

Any settings which accept time or byte values must now be specified with units. For instance, it is too easy to set the refresh_interval to 1 millisecond instead of 1 second:

PUT _settings
{
  "index.refresh_interval": 1
}

In 2.0, the above request will throw an exception. Instead the refresh interval should be set to "1s" for one second.

Merge and merge throttling settingsedit

The tiered merge policy is now the only supported merge policy. These settings have been removed:

  • index.merge.policy.type
  • index.merge.policy.min_merge_size
  • index.merge.policy.max_merge_size
  • index.merge.policy.merge_factor
  • index.merge.policy.max_merge_docs
  • index.merge.policy.calibrate_size_by_deletes
  • index.merge.policy.min_merge_docs
  • index.merge.policy.max_merge_docs

Merge throttling now uses a feedback loop to auto-throttle. These settings have been removed:

  • indices.store.throttle.type
  • indices.store.throttle.max_bytes_per_sec
  • index.store.throttle.type
  • index.store.throttle.max_bytes_per_sec

Shadow replica settingsedit

The node.enable_custom_paths setting has been removed and replaced by the path.shared_data setting to allow shadow replicas with custom paths to work with the security manager. For example, if your previous configuration had:

node.enable_custom_paths: true

And you created an index using shadow replicas with index.data_path set to /opt/data/my_index with the following:

PUT /my_index
{
  "index": {
    "number_of_shards": 1,
    "number_of_replicas": 4,
    "data_path": "/opt/data/my_index",
    "shadow_replicas": true
  }
}

For 2.0, you will need to set path.shared_data to a parent directory of the index’s data_path, so:

path.shared_data: /opt/data

Resource watcher settings renamededit

The setting names for configuring the resource watcher have been renamed to prevent clashes with the watcher plugin

  • watcher.enabled is now resource.reload.enabled
  • watcher.interval is now resource.reload.interval
  • watcher.interval.low is now resource.reload.interval.low
  • watcher.interval.medium is now resource.reload.interval.medium
  • watcher.interval.high is now resource.reload.interval.high

index.gateway setting renamededit

  • index.gateway.local.sync is now index.translog.sync_interval

Hunspell dictionary configurationedit

The parameter indices.analysis.hunspell.dictionary.location has been removed, and <path.conf>/hunspell is always used.

CORS allowed originsedit

The CORS allowed origins setting, http.cors.allow-origin, no longer has a default value. Previously, the default value was *, which would allow CORS requests from any origin and is considered insecure. The http.cors.allow-origin setting should be specified with only the origins that should be allowed, like so:

http.cors.allow-origin: /https?:\/\/localhost(:[0-9]+)?/

JSONP supportedit

JSONP callback support has now been removed. CORS should be used to access Elasticsearch over AJAX instead:

http.cors.enabled: true
http.cors.allow-origin: /https?:\/\/localhost(:[0-9]+)?/

In memory indicesedit

The memory / ram store (index.store.type) option was removed in Elasticsearch. In-memory indices are no longer supported.

Log messages truncatededit

Log messages are now truncated at 10,000 characters. This can be changed in the logging.yml configuration file with the file.layout.conversionPattern setting.

Custom config fileedit

It is no longer possible to specify a custom config file with the CONF_FILE environment variable, or the -Des.config, -Des.default.config, or -Delasticsearch.config parameters.

Instead, the config file must be named elasticsearch.yml and must be located in the default config/ directory, unless a custom config directory is specified.

The location of a custom config directory may be specified as follows:

./bin/elasticsearch --path.conf=/path/to/conf/dir
./bin/plugin -Des.path.conf=/path/to/conf/dir install analysis-icu

When using the RPM or debian packages, the plugin script and the init/service scripts will consult the CONF_DIR environment variable to check for a custom config location. The value of the CONF_DIR variable can be set in the environment config file which is located either in /etc/default/elasticsearch or /etc/sysconfig/elasticsearch.

Custom analysis file pathsedit

It is no longer possible to set custom file path outside CONF_DIR for *_path settings in char or token filters. You must specify either relative path to CONF_DIR location or absolute path inside CONF_DIR location.

ES_CLASSPATH removededit

The ES_CLASSPATH environment variable is no longer used to set the class path. External libraries should preferably be loaded using the plugin mechanism or, if you really must, be copied to the lib/ directory.