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Breaking changes in 5.5edit
Ignoring hidden foldersedit
Previous versions of Elasticsearch would skip hidden files and directories when scanning the plugins folder. This allows broken plugin installs to remain undetected so this leniency has been removed.
Skip setting kernel parametersedit
Elasticsearch attempts to set the kernel parameter vm.max_map_count during
installation. In some environments this can fail. Previous versions of
Elasticsearch accepted a flag ES_SKIP_SET_KERNEL_PARAMTERS to skip this
writing. Starting in Elasticsearch 5.5.0, this flag has been removed and
instead the same functionality can be achieved by masking the systemd-sysctl
service.
Java API changesedit
The has_child, has_parent and parent_id queries have moved to parent-join module. Also the
children aggregation has been moved to the parent-join module.
The parent-join module should be loaded when using the transport client. Alternatively use the PreBuiltTransportClient
client, which load the module automatically.