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5.6.3 Release Notesedit

Also see Breaking changes in 5.6.

Enhancementsedit

Network
  • Add additional low-level logging handler #26887
  • Unwrap exception causes when checking if dying #26884

Bug fixesedit

Aggregations
  • Fix IndexOutOfBoundsException in histograms for NaN doubles (#26787) #26856 (issue: #26787)
Core
  • MetaData Builder doesn’t properly prevent an alias with the same name as an index #26804
Packaging
  • Fix default paths for Windows service #26875 (issue: #26873)
Plugin Repository Azure
  • Use Azure upload method instead of our own implementation (#26751) #26839 (issue: #26751)
Search
  • Fix serialization errors when cross-cluster search goes to a single shard #26881 (issue: #26833)
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