5.6.8 Release Notesedit

Also see Breaking changes in 5.6.

Enhancementsedit

Recovery
  • Synced-flush should not seal index of out of sync replicas #28464 (issue: #10032)

Bug fixesedit

Aggregations
  • StringTerms.Bucket.getKeyAsNumber detection type #28118 (issue: #28012)
  • Always include the _index and _id for nested search hits. #27201 (issue: #27053)
Core
  • Handle throws on tasks submitted to thread pools #28667
  • Fix size blocking queue to not lie about its weight #28557 (issue: #28547)
Ingest
  • Fix for bug that prevents pipelines to load that use stored scripts after a restart #28588
Java High Level REST Client
  • Fix parsing of script fields #28395 (issue: #28380)
  • Move to POST when calling API to retrieve which support request body #28342 (issue: #28326)
Packaging
  • Disable console logging in the Windows service #28618 (issue: #20422)