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Elasticsearch version 6.0.0-rc2edit

Breaking Changesedit

Inner Hits
  • Return the _source of inner hit nested as is without wrapping it into its full path context #26982 (issues: #26102, #26944)

Enhancementsedit

Core
Index Templates
  • Fix error message for a put index template request without index_patterns #27102 (issue: #27100)
Mapping
  • Don’t detect source’s XContentType in DocumentParser.parseDocument() #26880
Network
  • Add additional low-level logging handler #26887
  • Unwrap causes when maybe dying #26884
Plugins
  • Adjust SHA-512 supported format on plugin install #27093
REST

Bug Fixesedit

Aggregations
  • Create weights lazily in filter and filters aggregation #26983
  • Fix IndexOutOfBoundsException in histograms for NaN doubles (#26787) #26856 (issue: #26787)
  • Scripted_metric _agg parameter disappears if params are provided #19863 (issue: #19768)
CAT API
  • Fix NPE for /_cat/indices when no primary shard #26953 (issue: #26942)
Cache
  • Reduce the default number of cached queries. #26949 (issue: #26938)
Core
  • Timed runnable should delegate to abstract runnable #27095 (issue: #27069)
  • Stop invoking non-existent syscall #27016 (issue: #20179)
  • MetaData Builder doesn’t properly prevent an alias with the same name as an index #26804
Ingest
  • date processor should not fail if timestamp is specified as json number #26986 (issue: #26967)
  • date_index_name processor should not fail if timestamp is specified as json number #26910 (issue: #26890)
Internal
  • Upgrade Lucene to version 7.0.1 #26926
Java High Level REST Client
  • Make ShardSearchTarget optional when parsing ShardSearchFailure #27078 (issue: #27055)
Java REST Client
  • rest-client-sniffer: configurable threadfactory #26897
Mapping
  • wrong link target for datatype murmur3 #27143
Network
  • Check for closed connection while opening #26932
Packaging
  • Fix handling of Windows paths containing parentheses #26916 (issue: #26454)
Percolator
  • Also support query extraction for queries wrapped inside a ESToParentBlockJoinQuery #26754
Plugin Analysis Phonetic
  • Fix beidermorse phonetic token filter for unspecified languageset #27112 (issue: #26771)
Plugin Repository Azure
  • Use Azure upload method instead of our own implementation #26751
REST
  • Fix inconsistencies in the rest api specs for cat.snapshots #26996 (issues: #25737, #26923)
  • Fix inconsistencies in the rest api specs for *_script #26971 (issue: #26923)
  • exists template needs a template name #25988
Reindex API
  • Fix update_by_query’s default size parameter #26784 (issue: #26761)
Search
  • Avoid stack overflow on search phases #27069 (issue: #27042)
  • Fix search_after with geo distance sorting #26891
  • Fix serialization errors when cross-cluster search goes to a single shard #26881 (issue: #26833)
  • Early termination with index sorting should not set terminated_early in the response #26597 (issue: #26408)
  • Format doc values fields. #22146
Sequence IDs
  • Fire global checkpoint sync under system context #26984
Settings
  • Emit settings deprecation logging on empty update #27017 (issue: #26419)
  • Fix filtering for ListSetting #26914
Stats
  • Keep cumulative elapsed scroll time in microseconds #27068 (issue: #27046)
Suggesters
  • Fix division by zero in phrase suggester that causes assertion to fail #27149
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