Elasticsearch version 6.8.2edit

Also see Breaking changes in 6.8.

Enhancementsedit

Machine Learning
  • Improve message when native controller cannot connect #43565 (issue: #42341)
  • Introduce a setting for the process connect timeout #43234
Ranking
  • Fix parameter value for calling data.advanceExact #44205
Snapshot/Restore
  • Add SAS token authentication support to Azure Repository plugin #42982 (issue: #42117)

Bug fixesedit

Allocation
  • Do not copy initial recovery filter during an index split #44053 (issue: #43955)
Analysis
CCR
  • Skip update if leader and follower settings are identical #44535 (issue: #44521)
  • Avoid stack overflow in auto-follow coordinator #44421 (issue: #43251)
  • Avoid NPE when checking for CCR index privileges #44397 (issue: #44172)
Engine
  • Preserve thread context in AsyncIOProcessor #43729
Features/ILM
  • Fix swapped variables in error message #44300
  • Account for node versions during allocation in ILM shrink #43300 (issue: #41879)
  • Narrow period of shrink action in which ILM prevents stopping #43254 (issue: #43253)
Features/Indices APIs
Features/Stats
  • Return 0 for negative "free" and "total" memory reported by the OS #42725 (issue: #42157)
Machine Learning
  • Fix ML memory tracker lockup when inner step fails #44158 (issue: #44156)
  • Fix datafeed checks when a concrete remote index is present #43923 (issue: #42113)
  • Don’t write model size stats when job is closed without any input #512 (issue: #394)
  • Don’t persist model state at the end of lookback if the lookback did not generate any input #521 (issue: #519)
Mapping
  • Prevent types deprecation warning for indices.exists requests #43963 (issue: #43905)
  • Add include_type_name in indices.exists REST API specification #43910 (issue: #43905)
Network
  • Reconnect remote cluster when seeds are changed #43379 (issue: #37799)
SQL
  • Handle the edge case of an empty array of values to return from source #43868 (issue: #43863)
  • Fix NPE in case of subsequent scrolled requests for a CSV/TSV formatted response #43365 (issue: #43327)
  • Increase hard limit for sorting on aggregates #43220 (issue: #43168)
Search
  • Fix wrong logic in match_phrase query with multi-word synonyms #43941 (issue: #43308)
Security
  • Do not swallow I/O exception getting authentication #44398 (issues: #44172, #44397)
  • SecurityIndexSearcherWrapper doesn’t always carry over caches and similarity #43436