Elasticsearch version 6.8.3edit

Also see Breaking changes in 6.8.

Enhancementsedit

CCR
  • Include leases in error message when operations no longer available #45681
Infra/Core
  • Add OCI annotations and adjust existing annotations #45167
Infra/Settings

Bug fixesedit

Aggregations
  • Fix early termination of aggregators that run with breadth-first mode #44963 (issue: #44909)
Allocation
  • Avoid overshooting watermarks during relocation #46079 (issue: #45177)
CCR
  • Clean up ShardFollowTasks for deleted indices #44702 (issue: #34404)
CRUD
Distributed
  • Ensure AsyncTask#isScheduled remain false after close #45687 (issue: #45576)
Engine
  • Handle delete document level failures #46100
  • Handle no-op document level failures #46083
Features/Indices APIs
  • Check shard limit after applying index templates #44619 (issue: #44567)
  • Prevent NullPointerException in TransportRolloverAction #43353 (issue: #43296)
Features/Java High Level REST Client
  • Add rest_total_hits_as_int in HLRC’s search requests #46076 (issue: #43925)
Infra/Core
Infra/Plugins
  • Do not checksum all bytes at once in plugin install #44649 (issue: #44545)
SQL
  • Fix URI path being lost in case of hosted ES scenario #44776 (issue: #44721)
  • Interval arithmetics failure #42014 (issue: #41200)
Search
  • Prevent Leaking Search Tasks on Exceptions in FetchSearchPhase and DfsQueryPhase #45500
Security
  • Use system context for looking up connected nodes #43991 (issue: #43974)

Upgradesedit

Infra/Packaging
  • Upgrade to JDK 12.0.2 #45172