From version 5.0 onward, Shield is part of X-Pack. For more information, see Securing the Elastic Stack.
Elastic Docs ›Shield - Elasticsearch Security Plugin [1.0] ›Appendix 9. Release Notes
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Change Listedit

1.0.2edit

  • Filter out sensitive settings from the settings APIs
  • Significant memory footprint reduction of internal data structures

1.0.1edit

  • Fixed dependency issues with Elasticsearch 1.4.3 and (Lucene 4.10.3 that comes with it)
  • Fixed bug in how user roles were handled. When multiple roles were defined for a user, and one of the roles only had cluster permissions, not all privileges were properly evaluated.
  • Updated kibana4 permissions to be compatible with Kibana 4 RC1
  • Ensure the mandatory base_dn settings is set in the ldap realm configuration
« Upgrading Shield