This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene:Meetup: Scaling Elasticsearch & Autosuggest in Lucene

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Reducers: Adding Average Bucket Aggregation (#11010, 2.0.0)
  • Reducers: Adding Count Bucket Aggregation (#11015, 2.0.0)
  • Reducers: Adding Sum Bucket Aggregation (#11013, 2.0.0)
  • Dependencies: Remove Codehaus repository (#11014, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.3)
  • Parent/child: Deprecate the top_children query (#11022, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Translog: Make modifying operations durable by default (#11011, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Fix NullPointerException in <span><code>PendingDelete#toString (#11032, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.3)
  • More Like This: remove percent_terms_to_match (#11030, 2.0.0)
  • Mappings: Remove traverse functions from Mapper (#11027, 2.0.0)
  • Mappings: Remove mapper listeners (#11045, 2.0.0)
  • Transport: read/write support for list of strings (#11056, 2.0.0)
  • Logging: Truncate log messages at 10,000 characters by default (#11050, 2.0.0)
  • Shadow replica: Add path.shared_data, change <code>index.data_path to be relative (#11065, 2.0.0)
  • ThreadPool: Make sure no leaking threads are left behind in case of initialization failure (#11061, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Java api: unify SearchResponse and <code>BroadcastOperationResponse code around shards header (#11064, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Parent/child: Remove the top_children query (#11028, 2.0.0)
  • REST: Unify query_string parameters parsing (#11057, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Aggregations: Fix geo_bounds aggregation when longitude is 0 (#11090, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.3)
  • Forbidden: Ban PathUtils.get (for now, until we fix the two remaining issues) (#11069, 2.0.0)
  • Time measurement: Use System.nanoTime for elapsed time (#11058, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Settings: Remove file based index templates (#11052, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Remove Translog interface (#10988, 2.0.0)
  • Startup: Ensure JNA is fully loaded when its avail, but don't fail its not (#10989, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove double exceptin handling that causes false replica failures (#10990, 2.0.0)
  • Startup: Add pid file to Environment (#10986, 2.0.0)
  • Security Manager: Run groovy scripts with no permissions (#10969, 2.0.0)
  • Geo: Remove local lucene spatial package (#10966, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Use buffered tanslog type also when sync is set to 0 (#10993, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.3)
  • Scripting: Minor TimeZone Fix (#10994, 2.0.0)
  • PluginManager: Let HTTPS work correctly (#10983, 2.0.0)
  • Startup: bail if ES is run as root (#10970, 2.0.0)
  • Scripts: Load fielddata on behalf of scripts (#10997, 2.0.0)
  • Mappings: Remove ability to disable _source field (#10915, 2.0.0)
  • More Like This: Deprecate the API (#10982, 1.6.0)
  • Reducers: Derivative Aggregation x-axis units normalisation (#10898, 2.0.0)
  • Reducers: Rename Moving Average models to their "common" names (#10964, 2.0.0)
  • Mappings: Wait for mappings to be available on the primary before indexing. (#10949, 2.0.0)
  • More Like This: removal of the MLT API (#11003, 2.0.0)
  • Mappings: numeric_resolution should only apply to dates provided as numbers. (#11002, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Scripting: Allow script language to be null when parsing (#10976, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.3)
  • Environment: Only check existence for absolute paths in env.resolveConfig() (#10854, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Remove filter parsers (#10985, 2.0.0)
  • Docs: Cleanup meta field docs (#10912, 2.0.0)
  • REST: Remove (dfs_)query_and_fetch from the REST API (#10864, 2.0.0)
  • Security Manager: Tighten up script security more (#10999, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: prevent injection of unannotated dynamic settings (#10763, 2.0.0)
  • Java api: remove redundant BytesQueryBuilder in favour of using WrapperQueryBuilder internally (#10919, 2.0.0)

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