This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - August 04 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Build: Remove profile to create attached RPM (#12530, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Add a run.sh to run from current source code with debugger (#12540, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Add RealtimeRequest marker interface to group realtime operations together (#12537, 2.0.0)
  • Cat API: Add _cat/nodeattrs API (#12534, 2.0.0)
  • Aggs: Upgrade HDRHistogram to version 2.1.6. (#12554, 2.0.0)
  • Mapping: Updating default position_offset_gap to 10. (#12538, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: don't represent site plugins with null anymore (#12577, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Fix ShardUtils#getElasticsearchDirectoryReader() (#12594, 2.0.0)
  • Startup: Fix Bootstrap to not call System.exit (#12586, 2.0.0)
  • Aggs: Full path validation for pipeline aggregations (#12595, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Fix shaded jar packaging (#12589, 2.0.0)
  • Build: rename site example plugin to site-example (#12604, 2.0.0)
  • SecurityManager: improve sanity of securitymanager file permissions (#12609, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Give unit tests and integ tests separate load balancing (#12615, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Cut over some remaining integration tests to IT (#12616, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: cleanup more abstract test class -> TestCase and integ -> IT (#12624, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: NamingConventionTests should test subclasses of ESIntegTestCase end with IT (#12625, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Fix coverage analysis. Two versions of jacoco were being used and creating jar hell (#12626, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Improve site-example integ test to test served contents (#12627, 2.0.0)
  • Core: Move `Streams.copyTo(String|Bytes)FromClasspath()`` into StreamsUtils (#12598, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Fix concurrency issue in PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor. (#12599, 2.0.0, 1.7.2, 1.6.3)
  • Allocation: Add more debugging information to the Awareness Decider (#12490, 2.0.0)
  • Dates: Default date formats to use underscores via PUT (#12509, 2.0.0)
  • Aggs: Protected against size and offset larger than total number of document in a shard in top hits agg (#12518, 2.0.0)
  • Allocation: Fix messaging about delayed allocation (#12515, 2.0.0, 1.7.2)
  • Index API: Add date math support in index names (#12209, 2.0.0)
  • Startup: Remove getopt parsing in shell script, use java CLITool (#12165, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Consolidate .gitignore entires for eclipse (#12521, 2.0.0)
  • Allocation: Reroute shards when a node goes under disk watermarks (#12452, 2.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Create a directory during repository verification (#12323, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Make fetch sub phases pluggable (#12400, 2.0.0)
  • Plugin script: Fix ES_HOME with spaces (#12508, 1.7.2)
  • Cleanup: Remove Environment.homeFile() (#12351, 2.0.0)

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