This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - September 15 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Aggregations: Pipeline Aggregations at the root of the agg tree are now validated (#13475, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Parent/Child: Deprecate score_type option in favour of the score_mode option (#13478, 2.1.0)
  • CAT API: Rename start to verify_index in cat test (#13491, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.base.Preconditions#checkNotNull (#13493, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.collect.Queues (#13498, 3.0.0)
  • Tests: Reorganize sharing of constants for mock cluster info service (#13497, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Plugin Cloud GCE: ec2/azure discovery plugins must declare their UnicastHostsProvider (#13501, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Doc: Added documentation for default execution value (range filter) (#13504, 1.7.2)
  • Query DSL: Remove deprecated support for boost_factor in function score query (#13510, 3.0.0)
  • Allocation: Take relocating shard into consideration during awareness allocation (#13512, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2, 1.7.2)
  • Docs:: Fix for mappings->_source example in docs (#13515, 3.0.0, 2.0.0-beta2, 1.7.2)
  • Settings: Stop o.e.c.s.Settings from leaking Guava dependency (#13517, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Internal: Cleanup SearchRequest & SearchRequestBuilder (#13518, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Forbid Guava in all instead of core (#13523, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of several `com.google.common.util.`` classes (#13524, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSortedMap (#13525, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Ban setAccessible from core code, restore monitoring stats under java 9 (#13531, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Hack around aws security hole of accessing sun.security.ssl, s3 repository works on java 9 again (#13538, 3.0.0)
  • Tests: Remove easy uses of setAccessible in tests. (#13537, 3.0.0)
  • Tests: Remove all setAccessible in tests and forbid (#13539, 3.0.0)
  • Recovery: Failed to properly ack translog ops during wait on mapping changes (#13535, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Allocation: Fix AwarenessAllocationIT.testAwarenessZones test (#13519, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Use Supplier instead of Reflection (#13545, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Cleanup InternalClusterInfoService (#13543, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of guava Function, Charsets, Collections2 (#13533, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Replace LoadingCache usage with a simple ConcurrentHashMap (#13552, 3.0.0)
  • Packaging: Fix service.bat start/stop issues (#13398, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Build: Fix compiler warnings (#13410, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Do not dump stack traces of threads on test failure (#13440, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.collect.Maps (#13438, 3.0.0)
  • Tests: Remove noise when IDE test runners try to System.exit (#13442, 3.0.0)
  • Core: Remove support for deprecated queries. (#13418, 3.0.0)
  • Mapping: Parent field mapper should always store doc values join field. (#13430, 3.0.0)
  • Nested Docs: If sorting by nested field then the nested_path should always be specified (#13429, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: has_child/has_parent query parsers shouldn't require search context (#13432, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: Several other parent/child cleanups (#13470, 3.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove and forbid use of com.google.common.collect.Sets (#13463, 3.0.0)
  • Tests: Move static bwc indexes to a shared location (#13443, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Internal: upgrade lucene to r1702265 (#13439, 3.0.0)
  • Docs: Document meaning of "FST" and "FSTs". (#13455, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2, 1.7.2)
  • Aggregations: Weighted centroid for geohash_grid (#13433, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Simplify the BlobContainer blob writing interface (#13434, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Packaging: Packaging tests use Java 8 (#13422, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Packaging: Test that packages don't start elasticsearch (#13275, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Packaging: Start plugins in package tests (#13258, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Tests: Reenable spaces in paths during integration tests (#13211, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2)
  • Allocation: Remove DisableAllocationDecider (#13313, 3.0.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Snapshot restore request should accept indices options (#13357, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2, 1.7.2)
  • Discovery: Add a dedicate queue for incoming ClusterStates (#13303, 3.0.0)
  • Stats: Adds stats counter for failed indexing requests (#13130, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • : Fix test for _cat/nodeattrs (#13189, 3.0.0)
  • Search: Limit the size of the result window to a dynamic property (#13188, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Plugin Cloud AWS: Move integration tests to unit tests (#12844, 2.1.0)
  • Allocation: Take initializing shards into consideration during awareness allocation (#12551, 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.0.0-beta2, 1.7.2)
  • Plugins: Output plugin info only in verbose mode (#12908, 3.0.0, 2.1.0)
  • Discovery: Add two phased commit to Cluster State publishing (#13062, 3.0.0)

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