This Week in Elasticsearch - February 26, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch core

  • Elasticsearch 1.0.1 and 0.90.12 were released yesterday
  • Query API: Make _exists_/_missing_ in query_string query behave consistently with exists/missing (#5142, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Query API: Allow for executing queries based on pre-defined templates (#4879, master, 1.x)
  • Aggregations: Changed the caching of FieldDataSource in aggs to be based on field name + required value source type as a combinated key (#5190, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Lucene: Disable RAM usage estimation on Lucene 3.x segments (#5201, master, 1.x, 1.0 and 0.90)
  • Query API: query_string and simple_query_string queries now allow for locale selection (#5128, master, 1.x)
  • Fix yamlBuilder() to return YAML builder instead of SMILE (#5185, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Aggregations: Fixed an issue where an IndexOutOfBoundsException was thrown when a date_/histogram aggregation ran against an empty index (#5179, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Highlighting: forceSource highlighting field option doesn't have any effect when set using the Java API (#5220, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Highlighting: Highlighting on a wildcard field name causes the wildcard expression to be returned rather than the actual field name (#5221, master, 1.x, 1.0 and 0.90)
  • Highlighting: Fix multi-term queries with postings highlighter (#5127, master, 1.x, 1.0 and 0.90)
  • Snapshot/Restore API: Restoring an existing index doesn't restore mappings and settings if index already exists (#5210, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore API: Restoring an existing index using rename doesn't completely open the index after restore (#5212, master, 1.x, 1.0)
  • Plugins: Loading plugins now is more resilient on wrong/bad permissions (#5195, master, 1.x)
  • Get Field Mapping API: Ensure data is returned even if the index is not hosted on the node executing the request (#5177, master, 1.x, 1.0 and 0.90)
  • Recycler: better lifecycle control for pooled instances (#5214, master and 1.0)
  • Recycler: Removed thread_local recycler (commit, master, 1.x)
  • Highlighting: Highlighting on a wildcard field name uses the same highlighter for all fields that match (#5175, master, 1.x, 1.0 and 0.90)
  • Highlighting: MultiMatchQuery fails to highlight with new cross field mode (#5246, master, 1.x)
  • Delete by query doesn't return failure reasons (#5093, master, 1.x)

Elasticsearch Ecosystem

Here's some more information about what is happening in the ecosystem we are maintaining around Elasticsearch, including plugin and driver releases, and news about Logstash and Kibana.

Slides & Videos


Honza Kral on Centralized Logging with Logstash at DevConf.cz 2014

Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Australia

Britta Weber and Lee Hinman will head Down Under to teach training courses in Melbourne and Sydney. On the 13th of March you can join us for the Melbourne meetup, or come by the Sydney Meetup on March 17th.

Austria

Karel Minařík will speak at the Ruby User Group Linz on March 12th.

Canada

Czech Republic

Karel Minařík will be speaking at the Prague.rb user group on March 5th. Doors open at 7 PM.

Germany

Italy

David Pilato will present Make sense of your (BIG) data! at the Italian Cloud Conference The conference takes place in Torino on April 3rd, and David will speak at 10:30 AM.

Japan

The 4th Elasticsearch study session has been scheduled by Jun Ohtani. Please plan to join the meeting at 7 PM on April 21st.

Slovakia

Honza Kral will speak at the Rubyslava International MiniConference on February 27th. The conference takes place in Bratislava.

South Africa

Clinton Gormley will take the stage at ScaleConf to talk Scaling real time search and analytics with Elasticsearch. The conference runs April 10th and 11th in Cape Town.

United Kingdom

United States

  • The Elasticsearch San Francisco Meetup group will focus on Benchmarking, Autoscaling and Deployment Automation at their next meetup. Elasticsearch core developers Uri Boness and Andrew Selden will be on hand for Q&A following the presentations. Doors open at 6:30 PM on February 27th.
  • We've set the date for the first ever Elasticsearch Portlandia Meetup on March 4th. Steve Mayzak will cover Elasticsearch 1.0 - Whats new and how are people using it? Our community manager, Leslie Hawthorn, will also be visiting from Europe. She's looking forward to hearing from everyone about what could be done to make your lives as Elasticsearch users better.
  • Safe and sound following the recent Portlandia Snowpocalypse, Steve Mayzak's presentation to the Seattle Search and Machine Learning meetup group has been rescheduled for March 6th. Please join Steve starting at 7 PM to hear all about Elasticsearch 1.0.
  • The Philadelphia Elasticsearch Meetup group has just been set up, and the organizers are figuring out the first meeting date. Join the meetup group to get regular updates.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note.  We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: