This week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene: Deprecating Rivers feature for Elasticsearch

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We'll be deprecating our Rivers feature for Elasticsearch. You can read the full details, including recommendations for replacing your own Rivers plugins, in Shay Banon's blog post.

Elasticsearch Core

  • cat API: add node id to _cat apis (#10246, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Mappings: Fix _field_names to be disabled on pre 1.3.0 indexes (#10268, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Tests: add delete-by-query into translog in OldIndexBackwardsCompatibilityTests (#10266, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Tests: Enable inline scripts on demand in bw comp tests (#10282, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • IndexService: Fail shard when index service/mappings fails to instantiate (#10283, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Aggregations: Fix 2 bugs in children agg (#10263, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • MultiPercolate: Fix wrong use of currentFieldName outside of a parsing loop (#10307, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Delete-by-Query: Remove current delete-by-query implementation (#10288, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Don't try to send a mapping refresh if there is no master (#10311, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Recovery: RecoveryState.File.toXContent reports file length as recovered bytes (#10310, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Core: Refresh if many deletes in a row use up too much version map RAM (#10312, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Testing: Move FakeRestRequest to <code>org.elasticsearch.test.rest (#10323, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Netty: Add getter for channel in NettyTransportChannel (#10319, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Build: Add ability to launch bootstrapped ES using maven (#10287, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Snapshot/Restore: Automatically add "index." prefix to the settings are changed on restore... (#10269, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Scripting: Remove support for script.disable_dynamic setting (#10286, 2.0.0)
  • ClusterState: Refactor state format to use incremental state IDs (#10316, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Function score: apply min_score to sub query score if no function provided (#10326, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Aggregations: Fix bug for inner_hits agg where parse error is thrown if a inner filter is used in a nested filter/query (#10309, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Geo: Fix validate_* merge policy for <code>GeoPointFieldMapper (#10165, 2.0.0, 1.5.1)
  • function_score: undo "Remove explanation of query score from functions" (#9826, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Delete-by-Query: Deprecate delete-by-query in client/transport/action APIs too (#10239, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Mappings: Remove delete mapping API (#10231, 2.0.0)
  • Scripting: add support for fine-grained settings (#10116, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Mapping: Update dynamic fields in mapping on master even if parsing fails for the whole document (#9874, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Core: Enable doc values by default, when appropriate (#10209, 2.0.0)
  • Hunspell: Fix thread leak in Hunspell service tests (#10020, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Aggregations: Fix nested stored field support in inner_hits (#10235, 2.0.0, 1.6.0, 1.5.1)
  • Parent/Child: The parent option on update request should be used for upsert only. (#9612, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Cleanup: Fix errors reported by error-prone (#9817, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)
  • Tests: Assert that we do not leak SearchContexts (#9595, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Merge search_type=count and <code>size=0. (#9296, 2.0.0)
  • Store: shard not deleted after relocation if relocated shard is still in post recovery (#10172, 2.0.0, 1.6.0)

Elasticsearch Plugin Releases

We had several plugin release in this past week. You can find more information about the updates in 

And let's not forget the Mapper Attachment plugin, also released as version 2.5.0.

You can find full details in the release notes for each plugin as sent to the Elasticsearch User mailing list. 

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