Elasticsearch 6.0.0-alpha2 released
We are excited to announce the release of Elasticsearch 6.0.0-alpha2, based on Lucene 7-SNAPSHOT. This is the second in a series of pre-6.0.0 releases designed to let you test out your application with the features and changes coming in 6.0.0, and to give us feedback about any problems that you encounter. Open a bug report today and become an Elastic Pioneer.
IMPORTANT: This is an alpha release and is intended for testing purposes only. Indices created in this version will not be compatible with Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA. Upgrading 6.0.0-alpha2 to any other version is not supported.
DO NOT DEPLOY IN PRODUCTION
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You can read about all the changes in the release notes linked above, but some notable changes include:
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The
significant_textaggregation which is likesignificant_terms, but works ontextfields by re-analysing the_sourceinstead of using masses of heap space for fielddata. -
The new
ip_range field typefield type allows you to index ranges of IPv6 and IPv6 addresses. -
The new
icu_collation_keywordfield type provides support for language specific sort orders. - Work continues on removing support for multiple mapping types.
- The sequence number effort continues towards supporting fast replica recovery.
Please download Elasticsearch 6.0.0-alpha2, try it out, and let us know what you think on Twitter (@elastic) or in our forum. You can report any problems on the GitHub issues page.