Product release

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

Also see:

You can read about all the changes in the release notes linked above, but some notable changes include:

Conclusion

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.