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Release Notes

Breaking changes

  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Url repository should respect repo.path for file urls #11687

Enhancements

  • Exceptions:
    • Reduce the size of the XContent parsing exception #11642
  • REST:
    • Create Snapshot: remove _create from POST path to match PUT #11928 (issue: #11897)
    • Add rewrite query parameter to the indices.validate_query API spec #11580 (issue: #10147)
  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Add validation of snapshot FileInfo during parsing #12108
    • Add snapshot name validation logic to all snapshot operations #11617
  • Term Vectors:
    • Only load term statistics if required #11737
  • Upgrade:
    • Upgrade groovy from 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 #12288

Bug fixes

  • Core:
    • Throw LockObtainFailedException exception when we can't lock index directory #12203
    • Only clear open search ctx if the index is delete or closed via API #12199 (issue: #12116)
    • Workaround deadlock on Codec initialisation #11837 (issue: #11170)
    • Consistently add one more maxMerge in ConcurrentMergeSchedulerProvider #11613
  • Highlighting:
    • Fix exception for plain highlighter and huge terms for Lucene 4.x #11683 (issue: #11599)
  • Index APIs:
    • Use IndexWriter.hasPendingChanges() to detect if a flush is needed. #12146 (issue: #12134)
  • Internal:
    • Fix FieldDataTermsFilter.equals. #11835 (issue: #11779)
    • Add a null-check for XContentBuilder#field for BigDecimals #11790 (issue: #11699)
    • AsyncShardFetch can hang if there are new nodes in cluster state #11615
  • Logging:
    • Use task's class name if not a TimedPrioritizeRunnable #11610
  • More Like This:
    • Fix potentially unpositioned enum #12066
  • Packaging:
    • Fix endless looping if starting fails #11836
    • Postrm script should not fail #11678 (issue: #11373)
    • Create PID_DIR in init.d script #11674 (issue: #11594)
  • Percolator:
    • Support filtering percolator queries by date using now #12215 (issue: #12185)
    • Fail nicely if nested query with inner_hits is used in a percolator query #11793 (issue: #11672)
  • Query DSL:
    • CommonTermsQuery fix for ignored coordination factor #11780 (issue: #11730)
    • Fix support for _name in some queries #11694
  • Scroll:
    • Append the shard top docs in such a way to prevent AOOBE #11978 (issue: #7926)
  • Search:
    • Free all pending search contexts if index is closed or removed #12180 (issue: #12116)
  • Settings:
  • Shadow Replicas:
    • Return empty CommitID from ShadowEngine#flush #11554
  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Add url repository whitelist - backport of #11687 to 1.6 and 1.7 #12241
    • Improve repository verification failure message #11925 (issue: #11922)
    • Aborting snapshot might not abort snapshot of shards in very early stages in the snapshot process #11839 (issue: #11756)
    • Improve logging of repository verification exceptions. #11763 (issue: #11760)
  • Stats:
    • Fix wrong reused file bytes in Recovery API reports #11965 (issue: #11876)
    • Fix RecoveryState timestamps #11871 (issue: #11870)

Regression

  • More Like This:
    • Support for deprecated percent_terms_to_match REST parameter #11736 (issues: #11572, #11574)
    • Add back support for deprectated percent_terms_to_match REST parameter #11574 (issue: #11572)