Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1

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IMPORTANT: This is a beta release and is intended for testing purposes only. There is no guarantee that Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1 will be compatible with Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA.

DO NOT DEPLOY IN PRODUCTION

This changes list is divided into two:

Changes first released in 2.0.0-beta1

Breaking changes

  • Aggregations:
    • Removed unused factor parameter in DateHistogramBuilder #12850 (issue: #6490)
    • Aggregation: Removed Old Script Java API from metrics aggregations #12236
    • Change the default min_doc_count to 0 on histograms. #10904
    • Speed up include/exclude in terms aggregations with regexps, using Lucene regular expressions #10418 (issues: #7526, #9848)
    • Clean up time zone options for date_histogram #9637 (issue: #9062)
    • Add offset to date_histogram, replacing pre_offsest and post_offset #9597 (issue: #9062)
    • Facets: Removal from master. #7337
  • Allocation:
    • Remove old 0.90 shard allocator #10889
  • Analysis:
    • Add multi-valued text support to the analyzer API #10847 (issue: #3023)
    • Term positions in analyze API should start at 1, not 0 #10771
  • Bulk:
  • CAT API:
    • Filtered out non data-nodes in relevant cat api #9287
    • Default _cat APIs to verbose #8927 (issue: #8922)
  • CRUD:
    • Remove core delete-by-query implementation #10859 (issue: #10067)
    • Remove async replication #10171 (issue: #10114)
    • Remove async replication from the docs and REST spec #10162 (issue: #10114)
    • Delete api: remove broadcast delete if routing is missing when required #10136 (issue: #9123)
  • Cluster:
  • Core:
    • Remove MergeScheduler pluggability #11585
    • Don't allow indices containing too-old segments to be opened #11072 (issues: #10215, #11095)
    • Remove Restart API and remove Node#stop() #9921 (issue: #9841)
    • Remove component settings from AbstractComponent #9919
    • Refactor settings filtering, adding regex support #9748 (issue: #6295)
    • Cut over to Path API for file deletion #8366
    • Switch to murmurhash3 to route documents to shards. #7954
  • Discovery:
    • Default to unicast discovery, with default host list of 127.0.0.1, [::1] #12999 (issue: #12993)
  • Exceptions:
    • Generify Index and Shard exceptions #12023
    • Ban java serialization #11910
  • Highlighting:
    • Remove XPostingsHighlighter in favour of Lucene's PostingsHighlighter #11077 (issue: #10625)
    • require_field_match now defaults to true #11067 (issue: #10627)
  • Index Templates:
    • Remove file based index templates #11052 (issue: #10870)
    • GET templates doesn't honor the flat_settings parameter. #6672 (issue: #6671)
  • Internal:
    • Flatten SearchService and clean up build-in registration #12807 (issue: #12783)
    • Consolidate shard level abstractions #11847
    • Bake in TieredMergePolicy #11588
    • Remove Translog interface #10988
    • Remove InternalNode class and use Node directly #9844
    • Remove OperationRouting abstraction #9085
    • Drop support for state written pre 0.90 #8850
    • Remove some more bwc code #8778
    • Remove optional original indices #8777 (issue: #7406)
    • Remove runtime version checks #8768
    • Remove NoneGateway, NoneGatewayAllocator, & NoneGatewayModule #8537
  • Java API:
    • Java api: remove execution from TermsQueryBuilder as it has no effect #12884
    • Enhancement/terms lookup fixes #12870
    • Centralize admin implementations and action execution #10955
    • Automatically thread client based action listeners #10940
    • Remove redundant BytesQueryBuilder in favour of using WrapperQueryBuilder internally #10919
    • Aggregations: Clean up response API for Aggregations #9221
  • Logging:
    • Truncate log messages at 10,000 characters by default #11050
  • Mapping:
    • Disallow type names to start with dots for new indices except for .percolator #12561 (issue: #12560)
    • Remove ability to configure _index #12356 (issues: #12027, #12329)
    • Enforce field names do not contain dot #12068
    • Restrict fields with the same name in different types to have the same core settings #11812 (issue: #8871)
    • Lockdown _timestamp field #11794 (issues: #6730, #8143)
    • Remove the compress/compress_threshold options of the BinaryFieldMapper #11280
    • Remove ability to set the value of meta fields inside _source #11074 (issue: #11051)
    • Remove file based default mappings #10870 (issue: #10620)
    • Validate dynamic mappings updates on the master node. #10634 (issues: #8650, #8688)
    • Remove delete mapping API #10231 (issue: #8877)
    • Lock down _ttl field #9914 (issue: #8143)
    • Lock down _size field #9913 (issue: #8143)
    • Lock down _field_names field #9912 (issue: #8143)
    • Remove _boost field #9897 (issue: #8875)
    • Lock down _routing field #9895 (issue: #8143)
    • Lock down _index field #9870 (issue: #8143)
    • Lock down _type field #9869 (issue: #8143)
    • Lock down _id field #9842 (issue: #8143)
    • Lock down _uid field #9836 (issue: #8143)
    • Remove the ability to have custom per-field postings and doc values formats. #9741 (issue: #8746)
    • Remove support for new indexes using path setting in object/nested fields or index_name in any field #9570 (issue: #6677)
    • Remove type prefix support from field names in queries #9492 (issue: #8872)
    • Remove index_analyzer setting to simplify analyzer logic #9451 (issue: #9371)
    • Remove type level default analyzers #9430 (issues: #8874, #9365)
    • Remove _analyzer field #9381 (issue: #9279)
    • Remove fieldSearchAnalyzer and fieldSearchQuoteAnalyzer from MapperService. #9262
    • Remove allow_type_wrapper setting #9185
    • Add doc values support to boolean fields. #7961 (issues: #4678, #7851)
  • More Like This:
  • Network:
  • Packaging:
    • Remove Environment.homeFile() #12351
    • Startup: Remove getopt parsing in shell script, use java CLITool #12165
  • Parent/Child:
  • Plugins:
    • Simplify Plugin API for constructing modules #12952
    • Use 'name' from plugin descriptor file to determine plugin name #12775 (issue: #12715)
    • make java.version mandatory for jvm plugins #12424
    • Adapt pluginmanager to the new world #12408
    • Refactor pluginservice #12367 (issue: #11917)
    • CLITool: Port PluginManager to use CLITool #12290
    • One single (global) way to register custom query parsers #11481
  • Query DSL:
    • Don't allow fuzziness specified as a % and require edits [0,2] instead #12229 (issue: #10638)
    • Remove filter parsers. #10985
    • Deprecate the limit filter. #10532
    • Remove fuzzy_like_this query #10391
    • Remove numeric_range filter #7242 (issues: #4034, #7108)
  • REST:
    • Cluster state: return routing_nodes only when requested through specific flag #10486 (issue: #10412)
    • Remove jsonp support and associated tests #9242 (issue: #9108)
    • Remove status code from main action / #8865
    • Add all meta fields to the top level json document in search response #8131
    • Removed Index Status API #6062 (issue: #4854)
  • Recovery:
    • Decouple recoveries from engine flush #10624
  • Rivers:
  • Scripting:
    • Remove deprecated script APIs #11619
    • Add script type and script name to error messages #11449 (issue: #6653)
    • Added a new script construct #10649
    • Remove deprecated methods from ScriptService #10476
    • Remove support for script.disable_dynamic setting #10286 (issue: #10116)
    • Removed deprecated script parameter names #9815
  • Search:
    • Cut over to the Lucene filter cache #10897
    • Remove terms filter lookup cache. #9056
    • Fix script fields to be returned as a multivalued field when they produce a list #8592 (issue: #3015)
    • Remove partial fields #8133
  • Settings:
    • Do not permit multiple settings files #13043 (issue: #13042)
    • change CORS allow origin default to allow no origins #11890 (issue: #11169)
    • Require units for time and byte-sized settings, take 2 #11437 (issues: #10888, #7616, #7633)
    • Remove mapping.date.round_ceil setting for date math parsing #8889 (issues: #8556, #8598)
  • Shadow Replicas:
    • Remove the node.enable_custom_paths setting #12837 (issue: #12776)
    • Add path.shared_data, change index.data_path to be relative #11065
  • Snapshot/Restore:
  • Stats:
  • Store:
    • Simplify IndexStore and friends #10773
    • Remove memory/ ram store #8536
  • Term Vectors:
    • More consistent naming for term vector[s] #8484

Deprecations

  • Fielddata:
    • Remove non-default fielddata formats. #11669
  • Settings:
    • Remove index.fail_on_merge_failure #10088 (issue: #10084)
    • Remove dangling indices settings, always import it #10016

New features

  • Aggregations:
    • Add HDRHistogram as an option in percentiles and percentile_ranks aggregations #12362 (issue: #8324)
    • Aggregations: Adds other bucket to filters aggregation #11948 (issue: #11289)
    • Aggregations: Pipeline Aggregation to filter buckets based on a script #11941
    • Adds cumulative sum aggregation #11825
    • Allow users to perform simple arithmetic operations on histogram aggregations #11601 (issue: #11029)
    • Aggregations: add serial differencing pipeline aggregation #11196 (issue: #10190)
    • Add Holt-Winters to moving_avg aggregation #11043
    • Make it possible to configure missing values. #11042 (issue: #5324)
    • Adding Sum Bucket Aggregation #11013 (issue: #11007)
    • Adding Average Bucket Aggregation #11010 (issue: #11006)
    • min_bucket aggregation #10900 (issue: #9999)
    • Pipeline aggregations: Ability to perform computations on aggregations #10568 (issues: #10000, #10002, #9293, #9876)
    • Sampler aggregation #10221 (issue: #8108)
  • Allocation:
    • Cancel replica recovery on another sync option copy found #12421
  • CAT API:
  • Core:
    • Expose auto-IO-throttle from Lucene's ConcurrentMergeScheduler #9243 (issue: #9133)
  • Dates:
    • Added epoch date formats to configure parsing of unix dates #11453 (issues: #10971, #5328)
  • Index APIs:
  • Logging:
  • More Like This:
    • Add an unlike parameter #8674
  • Plugin Delete By Query:
    • Add delete-by-query plugin #11516
  • Plugins:
    • add list parse methods to XContentParser #10455
    • Migration advisory plugin #10214
  • Query DSL:
    • Query DSL: Add filter clauses to bool queries. #11142
    • Add span within/containing queries. #10913
  • REST:
    • Render REST errors in a structural way #10643 (issue: #3303)
  • Scripting:
    • Add Multi-Valued Field Methods to Expressions #11105
    • Add Groovy as a scripting language, switching default from Mvel -> Groovy #6106
  • Search Templates:
    • Search Templates: Adds API endpoint to render search templates as a response #11570 (issue: #6821)
  • Settings:
    • Add checksum option for index.shard.check_on_startup #9183
  • Stats:
    • Add script compilation stats #12733 (issue: #12673)
    • Add OS name to _nodes and _cluster/nodes #11807
    • Add an API to locate unrecovered shards and their state #11545 (issue: #10952)
    • Cluster Health: Add wait time for pending task and recovery percentage #11393 (issue: #10805)
  • Store:
    • Add best_compression option for indices #8863
  • Term Vectors:
    • Return term vectors as part of the search response #10729 (issue: #10823)
    • Support terms filtering #9561

Enhancements

  • Aggregations:
    • Make ValueParser.DateMath aware of timezone setting #12886 (issue: #12278)
    • Fix setting timezone on default DateTime formatter #12581 (issue: #12531)
    • Aggregations: Add better validation of moving_avg model settings #12280
    • Aggregations: Adds a new GapPolicy - NONE #11951
    • Aggregations: Makes ValueFormat and ValueFormatter never null #11943 (issue: #10594)
    • Add cost minimizer to tune moving_avg parameters #11881
    • Aggregations: moving_avg model parser should accept any numeric #11778 (issue: #11487)
    • Renaming reducers to Pipeline Aggregators #11275
    • Improve include/exclude clause list speed and scalability #11188 (issue: #11176)
    • Remove pointless term frequency lookups. #11094 (issue: #11093)
    • Rename Moving Average models to their "common" names #10964
    • Derivative Aggregation x-axis units normalisation #10898
    • Added context for significant_terms scoring #10633 (issue: #10613)
    • Removed aggregations from ReduceContext #10509
    • Format bucket key_as_string in date_histogram according to time_zone #9744 (issue: #9710)
    • Refactor aggregations to use lucene5-style collectors. #9544 (issues: #6477, #9098)
    • Add offset option to histogram aggregation #9505 (issue: #9417)
    • Unify histogram implementations #9446
    • Internal simplifications. #9097
    • Do not sort histogram buckets on shards. #8797
    • Added getProperty method to Aggregations #8421
    • Meta data support with each aggregation request/response #8279 (issue: #6465)
    • Buckets can now be serialized outside of an Aggregation #8113 (issue: #8110)
  • Aliases:
    • Don't require fields in alias filters to exist in the mapping #12150
    • Parse aliases at search time and never cache parsed alias filters #11930 (issue: #10485)
  • Allocation:
    • Add expectedShardSize to ShardRouting and use it in path.data allocation #12947 (issue: #11271)
    • Make RoutingNodes read-only by default #12690
    • Avoid extra reroutes of delayed shards in RoutingService #12678 (issues: #12456, #12515, #12532)
    • Reroute shards when a node goes under disk watermarks #12452 (issue: #12422)
    • No need to find replica copy when index is created #12435
    • Adapt IndicesClusterStateService to use allocation ids #12397 (issues: #12242, #12387)
    • Simplify handling of ignored unassigned shards #12339
    • Initial Refactor Gateway Allocator #12335
    • Use recently added allocation ids for shard started/failed #12299 (issue: #12242)
    • Unique allocation id #12242
    • Allow shards to be allocated if leftover shard from different index exists #12237 (issue: #10677)
    • Simplify assignToNode to only do initializing #12235
    • Async fetch of shard started and store during allocation #11101 (issue: #9502)
    • Verify shards index UUID when fetching started shards #10200
    • Add rebalance enabled allocation decider #8190 (issue: #7288)
  • Bulk:
    • Add support for retrieving fields in bulk updates #12114 (issue: #11527)
  • CAT API:
    • Add scroll stats to cat API #12331 (issue: #12330)
    • Add option to _cat/indices to return index creation date #11524 #11688 (issue: #11524)
  • CRUD:
    • Remove backward compatibility layer introduced in #6149 #6229 (issue: #6149)
  • Cache:
    • Left over from the query_cache to request_cache rename #12478
    • Rename caches. #11893 (issue: #11569)
    • Give the filter cache a smaller maximum number of cached filters. #11833
    • Remove the query parser cache. #10856
    • Don't use the fixed bitset filter cache for child nested level filters, but the regular filter cache instead #9740 (issue: #8810)
  • Circuit Breakers:
    • Add support for registering custom circuit breaker #8795
  • Cluster:
    • Remove double call to elect primaries #12147
    • Rename MetaData.uuid -> MetaData.clusterUUID and IndexMetaData.uuid-> IndexMetaData.indexUUID #11914 (issue: #11831)
    • Add MetaData.uuid to ClusterState.toXContent #11832
    • Remove deprecated METADATA cluster block level #10779 (issue: #9203)
  • Core:
    • Improve jvmcheck error failure #12696
    • Use explict flag if index should be created on engine creation #12671
    • Move Streams.copyTo(String|Bytes)FromClasspath() into StreamsUtils #12598
    • Improve toString on EsThreadPoolExecutor #12535 (issue: #9732)
    • Carry over shard exception failure to master node #12263
    • Allow IBM J9 2.8+ in version check #11850
    • Use System.nanoTime for ThreadPool's estimated time, since it's less likely to go backwards #11626
    • Cleanup MergeScheduler infrastrucutre #11602
    • Ban PathUtils.get (for now, until we fix the two remaining issues) #11069 (issues: #11065, #11068)
    • Refactor SSD/FileStore logic out of NodeEnvironment #10755 (issue: #10717)
    • Rename START phase into VERIFY_INDEX #10570
    • Move GatewayShardsState logic into IndexShard #10093
    • Remove IndexEngine #8955
    • Remove Gateway abstraction #8954
    • Cleanup LocalGatewayShardsState #8852
    • Let Lucene kick off merges normally #8643
    • Cut over MetaDataStateFormat to Path API in Gateway #8609
    • Remove usage of Directory#fileExists #8233
    • Change the default cache filter impl from FixedBitSet to WAH8DocIdSet #7577 (issues: #6280, #7037)
  • Dates:
    • Default date formats to use underscores via PUT #12509 (issue: #12429)
    • Allow for backwards compatibility for unix timestamp in pre 2.x indices #11515 (issue: #10971)
    • Allow for negative unix timestamps #11482 (issues: #11478, #11692)
    • More strict parsing of ISO dates #6227 (issue: #6158)
  • Discovery:
    • Wait on incoming joins before electing local node as master #12161
    • Don't join master nodes or accept join requests of old and too new nodes #11972 (issue: #11924)
  • Engine:
    • Pre sync flush cleanups #11252
    • Remove flushNeeded in favor of IW#hasUncommittedChanges() #11225
    • Remove the ability to flush without flushing the translog #11193
    • Make SearchFactory static class in InternalEngine #11154
    • Move back to single EngineConfig #10586 (issue: #10584)
    • Always fail engine on corruption #10092
    • Remove dirty flag and force boolean for refresh #9484
  • Exceptions:
    • Improve startup exceptions (especially file permissions etc) #13050
    • Fix formatting of startup/configuration errors #13029
    • Add serialization support for InterruptedException #12981
    • Include stacktrace in rendered exceptions #12260 (issue: #12239)
    • Render structured exceptions in mget / mpercolate #12240
    • Add index name to the upgrade exception #12213
    • Promote headers to first class citizens on exceptions #12006
    • Parameterized exception messages #11981
    • Carry on rest status if exceptions are not serializable #11973
    • Render strucutred exception in multi search #11849
    • Remove ElasticsearchIAE and ElasticsearchISE #10862 (issue: #10794)
    • Improve exception handling in transport local execution #10554
  • Fielddata:
    • Consult field info before fetching field data #12403
    • Remove the dependecy on IndexFielddataService from MapperService. #12371
    • Enable doc values by default, when appropriate #10209 (issue: #8312)
    • Change threshold value of fielddata.filter.frequency.max/min #9522 (issue: #9327)
  • Geo:
    • Update ShapeBuilder and GeoPolygonQueryParser to accept non-closed GeoJSON #11161 (issue: #11131)
    • Remove local Lucene Spatial package #10966
  • Highlighting:
    • Highlighting: keep track of the original query only in HighlighterContext #11317
  • Index APIs:
    • Show human readable Elasticsearch version that created index and date when index was created #11509 (issue: #11484)
  • Internal:
    • Cleanup bootstrap package. #13053 (issue: #13044)
    • Drop commons-lang dependency #12972
    • Flatten IndicesModule and add tests #12921 (issue: #12783)
    • Flatten ClusterModule and add more tests #12916 (issue: #12783)
    • Allow a plugin to supply its own query cache implementation #12881
    • Remove Environment.resolveConfig #12872
    • Remove ClassLoader from Settings #12868
    • Transport: allow to de-serialize arbitrary objects given their name #12571
    • Add RealtimeRequest marker interface to group realtime operations together #12537
    • Forbid Files.isHidden. #12484 (issue: #12465)
    • Remove unused QueryParseContext argument in MappedFieldType#rangeQuery() #12417
    • Simplify Replica Allocator #12401
    • Replace primaryPostAllocated flag and use UnassignedInfo #12374
    • Add the ability to wrap an index searcher. #12364
    • Cleanup TransportSingleShardAction and TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction #12361
    • Remove TransportSingleCustomOperationAction in favour of TransportSingleShardAction #12350
    • updated the elasticsearch versioning format #12210
    • Cleanup the data structures used in MetaData class for alias and index lookups #12202
    • Make 2.0.0.beta1-SNAPSHOT the current version. #12151 (issue: #12148)
    • Remove mapper references from Engines #12130
    • Cleanup ShardRoutingState uses and hide implementation details of ClusterInfo #12126
    • Consolidate ShardRouting construction #12125
    • Change JarHell to operate on Path instead of URL #12109
    • Refactor MetaData to split off the concrete index name logic to a dedicated service #12058
    • really ban exitVM with security policy #11982
    • Cut over to writeable for TransportAddress #11949
    • Internal: make sure ParseField is always used in combination with parse flags #11859
    • Remove XContentParser.map[Ordered]AndClose(). #11846
    • Use abstract runnable in scheduled ping #11795
    • Add DateTime ctors without timezone to forbidden APIs #11743
    • Fold ShardGetService creation away from Guice into IndexShard #11606
    • Create ShardSuggestService/Metrics manually outside of guice #11605
    • Minimize the usage of guava classes in interfaces, return types, arguments #11501
    • Make CompressedXContent.equals fast again. #11428 (issue: #11247)
    • Consolidate shard level modules without logic into IndexShardModule #11416
    • Serialization: Remove old version checks #11397
    • Catch UnsatisfiedLinkError on JNA load #11385
    • Deduplicate field names returned by simpleMatchToFullName & simpleMatchToIndexNames in FieldMappersLookup #11377 (issue: #10916)
    • Rename TransportShardReplicationOperationAction to TransportReplicationAction #11332
    • Absorb ImmutableSettings into Settings #11321 (issue: #7633)
    • Make some sec mgr / bootup classes package private and final. #11312
    • Tighten up our compression framework. #11279
    • Uid#createTypeUids to accept a collection of ids rather than a list #11263
    • Remove need for generics in ContextAndHeaderHolder #11222
    • Remove dependency on hppc:esoteric. #11144
    • Improve path mgmt on init, better error messages, symlink support #11106
    • Ensure JNA is fully loaded when its available, but don't fail its not #10989
    • Transport: read/writeGenericValue to support BytesRef #10878
    • Remove Preconditions class #10873
    • Remove index/indices replication infra code #10861
    • Reduce code duplication in TransportIndexAction/TransportShardBulkAction. #10819
    • Use Tuple only as return value in Bootstrap #10784
    • Prevent injection of unannotated dynamic settings #10763 (issue: #10614)
    • Refactor and cleanup transport request handling #10730
    • Cleanup local code transport execution #10582
    • Make APIs work per-segment like Lucene's Collector. #10389
    • Transport: shortcut local execution #10350 (issue: #10247)
    • Add support for cluster state diffs #10212
    • Fix Java 8 _ variable warning #10013
    • Stop passing default cluster name to cluster state read operations #9888
    • Add missing @Override annotations. #9832
    • Remove redundant fs metadata ops. #9807
    • Remove XCollector. #9677
    • Search: Reuse Lucene's MultiCollector. #9549
    • Remove HandlesStreamInput/Output #9486
    • Clean up memory reuse a bit. #9272
    • Remove action names bwc layer #8758 (issue: #7105)
    • Add File.java to forbidden APIs #8666
    • Inverse DocIdSets' heuristic to find out fast DocIdSets. #8380
    • Temporarily ban buggy IOUtils methods with forbidden #8375
    • Refactor shard recovery from anonymous class to ShardRecoveryHandler #8363
    • Remove DocSetCache. #7582
    • Remove CacheRecycler. #7366
  • Java API:
    • PrefixQueryParser takes a String as value like its Builder #12204 (issue: #12032)
    • Fix FuzzyQuery to properly handle Object, number, dates or String. #12020 (issue: #11865)
    • Treat path object as a simple value instead of Iterable in XContentBuilder #11903 (issue: #11771)
    • IdsQueryBuilder: Allow to add a list in addition to array #11409 (issue: #5089)
    • Fix typed parameters in IndexRequestBuilder and CreateIndexRequestBuilder #11382 (issue: #10825)
    • Remove duplicated buildAsBytes and corresponding toString methods #11063
    • Add internal liveness action to transport client #8763
    • Adding setters or making them public in ActionRequests #8123 (issue: #8122)
  • Logging:
    • Adds a setting to control source output in indexing slowlog #12806 (issue: #4485)
    • Add more debugging information to the Awareness Decider #12490 (issue: #12431)
    • Add shadow indicator when using shadow replicas #12399
    • Log warn message if leftover shard is detected #11826
    • ClusterStateObserver should log on trace on timeout #11722
    • Better error messages when mlockall fails #11433
    • Add logging for failed TTL purges #11302 (issue: #11019)
    • Logging: add the ability to specify an alternate logging configuration location #10852 (issues: #2044, #7395)
  • Mapping:
    • Move the _size mapper to a plugin. #12582
    • Remove index name from mapping parser #12352
    • Remove AbstractFieldMapper #12089
    • Completely move doc values and fielddata settings to field types #12014
    • Move short name access out of field type #11977
    • Rename "root" mappers to "metadata" mappers #11962
    • Mappings: Remove close() from Mapper #11863
    • Move merge simulation of fieldtype settings to fieldtype method #11783 (issue: #8871)
    • Hide more fieldType access and cleanup null_value merging #11770 (issue: #11764)
    • Replace fieldType access in mappers with getter #11764
    • Remove SmartNameObjectMapper #11686
    • Add equals/hashcode to fieldtypes #11644
    • Shortcut exists and missing queries when no types/docs exist #11586
    • Remove leftover sugar methods from FieldMapper #11565
    • Make index level mapping apis use MappedFieldType #11559
    • Move null value handling into MappedFieldType #11544
    • Refactor core index/query time properties into FieldType #11422 (issue: #8871)
    • Remove generics from FieldMapper #11292
    • Cleanup field name handling #11272
    • Remove document parse listener #11243
    • Remove SmartNameFieldMappers #11216
    • Make DocumentMapper.refreshSource() private. #11209
    • Make mapping updates atomic wrt document parsing. #11205
    • Remove the ignore_conflicts option. #11203
    • Add back support for enabled/includes/excludes in _source field #11171 (issue: #11116)
    • Make FieldNameAnalyzer less lenient. #11141
    • Remove mapper listeners #11045
    • Remove traverse functions from Mapper #11027
    • Consolidate document parsing logic #10802
    • Wait for required mappings to be available on the replica before indexing. #10786
    • Join MergeResults with MergeContext since they are almost the same #10765
    • Restrict murmur3 field type to sane options #10738 (issue: #10465)
    • Simplify dynamic mappings updates. #10720 (issue: #10593)
    • Simplified mapper lookups #10705 (issue: #8871)
    • Remove dead code after previous refactorings #10666 (issue: #8877)
    • Same code path for dynamic mappings updates and updates coming from the API. #10593 (issues: #8688, #9364, #9851)
    • Fix field mappers to always pass through index settings #9780
    • Store _timestamp by default. #8139
    • Better validation of mapping JSON #7534 (issue: #7205)
  • More Like This:
    • Renamed ignore_like to unlike #11117
    • Lenient default parameters #9412
    • Remove MLT Field Query #8238
    • Add versatile 'like' parameter #8039
    • Replaced exclude with include to avoid double negation #6248
  • Nested Docs:
    • Add min score mode to nested query #11909
  • Network:
    • Don't print lots of noise on IPv4 only hosts. #13026
    • Remove support for address resolving in InetSocketTransportAddress #13020 (issue: #13014)
    • Log network configuration at debug level #12979
    • Use preferIPv6Addresses for sort order, not preferIPv4Stack #12951
    • Make sure messages are fully read even in case of EOS markers. #11768 (issue: #11748)
    • Add profile name to TransportChannel #11261 (issue: #10483)
  • Packaging:
    • Bats testing: Remove useless systemctl check #12724 (issue: #12682)
    • improve sanity of securitymanager file permissions #12609
    • Remove Core Lib directory #12485 (issue: #12010)
    • Do not kill process on service shutdown #12298 (issue: #11248)
    • Improve JVM Arch Detection #12274 (issue: #12256)
    • fail plugins on version mismatch #12221
    • Allow use of bouncycastle #12102
    • Give a better exception when a jar contains same classfile twice. #12093
    • Don't jarhell check system jars #11979
    • detect jar hell before installing a plugin #11963 (issue: #11946)
    • jar hell check should fail, if jars require higher java version #11936
    • Fail startup (and tests) on jar hell #11932 (issue: #11926)
    • Load plugins into classpath in bootstrap #11918 (issue: #11917)
    • steps to remove dangerous security permissions #11898
    • Packaging: Add LICENSE and NOTICE files for all core dependencies #11705 (issues: #10684, #2794)
    • Use our provided JNA library, versus one installed on the system #11163
    • Remove unnecessary permissions. #11132
    • Tighten up script security more #10999
    • Add pid file to Environment #10986
    • Bail if ES is run as root #10970
    • Remove exitVM permissions #10963
    • Remove JNI permissions, improve JNI testing. #10962
    • Remove shutdownHooks permission #10953
    • Simplify securitymanager init #10936
    • Remove reflection permission for sun.management. #10848 (issue: #10553)
    • Security manager cleanups #10844
    • Enable securitymanager #10717
    • Remove working directory #10672
    • Use direct mapping call in Kernel32Library #9923 (issue: #9802)
    • CliTool: Add command to warn on permission/owner change #9508
    • Factor out PID file creation and add tests #8775 (issue: #8771)
    • Allow configuration of the GC log file via an environment variable #8479 (issues: #8471, #8479)
  • Parent/Child:
    • Enforce _parent field resolution to be strict #9521 (issue: #9461)
  • Percolator:
    • Don't cache percolator query on loading percolators #12862
    • Change percolator.getTime -> percolator.time #11954
    • The query parse context should be fetched from the IndexQueryParseService #11929
    • Remove index.percolator.allow_unmapped_fields setting. #8439
  • Plugin Cloud AWS:
    • Don't show access_key and filter_key in S3 repository settings #12845 (issues: #11265, #184)
    • Add support for base_path in elasticsearch.yml #12761
    • Adding retry when checking s3 snapshot repository #12498 (issue: #12462)
    • Upgrade AWS dependency to 1.10.0 #11659
  • Plugin Cloud GCE:
    • Update to GCE API v1-rev71-1.20.0 #12835
  • Plugins:
    • Lucene SPI support for plugins. #13051
    • Ensure additionalSettings() do not conflict #12967
    • Validate checksums for plugins if available #12888 (issue: #12750)
    • Expose zen ElectMasterService as a Discovery extension point #12828
    • Introduce a formal ExtensionPoint class to stream line extensions #12826
    • Flatten Allocation modules and add back ability to plugin ShardsAllocators #12818 (issue: #12781)
    • Apply additional plugin settings only if settings are not explicit #12796
    • PluginManager: Do not try other URLs if specific URL was passed #12766
    • PluginManager: Fix elastic.co download URLs, add snapshot ones #12641 (issue: #12632)
    • Fix plugin script to allow spaces in ES_HOME #12610 (issue: #12504)
    • PluginManager: Add Support for basic auth #12445
    • Ensure logging configuration is loaded in plugin manager #12081 (issue: #12064)
    • Simplify Plugin Manager for official plugins #11805
    • Allow security rule for advanced SSL configutation #11751
    • FileSystemUtils: Only create backup copies if files differ #9592
  • Query DSL:
    • Remove attemped (not working) support for array in not query parser #12890
    • simple query string: remove (not working) support for alternate formats #12798 (issue: #12794)
    • RegexpQueryParser takes a String as value like its Builder #12200 (issue: #11896)
    • Expose Lucene's new TopTermsBlendedFreqScoringRewrite. #12129
    • Default fuzzy transpositions to true #12090 (issue: #9278)
    • Special case the _index field in queries #12027 (issue: #3316)
    • Add support for query boost to SimpleQueryStringBuilder. #11696 (issue: #11274)
    • Change geo filters into queries #11137
    • Make the script filter a query. #11126
    • Return positions of parse errors found in JSON #10837 (issue: #3303)
    • Enable Lucene ranking behaviour for numeric term queries #10790 (issue: #10628)
  • REST:
    • Suppress rest exceptions by default and log them instead #12991
    • Add more utilities for source/body handling in RestAction #10724
    • Support JSON request body in scroll, clear scroll, and analyze APIs #9076 (issue: #5866)
    • Added _shards header to all write responses. #7994
  • Recovery:
    • No need to send mappings to the master node on phase 2. #11207
    • Integrate translog recovery into Engine / InternalEngine #10452
    • Wipe shard state before switching recovered files live #10179 (issue: #10053)
    • Allow to cancel recovery sources when shards are closed #8555
  • Scripting:
    • Allow scripts to expose whether they use the _score. #12695
    • Add path.scripts directory #12668
    • Simplify CacheKey used for scripts #12092
    • Allow executable expression scripts for aggregations #11689 (issue: #11596)
    • Unify script and template requests across codebase #11164 (issues: #10113, #10810, #11091)
    • Minor TimeZone Fix #10994
    • Run groovy scripts with no permissions #10969
    • Add Field Methods #10890
    • Remove groovy sandbox #10480 (issue: #10156)
    • Add explicit error message when script_score script returns NaN #8750 (issue: #2426)
    • Use groovy-x.y.z-indy jar for better scripting performance #8183 (issue: #8182)
  • Search:
    • Split SearchModule.configure() into separate methods #12827
    • Only compute scores when necessary with FiltersFunctionScoreQuery. #12707
    • Speed up the function_score query when scores are not needed. #12693
    • Make fetch sub phases pluggable #12400 (issue: #10729)
    • Add _replica and _replica_first as search preference. #12244 (issue: #12222)
    • Add global search timeout setting #12211 (issue: #12149)
    • Term Query: Be more strict during parsing #12195 (issue: #12184)
    • Clean up handling of missing values when merging shard results on the coordinating node. #12127 (issue: #9155)
    • Always return metadata in get/search APIs. #11816 (issue: #8068)
    • Removing top-level filter parameter from search API. #11600 (issue: #8862)
    • Do not specialize TermQuery vs. TermsQuery. #11308
    • Minor refactor of MultiValueMode removing apply and reduce #11290
    • Make FilteredQuery a forbidden API. #11224 (issue: #6511)
    • Count api to become a shortcut to the search api #11198 (issues: #9110, #9117)
    • Make SCAN faster. #11180
    • Remove (dfs_)query_and_fetch from the REST API #10864 (issue: #9606)
    • Cut over to IndexSearcher.count. #10674
    • Query scoring change for single-value queries on numeric fields #10631 (issue: #10628)
    • Remove unused normsField from MatchAllQuery #10592
    • Replace deprecated filters with equivalent queries. #10531 (issue: #8960)
    • Avoid calling DocIdSets.toSafeBits. #9546
    • Merge search_type=count and size=0. #9296 (issue: #7630)
    • Surgically removed slow scroll #8780
    • Filter cache: add a _cache: auto option and make it the default. #8573 (issue: #8449)
    • Do not force the post-filter to be loaded into a BitSet. #8488
  • Settings:
    • Throw Exception for missing settings file #12833 (issue: #11510)
    • Remove lenient store type parsing #12735
    • Add path.shared_data #12729 (issues: #11065, #12714)
    • ResourceWatcher: Rename settings to prevent watcher clash #11359 (issues: #11033, #11175)
    • Die cwd die #10923 (issue: #10877)
    • Remove cluster.routing.allocation.balance.primary #9159
    • Trimmed the main elasticsearch.yml configuration file #5861
  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Add support for bulk delete operation in snapshot repository #12587 (issue: #12533)
    • Create a directory during repository verification #12323 (issue: #11611)
    • Add checksum to snapshot metadata files #12002 (issue: #11589)
    • Snapshot info should contain version of elasticsearch that created the snapshot #11985 (issue: #11980)
    • Extract all shard-level snapshot operation into dedicated SnapshotShardsService #11756
    • Change metadata file format #11507
    • Add support for applying setting filters when displaying repository settings #11270 (issue: #11265)
    • Add ability to retrieve currently running snapshots #9400 (issues: #7859, #8782, #8887)
  • Stats:
    • Refactor, remove _node/network and _node/stats/network. #12922 (issue: #12889)
    • Expose ClassloadingMXBean in Node Stats #12764 (issue: #12738)
    • Count scans in search stats and add metrics for scrolls #12069 (issue: #9109)
    • Field stats: added index_constraint option #11259 (issue: #11187)
    • Hot threads should include timestamp and params #9773
    • Added verbose option to segments api, with full ram tree as first additional element per segment #9111
    • Add more fine grained memory stats from Lucene segment reader to index stats #8832
  • Store:
    • Fall back to reading SegmentInfos from Store if reading from commit fails #11403 (issue: #11361)
    • Read segment info from latest commit whenever possible #11361
    • Move to one data.path per shard #10461 (issue: #9498)
    • Populate metadata.writtenBy for pre 1.3 index files. #9152
    • Expose ShardId via LeafReader rather than Directory API #8812
    • Drop pre 0.90 compression BWC #8385
    • Use DistributorDirectory only if there are more than one data direcotry #8383
  • Suggesters:
    • Remove filter from PhraseSuggester collate #11195
  • Term Vectors:
    • Support for shard level caching of term vectors #8395
    • Add support for distributed frequencies #8144
    • Support for version and version_type #7480
  • Translog:
    • Make translog file name parsing strict #11875
    • Some smallish translog cleanups #11200
    • Add translog checkpoints to prevent translog corruption #11143 (issues: #10933, #11011)
    • Make modifying operations durable by default. #11011 (issue: #10933)
    • Don't rename recovery translog in gateway #9719
    • Cut over to Path API #8611

Bug fixes

  • Aggregations:
    • Aggregation: Fix AggregationPath.subPath() to not throw ArrayStoreException #13035
    • Throw error if cardinality aggregator has sub aggregations #12989 (issue: #12988)
    • Full path validation for pipeline aggregations #12595 (issue: #12360)
    • Upgrade HDRHistogram to version 2.1.6. #12554
    • Fixes serialization of HDRHistogram in percentiles aggregations #12505
    • Adds new script API to ValuesSourceMetricsAggregationBuilder #12152
    • Aggregations: Makes SKIP Gap Policy work correctly for Bucket Script aggregation #11970
    • moving_avg forecasts should not include current point #11641
    • Fix bug where moving_avg prediction keys are appended to previous prediction #11465 (issue: #11454)
    • Sibling Pipeline Aggregations can now be nested in SingleBucketAggregations #11380 (issue: #11379)
    • Fixed Moving Average prediction to calculate the correct keys #11375 (issue: #11369)
    • Queries with size:0 break aggregations that need scores #11358 (issue: #11119)
    • Sampler agg could not be used with Terms agg’s order. #10785 (issue: #10719)
    • Fix multi-level breadth-first aggregations. #10411 (issues: #9544, #9823)
    • Make the nested aggregation call sub aggregators with doc IDs in order #9548 (issue: #9547)
  • Allocation:
    • ThrottlingAllocationDecider should not counting relocating shards #12409
  • Bulk:
    • Fix: Use correct OpType on Failure in BulkItemResponse #12060 (issue: #9821)
  • Cache:
    • Store filter cache statistics at the shard level instead of index. #11886
  • Cluster:
    • Changes in unassigned info and version might not be transferred as part of cluster state diffs #12387
    • Rename cluster state uuid to updateId #11862 (issue: #11831)
    • Write state also on data nodes if not master eligible #9952 (issue: #8823)
  • Core:
    • Remove Settings.getAsClass #12744 (issues: #12643, #12656)
    • Close lock even if we fail to obtain #11412
    • Balance new shard allocations more evenly on multiple path.data #11185 (issue: #11122)
  • Dates:
    • Add millisecond parser for dynamic date fields mapped from "yyyy/MM/dd" #12977 (issue: #12873)
  • Discovery:
    • Make sure NodeJoinController.ElectionCallback is always called from the update cluster state thread #12372
    • Only retry join when other node is not (yet) a master #8972
  • Engine:
    • Fix NPE when streaming commit stats #11266
    • Fixes InternalIndexShard callback handling of failure #8644 (issue: #5945)
  • Exceptions:
    • Use StartupError to format all exceptions hitting the console #13041 (issue: #13040)
    • Improve console logging on startup exception #12976
    • Don't special-case on ElasticsearchWrapperException in toXContent #12015 (issue: #11994)
    • Implement toXContent on ShardOpertionFailureException #11155 (issue: #11017)
    • Remove double exception handling that causes false replica failures #10990
  • Fielddata:
    • Reclaim memory from fielddata synchronously when an explicit clear is performed. #11697 (issue: #11695)
    • Load fielddata on behalf of scripts. #10997
  • Index APIs:
    • Upsert does not use ttl value #8715 (issue: #3256)
    • Fix GET index API always running all features #8392
  • Inner Hits:
    • Reset the ShardTargetType after serializing inner hits. #12261
    • Properly support named queries for both nested and parent child inner hits #11880 (issues: #10661, #10694)
  • Internal:
    • Add plugin modules before (almost all) others #13061 (issue: #12783)
    • Workaround JDK bug 8034057 #12970
    • Fix ShardUtils#getElasticsearchDirectoryReader() #12594
    • don't represent site plugins with 'null' anymore #12577
    • IndicesStore shouldn't try to delete index after deleting a shard #12494 (issue: #12487)
    • ShardUtils#getElasticsearchLeafReader() should use FilterLeafReader#getDelegate() instead of FilterLeafReader#unwrap #12437
    • Fix serialization of IndexFormatTooNewException and IndexFormatTooOldException #12277
    • Decode URL.getPath before resolving a real file #11940
    • Transport: remove support for reading/writing list of strings, use arrays instead #11276 (issue: #11056)
  • Java API:
    • Add missing support for escape to QueryStringQueryBuilder #13016
    • Fix PrefixQueryBuilder to support an Object value #12124 (issue: #12032)
    • Properly fix the default regex flag to ALL for RegexpQueryParser and Builder #12067 (issue: #11896)
    • Java api: add missing support for boost to GeoShapeQueryBuilder and TermsQueryBuilder #11810 (issue: #11744)
  • Mapping:
    • Move the murmur3 field to a plugin and fix defaults. #12931 (issue: #12874)
    • Fix field type compatiblity check to work when only one previous type exists #12779 (issue: #12753)
    • Wait for mappings to be available on the primary before indexing. #10949
    • Fix _field_names to not have doc values #10893 (issue: #10892)
    • Explicitly disallow multi fields from using object or nested fields #10745
    • Fix doc values representation to always serliaze if explicitly set #10302 (issue: #10297)
  • More Like This:
    • Fixes many misbehaving user parameters #8028 (issue: #2914)
  • Network:
    • Deduplicate addresses from resolver. #12995
    • Remove usage of InetAddress#getLocalHost #12959
    • Fix network binding for ipv4/ipv6 #12942 (issues: #12906, #12915)
    • Transport: Do not make the buffer skip while a stream is open. #11988
  • Packaging:
    • Fix variable substitution for OS's using systemd #12909
    • Fix rpm -e removing /etc/elasticsearch #12785
    • Makes sure all POMs contain a description #12771 (issue: #12550)
    • use spaces liberally in integration tests and fix space handling #12710 (issue: #12709)
    • rpm and deb create scripts directory #12704 (issue: #12702)
    • Fix shaded jar packaging #12589
    • Fix Bootstrap to not call System.exit #12586
    • elasticsearch (again) adds CWD to classpath #12580
    • jsr166e was left out of shaded jar #12194 (issue: #12193)
    • Don't add CWD to classpath when ES_CLASSPATH isn't set. #12001 (issue: #12000)
    • Fix missing dependencies for RPM/DEB packages #11664 (issue: #11522)
    • Update project.name in bin/elasticsearch script #11348
  • Parent/Child:
    • Explicitly disabled the query cache #12955
    • Fix _parent.type validation #11436
  • Percolator:
    • Fix NPE when percolating a document that has a _parent field configured in its mapping #12214 (issue: #12192)
    • Load percolator queries before shard is marked POST_RECOVERY #11799 (issue: #10722)
  • Plugin Cloud Azure:
    • Correctly list blobs in Azure Storage to prevent snapshot corruption and do not unnecessarily duplicate Lucene segments in Azure Storage #12380 (issues: #51, #99)
  • Plugin Delete By Query:
    • Fix number of deleted/missing documents in Delete-By-Query #11745
  • Plugins:
    • Fix automatically generated URLs for official plugins in PluginManager #12885
    • Skip hidden files #12465 (issue: #12433)
    • strip elasticsearch- and es- from any plugin name #12160 (issues: #12143, #12158)
    • remove elasticsearch- from name of official plugins #12158 (issues: #11805, #12143)
    • Fix pluginmanager permissions for bin/ scripts #12157 (issue: #12142)
    • Let HTTPS work correctly #10983
    • Plugins failed to load since #8666 #8756
  • Query DSL:
    • Add support for disable_coord param to terms query #12756 (issue: #12755)
    • Rewrite set twice in WildcardQueryParser #12207
    • Better exception if array passed to term query. #11384 (issue: #11246)
    • Query DSL: Fix bool parsing. #11120 (issue: #10985)
    • Minor fixes to the match query #8352 (issue: #6932)
  • Query Refactoring:
    • Query DSL: don't cache type filter in DocumentMapper #12447
  • REST:
    • Return 408 REQUEST_TIMEOUT if _cluster/health times out #12780
    • Update RestRequest.java #11305
    • Render non-elasticsearch exception as root cause #10850 (issue: #10836)
  • Recovery:
    • Endless recovery loop with indices.recovery.file_chunk_size=0Bytes #12919
    • Check for incompatible mappings while upgrading old indices #12406 (issue: #11857)
    • Fix MapperException detection during translog ops replay #11583 (issue: #11363)
    • Fix recovered translog ops stat counting when retrying a batch #11536 (issue: #11363)
    • Restart recovery upon mapping changes during translog replay #11363 (issue: #11281)
    • Add engine failure on recovery finalization corruption back #11241
  • Scripting:
    • Execute Scripting Engine before searching for inner templates in template query #11512
  • Search:
    • Never cache match_all queries. #13032
    • _all: Stop NPE querying _all when it doesn't exist #12495 (issue: #12439)
    • Matched queries: Remove redundant and broken code #10694 (issue: #10661)
  • Settings:
    • Do not swallow exceptions thrown while parsing settings #13039 (issue: #13028)
    • Medium Interval time for ResourceWatcher should be 30 seconds #12423
    • Replace references to ImmutableSettings with Settings #11843
    • Always normalize root paths during resolution of paths #11446 (issue: #11426)
  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Blob store shouldn't try deleting the write.lock file at the end of the restore process #11517
    • Move in-progress snapshot and restore information from custom metadata to custom cluster state part #11486 (issue: #8102)
    • Fix cluster state task name for update snapshot task #11197
    • Improve snapshot creation and deletion performance on repositories with large number of snapshots #8969 (issue: #8958)
    • Switch to write once mode for snapshot metadata files #8782 (issue: #8696)
  • Stats:
    • Use time with nanosecond resolution calculated at the executing node #12346 (issue: #12345)
    • Failure during the fetch phase of scan should invoke the failed fetch… #12087 (issue: #12086)
  • Term Vectors:
    • Make sure filter is correctly parsed for multi-term vectors #12312 (issue: #12311)
  • Top Hits:
    • Protected against size and offset larger than total number of document in a shard #12518 (issue: #12510)
  • Translog:
    • Ignore EngineClosedException during translog fysnc #12384
    • Don't convert possibly corrupted bytes to UTF-8 #11911
    • Mark translog as upgraded in the engine even if a legacy generation exists #11860 (issue: #11858)

Regressions

  • Network:
    • Only resolve host if explicitly allowed. #12986

Upgrades

  • Core:
    • Upgrade to Lucene 5.2.1. #11662
    • Upgrade to Lucene 5.2 #11534
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.2.0-snapshot-1681024 #11296
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.2.0-snapshot-1680200. #11218
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.2.0-snapshot-1678978. #11125
    • Upgrade to HPPC 0.7.1 #11035
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.2-snapshot-1675363. #10727 (issue: #10728)
    • Upgrade to Lucene 5.2 r1675100 #10699
    • Upgrade to Lucene-5.2-snapshot-1674183. #10641
    • Upgrade to Lucene 5.2 r1673726 #10612
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.2.0-snapshot-1673124. #10562
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.1.0-snapshot-1671894. #10468
    • Update to Lucene 5.1 snapshot r1671277 #10435
    • Upgrade to lucene r1662607 #9915 (issue: #1)
    • Upgrade to Lucene r1660560 #9746
    • Upgrade to Lucene snapshot r1656366 #9524 (issue: #8870)
    • Upgrade to lucene r1654549 snapshot #9402
    • Upgrade to lucene-5.1.0-snapshot-1652032. #9318
    • Upgrade to lucene 5 r1650327 #9206
    • Upgrade to current Lucene 5.0.0 snapshot #8588
    • Upgrade master to lucene 5.0 snapshot #8347
    • Move master to Java 1.7 #5268 (issue: #5267)
  • Network:
    • Update Netty to version 3.10.3.Final #12310

Changes first released in a previous version

Breaking changes

  • Aggregations:
    • Changed the respnose structure of the percentiles aggregation #6079 (issue: #5870)
  • Aliases:
    • Throw exception if index is null or missing when creating an alias #8240 (issues: #7863, #7976)
  • Allocation:
    • Default delayed allocation timeout to 1m from 0 #12166
    • Enable DiskThresholdDecider by default, change default limits to 85/90% #6204 (issues: #6200, #6201)
  • Analysis:
    • Improvements to StemmerTokenFilter #6452
  • CRUD:
    • Version types EXTERNAL & EXTERNAL_GTE test for version equality in read operation & disallow them in the Update API #5929 (issues: #5661, #5663)
  • Cache:
  • Circuit Breakers:
    • Add HierarchyCircuitBreakerService #6739 (issue: #6129)
  • Cluster:
    • Cluster State API: Remove index template filtering #6020 (issue: #4954)
  • Core:
    • Resiliency: Throw exception if the JVM will corrupt data. #7580
    • Remove deprecated gateways #5520 (issue: #5422)
  • Engine:
    • Remove full flush / FlushType.NEW_WRITER #9559
  • Exceptions:
    • Streamline use of IndexClosedException introduced with #6475 #6990 (issues: #6475, #6988)
    • Thread pool rejection status code should be 429 #6629 (issue: #6627)
  • Fielddata:
    • Fielddata: Remove soft/resident caches. #7443
  • Highlighting:
    • Wildcard field names in highlighting should only return fields that can be highlighted #11364 (issue: #9881)
  • Index APIs:
    • Change behaviour of indices segments api to allow no indices #9219 (issue: #5856)
    • REST API: Removed support for aliases as part of index settings #5545
  • Internal:
    • Simplify reading / writing from and to BlobContainer #7551
    • Refactor guice startup #7289
    • Fixed filters execution order and fix potential concurrency issue in filter chains #7023 (issues: #7019, #7021)
    • Make transport action name available in TransportAction base class #6860
    • Cleanup Rest Response #5612
    • Remove Releasable in favor of Closeable#5423
  • Java API:
    • QueryBuilders cleanup (add and deprecate) #8667 (issue: #8721)
    • Remove operationThreaded setter from ExplainRequestBuilder #7186
    • Remove unnecessary intermediate interfaces #6517 (issue: #4355)
    • Unify IndicesOptions constants #6068 (issue: #6059)
    • Remove operation threading from broadcast actions #6044
    • Remove search operation threading option #6042
    • Make Create/Update/Delete classes less mutable #5939 (issue: #5917)
  • Mapping:
    • Remove unsupported postings_format / doc_values_format #7604 (issues: #7238, #7566)
    • Mappings: Update mapping on master in async manner #6648
    • The binary field shouldn't be stored by default, because it is already available in the _source #4957
  • Network:
  • Plugins:
    • Don't overwrite plugin configuration when removing/upgrading plugins #7890 (issue: #5064)
  • Query DSL:
    • Function Score: Refactor RandomScoreFunction to be consistent, and return values in range [0.0, 1.0] #7446 (issue: #6907)
    • Remove custom_score and custom_boost_factor queries #5076
  • REST:
    • Security: Disable JSONP by default #6795
  • Recovery:
  • Scripting:
    • Cleanup ScriptService & friends in preparation for #6418 #9992 (issue: #6418)
    • Disable dynamic Groovy scripting by marking Groovy as not sandboxed #9655
    • Created a parameter parser to standardise script options #7977
    • Script with _score: remove dependency of DocLookup and scorer #7819 (issues: #7043, #7487)
    • Remove MVEL as a built-in scripting language #6610
    • Switch to Groovy as the default scripting language #6571 (issue: #6233)
    • Disable dynamic scripting by default #5943 (issue: #5853)
  • Search:
    • Only return aggregations on the first page with scroll and forbidden with scan #7497 (issue: #1642)
  • Settings:
    • Add a index.query.parse.allow_unmapped_fields setting that fails if queries refer to unmapped fields. #6928 (issue: #6664)
    • Change default filter cache to 10% and circuit breaker to 60% #5990
  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Url repository should respect repo.path for file urls #11687
    • Automatic verification of all files that are being snapshotted with Snapshot/Restore #7159 (issue: #5593)
    • Add Partial snapshot state #5793 (issue: #5792)
  • Stats:
    • Add human readable start_time and refresh_interval #5544 (issue: #5280)
    • Migrating NodesInfo API to use plugins instead of singular plugin #5072
  • Store:
    • Remove the in memory buffer Lucene store/directory #4994

Deprecations

  • Geo:
  • Rivers:
    • Deprecate rivers #10503
    • Warning in documentation for deprecation of rivers #10423 (issue: #10345)

New features

  • Aggregations:
    • PercentageScore heuristic for significant_terms #9747 (issue: #9720)
    • Return the sum of the doc counts of other buckets in terms aggregations. #8213
    • Significant terms: add scriptable significance heuristic #7850
    • Scriptable Metrics Aggregation #7075 (issue: #5923)
    • Added pre and post offset to histogram aggregation #6980 (issue: #6605)
    • Added Filters aggregation #6974 (issues: #6118, #6119)
    • Add children aggregation #6936
    • Significant Terms: Add google normalized distance and chi square #6858
    • Infrastructure for changing easily the significance terms heuristic #6561
    • Added percentile rank aggregation #6432 (issue: #6386)
    • Deferred aggregations prevent combinatorial explosion #6128
    • Support bounding box aggregation on geo_shape/geo_point data types. #5634
    • Add reverse nested aggregation #5485
    • Cardinality aggregation #5426
    • Percentiles aggregation #5323
    • Significant_terms aggregation #5146
    • Add preserve original token option to ASCIIFolding #5115 (issue: #4931)
    • Add script support to value_count aggregations. #5007 (issue: #5001)
  • Allocation:
    • Optional Delayed Allocation on Node leave #11712
  • Analysis:
    • Add keep_types for filtering by token type #7120
    • Add uppercase token filter #5539
  • CAT API:
    • Show open and closed indices in _cat/indices #7936 (issue: #7907)
    • Add /_cat/fielddata to display fielddata usage #6086 (issue: #4593)
    • Add _cat/plugins endpoint #4824
    • Add _cat/segments #4711
  • CRUD:
    • Update API: Add support for scripted upserts. #7144
    • Update API - allow scripted upserts #7143
    • Update API: Detect noop updates when using doc #6862 (issue: #6822)
    • Introducing VersionType.FORCE & VersionType.EXTERNAL_GTE #4993 (issues: #2946, #4213)
  • Cache:
    • Query Cache: Support shard level query response caching #7161
  • Circuit Breakers:
    • Allow setting individual breakers to "noop" breakers #8135
    • Add NoopCircuitBreaker used in NoneCircuitBreakerService #8063
  • Core:
    • Switch auto-generated IDs to Flake IDs from random UUIDs #7531 (issues: #5941, #6004)
  • Index APIs:
  • Index Templates:
    • Made template filtering generic and extensible #7454 (issue: #7459)
    • Added support for aliases to index templates #5180 (issues: #1825, #2739)
  • Indexed Scripts/Templates:
    • Allow search templates stored in an index to be retrieved and used at search time #5921 (issues: #5484, #5637)
  • Internal:
    • Added an option to add arbitrary headers to the client requests #7127
  • Java API:
  • Logging:
    • Add ability to specify a SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy for log configuration #10373 (issue: #10371)
  • Mapping:
    • Bring back numeric_resolution #10420 (issue: #10072)
    • Add new default option for timestamp field #7036 (issue: #4718)
    • Add transform to document before index. #6599 (issue: #6566)
    • Add doc values for binary field #5669
  • More Like This:
    • Support for artificial documents in MLT query #7725
  • Percolator:
    • Enable percolation of nested documents #5082
  • Query DSL:
    • Add time_zone setting for query_string #8164 (issue: #7880)
    • Add format support for date range filter and queries #7821 (issue: #7189)
    • Add min_score parameter to function score query to only match docs above this threshold #7814 (issue: #6952)
    • Function score multi values #5940 (issue: #3960)
    • Add the field_value_factor function to the function_score query #5519
    • Added cross_fields type to multi_match query #5005 (issue: #2959)
    • Allow for executing queries based on pre-defined templates #4879
  • REST:
    • API: Add response filtering with filter_path parameter #10980 (issue: #7401)
    • Add CBOR data format support #5509 (issue: #4860)
  • Recovery:
  • Scripting:
    • Add support for fine-grained settings #10116 (issues: #10274, #6418)
    • Add script engine for Lucene expressions #6819 (issue: #6818)
    • Add Groovy as a scripting language, add groovy sandboxing #6233
  • Search:
    • Validate API: provide more verbose explanation #10147 (issues: #1412, #88247)
    • Add inner hits to nested and parent/child queries #8153 (issues: #3022, #3152)
    • Sorting: Allow _geo_distance to handle many to many geo point distance #7097 (issue: #3926)
    • Add search-exists API to check if any matching documents exist for a given query #7026 (issue: #6995)
    • Add an option to early terminate document collection when searching/counting #6885 (issue: #6876)
    • Sequential rescores #4748
  • Settings:
  • Shadow Replicas:
    • Allow shards on shared filesystems to be recovered on any node #10960 (issue: #10932)
    • Shadow replicas on shared filesystems #9727 (issue: #8976)
  • Stats:
  • Store:
  • Suggesters:
    • Phrase Suggester: Add option to filter out phrase suggestions #6773 (issue: #3482)
    • ContextSuggester #4044 (issue: #3959)
  • Top Hits:
    • Add top_hits aggregation #6124
  • Upgrade API:
    • Add API to upgrade old Lucene indices to the latest version #7922 (issue: #7884)

Enhancements

  • Aggregations:
    • Numeric metric aggregations are now formattable #9032 (issue: #6812)
    • Adds methods to get to/from as Strings for Range Aggs #9026 (issue: #9003)
    • Made the nested, reverse_nested and children aggs ignore unmapped nested fields or unmapped child / parent types. #8808 (issue: #8760)
    • Make size property parsing inconsistent #8645 (issue: #6061)
    • Do not take deleted documents into account in aggregations filters. #8540
    • Support for arrays of numeric values in include/exclude clauses #7727 (issue: #7714)
    • Add ability to sort on multiple criteria #7662 (issues: #6917, #7588)
    • Encapsulate AggregationBuilder name and make getter public #7425
    • Merge LongTermsAggregator and DoubleTermsAggregator. #7279
    • Remove the logic to optionally sort/dedup values on the fly. #7276
    • Make the list of buckets for terms and histogram returned as a java.util.List. #7275
    • Stops direct subclassing of InternalNumericMetricsAggregation #7058
    • Better JSON output scoping #6985 (issue: #7004)
    • Better heuristic for setting default shard_size in terms aggregation #6960 (issue: #6857)
    • Added an option to show the upper bound of the error for the terms aggregation #6778 (issue: #6696)
    • Extend allowed characters in aggregation name #6702
    • Moved BucketsAggregator#docCounts field to IntArray #6529
    • GlobalOrdinalsStringTermsAggregator is inefficient for high-cardinality fields #6518
    • Remove ordinals execution hint. #6499
    • Delegation of nextReader calls #6477
    • Add shard_min_doc_count parameter to terms aggregation #6143 (issues: #5998, #6041)
    • Add shard_min_doc_count parameter for significant terms similar to shard_size #6041
    • Add include/exclude support to global ordinals based terms and significant terms aggregations #6000
    • Lower the initial sizing of sub aggregations. #5994
    • Improve the way sub-aggregations are collected. #5975
    • Add global ordinal based implementations for significant terms aggregation #5970
    • Use collectExistingBucket() if a bucket already exists #5955
    • Significant_terms agg: added option for a backgroundFilter #5944
    • Improve terms aggregation to perform the segment ordinal to global ordinal lookup post segment collection #5895
    • Remove abstraction in the percentiles aggregation. #5859
    • Instantiate facets/aggregations during the QUERY phase. #5821
    • Aggregation cleanup #5699
    • Aggregations cleanup #5614
    • Refactor common code for unmapped aggregators into NonCollectingAggregator. #5528
    • Significant_terms agg only creates term frequency cache when necessary #5459 (issue: #5450)
    • Added extended_bounds support for date_/histogram aggs #5444 (issue: #5224)
    • Make aggregations CacheRecycler-free. #5419 (issue: #4929)
    • Added support for sorting buckets based on sub aggregation down the current hierarchy #5340 (issue: #5253)
    • Terms aggs: only use ordinals on low-cardinality fields by default. #5304 (issue: #5303)
    • Rest API needs to be consistent across all multi-bucket aggs #4926
    • cleanup of aggregations api #4894 (issue: #4922)
  • Allocation:
    • Simplify ShardRouting and centralize move to unassigned #11634
    • When using recover_on_any_node on shared filesystem, respect Deciders #11168
    • Early terminate if the cluster can't be rebalanced #9162
    • Speed-up disk-threshold decider #8803 (issue: #6372)
    • DiskThresholdDecider#remain(...) should take shards relocating away into account #8659 (issue: #8538)
    • Take percentage watermarks into account for reroute listener #8382 (issues: #8367, #8368)
    • Reroute shards automatically when high disk watermark is exceeded #8270 (issue: #8146)
    • Add option to take currently relocating shards' sizes into account #7785 (issues: #6168, #7753)
    • Allow primaries that have never been allocated to be allocated if under the low watermark #6209 (issue: #6196)
    • Add explanations for all AllocationDeciders #4934 (issues: #2483, #4380)
    • Make shard balancing deterministic if weights are identical #4866
  • Analysis:
    • Document and test custom analyzer position_offset_gap #10934 (issue: #1812)
    • Expose Latvian analyzer #7542
    • Improve Hunspell error messages #6850
    • Share numeric date analyzer instances between mappings #6843
    • Add missing pre built analysis components #6770
    • PatternAnalyzer should use PatternTokenFilter instead #6717
    • More resource efficient analysis wrapping usage #6714
    • Add additional Analyzers, Tokenizers, and TokenFilters from Lucene #6693 (issue: #5935)
    • Use non analyzed token stream optimization everywhere #6001
    • Add support for char filters in the analyze API #5148
  • CAT API:
    • Add node id to _cat apis #10246 (issue: #10226)
    • Mark shadow replicas with 's' in _cat/shards output #10023 (issue: #9772)
    • Add total index memory in _cat/indices #7824 (issue: #7008)
    • Add file descriptor details to cat/nodes #7655 (issue: #7652)
    • Add configured thread pool sizes to _cat/thread_pool #5366
    • Added thread pool cat api #4906 (issue: #4907)
    • RestTable.renderValue() doesn't know about tera and peta #4871
    • Clean up cat headers #4853 (issue: #4852)
  • CRUD:
    • Allow GET access to _all field (return value was always null before) #6924
    • Provide more context variables in update scripts #5724 (issues: #1607, #2230, #2231)
  • Cache:
    • Use a smaller expected size when serializing query results #9485
    • Use correct number of bytes in query cache accounting #9479
    • Use a 1024 byte minimum weight for filter cache entries #8304 (issues: #8249, #8268)
    • Immediately remove filter cache entries on cache clear #8289 (issue: #8285)
    • Add hit and miss count to Query Cache #7355
    • Warmer (search) to support query cache #7326
    • Add a request level flag to control Query Cache #7167
    • Add a periodic cleanup thread for IndexFieldCache caches #7015 (issue: #7010)
  • Circuit Breakers:
    • Circuit Breakers: Log if CircuitBreaker is tripping #8050
    • Include name of the field that caused a circuit break in the log and exception message #5841 (issue: #5718)
    • Increase RamAccountingTermsEnum flush size from 1mb to 5mb #5335
    • Add circuit breaker for parent/child id cache #5325 (issue: #5325)
    • Add circuit breaker functionality to parent/child id field data cache #5276
  • Cluster:
    • Remove scheduled routing #11776
    • Reset registeredNextDelaySetting on reroute #11759
    • Add Unassigned meta data #11653
    • Make routing_nodes an independent metric option in cluster state api #10412 (issue: #10352)
    • Add METADATA_READ and METADATA_WRITE blocks #9203 (issues: #10521, #10522, #2833, #3703, #5855, #5876, #8102)
    • Don't mark cluster health as timed out if desired state is reached #8683
    • Add missing cluster blocks handling for master operations #7763 (issue: #7740)
    • Master election should demotes nodes which try to join the cluster for the first time #7558 (issue: #7493)
    • Do not use a background thread to disconnect node which are removed from the ClusterState #7543
    • Refactored ClusterStateUpdateTask protection against execution on a non master #7511 (issue: #7493)
    • Remove unneeded cluster state serialization during cluster join #6949
    • Resend failed shard messages when receiving a cluster state still referring to the failed shards #6881
    • Send shard exists requests if shard exists locally but is not allocated to the node #6870
    • Don't attempt to start or fail shard if no master node can be found #6841
    • Improve handling of failed primary replica handling #6825 (issue: #6808)
    • Add local node to cluster state #6811
    • During relocation, process pending mapping update in phase 2 #6762 (issue: #6648)
    • Improve pending api to include current executing class #6744
    • Start Master|Node fault detection pinging immediately during discovery #6706 (issue: #6480)
    • Clean shard bulk mapping update to only use type name #6695
    • Ensure index.version.created is consistent #6660
    • Refactored AckedClusterStateUpdateTask & co. to remove code repetitions in subclasses #6559
    • Wait till node is part of cluster state for join process #6480
    • Do not use versions to optimize cluster state copying for a first update from a new master #6466
    • Improve cluster update settings api #6244
    • When sending shard start/failed message due to a cluster state change, use the master indicated in the new state rather than current #6189
    • Raise node disconnected even if the transport is stopped #5918
    • Moved the updateMappingOnMaster logic into a single place. #5850 (issue: #5798)
    • A new ClusterStateStatus to indicate cluster state life cycles #5741
    • Optimize multiple cluster state processing on receiving nodes #5139
    • Introduced a new IMMEDIATE priority - higher than URGENT #5098 (issue: #5062)
    • Bulk process of shard started/failed should not execute on already processed events #5061
  • Core:
    • Reduce shard inactivity timeout to 5m #11479 (issues: #11179, #11336)
    • Fail shard if search execution uncovers corruption #11440 (issue: #11419)
    • Acquire IndexWriter's write.lock lock before shard deletion #11127 (issue: #11097)
    • Refactor TransportShardReplicationOperationAction #10749 (issue: #10032)
    • Make getFileStore a bit more defensive #10696
    • Ref count write operations on IndexShard #10610
    • Refresh if many deletes in a row use up too much version map RAM #10312 (issue: #7052)
    • Add before/afterIndexShardDelete callbacks to index lifecycle #10173
    • Don't rethrow already handled merge exceptions #10083
    • NodeEnv should lock all shards for an index #9799
    • Retry if shard deletes fail due to IOExceptions #9784
    • Only do a single listAll from FileSwitchDir #9666 (issue: #6636)
    • Consolidate index / shard deletion in IndicesService #9605
    • Increase default xlog flush size from 200mb to 512 mb #9341 (issue: #9265)
    • Pass through all exceptions in IndicesLifecycleListeners #9330
    • Pass index settings to IndicesLifecycle#beforeIndexCreated and #afterIndexShardClosed #9245
    • Delete shard content under lock #9083 (issues: #8608, #9009)
    • Use Lucene's defaults for compound file format #8934 (issue: #8919)
    • Remove explicit .cleanUp() on cache clear #8924
    • Ensure shards are deleted under lock on close #8579
    • Add before/after indexDeleted callbacks to IndicesLifecycle #8569 (issue: #8551)
    • Free pending search contexts if index is closed #8551
    • Ban all usage of Future#cancel(true) #8494
    • Set bloom default to false even when Directory doesn't have a codecService #8442
    • Introduce shard level locks to prevent concurrent shard modifications #8436
    • Observe cluster state on health request #8350
    • Introduce a RefCounted interface and basic impl #8210
    • Use 1 instead of 0 as filler version value for nested docs #8145
    • Add cluster and index state checksums #8010 (issue: #7586)
    • Resiliency: Perform write consistency check just before writing on the primary shard #7873
    • Add ActionRunnable support to ThreadPool to simplify async operation on bounded threadpools #7765
    • Verify checksums on merge #7360
    • Change numeric data types to use SORTED_NUMERIC docvalues type #6967
    • Disable loading of bloom filters by default #6959 (issues: #6298, #6349)
    • Don't close/reopen IndexWriter when changing RAM buffer size #6856
    • Don't acquire dirtyLock on autoid for create #6584
    • Reuse Lucene's TermsEnum for faster _uid/version lookup during indexing #6298 (issue: #6212)
    • Entirely cut over to TopDocs#merge for merging shard docs in the reduce phase #6197
    • Don't use AllTokenStream if no fields were boosted #6187
    • Remove SerialMergeScheduler #6120
    • Throttling incoming indexing when Lucene merges fall behind #6066
    • Use Lucene built-in checksumming #5924
    • Don't lookup version for auto generated id and create #5917
    • Use Lucene's defaults for CMS settings #5912 (issue: #5882)
    • Change default merge throttling to 50MB / sec #5902
    • Don't lookup version for auto generated id and create #5785
    • Prevent fsync from creating 0-byte files #5746
    • Move to use serial merge schedule by default #5447
    • Force merges to not happen when indexing a doc / flush #5319
    • Reuse pages more agressively in BigArrays. #5300 (issue: #5299)
  • Discovery:
    • Prevent over allocation for multicast ping request #10896
    • Unicast Ping should close temporary connections after returning ping results #10849
    • Prevent stale master nodes from sharing dated cluster states to nodes that have moved to a different master node #9632
    • Publishing timeout to log at WARN and indicate pending nodes #9551
    • Concurrent node failures can cause unneeded cluster state publishing #8933 (issue: #8804)
    • Client: Only fetch the node info during node sampling #8685
    • Don't wait joinThread when stopping #8359 (issue: #8327)
    • Improve handling of multicast binding exceptions #8243 (issue: #8225)
    • Simplify discovery node initialization if version is unknown #8055 (issue: #8051)
    • Remove MasterFaultDetection.Listener.notListedOnMaster #7995
    • Only accept unicast pings once started #7950
    • Add a finalize round to multicast pinging #7924
    • During discovery, master fault detection should fall back to cluster state thread upon error #7908 (issue: #7834)
    • Close ping handler's executor service properly #7903
    • NodesFD: simplify concurrency control to fully rely on a single map #7889
    • During discovery, remove any local state and use clusterService.state instead #7834
    • Update ZenDiscovery fields via the cluster service update task. #7790
    • Give a unique id to each ping response #7769
    • UnicastZenPing don't rename configure host name #7747 (issue: #7719)
    • Node join requests should be handled at lower priority than master election #7733
    • Not all master election related cluster state update task use Priority.IMMEDIATE #7718
    • Accumulated improvements to ZenDiscovery #7493 (issue: #2488)
    • UnicastZenPing should also ping last known discoNodes #7336
    • With unicast discovery, only disconnect from temporary connected nodes #6966
    • During discovery, verify connect when sending a rejoin cluster request #6779
    • Have a dedicated join timeout that is higher than ping.timeout for join #6342
    • Unicast discovery enhancement #5508
  • Engine:
    • Remove reflection call to waitForMerges #10102
    • Move InternalEngine.segmentStats() into abstract Engine #9728 (issue: #9727)
    • Move more methods into abstract Engine #9717
    • Move as much as possible into abstract Engine #9678
    • Factor out settings updates from Engine #9625
    • Close Engine immediately if a tragic event strikes. #9616 (issue: #9517)
    • Refactor InternalEngine into abstract Engine and classes #9585
    • Remove FlushType and make resources final in InternalEngine #9565
    • Simplify Engine construction and ref counting #9211
    • Fold engine into IndexShard #9181
    • Don't acquire Engine's readLock in segmentsStats #8910 (issue: #8905)
    • Remove engine related command classes #8900
    • Allow InternalEngine to be stopped and started #8784 (issue: #8720)
    • Flush IndexWriter to disk on close and shutdown #7563
    • Ensure close is called under lock in the case of an engine failure #5800
    • Fail the engine/shard when refresh failed #5633
  • Exceptions:
    • Reduce the size of the XContent parsing exception #11642
    • Fix typo when primary is not available to index a document (UnavailableShardsException) #10140
    • Change IndexPrimaryShardNotAllocatedException from 409 to 500 #7987 (issue: #7632)
    • Nest original exception while creating NoShardAvailableActionException #7757 (issue: #7756)
    • Improve exception from Store.failIfCorrupted #7695 (issue: #7596)
    • Introduced a new elasticsearch exception family that can hold headers #7269
    • Better message for invalid internal transport message format #6916
    • Function Score: Add missing whitespace in error message when throwing exception #6155
  • Fielddata:
    • Fielddata: Remove custom comparators and use Lucene's instead #6981 (issue: #5980)
    • Switch fielddata to use Lucene doc values APIs. #6908
    • Make BytesValues.WithOrdinals more similar to Lucene's SortedSetDocValues #6524
    • Don't expose hashes in Fielddata anymore. #6500
    • Add a dedicated field data type for the _index field mapper. #6073 (issue: #5848)
    • Provide meaningful error message if field has no fielddata type #5979 (issue: #5930)
    • Use segment ordinals as global ordinals if possible #5873 (issue: #5854)
    • Make use of global ordinals in parent/child queries #5846
    • Added a AppendingDeltaPackedLongBuffer-based storage format to single value field data #5706
    • Remove AtomicFieldData.isValuesOrdered. #5688
    • Add global ordinals #5672
    • Moved the decision to load p/c fielddata eagerly to a better place. #5569
  • Geo:
    • Add merge conflicts to GeoShapeFieldMapper #10533 (issues: #10513, #10514)
    • Coordinates can contain more than two elements (x,y) in GeoJSON parser. #9542 (issue: #9540)
    • Revert "[GEO] Update GeoPolygonFilter to handle ambiguous polygons" #9463 (issues: #5968, #9304, #9339, #9462)
    • Update GeoPolygonFilter to handle polygons crossing the dateline #9339 (issues: #5968, #8672, #9304)
    • GeoPolygonFilter not properly handling dateline and pole crossing #9171 (issue: #5968)
    • Removing unnecessary orientation enumerators #9036 (issues: #8978, #9035)
    • Add optional left/right parameter to GeoJSON #8978 (issue: #8764)
    • Feature/Fix for OGC compliant polygons failing with ambiguity #8762 (issue: #8672)
    • Fixes BoundingBox across complete longitudinal range #7340 (issue: #5218)
    • Adds support for GeoJSON GeometryCollection #7123 (issue: #2796)
    • Added caching support to geohash_filter #6478
    • Allow to parse lat/lon as strings and coerce them #5626
    • Improve error detection in geo_filter parsing #5371 (issue: #5370)
    • Improve geo distance accuracy #5192
    • Add support for distances in nautical miles #5088 (issue: #5085)
  • Highlighting:
    • Make the HighlightQuery class public #6446
    • Highlight fields in request order #6178 (issue: #4649)
  • Index APIs:
    • Add check to MetaData#concreteIndices to prevent NPE #10342 (issue: #10339)
    • Set maximum index name length to 255 bytes #8158 (issue: #8079)
    • Add wait_if_ongoing option to _flush requests #6996
    • Unified MetaData#concreteIndices methods into a single method that accepts indices (or aliases) and indices options #6169
    • Fix detection of unsupported fields with validate API #5782 (issue: #5685)
  • Index Templates:
    • Provide template usage information on index creation #8646 (issue: #7421)
    • Unified PUT/POST behaviour in relation to create parameter #6429
  • Indexed Scripts/Templates:
    • Indexed scripts/templates: return response body when script is not found #10396 (issue: #7325)
    • Make sure headers are handed over to internal requests and streamline versioning support #7569
    • Use preference("_local") on get calls. #7477
    • Indexed Scripts/Templates: Return error message on 404 #7335 (issue: #7325)
  • Inner Hits:
    • Nested parent field should be resolved based on the parent inner hit definition #9251 (issue: #8153)
    • Added another more compact syntax for inner hits. #8770
  • Internal:
    • Remove reroute with no reassign #11804
    • Mark store as corrupted instead of deleting state file on engine failure #11769
    • Wait forever (or one day) for indices to close #10833 (issue: #10680)
    • Don't create a new BigArrays instance for every call of withCircuitBreaking #10800 (issue: #10798)
    • Change BigArrays to not extend AbstractComponent #10798
    • CommitStats doesn't need to allow for null values in commit user data #10774 (issue: #10687)
    • Add fairness option to KeyedLock. #10703
    • Fix string comparisons #10204
    • Remove unsafe field in BytesStreamInput #10157
    • Make assert less strict to ensure local node is not null #10076
    • Use provided cluster state for indices service validations #10014
    • Some more simple fs cleanups. #9827
    • Fix errors reported by error-prone #9817
    • Removed 'Master' from names.txt #9698 (issue: #9687)
    • Introduce TimedPrioritizedRunnable base class to all commands that go into InternalClusterService.updateTasksExecutor #9671 (issues: #8077, #9354)
    • Add beforeIndexAddedToCluster callback #9514
    • Add AliasesRequest interface to mark requests that manage aliases #9460
    • ClusterInfoService should wipe local cache upon unknown exceptions #9449
    • Fix shard state tranport action names #9440 (issue: #7105)
    • Minor hygiene, Removed Redundant inheritance #9427
    • Remove includeExisting flag from adding ObjectMapper and FieldMapper listeners #9184
    • Reduce the size of the search thread pool. #9165 (issue: #9135)
    • Assert that we do not call blocking code from transport threads #9164
    • Remove reduced stack size and use JVM default instead #9158 (issue: #9135)
    • Remove IndexCloseListener & Store.OnCloseListener #9009 (issues: #8436, #8608)
    • Remove circular dependency between IndicesService and IndicesStore #8918
    • Remove some Internal* abstractions #8904
    • Make indexQueryParserService available from ParseContext #8252 (issue: #8248)
    • Allow to configure custom thread pools #8247
    • Expose concurrency_level setting on all caches #8112 (issue: #7836)
    • Resiliency: Be more conservative if index.version.created is not set #8018
    • Split internal fetch request used within scroll and search #7870 (issues: #6933, #7319, #7856)
    • Never send requests after transport service is stopped #7862
    • Split internal free context request used after scroll and search #7856 (issues: #6933, #7319)
    • Clarify when a shard search request gets created to be only used locally #7855
    • Add a listener thread pool #7837
    • Remove unused ForceSyncDirectory #7804
    • Force execution of delete index requests #7799
    • Check if from + size don't cause overflow and fail with a better error #7778 (issue: #7774)
    • Make sure that internally generated percolate request re-uses the original headers and request context #7767
    • Make sure that update internal requests share the same original headers and request context #7766
    • Make sure that all delete mapping internal requests share the same original headers and context #7736
    • Added scrollId/s setters to the different scroll requests/responses #7722
    • Make sure that original headers are used when executing search as part of put warmer #7711
    • Refactor copy headers mechanism to not require a client factory #7675 (issue: #7594)
    • In thread pools, use DirectExecutor instead of deprecated API #7636
    • Change LZFCompressedStreamOutput to use buffer recycler when allocating encoder #7613
    • Introduced a transient context to the rest request #7610
    • Refactor copy headers mechanism in REST API #7594 (issue: #6513)
    • Deduplicate useful headers that get copied from REST to transport layer #7590
    • Extract a common base class for (Master|Nodes)FaultDetection #7512 (issue: #7493)
    • Removing useless methods and method parameters from ObjectMapper.java and TypeParsers.java #7474 (issue: #7271)
    • Extended ActionFilter to also enable filtering the response side #7465
    • Removed ConcurrentHashMapV8 #7392 (issues: #6400, #7296)
    • Move index templates api back to indices category and make put template and create index implement IndicesRequest #7378
    • Make sure that multi_search request hands over its context and headers to its corresponding search requests #7374
    • Make sure that multi_percolate request hands over its context and headers to its corresponding shard requests #7371
    • Clarify XContentParser/Builder interface for binary vs. utf8 values #7367
    • Get request while percolating existing documents to keep around headers and context of the original percolate request #7333
    • Auto create index to keep around headers and context of the request that caused it #7331
    • Switch to fixed thread pool by default for management threads #7320 (issue: #7318)
    • Make sure that all shard level requests hold the original indices #7319
    • Refactored TransportMessage context #7303
    • Made it possible to disable the main transport handler in TransportShardSingleOperationAction #7285
    • Adjusted BroadcastShardOperationResponse subclasses visibility #7255
    • Add some @Nullable annotations and fix related compilation warnings. #7251
    • Adjusted visibility for BroadcastShardOperationRequest subclasses and their constructors #7235
    • Changed every single index operation to not replace the index within the original request #7223
    • Adjusted TermVectorRequest serialization to not serialize and de-serialize the index twice #7221
    • Refactored TransportSingleCustomOperationAction, subclasses and requests #7214
    • Removed needless serialization code from TransportIndexReplicationAction and corresponding request object #7211
    • Added transient header support for TransportMessage #7187
    • Check for null references that may be returned due to concurrent changes or inconsistent cluster state #7181
    • Better categorization for transport actions #7105
    • Added a cli infrastructure #7094
    • Introduced the notion of a FixedBitSetFilter that guarantees to produce a FixedBitSet #7037 (issue: #7031)
    • Remove use of recycled set in filters eviction #7012
    • Refactor TransportActions #6989
    • Expose the indices names in every action relates to if applicable #6933
    • Rename FieldMapper.termsFilter to fieldDataTermsFilter. #6888
    • Make XContentBuilder Releasable #6869
    • Remove (mostly) unused 'failure' member from ShardSearchFailure. #6861 (issue: #6837)
    • Use KeyedLock in IndexFieldDataService #6855
    • Cleanup of the transport request/response messages #6834
    • Don't replace indices within ActionRequest and check blocks against concrete indices #6777 (issues: #1, #2)
    • Separate parsing implementation from setter in SearchParseElement #6758 (issue: #3602)
    • Remove intern calls on FieldMapper#Names for better performance #6747
    • Disable explicit GC by default #6637
    • Make sure we don't reuse arrays when sending an error back #6631
    • Wrap RateLimiter rather than copy RateLimitedIndexOutput #6625
    • Re-shade MVEL as a dependency #6570
    • Copy the headers from REST requests to the corresponding TransportRequest(s) #6513 (issue: #6464)
    • Better default size for global index -> alias map #6504
    • Use ConcurrentHashMapV8 for lower memory overhead #6400
    • Made base64 decode parsing to detect more errors #6348 (issue: #6334)
    • Change the default type of the page recycler to CONCURRENT instead of SOFT_CONCURRENT. #6320
    • Some minor cleanups #6210
    • Remove SoftReferences from StreamInput/StreamOutput #6208
    • Use t-digest as a dependency. #6142
    • Add support for Byte and BytesRef to the XContentBuilder #6127
    • Remove unused dump infra #6060
    • Made it mandatory to specify IndicesOptions when calling MetaData#concreteIndices #6059
    • Limit the number of bytes that can be allocated to process requests. #6050
    • Fix code typo in FieldSortBuilder.java #5937
    • Improved bloom filter hashing #5901
    • Field data diet. #5874
    • Cleanup FileSystemUtils #5806
    • Make writePrimitive*() and readPrimitive*() methods public. #5710
    • LongHash add/key not consistent #5693
    • Releasable bytes output + use in transport / translog #5691
    • Make Releasable extend AutoCloseable. #5689
    • Replaces usage of StringBuffer with StringBuilder #5606 (issue: #5605)
    • Internally manipulate the terms execution hint as an enum instead of a String. #5530
    • Let ByteArray/BigByteArray.get() indicate whether a byte[] was materialized. #5529
    • BytesReference.Helper should never materialize a byte[] array. #5517
    • Clean the query parse context after usage #5475
    • BytesReference usage to properly work when hasArray is not available #5455
    • MulticastChannel returned wrong channel in shared mode #5441
    • New class PagedBytesReference: BytesReference over pages #5427 (issue: #5420)
    • Rewrite BytesStreamOutput on top of BigArrays/ByteArray. #5331 (issue: #5159)
    • Add tracking of allocated arrays. #5264
    • Remove thread local recycler #5254
    • Recycler: better lifecycle control for pooled instances #5217 (issue: #5214)
    • Remove useless URL instantiation #5206
    • Variable renamings to reduce unnecessary variable naming diversity #5075
    • Add RamUsageEstimator#sizeOf(Object) to forbidden APIs #4975
    • Remove redundant version checks in transport serialisation #4731
  • Java API:
    • Unify SearchResponse and BroadcastOperationResponse code around shards header #11064
    • Remove duplicated consistency level and replication type setters #10188
    • Package private getters to become public if there have corresponding public setters #9273
    • Added utility method #8594
    • Enabled overriding the request headers in the clients #8258
    • Add indices setter to IndicesRequest interface #7734
    • Mark transport client as such when instantiating #7552
    • Allow nullable queryBuilder in FilteredQueryBuilder to match rest api #7398 (issue: #7365)
    • Some PercolateRequest "setters" allow for method chaining, some don't #7294
    • Throw IllegalStateException if you try to .addMapping for same type more than once #7243 (issue: #7231)
    • XContentBuilder.map(Map) method modified to use a wildcard for value's type. #7212
    • Add suggestRequest to Requests and fix broken javadocs in client #7207 (issue: #7206)
    • Add index, type and id to ExplainResponse #7201
    • Add a blocking variant of close() method to BulkProcessor #6586 (issues: #4158, #6314)
    • Client intermediate interfaces removal follow-up #6563 (issue: #6517)
    • TransportClient: Improve logging, fix minor issue #6376
    • flush method for BulkProcessor class. #5575 (issue: #5570)
    • Add BoolFilterBuilder#hasClauses to be consitent with BoolQueryBuilder #5476 (issue: #5472)
    • Allow iteration over MultiGetRequest#Item instances #5470 (issue: #3061)
    • Java API does not have a way to set global highlighting settings #5281
  • Logging:
    • Add -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps when using GC Logs #11735 (issue: #11733)
    • Display low disk watermark to be consistent with documentation #11313 (issue: #10588)
    • Add index name to log statements when settings update fails #11124
    • Add logging of slow cluster state tasks #10907 (issue: #10874)
    • Log sending translog operation batches to nodes #10544
    • Log only a summary line of filesystem detail for all path.data on node startup #10527 (issue: #10502)
    • Add INFO logging saying whether each path.data is on an SSD #10502
    • Use static logger name in Engine.java #10497
    • Miscellaneous additional logging and cleanups #10376
    • Fix logging a RoutingNode object, log an object with a good .toString instead #9863
    • Logging: improve logging messages added in #9562 #9603 (issue: #9562)
    • Change logging to warning to match pattern #9593
    • Add logging around gateway shard allocation #9562
    • Added a simple request tracer, logging incoming and outgoing Transport requests #9286
    • Reduce apache (cloud-aws) logging when rootLogger is DEBUG #8856
    • Log byte and doc size for slow merges #8855 (issue: #8853)
    • Separately log file deletions #8662 (issue: #8603)
    • Clarify index removal log message #8641
    • Add log4j-extras dependency #8464 (issue: #7927)
    • Log how long IW.rollback took, and when MockFSDir starts its check index #8388
    • Change log level for mpercolate #8306
    • Suppress long mapping logging during mapping updates (unless in TRACE) #7949
    • Add log4j-extras dependency #7947 (issue: #7927)
    • Boostrap: Log startup exception to console if needed and to file as error #6581
    • Log script change/add and removal at INFO level #6104
    • Include thread name when logging IndexWriter's infoStream messages #5973
    • Tie in IndexWriter's infoStream output to "lucene.iw" logger with level=TRACE #5934 (issue: #5891)
    • Be less verbose logging ClusterInfoUpdateJob failures #5222
    • Togglable stacktrace display #5187 (issues: #5102, #5103)
    • Add EnhancedPatternLayout to logging.yml options #4991
  • Mapping:
    • Add enabled flag for _field_names to replace disabling through index:no #9893
    • Add ignore_missing option to timestamp #9104 (issues: #8882, #9049)
    • Include currentFieldName into ObjectMapper errors #9020
    • Make lookup structures immutable. #7486
    • Report conflict when merging _all field mapping and throw exception when doc_values specified #7377 (issue: #777)
    • Enforce non-null settings. #7032
    • Control whether MapperService docMapper iterator should contain DEFAULT_MAPPING #6793
    • Call callback on actual mapping processed #6748
    • Improve performance for many new fields introduction in mapping #6707
    • Better logic on sending mapping update new type introduction #6669
    • Wait for mapping updates during local recovery #6666
    • Check if root mapping is actually valid #6093 (issues: #4483, #5864)
    • Support empty properties array in mappings #6006 (issue: #5887)
    • Update default precision step, modulo tests #5908 (issue: #5905)
    • Add lucene LMSimilarity #5701 (issue: #5697)
    • Support externalValue() in mappers #4986
    • Norms disabling on existing fields #4813
  • More Like This:
    • Support for when all fields are deprecated #8067
    • Replace percent_terms_to_match with minimum_should_match #7898
    • Default to all possible fields for items #7382
    • Switch to using the multi-termvectors API #7014
    • Fetch text from all possible fields if none are specified #6740
    • Ensure selection of best terms is indeed O(n) #6657
    • Create only one MLT query per field for all queried items #6404
    • Add the ability to specify the analyzer used for each Field #6329
    • Added syntax for single item specification. #6311
    • Values of a multi-value fields are compared at the same level #6310
    • Allow for both like_text and docs/ids to be specified. #6246
    • Added the ability to include the queried document for More Like This API. #6067
    • Fix behavior on default boost factor for More Like This. #6021
    • Added searching for multiple similar documents #5857 (issue: #4075)
    • Upgrade to Jackson 2.4.1.1 #6789
    • Upgrade to mvel 2.2.0.Final #5877
  • Nested Docs:
    • Added nested scope to parse context that keeps track the current nested level during search request parsing #9692 (issue: #9305)
    • Fix support for named filters/queries inside nested filters. #6293
  • Network:
    • Default value for socket reuse should not be null #11255
    • Make Netty exceptionCaught method protected #10464
    • Remove content thread safe from REST layer #10429
    • Add getter for channel in NettyTransportChannel #10319
    • Schedule transport ping interval #10189
    • Return useful error message on potential HTTP connect to Transport port #10108 (issue: #2139)
    • Change access modifiers to protected in Netty HTTP Transport #9724
    • Add profiles to Netty transport infos #9134
    • Support binding on multiple host/port pairs #8098
    • Chunk direct buffer usage by networking layer #7811
    • Make sure channel closing never happens on i/o thread #7726
    • Support "default" for tcpNoDelay and tcpKeepAlive #7136 (issue: #7115)
    • Refactoring to make MessageChannelHandler extensible #6915 (issue: #6889)
    • Refactoring to make Netty MessageChannelHandler extensible #6889
    • Improve large bytes request handling by detecting content composite buffer #6756
    • Use loopback when localhost is not resolved #5719
  • Packaging:
    • Export hostname as environment variable for plugin manager #11399 (issues: #10902, #9474)
    • Exclude jackson-databind dependency #10924
    • Add common SystemD file for RPM/DEB package #10725
    • Standardization of packages structure and install #10595 (issue: #10330)
    • Add properties files to configure startup and installation scripts #10330
    • service.bat file should explicitly use the Windows find command. #9532
    • Export the hostname as environment variable #9474 (issue: #8470)
    • Windows: makes elasticsearch.bat more friendly to automated processes #9160 (issue: #8913)
    • Shutdown: Add support for Ctrl-Close event on Windows platforms to grace... #8993
    • Packaging: Add java7/8 java-package paths to init script #8815 (issue: #7383)
    • Check if proc file exists before calling sysctl #8793 (issue: #4978)
    • deb: add systemd service config for upcoming Jessie #8765 (issue: #8493)
    • bin/elasticsearch: add help, fix endless loop #8729 (issues: #2168, #7104)
    • Introduce elasticsearch.in.bat (i.e. es.in for Windows) #8244 (issue: #8237)
    • Make .zip and .tar.gz release artifacts contain same files #7578 (issue: #2793)
    • Add default oracle jdk 7 (x64) path to JDK_DIRS #7132
    • Prevent init script from returning when the service isn't actually started #6909
    • Windows: Modify command window title (windows) #6752 (issue: #6336)
    • Remove java-6 directories from debian init script #6350
    • Reset locale to C in bin/elasticsearch #6047
    • Remove spaces from commented config lines in elasticsearch.yml and logging.yml #5842
    • Use the new command line syntax in the init script #5033
    • Startup: Add ES_HOME to ES_INCLUDE search path #4958
    • Mark 'lucene-expression' as 'provided' in pom.xml #4861 (issues: #4858, #4859)
    • Move systemd files from /etc to /usr/lib #4029
  • Parent/Child:
    • Reduce memory usage in top children query #8165
    • Adding min score mode to parent-child queries #7771 (issue: #7603)
    • Support min_children and max_children on has_child query/filter #6019
    • Fix P/C assertions for rewrite reader #5731
    • Migrated p/c queries from id cache to field data. #4878 (issue: #4930)
  • Percolator:
    • Introduce index option named 'index.percolator.map_unmapped_fields_as_string' #9054 (issues: #9025, #9053)
    • Percolator should cache index field data instances. #7081 (issue: #6806)
    • Reuse IndexFieldData instances between percolator queries #6845 (issue: #6806)
    • Add MemoryIndex reuse when percolating doc with nested type #5332
  • Plugins:
    • Use of default CONF_DIR/CONF_FILE in plugin install #10721 (issues: #10673, #7946)
    • Always send current ES version when downloading plugins #10131
    • Add executable flag to every file in bin/ after install #7177
    • Lucene version checker should use Lucene.parseVersionLenient #7056
    • Introduced pluggable filter chain to be able to filter transport actions execution #6921
    • Enables plugins to define default logging configuration for their needs. #6805 (issue: #6802)
    • bin/plugin tests for missing plugin name when passing --url #6013 (issues: #5976, #5977)
    • Check plugin Lucene version #4984
    • Serving _site plugins do not pick up on index.html for sub directories #4850 (issue: #4845)
    • Add version to plugins #4378 (issues: #2668, #2784)
  • Query DSL:
    • Function score: Add default to field_value_factor #10845 (issue: #10841)
    • Add support for minimum_should_match to simple_query_string #9864 (issue: #6449)
    • Raise an exception on an array of values being sent as the factor for a field_value_factor query #9246 (issue: #7408)
    • function_score: use query and filter together #8675 (issue: #8638)
    • Add option for analyzing wildcard/prefix to simple_query_strinq #8422 (issue: #787)
    • Expose max_determinized_states in regexp query, filter #8384 (issue: #8357)
    • FunctionScore: RandomScoreFunction now accepts long, as well a strings. #8311 (issue: #8267)
    • Be stricter parsing ids for ids query #7945 (issue: #7686)
    • Function Score: Add optional weight parameter per function #7137 (issue: #6955)
    • Add time zone setting for relative date math in range filter/query #7113 (issue: #3729)
    • Add support for the _name parameter to the simple_query_string query #6979
    • Function score parser should throw exception if both functions:[] and single function given #5995
    • Refactor SimpleQueryParser settings into separate Settings class, add "lenient" option #5208 (issue: #5011)
    • Throw parsing exception if terms filter or query has more than one field #5137 (issue: #5014)
    • Add "locale" parameter to query_string and simple_query_string #5131 (issue: #5128)
    • Add support for lowercase_expanded_terms flag to simple_query_string #5126 (issue: #5008)
    • Add fuzzy/slop support to simple_query_string #4985
    • Range filter no cache behaviour for now with rounding #4955 (issues: #4846, #4947)
    • Expose dist/pre/post options for SpanNotQuery #4452
  • 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)
    • Unify query_string parameters parsing #11057
    • HttpServer: Support relative plugin paths #10975 (issue: #10958)
    • Remove global source parameter from individual APIs in REST spec #10863
    • Add option to only return simple exception messages #10117
    • Better detection of CBOR #10026 (issue: #7640)
    • Expose master_timeout flag on GET _template & HEAD _template #9688
    • Add support for multi-index query parameters for _cluster/state #9295 (issue: #5229)
    • Remove indices_boost URL param #9244 (issue: #6281)
    • Adds parameters to API endpoint cluster put settings specification #8769
    • Changed the root rest endpoint ('/') to use cluster service #7933 (issue: #7899)
    • Add the cluster name to the "/" endpoint #7524
    • A content decompressor that throws a human readable message when #7241
    • Added missing percolate API parameters to the rest spec #7173
    • Add REST API spec for /_search_shards endpoint #5907
    • Rest layer refactoring phase 2 + recycling in http layer #5708
    • Add explain flag support to the reroute API #5027 (issues: #2483, #5169)
    • Throw exception if an additional field was placed inside the "query" body #4913 (issue: #4895)
    • REST API: Consistent get field mapping response #4822 (issue: #4738)
    • Rest API: Ensure 503 signals == retry on another node #4066
  • Recovery:
    • Reduce cluster update reroutes with async fetch #11421
    • Check if the index can be opened and is not corrupted on state listing #11269 (issue: #11226)
    • Allow to recover into a folder containing a corrupted shard #10558
    • Only cancel recovery when primary completed relocation #10218
    • Engine: update index buffer size during recovery and allow configuring version map size #10046 (issues: #6363, #6667)
    • Unify RecoveryState management to IndexShard and clean up semantics #9902 (issue: #9503)
    • Only iterate the files that we recovered from the commit #9761
    • Add a timeout to local mapping change check #9575
    • Node shut down during the last phase of recovery needlessly fails shard #9496
    • Flush immediately after a remote recovery finishes (unless there are ongoing ones) #9439
    • Don't throttle recovery indexing operations #9396 (issue: #9394)
    • Release store lock before blocking on mapping updates #9102
    • Ensure shards are identical after recovery #8723
    • Be more resilient to partial network partitions #8720
    • Throw IndexShardClosedException if shard is closed #8648
    • Refactor RecoveryTarget state management #8092 (issues: #7315, #7893)
    • During recovery, mark last file chunk to fail fast if payload is truncated #7830
    • Remove unneeded waits on recovery cancellation #7717
    • Set a default of 5m to recover_after_time when any of the expected*Nodes is set #6742
    • Add a best effort waiting for ongoing recoveries to cancel on close #6741
    • Cancel recovery if shard on the target node closes during recovery operation #6645
    • RecoveryID should not be a per JVM but per Node #6207
    • Before deleting a local unused shard copy, verify we're connected to the node it's supposed to be on #6191
    • Change default recovery throttling to 50MB / sec #5913
    • Fail replica shards locally upon failures #5847 (issue: #5800)
  • Scripting:
    • Allow plugins to define custom operations that they use scripts for #10419 (issue: #10347)
    • Add String to the default whitelisted receivers #9837 (issue: #8866)
    • Make script.groovy.sandbox.method_blacklist_patch truly append-only #9473
    • Make groovy sandbox method blacklist dynamically additive #9470
    • Add explainable script again #8665 (issues: #7245, #8561)
    • Add GroovyCollections to the sandbox whitelist #7250 (issues: #7088, #7089)
    • Make ScoreAccessor utility class publicly available for other script engines #6898 (issue: #6864)
    • Remove setNextScore in SearchScript. #6864
    • Add a transformer to translate constant BigDecimal to double #6609
    • Add Groovy sandboxing for GString-based method invocation #6596
    • Fix optional default script loading #6582
    • Exposed _uid, _id and _type fields as stored fields (_fields notation) #6406
  • Search:
    • Search preference based on node specification #11464 (issue: #5925)
    • Single value numeric queries shouldn't be handled by NumericRangeQuery #10648 (issue: #10646)
    • Parse terms filters on a single term as a term filter. #9014
    • Close active search contexts on SearchService#close() #8947 (issue: #8940)
    • Reduce memory usage during fetch source sub phase #8138
    • Don't let took be negative. #7968
    • Switch to Lucene QueryRescorer #7707 (issue: #6232)
    • Use FixedBitSetFilterCache for delete-by-query #7581 (issue: #7037)
    • Speed up string sort with custom missing value #7005
    • Wrap filter only once in ApplyAcceptedDocsFilter #6873
    • Remove Queries#optimizeQuery - already handled in BooleanQuery #6743
    • Improve 404 on missing scroll id #6063 (issue: #6040)
    • Return missing (404) if a scroll_id is cleared that no longer exists. #5865 (issue: #5730)
    • Speed up exists and missing filters on high-cardinality fields #5659
    • Freq terms enum #5597
    • Capture and set start time in Delete By Query operations #5540
    • Add dedicated /_search/template endpoint for query templates #5353
    • Add failures reason to delete by query response #5095 (issue: #5093)
    • Use patched version of ReferenceManager to prevent infinite loop in ReferenceManager#acquire() #5043
    • Improve scroll search by using IndexSearcher#searchAfter(...) #4968 (issue: #4940)
  • Settings:
    • Add node setting to send SegmentInfos debug output to System.out #11546
    • Add http.publish_port setting to the HTTP module #8807 (issue: #8137)
    • Don't accept a dynamic update to min_master_nodes which is larger then current master node count #8321
    • Validates bool values in yaml for node settings #8186 (issue: #8097)
    • Security: Disable CORS by default #7642 (issue: #7151)
    • Store index creation time in index metadata #7218 (issue: #7119)
    • Make cluster.routing.allocation.allow_rebalance a dynamic setting #7095 (issue: #7092)
    • Security: Allow to configure CORS allow-credentials header to work via SSL #7059 (issue: #6380)
    • Allow index.merge.scheduler.max_thread_count to be dynamically changed #6925 (issue: #6882)
    • Security: Support regular expressions for CORS allow-origin to match against #6923 (issues: #5601, #6891)
    • Added three frequency levels for resource watching #6896
    • Added more utility methods to Settings #6840
    • Improve Settings#get lookup for camel case support #6765
    • Security: Make JSONP responses optional. #6164
    • Allow to change concurrent merge scheduling setting dynamically #6098
    • Throw error when incorrect setting applied to auto_expand_replicas#5752
    • Add getAsRatio to Settings class, allow DiskThresholdDecider to take percentages #5690
    • Corrected issue with throttle type setting not respected upon updates #5392
    • Made possible to dynamically update discovery.zen.publish_timeout cluster setting #5068 (issue: #5063)
  • Shadow Replicas:
    • Implement retries for ShadowEngine creation #10688 (issue: #10637)
    • Allow relocating primary shards on shared filesystems without failing the shard #10469
    • Allow primary promotion on shadow replica without failing the shard #9786
  • Snapshot/Restore:
    • Add validation of snapshot FileInfo during parsing #12108
    • Add snapshot name validation logic to all snapshot operations #11617
    • Check that reading indices is allowed before creating their snapshots #11133
    • Don't throw an exception if repositories are unregistered with * #11113
    • Improve the error message when attempting to snapshot a closed index #10608 (issue: #10579)
    • AbstractBlobContainer.deleteByPrefix() should not list all blobs #10366 (issue: #10344)
    • Batching of snapshot state updates #10295
    • Expand wildcards in snapshot #9903 (issue: #6097)
    • Refactor how restore cleans up files after snapshot was restored #9770
    • Add support for changing index settings during restore process #9285 (issue: #7887)
    • Override write(byte[] b, int off, int len) in FilterOutputStream for better performance #8749 (issue: #8748)
    • Allow custom metadata to specify whether or not it should be in a snapshot #7901 (issue: #7900)
    • Add repository validation #7680 (issue: #7096)
    • Write Snapshots directly to the blobstore stream #7637
    • It should be possible to restore an index without restoring its aliases #6457
    • Snapshot/Restore: Add ability to restore partial snapshots #6368 (issue: #5742)
    • Switch to shared thread pool for all snapshot repositories #6182 (issue: #6181)
    • Improve speed of running snapshot cancelation #5244 (issue: #5242)
    • Add ability to get snapshot status for running snapshots #5123 (issue: #4946)
    • Add throttling to snaphost and restore operations #4891 (issue: #4855)
  • Stats:
    • Add CommitStats to supply information about the current commit point #10687
    • Add throttle stats to index stats and recovery stats #10097
    • Recovery: add total operations to the _recovery API #10042 (issue: #9368)
    • Add pending tasks count to cluster health #9877
    • Add ignore_idle_threads (default: true) to hot threads #8985 (issue: #8908)
    • Add time in index throttle to index stats. #7896 (issue: #7861)
    • Add segments.index_writer_max_memory to stats #7440 (issues: #6483, #7438)
    • Track the number of times the CircuitBreaker has been tripped #6134 (issue: #6130)
    • Remove field names in stats url #6054 (issue: #5671)
    • Add suggest stats #5563 (issue: #4032)
    • Disable RAM usage estimation on Lucene 3.x segments. #5202 (issue: #5201)
  • Store:
    • Consolidate directory lock obtain code #11390
    • Schedule pending delete if index store delete fails #9856
    • Improve safety when deleting files from the store #9801
    • Add simple cache for StoreStats #9709 (issue: #9683)
    • Use Directory#fileLength() less during calculating checksums #9689
    • Cache fileLength for fully written files #9683
    • Synchronize operations that modify file mappings on DistributorDirectory #8408
    • Cut over MetaDataStateFormat to NIO Path API #8297
    • Remove special file handling from DistributorDirectory #8276
    • Try to increment store before searcher is acquired #7792
    • Fold two hashFile implemenation into one #7720
    • Before deleting shard verify that another node holds an active shard instance #6692
    • Make a hybrid directory default using mmapfs / niofs #6636
  • Suggesters:
    • Phrase Suggester Collate Enhancements #10710 (issue: #9377)
    • Collate option in PhraseSuggester should allow returning phrases with no matching docs #6929 (issue: #6927)
    • Speed up phrase suggestion scoring #5396 (issue: #5395)
  • Term Vectors:
    • Only load term statistics if required #11737
    • Requests are now timed #9583
    • Add support for realtime term vectors #7846
    • Support for custom analyzers in term vectors and MLT query #7801
    • Support for artificial documents #7530
    • Return found: false for docs requested between index and refresh #7124 (issue: #7121)
    • Adds support for wildcards in selected fields #7061
    • Compute term vectors on the fly if not stored in index #6567 (issue: #5184)
  • Top Hits:
    • In top_hits agg, when parent doc is found stop iterating over segments and continue with the next top matching child doc #6895 (issue: #1843)
    • Added pagination support to top_hits aggregation by adding from option #6312 (issue: #6299)
  • Translog:
    • Use buffered translog type also when sync is set to 0 #10993
    • Remove useless random translog directory selection #10589
    • Handle truncated translog gracefully #9797 (issue: #9699)
    • Refactor the Translog.read(Location) method #7780
    • Write translog opSize twice #7735
    • Remove unused stream #7683
    • Clean up translog interface #7564
    • Add translog checksums #7232 (issue: #6554)
    • Set default translog flush_threshold_ops to unlimited, to flush by byte size by default and not penalize tiny documents #6783 (issue: #6443)
    • Use unlimited flush_threshold_ops for translog (again) #6726
    • Raise proper failure if not fully reading translog entry #6562
    • Use unlimited flush_threshold_ops for translog #5900
    • Fix visibility in buffered translog #5609
    • Use BytesReference to write to translog files #5463
    • Don't throttle the translog stage of recovery #4890
  • Tribe Node:
    • Index level blocks, index conflict settings #5501
  • Upgrade API:
    • Refactor upgrade API to use transport and write minimum compatible version that the index was upgraded to #11333 (issues: #11072, #11095)
    • Add upgrade_only_ancient_segments option to upgrade API #10540 (issue: #10213)
    • Remove ability to run optimize and upgrade async #9640 (issue: #9638)
    • Log when upgrade API starts and stops #9229 (issue: #9227)

    • Bug fixes

    • Aggregations:
      • Fix cidr mask conversion issue for 0.0.0.0/0 and add tests #12005 #12430 (issue: #12005)
      • Allow aggregations_binary to build and parse #11473 (issue: #11457)
      • Fix geo bounds aggregation when longitude is 0 #11090 (issue: #11085)
      • Fixes Infinite values return from geo_bounds with non-zero bucket-ordinals #10917 (issue: #10804)
      • Fix _as_string output to only show when format specified #10571 (issue: #10284)
      • Be lenient when converting local to utc time in time zone roundings #10031 (issue: #10025)
      • Prevent negative intervals in date_histogram #9690 (issue: #9634)
      • Remove limitation on field access within aggs to the types provided in the search #9487
      • Validate the aggregation order on unmapped terms in terms agg. #8952 (issue: #8946)
      • Fix date_histogram issues during a timezone DST switch #8655 (issue: #8339)
      • Fix geohash grid doc counts computation on multi-valued fields #8574 (issue: #8512)
      • Parser throws NullPointerException when Filter aggregation clause is empty #8527 (issue: #8438)
      • Fix geohash grid aggregation on multi-valued fields. #8513 (issue: #8507)
      • Fixes scripted metrics aggregation when used as a sub aggregation #8037 (issue: #8036)
      • Makes script params consistent with other APIs in scripted_metric #7969
      • Significant terms can throw error on index with deleted docs. #7960 (issue: #7951)
      • Fixes resize bug in Geo bounds Aggregator #7565 (issue: #7556)
      • Fixes pre and post offset serialisation for histogram aggs #7313 (issue: #7312)
      • key_as_string only shown when format specified in terms agg #7160 (issue: #7125)
      • Fixed value count so it can be used in terms order #7051 (issue: #7050)
      • Fix infinite loop in the histogram reduce logic. #7022 (issue: #6965)
      • More lenient type parsing in histo/cardinality aggs #6948 (issue: #6893)
      • Fixed Histogram key_as_string bug #6830 (issue: #6655)
      • Fix JSON response for significant terms #6535
      • Fix reducing of range aggregations. #6484 (issue: #6435)
      • Fix cardinality aggregation when doc values field is empty #6413
      • Fixed conversion of date field values when using multiple date formats #6266 (issue: #6239)
      • Fail queries that have two aggregations with the same name. #6258 (issue: #6255)
      • Aggregations parsing is too lenient. #5837 (issue: #5827)
      • Fix DateHistogramBuilder to use a String pre_offset and post_offset #5587 (issue: #5586)
      • DateHistogram.Bucket should return the date key in UTC #5477
      • Fix cardinality memory-usage considerations. #5452
      • Allow scripts to return more than 4 values in aggregations. #5416 (issue: #5414)
      • Invoke postCollection on aggregation collectors #5387
      • Fixed a bug in date_histogram aggregation parsing #5379 (issue: #5375)
      • Fix NPE/AIOOBE when building a bucket which has not been collected. #5250 (issue: #5048)
      • Changing the sorting for terms aggs, #5237 (issue: #5236)
      • Changed the caching of FieldDataSource in aggs to be based on field name... #5205 (issue: #5190)
      • date_histogram against empty index results in ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException #5179
      • Fix BytesRef owning issue in string terms aggregations. #5039 (issue: #5021)
      • Fix hashCode values of aggregations' BytesValues. #5006 (issue: #5004)
      • Sorting terms agg by sub-aggegation doesn't respect asc/desc when executing on a single shard #4951
      • Fixed an issue where there are sub aggregations executing on a single shard #4869 (issue: #4843)
    • Aliases:
      • Take into account _default_ mapping in index template when parsing alias filter in index templates. #8577 (issue: #8473)
      • PUT /_aliases should accept a numeric routing value #5471 (issue: #5465)
    • Allocation:
      • Fix messaging about delayed allocation #12515 (issue: #12456)
      • Shard Started messages should be matched using an exact match #11999
      • Reroute after node join is processed #11960 (issues: #11776, #11923)
      • GatewayAllocator: reset rerouting flag after error #11519 (issue: #11421)
      • Weight deltas must be absolute deltas #9149 (issue: #9023)
      • Fix handling of dangling_timeout set to 0 and auto_import_dangled true #8257
      • Enable ClusterInfoService by default #8206
      • Improve handling of failed primary replica handling #6816 (issue: #6808)
      • Do not ignore ConnectTransportException for shard replication operations #6813
      • Failed shards could be re-assigned to the same nodes if multiple replicas failed at once #5725
      • BalancedShardAllocator makes non-deterministic rebalance decisions #4867
    • Analysis:
      • Custom analyzer names and aliases must not start with _ #11303 (issue: #9596)
      • Fix tokenizer settings in SynonymTokenFilterFactory #10489
      • CharArraySet doesn't know how to lookup the original string in an ImmutableList. #6238 (issue: #6237)
      • Analyze API: Default analyzer accidentally removed stopwords #6043 (issue: #5974)
    • Bulk:
      • Allow null values in the bulk action/metadata line parameters #11459 (issue: #11458)
      • Throw exception if unrecognized parameter in bulk action/metadata line #11331 (issue: #10977)
      • _default_ mapping should be picked up from index template during auto create index from bulk API #10762 (issue: #10609)
      • Removed duplicate timeout param #10205
      • Handle failed request when auto create index is disabled #8163 (issue: #8125)
      • Bulk operation can create duplicates on primary relocation #7729
      • Cluster block with auto create index bulk action can cause bulk execution to not return #7109 (issue: #7086)
      • Do not fail whole request on closed index #6790 (issue: #6410)
      • Fix return of wrong request type on failed updates #6646 (issue: #6630)
      • Bulk request which try and fail to create multiple indices may never return #6436
      • Fix mapping creation on bulk request #5623
      • Ensure that index specific failures do not affect whole request #4995 (issue: #4987)
      • Failed preparsing does not fail whole bulk request #4781 (issue: #4745)
    • CAT API:
      • _cat/nodes: Thread null handling through stats and info #9938 (issue: #6297)
      • Fix NullPointerException in cat-recovery API #6190
      • _cat/allocation returns -1 as disk.total for clients nodes #5948
      • ElasticsearchIllegalStateException when invoking _cat plugins #5715
      • Node version sometimes empty in _cat/nodes #5480
    • CRUD:
      • detect_noop now understands null as a valid value #11210 (issue: #11208)
      • The parent option on update request should be used for upsert only. #9612 (issue: #4538)
      • Don't throw DAEE on replica for create operation; use IW.updateDocument/s instead #7146 (issue: #7142)
      • MultiGet: Fail when using no routing on an alias to an index that requires routing #7145
      • Add parameter to GET API for checking if generated fields can be retrieved #6973 (issue: #6676)
      • DocumentMissingException is also thrown on update retries #6724 (issue: #6355)
    • Cache:
      • Don't use bitset cache for children filters. #10663 (issues: #10629, #10662)
      • Remove query-cache serialization optimization. #9500 (issue: #9294)
      • Queries are never cached when date math expressions are used (including exact dates) #9269 (issue: #9225)
      • Change default eager loading behaviour for nested fields and parent/child in bitset cache #8440
      • Don't eagerly load NestedDocsFilter in bitset filter cache, because it is never used. #8414 (issue: #8394)
      • Fixed bitset filter cache leftover in nested filter #8303
      • Cleanup non nested filter to not flip the FixedBitSet returned by the wrapped filter. #8232 (issue: #8227)
      • Move the child filter over to the fixed bitset cache. #8171
    • Circuit Breakers:
      • Make "noop" request breaker a non-dynamic setting #8179
      • Only set breaker when stats are retrieved #7721
      • Disable circuit breaking for BigArrays #6381 (issue: #6332)
      • Percolator doesn't reduce CircuitBreaker stats in every case. #5588
      • Fix possible discrepancy in circuit breaker in parent/child #5526
      • Fix issue where circuit breaker was always reset to 80% upon startup #5334
      • NullPointerException in RamAccounntingTermsEnum #5326
    • Cluster:
      • ClusterHealth shouldn't fail with "unexpected failure" if master steps down while waiting for events #11493
      • GatewayService should register cluster state listener before checking for current state #8789
      • Extend refresh-mapping logic to the _default_ type #8413 (issue: #4760)
      • ClusterHealthAPI does not respect waitForEvents when local flag is set #7731
      • Use node's cluster name as a default for an incoming cluster state who misses it #7414 (issue: #7386)
      • Use the provided cluster state instead of fetching a new cluster state from cluster service. #7013
      • During recovery, only send mapping updates to master if needed #6772 (issue: #6762)
      • Check for index blocks against concrete indices on master operations #6694
      • Also send Refresh and Flush actions to relocation targets #6545
      • Do not execute cluster state changes if current node is no longer master #6230
      • Add cluster name to state #5624 (issue: #5622)
      • TransportMasterNodeOperationAction: tighter check for postAdded cluster state change #5548 (issue: #5499)
    • Core:
      • ThreadPools: schedule a timeout check after adding command to queue #12319
      • 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)
      • Use System.nanoTime for elapsed time #11058
      • Increase default rate limiting for snapshot, restore and recovery to 40 MB/sec #10185 (issue: #6018)
      • Also throttle delete by query when merges fall behind #9986
      • Promptly cleanup updateTask timeout handler #9621
      • Disable auto gen id optimization #9468 (issue: #8788)
      • Verify the index state of concrete indices after alias resolution #9057
      • ignore_unavailable shouldn't ignore closed indices #9047 (issue: #7153)
      • Hard wire utf-8 encoding, so unicode filenames work #8847
      • Remove unnecessary index removal on index creation #8639
      • Remove _state directory if index has been deleted #8610
      • Disable bloom filters #8572 (issues: #8564, #8571)
      • Return 0 instead of -1 for unknown/non-exposed ramBytesUsed() #8291 (issue: #8239)
      • Don't catch FNF/NSF exception when reading metadata #8207
      • Don't handle FNF exceptions when reading snapshot #8086
      • Upgrade to Jackson Smile 2.4.1.1 #7327 (issue: #18)
      • Force refresh when versionMap is using too much RAM #6443 (issue: #6378)
      • Use XNativeFSLockFactory instead of the buggy Lucene 4.8.1 version #6424
      • Restore shard routing. #6393 (issues: #5562, #6391)
      • Don't report terms as live if all it's docs are filtered out #6221 (issue: #6211)
      • Ensure pending merges are updated on segment flushes #5780 (issue: #5779)
    • Dates:
      • Query string time zone not working #10883 (issue: #10477)
      • DateMath: Use time zone when rounding. #9885 (issue: #9814)
      • Resolve now in date ranges in percolator and alias filters at search time instead of parse time #8534 (issue: #8474)
    • Discovery:
      • ZenDiscovery: #11960 failed to remove eager reroute from node join #12019
      • Node receiving a cluster state with a wrong master node should reject and throw an error #9963
      • Check index uuid when merging incoming cluster state into the local one #9541 (issue: #9489)
      • Removed unnecessary DiscoveryService reference from LocalDiscovery #8415 (issue: #8539)
      • Improve the lifecycle management of the join control thread in zen discovery. #8327
      • UnicastZenPing - use temporary node ids if can't resolve node by it's address #7719
      • Transport client: Don't add listed nodes to connected nodes list in sniff mode #7067 (issues: #6811, #6829, #6894)
      • Handle ConnectionTransportException during a Master/Node fault detection ping during Discovery #6686
    • Engine:
      • Sync translog before closing engine #10484
      • Add current translog ID to commit meta before closing #8245
      • The index.fail_on_corruption setting is not updateable #6941
      • Closing an IndexReader on an already relocated / closed shard can cause memory leaks #5825
    • Exceptions:
      • Fixing copy/paste mistake in SearchRequest.extraSource's exception message #8118 (issue: #8117)
      • Turn unexpected exceptions when reading segments into CorruptedIndexException #7693
      • Throw better error if invalid scroll id is used #5738 (issue: #5730)
    • Fielddata:
      • Fix iterator over global ordinals. #8627 (issue: #8580)
      • Fix FieldDataWeighter generics to accept RamUsage instead of AtomicFieldData #6262 (issue: #6260)
      • Eager fielddata loading not working #5557
    • Geo:
      • Correct ShapeBuilder coordinate parser to ignore values in 3rd+ dimension #10539 (issue: #10510)
      • Fix hole intersection at tangential coordinate #10332 (issue: #9511)
      • Fix validate_* merge policy for GeoPointFieldMapper #10165 (issue: #10164)
      • Correct bounding box logic for GeometryCollection type #9550 (issue: #9360)
      • Throw helpful exception for Polygons with holes outside of shell #9105 (issue: #9071)
      • GIS envelope validation #9091 (issues: #2544, #8672, #9067, #9079, #9080)
      • Fix for NPE enclosed in SearchParseException for a "geo_shape" filter or query #8785 (issue: #8432)
      • Fix for geohash neighbors when geohash length is even. #8529 (issue: #8526)
      • Fix for ArithmeticException[/ by zero] when parsing a polygon #8475 (issue: #8433)
      • Remove unnecessary code from geo distance builder #8338
      • Fix IndexedGeoBoundingBoxFilter to not modify the bits of other filters. #8325
      • Fix circle radius calculation #7338 (issue: #7301)
      • Improved error handling in geo_distance #7272 (issue: #7260)
      • Fixes computation of geohash neighbours #7247 (issue: #7226)
      • Better error for invalid multipolygon #7190 (issue: #7126)
      • Fix geo_shapes which intersect dateline #7188 (issue: #7016)
      • Fixes parse error with complex shapes #6976 (issue: #5773)
      • Issue with polygons near date line #6282 (issue: #6179)
      • optimize_bbox for geo_distance filters can cause missing results #6008
      • Add exceptions to GeoPointFieldMapper #5403 (issue: #5390)
    • Highlighting:
      • Plain highlighter to use analyzer defined on a document level #6267 (issue: #5497)
      • Implement BlendedTermQuery#extractTerms to support highlighing. #5247 (issue: #5246)
      • Made SearchContextHighlight.Field class immutable to prevent from unwanted updates #5223 (issue: #5175)
      • Highlighting on a wildcard field name causes the wildcard expression to be returned rather than the actual field name #5221
      • Fixed multi term queries support in postings highlighter for non top-level queries #5143 (issues: #4052, #5127)
    • Index APIs:
      • Remove expansion of empty index arguments in RoutingTable #10148 (issue: #9081)
      • Fix to make GET Index API consistent with docs #9178 (issue: #9148)
      • Fix optimize behavior with 'force' and 'flush' flags. #7920 (issues: #7886, #7904)
      • Fixed validate query parsing issues #6114 (issues: #6111, #6112, #6116)
    • Indexed Scripts/Templates:
      • Fix updating templates. #10526 (issue: #10397)
      • ScriptService can deadlock entire nodes if script index is recovering #8901
      • GetIndexedScript call can deadlock #8266
      • Make template params take arrays #8255
      • Cleaned up various issues #7787 (issues: #7559, #7560, #7567, #7568, #7647)
      • Change the default auto_expand for the .scripts index to 0-all #7502
      • Fix .script index template. #7500
    • Inner Hits:
      • Fix multi level parent/child bug #11199
      • Make sure size=0 works on the inner_hits level. #10388 (issue: #10358)
      • Make sure inner hits also works for nested fields defined in object field #10353 (issue: #10334)
      • Fix bug where parse error is thrown if a inner filter is used in a nested filter/query. #10309 (issue: #10308)
      • Fix nested stored field support. #10235 (issue: #9766)
      • Don't fail if an object is specified as a nested value instead of an array. #9743 (issue: #9723)
      • Make sure inner hits defined on has_parent query resolve hits properly #9384
    • Internal:
      • Fix concurrency issue in PrioritizedEsThreadPoolExecutor. #12599
      • 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
      • Make JNA optional for tests and move classes to bootstrap package #11378 (issue: #11360)
      • Fix CompressedString.equals. #11233
      • ThreadPool: make sure no leaking threads are left behind in case of initialization failure #11061 (issue: #9107)
      • Propagate headers & contexts to sub-requests #11060 (issue: #10979)
      • Fix NPE in PendingDelete#toString #11032
      • Ensure that explanation descriptions are not null on serialization #10689 (issue: #10399)
      • Fix possible NPE in InternalClusterService$NotifyTimeout, the future field is set from a different thread #10630 (issue: #3)
      • Allow ActionListener to be called on the network thread #10573 (issue: #10402)
      • Add missing hashCode method to RecoveryState#File #10501
      • Don't try to send a mapping refresh if there is no master #10311 (issue: #10283)
      • Fix PageCacheRecycler's max page size computation. #10087 (issue: #10077)
      • Close all resources if doStart fails #9898
      • Snapshot status api: make sure headers are handed over to inner nodes request #9409
      • Fix equality check of timevalue after serialization #9218
      • AdapterActionFuture should not set currentThread().interrupt() #9141 (issue: #9001)
      • PlainTransportFuture should not set currentThread().interrupt() #9001
      • IndexService - synchronize close to prevent race condition with shard creation #8557
      • When corruption strikes, don't create exceptions with circular references #8331
      • In fixed bitset service fix order where the warmer listener is added. #8168 (issue: #8140)
      • Only schedule another refresh if refresh_interval is positive #8087 (issue: #8085)
      • Fix serialization of PendingClusterTask.timeInQueue. #8077
      • Dangling indices import ignores aliases #8059
      • Fix serialization of short[] arays. #8025 (issue: #7845)
      • Make close() synchronized during node shutdown #7885
      • Ensure GroupShardsIterator is consistent across requests, to ensure consistent sorting #7698
      • Fix ordering of Regex.simpleMatch() parameters #7661 (issue: #7651)
      • Unify search context cleanup #7643 (issue: #7625)
      • Use SEARCH threadpool for potentially blocking operations #7624 (issue: #7623)
      • Make network interface iteration order consistent #7494
      • Add all unsafe variants of LZF compress library functions to forbidden APIs. #7468 (issue: #8078)
      • Wait until engine is started up when acquiring searcher #7456 (issue: #7455)
      • Fix discovery.id.seed #7439 (issue: #7437)
      • Made original indices optional for broadcast delete and delete by query shard requests #7406
      • Force optimize was not passed to shard request #7405 (issue: #7404)
      • Fixed a request headers bug in transport client #7302
      • Fix explanation streaming #7257
      • VerboseProgress(PrintWriter) does not set the writer #7254
      • Fix a very rare case of corruption in compression used for internal cluster communication. #7210
      • Fix BytesStreamInput(BytesReference) ctor with nonzero offset #7197
      • Fix serialization bug in reroute API #7135
      • Support parsing lucene minor version strings #7055
      • Fix connect concurrency, can cause connection nodes to close #6964
      • Drop UnsafeUtils #6963 (issue: #6962)
      • When serializing HttpInfo, return null info if service is not started #6906
      • Remove indicesLifecycle.Listener from IndexingMemoryController #6892
      • Fix possible NPE during shutdown for requests using timeouts #6849
      • Prevent NPE if engine is closed while version map is checked #6786
      • If the node initialisation fails, make sure the node environment is closed correctly #6715
      • IndexingMemoryController should only update buffer settings of fully recovered shards #6667 (issue: #6642)
      • Fix possible race condition in checksum name generator #6662
      • Allow to serialize negative thread pool sizes #6486 (issues: #5357, #6325)
      • The ignore_unavailable option should also ignore indices that are closed #6475 (issue: #6471)
      • Guava doesn't explicitly remove entries when clearing the entire cache #6296
      • MetaData#concreteIndices to throw exception with a single index argument if allowNoIndices == false #6137
      • Restore read/write visibility in PlainShardsIterator. #6039 (issue: #5561)
      • Use TransportBulkAction for internal request from IndicesTTLService #5795 (issue: #5766)
      • Take stream position into account when calculating remaining length #5677 (issue: #5667)
      • Fix some warnings reported by Findbugs. #5571
      • Assorted fixes for bugs in the PagedBytesReference tests #5549
      • Fix for zero-sized content throwing off toChannelBuffer(). #5543
      • Count latch down if sendsPing throws exception #5440
      • Fix yamlBuilder() to return YAML builder instead of SMILE #5186 (issue: #5185)
    • Java API:
      • Add missing rewrite parameter to FuzzyQueryBuilder #11139 (issue: #11130)
      • Ensure netty I/O thread is not blocked in TransportClient #10644
      • toString for SearchRequestBuilder and CountRequestBuilder #9944 (issues: #5555, #5576)
      • Added missing module registration in TransportClient for Significant Terms #7852 (issue: #7840)
      • Get indexed script shouldn't allow to set the index #7553
      • Add back string op type to IndexRequest #7387
      • Fixed the node retry mechanism which could fail without trying all the connected nodes #6829
      • Fix source excludes setting if no includes were provided #6632
      • BulkRequest#add(Iterable) to support UpdateRequests #6551
      • Make sure afterBulk is always called in BulkProcessor #6495 (issue: #5038)
      • JsonXContentGenerator#writeRawField produces invalid JSON if raw field is the first field in the json object #5514
      • Fix returning incorrect XContentParser #5510
      • Enforce query instance checking before it wrapper as a filter #5431
      • forceSource highlighting field option doesn't have any effect when set using the Java API #5220
      • BulkProcessor process every n+1 docs instead of n #4265
    • Logging:
      • Use task's class name if not a TimedPrioritizeRunnable #11610
      • Fix potential NPE in new tracer log if request timeout #9994 (issue: #9286)
      • Fix example in logging daily rotate configuration #8550 (issue: #8464)
      • Fix location information for loggers #8052 (issue: #5130)
      • Fixes Logger class for BackgroundIndexer #6781
      • Fix format string for DiskThresholdDecider reroute explanation #5749
    • Mapping:
      • numeric_resolution should only apply to dates provided as numbers. #11002 (issue: #10995)
      • Make GeoContext mapping idempotent #10602 (issues: #10581, #8937)
      • Unneccesary mapping refreshes caused by unordered fielddata settings #10370 (issue: #10318)
      • Fixed an equality check in StringFieldMapper. #10359 (issue: #10357)
      • Fix _field_names to be disabled on pre 1.3.0 indexes #10268 (issue: #9893)
      • Fix ignore_malformed behaviour for ip fields #10112
      • Update dynamic fields in mapping on master even if parsing fails for the rest of the doc #9874 (issue: #9851)
      • Throw StrictDynamicMappingException exception if dynamic:strict and undeclared field value is null #9445 (issue: #9444)
      • Using default:null for _timestamp field creates a index loss on restart #9233 (issues: #9104, #9223)
      • Reencode transformed result with same xcontent #8974 (issue: #8959)
      • Serialize doc values settings for _timestamp #8967 (issue: #8893)
      • Update cluster state with type mapping also for failed indexing request #8692 (issue: #8650)
      • Fix conflict when updating mapping with _all disabled #8426 (issues: #7377, #8423)
      • Generate dynamic mappings for empty strings. #8329 (issue: #8198)
      • Throw exception if null_value is set to null #7978 (issue: #7273)
      • Posting a mapping with default analyzer fails #7902 (issue: #2716)
      • Add explicit error when PUT mapping API is given an empty request body. #7618 (issue: #7536)
      • Enable merging of properties in the _timestamp field #7614 (issues: #5772, #6958, #777)
      • Fix index setting in _boost field #7557
      • Keep parameters in mapping for _timestamp and _size even if disabled #7475
      • Report conflict when trying to disable _ttl #7316 (issues: #7293, #777)
      • Make sure that multi fields are serialized in a consistent order. #7220 (issue: #7215)
      • Fix dynamic mapping of geo_point fields #7175 (issue: #6939)
      • Improve IP address validation #7141 (issue: #7131)
      • Fix copy_to behavior on nested documents. #7079 (issue: #6701)
      • Add multi_field support for Mapper externalValue (plugins) #6867 (issue: #5402)
      • Fix possibility of losing meta configuration on field mapping update #6550 (issue: #5053)
      • Allow _version to use disk as a doc values format. #6523
      • Path-based routing doesn't work with doc values #5844
      • geo_point doesn't allow null values as of 1.1.0 #5680
      • Check "store" parameter for binary mapper and check "index_name" for all mappers #5585 (issue: #5474)
      • Fix dynamic_type in dynamic_template #5564 (issue: #5256)
      • Fix include_in_all for multi field #5522 (issue: #5364)
      • merge GeoPoint specific mapping properties #5506 (issue: #5505)
      • Merge null_value for boolean field and remove include_in_all for boolean field in doc #5503 (issue: #5502)
      • Geo Point Fieldmapper: Allow distance for geohash precision #5449 (issue: #5448)
      • Make sure get field mapping request is executed on node hosting the index #5225 (issue: #5177)
      • Added fields support to geo_point and completion field type #4963
    • More Like This:
      • Fix potentially unpositioned enum #12066
      • Fix exclude with artificial documents #8679
      • Fix percent_terms_to_match #7754
      • Remove unused search_query_hint parameter #7691
      • More Like This API would not take into account size and from in request body #5981
    • Rivers:
      • Rivers might not get started due to missing _meta document #4864
    • Nested Docs:
      • Nested agg needs to reset root doc between segments. #9441 (issues: #9436, #9437)
      • Fix handling of multiple buckets being emitted for the same parent doc id in nested aggregation #9346 (issues: #8454, #9317)
      • In reverse nested aggregation, fix handling of the same child doc id being processed multiple times. #9345 (issues: #9263, #9346)
      • The parent filter of the nested aggregator isn't resolved correctly all the time #9335 (issue: #9280)
      • Change nested agg to execute in doc id order #8454
      • The nested aggregator should iterate over the child doc ids in ascending order. #7514 (issue: #7505)
      • If the _type field isn't indexed nested inner docs must be filtered out. #7410
      • The nested aggregator should also resolve and use the parentFilter of the closest reverse_nested aggregator. #7048 (issue: #6994)
      • Allow sorting on nested sub generated field #6151 (issue: #6150)
      • A nested nested aggregation falls outside of its parent nested aggregation bounds #5728
    • Network:
      • Transport: fix racing condition in timeout handling #10220 (issue: #10187)
      • Netty: Add HTTP pipelining support #8299 (issue: #2665)
      • Fix NPE when initializing an accepted socket in NettyTransport. #6144
    • 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)
      • Add antlr and asm dependencies #9696
      • Added quotes to allow spaces in installation path #8428 (issue: #8441)
      • Move forbidden api signature files to dev-tools. #7921 (issue: #7917)
      • Parsing command line args multiple times throws AlreadySelectedException #7282
      • Don't remove ancestors on deb removal #7078 (issue: #5770)
      • Shade mustache into org.elasticsearch.common package #6193 (issue: #6192)
      • Export JAVA_HOME in RPM init script #5434
      • Set permission in debian postinst script correctly #5158 (issue: #3820)
      • RPMs: Add timeout to shutdown with KILL signal #4721 (issue: #5020)
    • Parent/Child:
      • Fix 2 bugs in children agg #10263 (issues: #10158, #9544, #9958)
      • Post collection the children agg should also invoke that phase on its wrapped child aggs. #9291 (issue: #9271)
      • Fix concurrency issues of the _parent field data. #9030 (issue: #8396)
      • Fixed p/c filters not being able to be used in alias filters. #8649 (issues: #5916, #8628)
      • Missing parent routing causes NullPointerException in Bulk API #8506 (issue: #8365)
      • The children agg didn't take deleted document into account #8180
      • Check if there is a search context, otherwise throw a query parse exception. #8177 (issue: #8031)
      • has_parent filter must take parent filter into account when executing the inner query/filter #8020 (issue: #7362)
      • A has_child or other p/c query wrapped in a query filter may emit wrong results #7685
      • Add support for the field data loading option to the _parent field. #7402 (issue: #7394)
      • If _parent field points to a non existing parent type, then skip the has_parent query/filter #7362 (issue: #7349)
      • Disabled parent/child queries in the delete by query api. #5916 (issue: #5828)
      • Parse has_child query/filter after child type has been parsed #5838 (issue: #5783)
      • Parent / child queries should work with non-default similarities #4979 (issue: #4977)
    • 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)
      • Prevent PercolateResponse from serializing negative VLong #11138
      • Fix wrong use of currentFieldName outside of a parsing loop #10307
      • Support encoded body as query string param consistently #9628
      • Take filters from aliases into account #9590 (issue: #6241)
      • Fixed bug when using multi percolate api with routing #9161 (issue: #6214)
      • Pass down the types from the delete mapping request to the delete by query request #7091 (issue: #7087)
      • Fix memory leak when percolating with nested documents #6578
      • Fix handling of nested documents #6544 (issue: #6540)
      • Percolator: Fix assertion in percolation with nested docs #6263
      • Add num_of_shards statistic to percolate context #6123 (issue: #6037)
      • The percolator needs to take deleted percolator documents into account. #5843 (issue: #5840)
      • Propagate percolate mapping changes to cluster state #5776
      • Fix highlighting in percolate existing doc api #5108
      • Make highlight query also work in the percolate api #5090
      • Percolator response always returns the matches key. #4882 (issue: #4881)
    • Plugins:
      • Only load a plugin once from the classpath #11301
      • HTTP: Ensure url path expansion only works inside of plugins #10815
      • Installation failed when directories are on different file systems #9011 (issue: #8999)
      • NPE when plugins dir is inaccessible #8839 (issue: #8837)
      • Support usage of ES_JAVA_OPTS in plugin commands #8288
      • Fix config path extraction from plugin handle #7935
      • Plugins with only bin and config do not install correctly #7154 (issue: #7152)
      • bin/plugin removes itself #6745
      • Removing plugin does not fail when plugin dir is read only #6735 (issue: #6546)
      • Fix github download link when using specific version #6321
      • Properly quote $JAVA in bin/plugin #5765
      • NPE in PluginsService when starting elasticsearch with a wrong user #5196 (issues: #4186, #5195)
      • Upgrading analysis plugins fails #5034 (issues: #4936, #5030)
    • Query DSL:
      • Do not track named queries that are null #12691 (issue: #12683)
      • multi_match query applies boosts too many times. #12294
      • QueryString ignores maxDeterminizedStates when creating a WildcardQuery #12269 (issue: #12266)
      • Fix RegexpQueryBuilder#maxDeterminizedStates #12083 (issue: #11896)
      • CommonTermsQuery fix for ignored coordination factor #11780 (issue: #11730)
      • Fix support for _name in some queries #11694
      • Score value is 0 in _explanation with random_score query #10742
      • Avoid NPE during query parsing #10333
      • Function score: Apply min_score to sub query score if no function provided #10326 (issue: #10253)
      • function_score: undo "Remove explanation of query score from functions" #9826
      • Fix wrong error messages in MultiMatchQueryParser #8597
      • DateMath: Fix semantics of rounding with inclusive/exclusive ranges. #8556 (issue: #8424)
      • Make simple_query_string leniency more fine-grained #8162 (issue: #7967)
      • Fix NumberFormatException in Simple Query String Query #7876 (issue: #7875)
      • Empty bool {} should return match_all #7347 (issue: #7240)
      • Function Score: Fix explain distance string #7248
      • Function Score: Remove explanation of query score from functions #7245
      • Cache range filter on date field by default #7122 (issue: #7114)
      • Throw exception if function in function score query is null #6784 (issue: #6292)
      • QueryParser can return null from a query #6723 (issue: #6722)
      • Fix MatchQueryParser not parsing fuzzy_transpositions #6300
      • Range/Term query/filter on dates fail to handle numbers properly #5969
      • Fixing questionable PNRG behavior #5613 (issues: #5454, #5578)
      • Add slop to prefix phrase query after parsing query string #5438 (issues: #5005, #5437)
      • Allow edit distances > 2 on FuzzyLikeThisQuery #5374 (issue: #5292)
      • Use FieldMapper to create the low level term queries in CommonTermQuery #5273 (issue: #5258)
      • Make _exists_/_missing_ behave consistently with exists/missing. #5145 (issue: #5142)
      • Allow specifying nested fields in simple_query_string #5110 (issue: #5091)
      • Added exception to match and multi-match queries if passed an invalid type param #4971 (issue: #4964)
      • Filtered query parses _name incorrectly #4960
      • Never cache a range filter that uses the now date expression. #4828 (issue: #4846)
    • REST:
      • fielddata_fields query string parameter was ignored. #11368 (issue: #11025)
      • Add fielddata_fields to the REST spec #9399 (issues: #4492, #9398)
      • Get field mapping api should honour pretty flag #8806 (issue: #6552)
      • Passing fielddata_fields as a non array causes OOM #8203
      • Reroute API response didn't filter metadata #7523 (issue: #7520)
      • Allows all options for expand_wildcards parameter #7290 (issue: #7258)
      • Added support for empty field arrays in mappings #7271 (issue: #6133)
      • Empty HTTP body returned from _recovery API on empty cluster #5743
      • Search template: Put source param into template variable #5598 (issue: #5556)
      • Fix possible exception in toCamelCase method #5207
      • Source filtering with wildcards broken when given multiple patterns #5133 (issue: #5132)
      • Ignore case when parsing script_values_sorted|unique in aggregations. #5010 (issue: #5009)
      • scroll REST API should support source parameter #4942 (issue: #4941)
      • Fix potential NPE when no source and no body #4932 (issues: #4892, #4900, #4901, #4902, #4903, #4924)
      • mtermvectors REST API should support source parameter #4910 (issue: #4902)
      • percolate REST API should support source parameter #4909 (issue: #4903)
      • mpercolate REST API should support source parameter #4908 (issue: #4900)
      • msearch REST API should support source parameter #4905 (issue: #4901)
      • mget REST API should support source parameter #4893 (issue: #4892)
      • Cluster state toXContent serialization only returns needed data #4889 (issue: #4885)
    • Recovery:
      • Rethrow exception during recovery finalization even if source is not broken #12667
      • Decrement reference even if IndexShard#postRecovery barfs #11201
      • Fail recovery if retry recovery if resetRecovery fails #11149
      • Refactor state format to use incremental state IDs #10316
      • RecoveryState.File.toXContent reports file length as recovered bytes #10310
      • Fail shard when index service/mappings fails to instantiate #10283
      • Gateway: improve assertion at the end of shard recovery #10028
      • Synchronize RecoveryState.timer methods #9943
      • Don't recover from buggy version #9925 (issues: #7210, #9922)
      • Fix deadlock problems when API flush and finish recovery happens concurrently #9648
      • Handle corruptions during recovery finalization #9619
      • Mapping update task back references already closed index shard #9607
      • Update access time of ongoing recoveries #9506 (issue: #8720)
      • Cleaner interrupt handling during cancellation #9000
      • Harden recovery for old segments #8399
      • Prefer recovering the state file that uses the latest format. #8343
      • Change check for finished to a ref count check #8271 (issue: #8092)
      • RecoveriesCollection.findRecoveryByShard should call recoveryStatus.tryIncRef before accessing fields #8231 (issue: #8092)
      • Mapping check during phase2 should be done in cluster state update task #7744
      • Don't update indexShard if it has been removed before #7509
      • Increment Store refcount on RecoveryTarget #6844
      • Recovery from local gateway should re-introduce new mappings #6659
      • Honor time delay when retrying recoveries #6226
      • Do not start a recovery process if the primary shard is currently allocated on a node which is not part of the cluster state #6024
    • Scripting:
      • Consistently name Groovy scripts with the same content #12296 (issue: #12212)
      • Allow script language to be null when parsing #10976 (issue: #10926)
      • File scripts cache key to include language and prevent conflicts #10033
      • Avoid unnecessary utf8 conversion when creating ScriptDocValues for a string field. #9557 (issue: #6908)
      • Disallow method pointer expressions in Groovy scripting #9509
      • Make _score in groovy scripts comparable #9094 (issue: #8828)
      • Function score and optional weight : avg score is wrong #9004 (issue: #8992)
      • Return new lists on calls to getValues. #8591 (issue: #8576)
      • Add score() back to AbstractSearchScript #8417 (issues: #8377, #8416)
      • Clear the GroovyClassLoader cache before compiling #8062 (issues: #7658, #8073)
      • Fix NPE in ScriptService when script file with no extension is deleted #7953 (issue: #7689)
      • Scripting: Wrap groovy script exceptions in a serializable Exception object #6628 (issue: #6598)
      • Remove ScriptDocValues.EMPTY. #5650 (issue: #5646)
    • 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)
      • Release search contexts after failed dfs or query phase for dfs queries #11434 (issue: #11400)
      • Don't truncate TopDocs after rescoring #11342 (issues: #11277, #7707)
      • Make sure that named filters/ queries defined in a wrapped query/filters aren't lost #9166 (issue: #6871)
      • Fix paging on strings sorted in ascending order. #9157 (issue: #9136)
      • Terms filter lookup caching should cache values, not filters. #9027 (issues: #1, #2)
      • Refactor term analysis for simple_query_string prefix queries #8435
      • Use ConcurrentHashMap in SCAN search to keep track of the reader states. #7499 (issue: #7478)
      • Make ignore_unmapped work for sorting cross-index queries. #7039 (issue: #2255)
      • Query DSL: Improved explanation for match_phrase_prefix #6767 (issue: #2449)
      • The query_string cache should returned cloned Query instances. #6733 (issue: #2542)
      • Match query with operator and, cutoff_frequency and stacked tokens #6573
      • XFilteredQuery default strategy prefers query first in the deleted docs ... #6254 (issue: #6247)
      • limit filter returns wrong results if deleted document are present #6234
      • Use default forceAnalyzeQueryString if no query builder is present #6217 (issue: #6215)
      • Read full message on free context #6148 (issues: #5730, #6147)
      • Missing scroll id now returns 404 #6040 (issue: #5729)
      • Search might not return on thread pool rejection #6032 (issue: #4887)
      • Scroll api reduce phase fails if shard failures occur #6022
      • Fix setting of readerGen in BytesRefOrdValComparator on nested documents. #5986
      • Improved SearchContext.addReleasable. #5799 (issue: #5703)
      • Replace InternalSearchResponse#EMPTY with InternalSearchResponse#empty() #5775
      • The clear scroll apis should optionally accepts a scroll_id in the request body. #5734 (issue: #5726)
      • Make sure successful operations are correct if second search phase is fast #5713
      • Do not propagate errors from onResult to onFailure. #5629
      • Fix IndexShardRoutingTable's shard randomization to not throw out-of-bounds exceptions. #5561 (issue: #5559)
      • Convert TermQuery to PrefixQuery if PHRASE_PREFIX is set #5553 (issue: #5551)
      • Use patched version of TermsFilter to prevent using wrong cached results #5393 (issue: #5363)
      • Fix SearchContext occasionally closed prematurely #5170 (issue: #5165)
      • Exposed shard id related to a failure in delete by query #5125 (issue: #5095)
      • Fix AndDocIdSet#IteratorBasedIterator to not violate initial doc state #5070 (issue: #5049)
    • Search Templates:
      • Fix JSON encoding for Mustache templates. #10820 (issue: #5473)
      • Ensure internal scope extrators are always operating on a Map #6326 (issue: #6318)
      • Fix TemplateQueryParser swallows additional parameters #5933
      • Made template endpoint compatible with search endpoint #5619 (issue: #5550)
    • Settings:
      • Add explicit check that we have reached the end of the settings stream when parsing settings #12451 (issue: #12382)
      • Copy the classloader from the original settings when checking for prompts #12419 (issue: #12340)
      • Do not prompt for node name twice #11668 (issue: #11564)
      • Prevent changing the number of replicas on a closed index #11410 (issue: #9566)
      • Read configuration file with .yaml suffix #10909 (issue: #9706)
      • Validate number_of_shards/_replicas without index setting prefix #10701 (issue: #10693)
      • Fix handling of IndicesOptions in update settings REST API #10030
      • Reset TieredMP settings only if the value actually changed #9497 (issue: #8890)
      • cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled accepts wrong values #9309
      • Ensure fields are overriden and not merged when using arrays #8381 (issue: #6887)
      • Tab characters in YAML should throw an exception #8355 (issue: #8259)
      • Dynamic changes to max_merge_count are now picked up by index throttling #8136 (issue: #8132)
      • Validate create index requests' number of primary/replica shards #7496 (issue: #7495)
      • LogConfigurator resolveConfig also reads .rpmnew or .bak files #7457
      • Fix bug in PropertyPlaceholder and add unit tests #6034
    • Shadow Replicas:
      • Fail engine without marking it as corrupt when recovering on SharedFS #11933 (issue: #11788)
    • Snapshot/Restore:
      • Improve repository verification failure message #11925 (issue: #11922)
      • Improve logging of repository verification exceptions. #11763 (issue: #11760)
      • Sync up snapshot shard status on a master restart #11450 (issue: #11314)
      • Don't reuse source index UUID on restore #10367
      • Separate repository registration #10354 (issue: #10351)
      • Automatically add "index." prefix to the settings are changed on restore if the prefix is missing #10269 (issue: #10133)
      • Delete operation should ignore finalizing shards on nodes that no longer exist #9981 (issue: #9924)
      • Allow deletion of snapshots with corrupted snapshot files #9569 (issue: #9534)
      • Better handling of index deletion during snapshot #9418 (issue: #9024)
      • Add validation of restored persistent settings #9051 (issue: #8830)
      • Restore with wait_for_completion:true should wait for succesfully restored shards to get started #8545 (issue: #8340)
      • Keep the last legacy checksums file at the end of restore #8358 (issue: #8119)
      • Restore of indices that are only partially available in the cluster #8341 (issue: #8224)
      • Fix snapshotting of a single closed index #8047 (issue: #8046)
      • Make it possible to delete snapshots with missing metadata file #7981 (issue: #7980)
      • Make sure indices cannot be renamed into restored aliases #7918 (issue: #7915)
      • Allow to get metadata from arbitrary commit points #7376
      • Improve recovery / snapshot restoring file identity handling #7351
      • Fix NPE in SnapshotsService on node shutdown #7322 (issue: #6506)
      • Fail restore if snapshot is corrupted #6938
      • Add ability to snapshot replicating primary shards #6139 (issue: #5531)
      • Fix for hanging aborted snapshot during node shutdown #5966 (issue: #5958)
      • Fix snapshot status with empty repository #5791 (issue: #5790)
      • Add retry mechanism to get snapshot method #5411
      • Restore of an existing index using rename doesn't completly open the index after restore #5212
      • Restore process should replace the mapping and settings if index already exists #5211 (issue: #5210)
      • Handle "true"/"false" in snapshot api for "include_global_state" #4956 (issue: #4949)
    • Stats:
      • Fix wrong reused file bytes in Recovery API reports #11965 (issue: #11876)
      • Fix RecoveryState timestamps #11871 (issue: #11870)
      • Translog: stats fail to serialize size #10105
      • Translog: make sure stats's op count and size are in sync #10041
      • Fix open file descriptors count on Windows #9397 (issue: #1563)
      • Relax restrictions on filesystem size reporting in DiskUsage #9283 (issues: #9249, #9260)
      • Fix wrong search stats groups in indices API #8950 (issue: #7644)
      • Fix Bloom filter ram usage calculation #8584 (issue: #8564)
      • Filter indices stats for translog #8263 (issue: #8262)
      • Stats: _status with #shards >> queue capacity failing with BroadcastShardOperationFailedException #7916
      • Update action returns before updating stats for NONE operations #7639
      • NPE in ShardStats when routing entry is not set yet on IndexShard #7358 (issue: #7356)
      • Recovery API should also report ongoing relocation recoveries #6585
      • Indices stats options #6390
      • Fix recovery percentage > 100% #6138 (issue: #6113)
      • Disabled query size estimation in percolator #5372 (issue: #5339)
      • Use num of actual threads if busiestThreads is larger #4928 (issue: #4927)
    • Store:
      • Ensure we mark store as corrupted if we fail to read the segments info #11230 (issue: #11226)
      • Fix NPE when checking for active shards before deletion #11110 (issue: #10172)
      • Shard not deleted after relocation if relocated shard is still in post recovery #10172 (issue: #10018)
      • Only ack index store deletion on data nodes #9672 (issue: #9605)
      • Only fail recovery if files are inconsistent #8779
      • Use Lucene checksums if segment version is >= 4.9.0 #8599 (issue: #8587)
      • Calculate Alder32 Checksums for legacy files in Store#checkIntegrity #8407
      • Add BWC layer to .si / segments_N hashing to identify segments accurately #7436 (issues: #7351, #7434)
      • Ignore segments.gen on metadata snapshots #7379
      • DistributorDirectory shouldn't search for directory when reading existing file #7323 (issue: #7306)
      • Delete unallocated shards under a cluster state task #6902
      • Searcher might not be closed if store hande can't be obtained #5884
    • Suggesters:
      • Prevent DirectCandidateGenerator to reuse an unclosed analyzer #12670
      • Ensure empty string completion inputs are not indexed #11158 (issue: #10987)
      • Ensure collate option in PhraseSuggester only collates on local shard #11156 (issue: #9377)
      • Return an HTTP error code when a suggest request failed instead of 200 #10104
      • Fix CompletionFieldMapper to correctly parse weight #8197 (issue: #8090)
      • Infinite loop in GeolocationContextMapping #7433
      • Bugs with encoding multiple levels of geo precision #7369 (issue: #7368)
      • Completion mapping type throws a misleading error on null value #6926 (issue: #6399)
      • Tie-break suggestions by term #5978
      • Fix Lucene's getFiniteStrings to not consume Java stack #5927
      • Geo context suggester: Require precision in mapping #5647 (issue: #5621)
      • ContextSuggester: Adding couple of tests to catch more bugs #5596 (issue: #5525)
      • Category type should be called "category" instead of "field" in context suggester #5469
      • Two bugfixes for the completion format #4973
      • marvel.agent Background thread had an uncaught exception: java.lang.NullPointerException #4970
      • NullPointerException (NPE) in completion suggester requests #4788
    • Term Vectors:
      • ShardTermVectorsService calls docFreq() on unpositioned TermsEnum #10660
    • Top Hits:
      • Inconsistent sorting of top_hits fixed #7697
      • Properly support top_hits aggregation in a nested and reverse_nested aggregations. #7164 (issue: #3022)
      • Make _source parsing in top_hits aggregation consistent with the search api #6997
      • Track scores should be applied properly for top_hits aggregation. #6934
    • Translog:
      • Fail #snapshot if translog is closed #10809 (issue: #10807)
      • Translog leaks filehandles if it's corrupted or truncated #8372
      • Better support for partial buffer reads/writes in translog infrastructure #6576 (issue: #6441)
      • Lower the translog flush triggers to workaround #6363 #6377
    • Tribe Node:
      • System properties and configuration settings must not be forwarded to tribe clients #9721 (issue: #9576)
      • Remove closed indices from cluster state #9334
      • Fix possible NPE in TribeNodeService #5645 (issue: #5643)
      • Blocking writes on a tribe node creates a "blocks" tribe #5389
    • Upgrade API:
      • Fix version check in bytes to upgrade that spans major versions #9340
      • Fix upgrade logic to check for major version bump. #8013

    Regressions

    • CRUD:
      • Indexing a document fails when setting version=0 & version_type=external#5662
    • Core:
      • Switch back to ConcurrentMergeScheduler as the default #5817
    • Discovery:
      • Restore preference to latest unicast pings describing the same node #7702 (issues: #5413, #7558)
    • Internal:
      • Restore streamInput() performance over PagedBytesReference. #5589
    • Mapping:
      • Mapping With a null Default Timestamp Causes NullPointerException on Merge #9205 (issue: #9204)
      • Object and Type parsing: Fix include_in_all in type #6353 (issues: #6093, #6304)

    Upgrades

    • Core:
      • Upgrade Jackson to 2.5.3 #11307
      • Update forbiddenapis to version 1.8 #10555
      • Upgrade to Jackson 2.5.1 #10210
      • Upgrade to Jackson 2.5.1 #10134
      • Upgrade to Jackson 2.4.2 #7934 (issue: #7932)
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.10.1 snapshot #7844 (issue: #7905)
      • Upgrade Guava to 18.0. #7593 (issue: #6268)
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.10 #7584
      • Version bump HPPC to 0.6.0 #7139
      • Upgrade Jackson to 2.4.1 #6757
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.9 #6623
      • Upgrade to Guava 17 #5953
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.8.0 #5932
      • Update forbidden-apis to 1.5.1 and remove the relaxed failOnMissingClasses setting, fix typo #5863
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.7.2 #5802
      • Update JNA to 4.1.0, properly warn on error, hint at noexec mount #5636 (issue: #5493)
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.7.1 #5635
      • Update to forbidden-apis 1.4.1 #5495 (issue: #5492)
      • Upgrade to Lucene 4.6.1 #4898 (issue: #4897)
    • Dates:
      • Update joda-time to v2.7 #9610
    • Geo:
    • Network:
      • Upgrade to Netty 3.10.3 #11304
      • Upgrade netty to 3.10.0.Final #9132
      • Upgrade to Apache HttpComponents client 4.3.5 #7346 (issue: #7342)
      • Upgrade to Netty 3.9.3.Final #7328
      • Upgrade to netty 3.9.1 #6331
    • Scripting:
      • Upgrade groovy from 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 #12288
      • Update Groovy dependency to 2.4.0 #9520