This Week in Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene - July 29 2015

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Elasticsearch Core

  • Fielddata: Consult field info before fetching field data (#12403, 2.0.0)
  • Settings: Copy the classloader from the original settings when checking for prompts (#12419, 2.0.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.2)
  • Allocation: Cancel replica recovery on another node when synced copy found (#12421, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: ShardUtils#getElasticsearchLeafReader() should use FilterLeafReader#getDelegate() instead of FilterLeafReader#unwrap (#12437, 2.0.0)
  • Settings: Medium Interval time for ResourceWatcher should be 30 seconds (#12423, 2.0.0)
  • Allocation: ThrottlingAllocationDecider should not counting relocating shards (#12409, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: make java.version mandatory for jvm plugins (#12424, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: don't cache type filter in DocumentMapper (#12447, 2.0.0)
  • Settings: Add explicit check that we have reached the end of the settings stream when parsing settings (#12451, 2.0.0)
  • Search: Copy headers from the MLT request before calling the multi-termvectors API (#12443, 1.7.1, 1.6.2)
  • Allocation: No need to find replica copy when index is created (#12435, 2.0.0)
  • Plugins: Skip hidden files (#12465, 2.0.0)
  • Aggregations: Fix cidr mask conversion issue for 0.0.0.0/0 and add tests (#12430, 2.0.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.2)
  • Cache: Left over from the query_cache/request_cache rename (#12478, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Forbid Files.isHidden (#12484, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Remove Core Lib directory (#12485, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: IndicesStore shouldn't try to delete index after deleting a shard (#12487, 2.0.0, 1.7.1, 1.6.2)
  • PluginManager: Adapt pluginmanager to the new world (#12408, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove unused QueryParseContext argument in MappedFieldType#rangeQuery() (#12417, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Replace primaryPostAllocated flag and use UnassignedInfo (#12374, 2.0.0)
  • Testing: Add unit tests for nodesAndVersions on shared filesystems (#12343, 2.0.0)
  • Azure Plugin: Correctly list blobs in Azure Storage to prevent snapshot corruption and do not unnecessarily duplicate Lucene segments in Azure Storage (#12380, 2.0.0)
  • Translog: Ignore EngineClosedException during translog fysnc (#12384, 2.0.0)
  • Query DSL: Fix malformed query generation in field value factor function (#12328, 1.7.1)
  • Fielddata: Remove the dependecy on IndexFielddataService from MapperService (#12371, 2.0.0)
  • Refactoring: Refactor pluginservice (#12367, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Simplify Replica Allocator (#12401, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Remove TransportSingleCustomOperationAction in favour of TransportSingleShardAction (#12350, 2.0.0)
  • Logging: Add shadow indicator when using shadow replicas (#12399, 2.0.0)
  • Allocation: Adapt IndicesClusterStateService to use allocation ids (#12397, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Add the ability to wrap an index searcher. (#12364, 2.0.0)
  • Term Vectors: Make sure filter is correctly parsed for multi-term vectors (#12312, 2.0.0)
  • Aggs: Add HDRHistogram as an option in percentiles and percentile_ranks aggregations (#12362, 2.0.0)
  • Internal: Cleanup the data structures used in MetaData class for alias and index lookups (#12202, 2.0.0)
  • Packaging: Split packages into maven sub-modules (#12286, 2.0.0)
  • Build: Update to maven-shade-plugin 2.4.1 (#12324, 2.0.0)
  • Logging: Add -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps when using GC Logs (#11735, 2.0.0, 1.7.1)

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