PLEASE NOTE – These release notes still need to be reviewed.

Changes made to HEAD since the release of the previous version, updated on 2011-02-03

• -Des.config=/path/to/config/file doesn’t replace $ES_HOME/elasticsearch.conf, just appends to it (#588)
• Allow ./bin/plugin to install plugins from the local filesystem / custom url (#595)
• Twitter updates have broken Twitter River, Update to latest version of Twitter4J (#627)
• Remove -XX:+AggressiveOpts flag that is turned on by default in startup script (#638)
• Facets: Remove redundant data returned as part of facet response (for example, the field name being faceted) (#655)
• Histogram Facet: Improve perf / memory by defaulting to just providing counts with no totals (#587)
• Geo: All geo components that accept an array of [lat, lon] to change to do [lon, lat] to conform with GeoJSON (#661)
• Groovy client doesn’t bind to any variables outside the closure (#654)
• Index Status: Add primary store size to include only primary shards store sizes, also move index store and translog into their own elements (#666)

• Versioning (#594)
• A setting to auto expand the number of replicas of an index (based on data nodes) (#623)
• Percolator (#624)
• Percolate on Index and Bulk (#636)
• Highlighting: Allow to highlight on fields without term vectors (#585)
• Search:
  • Date Histogram Facet (#591)
  • Allow to pass a search filter, applying only on the query (and not on facets for example) (#650)
• Allow ./bin/plugin to install plugins from the local filesystem / custom url (#595)

• Master based operations (create index, delete index) to automatically retry on retryable cluster blocks (like recovery from gateway) (#584)
• Add resident field cache type (#602)
• Add to node stats the number of times field cache was evicted due to memory constraints (#603)
• Make URI query decoding more robust (#608)
• Geo-distance in scripts (like custom_score) (#607)
• NPE for when passing null date to content builder (#610)
• Add prefer_local flag to analyze and percolate request (#625)
• Java Client – Allow to set facets in binary format (#442)
• Analysis:
  • Add Snowball stemmer as analyzer and filter (#606)
  • Add stemming to czech analyzer (#642, #639)
  • Add phonetic token filter (metaphone, soundex, …) (#644)
• Bulk API: Add how long the bulk API took (in milliseconds) to the response (#599)
• Index Merge: Improve internal (segment) merging by not initiating it on doc operations (#653)
• Mapper: Add byte type (8bit signed) (#620)
• Node Stats: Process / Network / Os should only refresh every 5 seconds (refresh_interval to set it) (#626)
• Search:
  • Add a timed_out element indicating if the search request timed out (#592)
  • When sorting, allow to pass `track_scores` and set it to `true` to get scores/max_score back (#662)
• Search Scripts: Allow to access score in facet related scripts using doc.score (#663)
• Shared Gateway: Allow to set the number of concurrent streams doing snapshot operations (#621)
• Strict dynamic setting: Refuse to index a document with fields not present in the mapping definition (#643)
• Terms Facet:
  • Performance and memory improvements when faceting numeric fields (#583)
  • Add option include counts where term is missing (#632)
  • Allow to get all_terms back (possibly with count 0) (#647)
• Thread Pool: Increase the keep alive time of threads from 60 seconds to 60 minutes (#657)
• Translog Flushing: Improve logic, flush not just by operations in the translog (#656)

• Groovy Plugin not loaded (groovy not enabled as pluggable script provider) (#581)
• Non-data master nodes and non-master data nodes fail to store data (#579)
• refresh param to bulk not working (#614)
• /_open is not recovering indices correctly (#615)
• If the cluster does not contain any indices then index templates do not survive cluster restart. (#617)
• Starting a node with existing data and killing it before its finished it cluster joining / initialization can cause data loss (#633)
• ES hangs connection when parent is not specified in bulk index (#641)
• No cluster name filtering when sniffing is not enabled (#637)
• Delete By Query: Types are not serialized over network, causing them to be ignored (#580)
• Highlighting:
  • The result of highlighting for a hit can contain data from another document (#600)
  • Sometimes highlighting returns empty fragments even thought there should be (#613)
  • Only add highlighted fragments that have a score > 0 (fixed as a part of #645)
• Nodes Stats: return no nodes info (#629)
• REST Create Index: Not taking JSON index settings into account unless wrapped in settings. (#578)
• Search:
  • When fetching _parent, only the _id should be returned, and not type#id (#658)
  • Failure when sorting on `short` type (#665)

• upgrade to gradle 0.9.2
• upgrade to jackson 1.7.2
• upgrade to guice 3.0 rc2
• upgrade to sigar 1.6.4
• upgrade to trove 3.0.0rc1
• upgrade to mvel2 2.1.RC1

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