Breaking changes in 7.7

This section discusses the changes that you need to be aware of when migrating your application to Elasticsearch 7.7.

See also What’s new in 7.17 and Release notes.

The index.translog.retention.age and index.translog.retention.size index settings are now deprecated. These settings have been ignored since 7.4 in favor of soft deletes.

To avoid deprecation warnings, discontinue use of the settings.

The default log level for most loggers is INFO, but in earlier versions loggers in the org.elasticsearch.action.* hierarchy emitted log messages at DEBUG level by default. This sometimes resulted in a good deal of unnecessary log noise. From 7.7 onwards the default log level for logger in this hierarchy is now INFO, in line with most other loggers. If needed, you can recover the pre-7.7 default behaviour by adjusting your logging.

So far misconfiguration of dynamic templates have been discovered when indexing a document with an unmapped field only. In Elasticsearch 8.0 and later versions, dynamic mappings have stricter validation, done at mapping update time. Invalid updates, such as using incorrect analyzer settings or unknown field types, fail. For indices created in Elasticsearch 7.7 and later version, the update succeeds but emits a warning.

The listener thread pool is no longer used internally by Elasticsearch. Therefore, these settings have been deprecated. You can safely remove these settings from the configuration of your nodes.

Previously the setting cluster.remote.connect was used to configure whether or not the local node is capable of acting as a remote cluster client in cross-cluster search and cross-cluster replication. This setting is deprecated in favor of node.remote_cluster_client serves the same purpose and identifies the local node as having the remote_cluster_client role.

The order config will be required in version 8.0.0 for authentication realm configuration of any type. If the order config is missing for a realm, the node will fail to start.

The order config of authentication realms must be unique in version 8.0.0. If you configure more than one realm of any type with the same order, the node will fail to start.

The auth.password setting for the monitoring HTTP exporter has been deprecated and will be removed in version 8.0.0. Please use the auth.secure_password setting instead.

The following cluster settings are now deprecated:

It is safe to recover the cluster as soon as a majority of master-eligible nodes have joined. There is no benefit in waiting for any additional master-eligible nodes to start.

To avoid deprecation warnings, discontinue use of the deprecated settings. If needed, use gateway.expected_data_nodes or gateway.recover_after_data_nodes to defer cluster recovery pending a certain number of data nodes.

range queries on date_range field currently can have slightly differently boundaries than their equivalent query on a pure date field. This can e.g. happen when using date math or dates that don’t specify up to the last millisecond. While queries on date field round up to the latest millisecond for gt and lte boundaries, the same queries on date_range fields didn’t do this. The behavior is now the same for both field types like documented in Date math and rounding.

The pipeline aggregation validation has been moved to the coordinating node. Those errors that used to return HTTP 500s/Internal Server Errors now return 400/Bad Request and we now return a list of validation errors rather than the first one we encounter.

If a keyword value was ignored during indexing because of its length (ignore_above parameter was applied), Elasticsearch doesn’t attempt to highlight it anymore, which means no highlights are produced for ignored values.