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Elasticsearch version 8.0.0-alpha1

Also see Breaking changes in 8.0.

Breaking changes

Aggregations

Percentiles aggregation: disallow specifying same percentile values twice #52257 (issue: #51871)
Remove Adjacency_matrix setting #46327 (issues: #46257, #46324)
Remove MovingAverage pipeline aggregation #39328
Remove deprecated _time and _term sort orders #39450
Remove deprecated date histo interval #75000

Allocation

Breaking change for single data node setting #73737 (issues: #55805, #73733)
Remove include_relocations setting #47717 (issues: #46079, #47443)

Analysis

Cleanup versioned deprecations in analysis #41560 (issue: #41164)
Remove preconfigured delimited_payload_filter #43686 (issues: #41560, #43684)

Authentication

Always add file and native realms unless explicitly disabled #69096 (issue: #50892)
Do not set a NameID format in Policy by default #44090 (issue: #40353)
Make order setting mandatory for Realm config #51195 (issue: #37614)

CCR

Avoid auto following leader system indices in CCR #72815 (issue: #67686)

Cluster Coordination

Remove join timeout #60873 (issue: #60872)
Remove node filters for voting config exclusions #55673 (issues: #47990, #50836)
Remove support for delaying state recovery pending master #53845 (issue: #51806)

Distributed

Remove synced flush #50882 (issues: #50776, #50835)
Remove the cluster.remote.connect setting #54175 (issue: #53924)

Engine

Force merge should reject requests with only_expunge_deletes and max_num_segments set #44761 (issue: #43102)
Remove per-type indexing stats #47203 (issue: #41059)
Remove translog retention settings #51697 (issue: #50775)

Features/CAT APIs

Remove the deprecated local parameter for _cat/indices #64868 (issue: #62198)
Remove the deprecated local parameter for _cat/shards #64867 (issue: #62197)

Features/Features

Remove deprecated ._tier allocation filtering settings #73074 (issue: #72835)

Features/ILM+SLM

Add lower bound on poll_interval #39593 (issue: #39163)

Features/Indices APIs

Change prefer_v2_templates parameter to default to true #55489 (issues: #53101, #55411)
Remove deprecated _upgrade API #64732 (issue: #21337)
Remove local parameter for get field mapping request #55100 (issue: #55099)
Remove include_type_name parameter from REST layer #48632 (issue: #41059)
Remove the template field in index templates #49460 (issue: #21009)

Features/Watcher

Move watcher history to data stream #64252

Geo

Disallow creating geo_shape mappings with deprecated parameters #70850 (issue: #32039)
Remove bounding box query type parameter #74536

Infra/Circuit Breakers

Fixed synchronizing inflight breaker with internal variable #40878

Infra/Core

Fail when using multiple data paths #72184 (issue: #71205)
Limit processors by available processors #44894 (issue: #44889)
Remove nodes/0 folder prefix from data path #42489
Remove bootstrap.system_call_filter setting #72848
Remove fixed_auto_queue_size threadpool type #52280
Remove node.max_local_storage_nodes #42428 (issue: #42426)
Remove camel case named formats #60044
Remove legacy role settings #71163 (issues: #54998, #66409, #71143)
Remove processors setting #45905 (issue: #45855)
Remove the local parameter of /_cat/nodes #50594 (issues: #50088, #50499)
Remove the listener thread pool #53314 (issue: #53049)
Remove the node local storage setting #54381 (issue: #54374)
Remove the pidfile setting #45940 (issue: #45938)
Removes week_year date format #63384 (issue: #60707)

Infra/Logging

Remove slowlog level #57591 (issue: #56171)

Infra/Plugins

Remove deprecated basic license feature enablement settings from 8.0 #56211 (issue: #54745)

Infra/REST API

Remove content type required setting #61043
Remove deprecated endpoints containing _xpack #48170 (issue: #35958)
Remove deprecated endpoints of hot threads API #55109 (issue: #52640)
Allow parsing Content-Type and Accept headers with version #61427

Infra/Resiliency

Fail node containing ancient closed index #44264 (issues: #21830, #41731, #44230)

Infra/Scripting

Consolidate script parsing from object #59507 (issue: #59391)
Scripting: Move script_cache into _nodes/stats #59265 (issues: #50152, #59262)
Scripting: Remove general cache settings #59262 (issue: #50152)

Infra/Settings

Change default value of action.destructive_requires_name to true #66908 (issue: #61074)
Forbid settings without a namespace #45947 (issues: #45905, #45940)

Machine Learning

Remove deprecated _xpack endpoints #59870 (issues: #35958, #48170)
Remove the ability to update datafeed’s job_id #44752 (issue: #44616)

Mapping

Remove boost mapping parameter #62639 (issue: #62623)
Remove support for chained multi-fields #42333 (issues: #41267, #41926)
Remove support for string in unmapped_type #45675
Removes typed URLs from mapping APIs #41676

Network

Remove client feature tracking #44929 (issues: #31020, #42538, #44667)
Remove escape hatch permitting incompatible builds #65753 (issues: #65249, #65601)

Packaging

Remove SysV init support #51716 (issue: #51480)
Remove support for JAVA_HOME #69149 (issue: #55820)

Recovery

Remove dangling index auto import functionality #59698 (issue: #48366)

Reindex

Reindex from Remote encoding #41007 (issue: #40303)
Reindex remove outer level size #43373 (issues: #24344, #41894)

Rollup

RollupStart endpoint should return OK if job already started #41502 (issues: #35928, #39845)

Search

Decouple shard allocation awareness from search and get requests #45735 (issue: #43453)
Fix range query on date fields for number inputs #63692 (issue: #63680)
Make fuzziness reject illegal values earlier #33511
Make remote cluster resolution stricter #40419 (issue: #37863)
Parse empty first line in msearch request body as action metadata #41011 (issue: #39841)
Remove CommonTermsQuery and cutoff_frequency param #42654 (issue: #37096)
Remove type query #47207 (issue: #41059)
Remove use_field_mapping format option for docvalue fields #55622
Remove deprecated SimpleQueryStringBuilder parameters #57200
Remove deprecated search.remote settings #42381 (issues: #33413, #38556)
Remove deprecated sort options: nested_path and nested_filter #42809 (issue: #27098)
Remove deprecated vector functions #48725 (issue: #48604)
Remove support for _type in searches #68564 (issues: #41059, #68311)
Remove support for sparse vectors #48781 (issue: #48368)
Remove the object format for indices_boost #55078
Removes type from TermVectors APIs #42198 (issue: #41059)
Removes typed endpoint from search and related APIs #41640
Set max allowed size for stored async response #74455 (issue: #67594)
indices.query.bool.max_clause_count now limits all query clauses #75297

Security

Remove obsolete security settings #40496
Remove support of creating CA on the fly when generating certificates #65590 (issue: #61884)
Remove the id field from the InvalidateApiKey API #66671 (issue: #66317)
Remove the migrate tool #42174
Compress audit logs #64472 (issue: #63843)
Remove insecure settings #46147 (issue: #45947)

Snapshot/Restore

Blob store compress default to true #40033
Get snapshots support for multiple repositories #42090 (issue: #41210)
Remove repository stats API #62309 (issue: #62297)
Remove frozen cache setting leniency #71013 (issue: #70341)

TLS

Reject misconfigured/ambiguous SSL server config #45892
Remove support for configurable PKCS#11 keystores #75404
Remove the client transport profile filter #43236

Breaking Java changes

Authentication

Mandate x-pack REST handler installed #71061 (issue: #70523)

CCR

Remove the CcrClient #42816

CRUD

Remove types from BulkRequest #46983 (issue: #41059)
Remove Client.prepareIndex(index, type, id) method #48443
Remove deprecated include-type methods from HLRC indices client #48471

Client

Remove SecurityClient from x-pack #42471

Features/ILM+SLM

Remove the ILMClient #42817
Rename HLRC indexlifecycle components to ilm #44982 (issues: #44725, #44917)

Features/Monitoring

Remove MonitoringClient from x-pack #42770

Features/Watcher

Remove WatcherClient from x-pack #42815

Infra/Core

Remove XPackClient from x-pack #42729
Remove the transport client #42538
Remove transport client from x-pack #42202

Infra/REST API

Copy HTTP headers to ThreadContext strictly #45945

Machine Learning

Remove the MachineLearningClient #43108

Mapping

Remove type filter from GetMappings API #47364 (issue: #41059)
Remove type parameter from PutMappingRequest.buildFromSimplifiedDef() #50844 (issue: #41059)
Remove unused parameter from MetadataFieldMapper.TypeParser#getDefault() #51219
Remove type parameter from CIR.mapping(type, object...) #50739 (issue: #41059)

Search

Removes types from SearchRequest and QueryShardContext #42112

Snapshot/Restore

Remove deprecated repository methods #42359 (issue: #42213)

Enhancements

Analysis

Move reload_analyzers endpoint to x-pack #43559

Authentication

Reset elastic password CLI tool #74892 (issues: #70113, #74890)

EQL

Add option for returning results from the tail of the stream #64869 (issue: #58646)
Introduce case insensitive variant in~ #68176 (issue: #68172)
Optimize redundant toString #71070 (issue: #70681)

Engine

Always use soft-deletes in InternalEngine #50415
Remove translog retention policy #51417 (issue: #50775)

Features/CAT APIs

Remove size and add time params to _cat/threadpool #55736 (issue: #54478)

Features/Stats

Add bulk stats track the bulk per shard #52208 (issues: #47345, #50536)

Features/Watcher

Remove Watcher history clean up from monitoring #67154

Infra/Core

Remove aliases exist action #43430
Remove indices exists action #43164
Remove types exists action #43344

Infra/Logging

Make Elasticsearch JSON logs ECS compliant #47105 (issue: #46119)

Infra/REST API

Allow for field declaration for future compatible versions #69774 (issue: #51816)
Introduce stability description to the REST API specification #38413
Parsing: Validate that fields are not registered twice #70243
Support response content-type with versioned media type #65500 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for index and get APIs #69131 (issue: #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for put and get mapping and get field mappings #71721 (issues: #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Allow copy_settings flag for resize operations #75184 (issues: #38514, #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Allow for type in geo shape query #74553 (issues: #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Always return adjust_pure_negative value #75182 (issues: #49543, #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Clean up x-pack/plugin rest compat tests #74701 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Do not return _doc for empty mappings in template #75448 (issues: #51816, #54160, #70966, #74544)
[REST API Compatibility] Dummy REST action for indices.upgrade API #75136 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] REST Terms vector typed response #73117
[REST API Compatibility] Rename BulkItemResponse.Failure type field #74937 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Type metadata for docs used in simulate request #74222 (issues: #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed TermLookups #74544 (issues: #46943, #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed and x-pack graph explore API #74185 (issues: #46935, #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoint for bulk API #73571 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoint for multi-get API #73878 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for RestUpdateAction and RestDeleteAction #73115 (issues: #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for get_source API #73957 (issues: #46587, #46931, #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for explain API #73901 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for search _count API #73958 (issues: #42112, #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed indexing stats #74181 (issues: #47203, #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Types for percolate query API #74698 (issues: #46985, #51816, #54160, #74689)
[REST API Compatibility] Validate query typed API #74171 (issues: #46927, #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Voting config exclusion exception message #75406 (issues: #51816, #55291)
[REST API Compatibility] MoreLikeThisQuery with types #75123 (issues: #42198, #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Update and delete by query using size field #69606
[REST API Compatibility] Indicies boost in object format #74422 (issues: #51816, #55078)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed endpoints for search and related endpoints #72155 (issues: #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Allow to use size -1 #75342 (issues: #51816, #69548, #70209)
[REST API Compatibility] Ignore use_field_mapping option for docvalue #74435 (issue: #55622)
[REST API Compatibility] _time and _term sort orders #74919 (issues: #39450, #51816)
[REST API Compatability] template parameter and field on PUT index template #71238 (issues: #49460, #51816, #68905)
[REST API Compatibility] Make query registration easier #75722 (issue: #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Typed query #75453 (issues: #47207, #51816, #54160)
[REST API Compatibility] Deprecate the use of synced flush #75372 (issues: #50882, #51816)
[REST API Compatibility] Licence accept_enterprise and response changes #75479 (issues: #50067, #50735, #51816, #58217)

Infra/Scripting

Update DeprecationMap to DynamicMap #56149 (issue: #52103)

Infra/Settings

Fixed inconsistent Setting.exist() #46603 (issue: #41830)
Remove index.optimize_auto_generated_id setting (#27583) #27600 (issue: #27583)

License

Add deprecated accept_enterprise param to /_xpack #58220 (issue: #58217)
Support accept_enterprise param in get license API #50067 (issue: #49474)

Machine Learning

The Windows build platform for the machine learning C++ code now uses Visual Studio 2019 #1352
The macOS build platform for the machine learning C++ code is now Mojave running Xcode 11.3.1, or Ubuntu 20.04 running clang 8 for cross compilation #1429
The Linux build platform for the machine learning C++ code is now CentOS 7 running gcc 9.3 #1170
Add a new application for evaluating PyTorch models. The app depends on LibTorch - the C++ front end to PyTorch - and performs inference on models stored in the TorchScript format #1902

Mapping

Sparse vector to throw exception consistently #62646

Packaging

Make the Docker build more re-usable in Cloud #50277 (issues: #46166, #49926)
Update docker-compose.yml to fix bootstrap check error #47650

Recovery

Use Lucene index in peer recovery and resync #51189 (issue: #50775)

Reindex

Make reindexing managed by a persistent task #43382 (issue: #42612)
Reindex restart from checkpoint #46055 (issue: #42612)
Reindex search resiliency #45497 (issues: #42612, #43187)
Reindex v2 rethrottle sliced fix #46967 (issues: #42612, #46763)

Rollup

Adds support for date_nanos in Rollup Metric and DateHistogram Configs #59349 (issue: #44505)

SQL

Add text formatting support for multivalue #68606
Add xDBC and CLI support. QA CSV specs #68966
Export array values through result sets #69512
Improve alias resolution in sub-queries #67216 (issue: #56713)
Improve the optimization of null conditionals #71192
Push WHERE clause inside subqueries #71362
Use Java String methods for LTRIM/RTRIM #57594
QL: Make canonical form take into account children #71266
QL: Polish optimizer expression rule declaration #71396
QL: Propagate nullability constraints across conjunctions #71187 (issue: #70683)

Search

Completely disallow setting negative size in search #70209 (issue: #69548)
Make 0 as invalid value for min_children in has_child query #41347
Return error when remote indices are locally resolved #74556 (issue: #26247)

Security

Add a tool for creating enrollment tokens #74890
Add the Enroll Kibana API #72207
Change default hashing algorithm for FIPS 140 #55544
Create enrollment token #73573 (issues: #71438, #72129)
Enroll node API #72129
Not encoding the Api Key in Enrollment token #74510 (issue: #73573)
Configure security for the initial node CLI #74868

Snapshot/Restore

Introduce searchable snapshots index setting for cascade deletion of snapshots #74977
Unify blob store compress setting #39346 (issue: #39073)
Add recovery state tracking for searchable snapshots #60505

TLS

Add ChaCha20 TLS ciphers on Java 12+ #42155
Add support for KeyStore filters to ssl-config #75407
Update TLS ciphers and protocols for JDK 11 #41808 (issues: #38646, #41385)

Bug fixes

Aggregations

Fix BWC issues for x_pack/usage #55181 (issue: #54847)
Fix DoubleBounds null serialization #59475
Fix TopHitsAggregationBuilder adding duplicate _score sort clauses #42179 (issue: #42154)
Fix t_test usage stats #54753 (issue: #54744)
Throw exception if legacy interval cannot be parsed in DateIntervalWrapper #41972 (issue: #41970)

CCR

Fix AutoFollow version checks #73776 (issue: #72935)

Cluster Coordination

Apply cluster states in system context #53785 (issue: #53751)

Distributed

Introduce ?wait_for_active_shards=index-setting #67158 (issue: #66419)
Respect CloseIndexRequest#waitForActiveShards in HLRC #67374 (issues: #67158, #67246)
Fixes to task result index mapping #50359 (issue: #50248)

Features/CAT APIs

Fix cat recovery display of bytes fields #40379 (issue: #40335)

Features/Java High Level REST Client

Fix HLRC compatibility with Java 8 #74290 (issues: #73910, #74272, #74289)
Avoid StackOverflowError due to regex alternate paths #61259 (issue: #60889)

Geo

Preprocess polygon rings before processing it for decomposition #59501 (issues: #54441, #59386)

Infra/Core

Add searchable snapshot cache folder to NodeEnvironment #66297 (issue: #65725)
CLI tools: Write errors to stderr instead of stdout #45586 (issue: #43260)
Precompute ParsedMediaType for XContentType #67409

Infra/Logging

Fix NPE when logging null values in JSON #53715 (issue: #46702)
Fix stats in slow logs to be a escaped JSON #44642
Populate data stream fields when xOpaqueId not provided #62156

Infra/REST API

Do not allow spaces within MediaType's parameters #64650 (issue: #51816)
Handle incorrect header values #64708 (issues: #51816, #64689)
Ignore media ranges when parsing #64721 (issues: #51816, #64689)
RestController should not consume request content #44902 (issue: #37504)

Infra/Scripting

Change compound assignment structure to support string concatenation #61825
Fixes casting in constant folding #61508
Several minor Painless fixes #61594

Machine Learning

Handle null value of FieldCapabilitiesResponse #64327

Mapping

Remove assertions that mappings have one top-level key #58779 (issue: #58521)

Packaging

Suppress illegal access in plugin install #41620 (issue: #41478)

SQL

Introduce dedicated node for HAVING declaration #71279 (issue: #69758)
Make RestSqlQueryAction thread-safe #69901

Search

Check for negative from values in search request body #54953 (issue: #54897)
Fix VectorsFeatureSetUsage serialization in BWC mode #55399 (issue: #55378)
Handle total hits equal to track_total_hits #37907 (issue: #37897)
Improve error msg for CCS request on node without remote cluster role #60351 (issue: #59683)

Snapshot/Restore

Fix GET /_snapshot/_all/_all if there are no repos #43558 (issue: #43547)

Upgrades

Lucene

Upgrade to Lucene 8.9.0 #74729

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