Opensearch.Release Notes 2.6.0

2023-02-22 Version 2.6.0 Release Notes

[2.6]

Added

• Add index create block when all nodes have breached high disk watermark (#5852)
• Add cluster manager throttling stats in nodes/stats API (#5790)
• Add support for feature flags in opensearch.yml (#4959)
• Add query for initialized extensions (#5658)
• Add update-index-settings allowlist for searchable snapshot (#5907)
• Add new cat/segment_replication API to surface Segment Replication metrics (#5718).
• Replace latches with CompletableFutures for extensions (#5646)
• Add support to disallow search request with preference parameter with strict weighted shard routing(#5874)
• Add support to apply index create block (#4603)
• Add support for minimum compatible version for extensions (#6003)
• Add a guardrail to limit maximum number of shard on the cluster (#6143)
• Add cancellation of in-flight SearchTasks based on resource consumption (#5606)
• Add support for ppc64le architecture (#5459)
• Add a setting to control auto release of OpenSearch managed index creation block (#6277)
• Fix timeout error when adding a document to an index with extension running (#6275)
• Handle translog upload during primary relocation for remote-backed indexes (#5804)
• Batch translog sync/upload per x ms for remote-backed indexes (#5854)

Dependencies

• Update nebula-publishing-plugin to 19.2.0 (#5704)
• Bump reactor-netty from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 (#5878)
• OpenJDK Update (January 2023 Patch releases) (#6075)
• Bump Mockito from 4.7.0 to 5.1.0, ByteBuddy from 1.12.18 to 1.12.22 (#6088)
• Bump joda from 2.10.13 to 2.12.2 (#6095)
• Upgrade to Lucene 9.5.0 (#6078)
• Bump antlr4 from 4.9.3 to 4.11.1 (#6116)
• Bump Netty from 4.1.86.Final to 4.1.87.Final (#6130)
• Bump Jackson from 2.14.1 to 2.14.2 (#6129)
• Bump org.apache.ant:ant from 1.10.12 to 1.10.13 (#6306)
• Bump azure-core-http-netty from 1.12.7 to 1.12.8 (#6304)
• Bump com.azure:azure-storage-common from 12.18.1 to 12.19.3 (#6304)
• Bump reactor-netty-http from 1.0.24 to 1.1.2 (#6309)
• Bump com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java from 3.21.12 to 3.22.0 (#6387)
• Bump io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3 (#6386)
• Bump com.diffplug.spotless from 6.10.0 to 6.15.0 (#6385)
• Bump jettison from 1.5.1 to 1.5.3 (#6391)

Changed

• Use ReplicationFailedException instead of OpensearchException in ReplicationTarget (#4725)
• [Refactor] Use local opensearch.common.SetOnce instead of lucene's utility class (#5947)
• Cluster health call to throw decommissioned exception for local decommissioned node(#6008)
• [Refactor] core.common to new opensearch-common library (#5976)
• Update API spec for cluster health API (#6399)

Removed

• Remove deprecated org.gradle.util.DistributionLocator usage (#6212)

Fixed

• [Segment Replication] Fix for peer recovery (#5344)
• Fix weighted shard routing state across search requests(#6004)
• [Segment Replication] Fix bug where inaccurate sequence numbers are sent during replication (#6122)
• Enable numeric sort optimisation for few numerical sort types (#6321)
• Fix Opensearch repository-s3 plugin cannot read ServiceAccount token (#6390