Updated on 2025-09-04 GMT+08:00

Elasticsearch Release Notes

Elasticsearch 7.10.2

Table 1 Elasticsearch 7.10.2

Image Version

Description

7.10.2_25.6.0_0814

New features and performance enhancements:

  • Added the elasticsearch-analysis-vietnamese plugin.
  • Removed sensitive information from ClusterState for Elasticsearch clusters.
  • Optimized the deduplication function for HPACK graph indexes.
  • Enhanced ISM reliability concerning the circuit breaker mechanism.
  • Resolved the following issue: lifecycle management tasks cannot be executed once the disk space usage exceeds 95%.
  • Resolved the following issue: the backup and restoration plugin occasionally fails to create a repository.
  • Resolved the following issue: admin permissions are lost after the built-in role mapping is modified.
  • Resolved the following issue: indexes that are in the index recycle bin are not automatically deleted upon expiration.
  • Resolved the following issue: the index monitoring plugin sometimes cannot obtain the index status.
  • Optimized security mode switching for existing clusters. Resolved the following issue: the security mode fails to be changed when the cluster has a large number of index shards.
  • Added the online web search function for the pg_search plugin, which supports OpenAI's embedding and reranking APIs.
  • Resolved the following issue: IP addresses that are already blacklisted can still send requests.

7.10.2_25.3.0_0507

New features and performance enhancements:

  • Removed some residual settings for plugins when restoring indexes.
  • Fixed the following issue: The SQL plugin may cause some nodes to restart.
  • Fixed the following issue: The breaker of a security-mode cluster is inconsistent with the Elasticsearch design.
  • Optimized node lockout mechanism: To prevent specific nodes from being locked due to repeated incorrect password attempts, add their IP addresses to a whitelist.
  • Fixed the following issue: Occasionally, the file descriptor remains allocated after a Kibana log file is deleted.
  • Optimized compatibility with clients of versions 7.x and 8.x.
  • Added support for a custom QueryPhase plugin. Vector indexes support parallel searches across segments.
  • Added write failure monitoring.
  • Fixed the following issue: The lifecycle plugin may cause upgrade failures.
  • Fixed the following issue: The error "topDocs already consumed" may occur when sorting is performed.
  • Optimized the error message displayed when decoupled storage and compute (index freezing) is used for a non-existent index.
  • Fixed the following issue: The IK dictionary file may not take effect on new nodes upon an upgrade or scale-out operation.
  • Fixed the following issue: Kibana cannot deliver password change requests due to an incorrect UI string (Chinese).
  • Supports a retry mechanism for OBS access by the hpack vector plugin.
  • Fixed the following issue: A 6.x security-mode cluster may fail to be upgraded to 7.10.2.
  • Fixed the following issue: Elasticsearch processes may fail to restart with the error "alias has more than one write index."
  • Kibana basePathAlias can contain -_.

7.10.2_25.1.0_0227

New features and performance enhancements:

  • Added a node alarm to indicate abnormality of the filesystem tune2fs.
  • Fixed the following issue: File handles may fail to be released promptly during log ingestion.
  • Vector search supports indexing algorithms GRAPH_SQ4 and GRAPH_SQ8.
  • The index lifecycle plugin supports skipping the rollover step.
  • Fixed the following issue for the storage-compute decoupling plugin: An incompatibility issue may occur during upgrade due to obs_index_allocator.
  • Fixed the following issue: Process restart may occur when a _msearch query is canceled.

Elasticsearch 7.6.2

Table 2 Elasticsearch 7.6.2

Image Version

Description

7.6.2_25.6.0_0814

New features and performance enhancements:

  • Removed sensitive information from ClusterState for Elasticsearch clusters.
  • Resolved the following issue: the backup and restoration plugin occasionally fails to create a repository.
  • Resolved the following issue: admin permissions are lost after the built-in role mapping is modified.
  • Resolved the following issue: IP addresses that are already blacklisted can still send requests.
  • Resolved the following issue: the index monitoring plugin sometimes cannot obtain the index status.
  • Enhanced ISM reliability concerning the circuit breaker mechanism.

7.6.2_25.3.0_0506

New features and performance enhancements:
  • Removed some residual settings for plugins when restoring indexes.
  • Fixed the following issue: The SQL plugin may cause some nodes to restart.
  • Fixed the following issue: The breaker of a security-mode cluster is inconsistent with the Elasticsearch design.
  • Added write failure monitoring.
  • Fixed the following issue: The IK dictionary file may not take effect on new nodes upon an upgrade or scale-out operation.
  • Fixed the following issue: Snapshot operations may get stuck when a circuit breaker is triggered.
  • Fixed the following issue: Shards may fail to be allocated when read/write splitting is enabled.

7.6.2_25.1.0_0227

New features and performance enhancements:

  • Added a node alarm to indicate abnormality of the filesystem tune2fs.
  • The index lifecycle plugin supports skipping the rollover step. Fixed the following issue: If an index name contains minutes, the rollover alias may fail to be updated.
  • Fixed the following issue for the storage-compute decoupling plugin: An incompatibility issue may occur during upgrade due to obs_index_allocator.
  • Fixed the following issue: Process restart may occur when a _msearch query is canceled.