Also see Breaking changes in 7.17.
Bug fixesedit
- Authentication
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- Improve performance for role mapping with DNs #92074
- Cluster Coordination
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- Unsafe bootstrap memory optimization #92493
- Distributed
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- Fork
TransportClusterStateAction
to MANAGEMENT #90996
- Fork
- Geo
-
- Port lucene fix github-11986 to Elasticsearch 7.17 #92320
- ILM+SLM
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- Get repository metadata from the cluster state doesn’t throw an exception if a repo is missing #92914
- Infra/Core
- Machine Learning
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- Improve performance of closing files before spawning #2424.
- Mapping
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- Fix
_bulk
apidynamic_templates
and explicitop_type
#92687
- Fix
- Network
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- Reject connection attempts while closing #92465
- Search
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- Avoid doing I/O when fetching min and max for keyword fields #92026
- Snapshot/Restore
- Store
Enhancementsedit
- Search
-
- Make field-caps tasks cancellable #92051
Upgradesedit
- Snapshot/Restore
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- Upgrade GCS SDK to 2.13.1 #92327