App Search, Self Managed, Changelog

The changelog for Elastic App Search, self-managed edition.

7.6.2

Bug Fixes

• Fix auto sign-in for unsecured App Search when in Read-Only mode.
• Support migrations in Read-Only mode.
• Fix retry mechanism of indexing and engine deletion background jobs.

7.6.1

Updates

• Added banner to make it easier to see whether App Search is in Read-Only (R/O) mode.
• Improved error messages when in R/O Mode.
• Expose platinum features for Elasticsearch trial licenses.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed worker retries.
• Fixed edge case where worker could potentially crash while in R/O mode.
• Fixed user log in/out when in R/O Mode.

7.6.0

Updates

• Meta Engines: treat a group of engines with similar capabilities as a regular engine. Read our guide here.
• Read-Only Mode: upgrade future versions of App Search without downtime. Documentation.
• Smarter role mapping validations to prevent locking oneself out.
• Retry ES connection when process starts up.
• Added log rotation.
• Upgraded vendored Filebeat version.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed InterruptedException when process is terminated.
• Fixed date value boost.
• Fixed UI bug where telemetry banner could reappear in certain cases.

7.5.2

Updates

• App Search is now available on Elastic Cloud.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing users with spaces in their username from accepting invites and logging in.

7.5.1

Bug Fixes

• We have fixed an issue with db-lock and queue indexes causing single-node clusters to go yellow due to unassigned replicas.

7.5.0

Updates

• Optimized response times and improved search experiences with Result Settings. See the release post for more details.
• Performance improvements via merged processes, queue management and logging reduction.
• Monitoring capabilities with the Metricbeat App Search module. Checkout the Metricbeat docs for details on how to add the module.
• API logs and analytics available in Elastic Common Schema. To toggle API logs and analytics in ECS, simply update app-search.yml to set enable_ecs_logs: true.
• App Search now creates an Elasticsearch user app_search in the Native Realm as the default admin user. This applies to Standard auth and Elastic Native Realm auth; SAML and unsecured installations are not affected.
• App Search is now available as a beta on ECE 2.4.

Bug Fixes

• App Search's Filebeat is now set at 1 replica.
• Fixed an issue when using SAML authentication on a fresh installation of App Search.
• Fixed a pagination UI bug.
• Gracefully handle a session expiration by redirecting back to log-in.

Backward Compatibility

• Running single processes or components separately has been deprecated.
• Due to merging app server and worker the app_search.monitoring_* properties have been deprecated.

7.4.2

• No changes.

7.4.1

• Fixed an issue for App Search docker image where worker.threads and log_format options were ignored.
• The JSON application logs are now compatible with ECS 1.1.0.

7.4.0

Updates

• The App Search dashboard is now a Single Page App. It should be better, faster... stronger ~ !
• The app-search.log is now compatible with the Elastic Common Schema and is now JSON formatted by default.
• To match the behaviour of App Search on other platforms, Docker containers now run under an unprivileged app-search user instead of root and the default location for all logs in a container have been changed to /var/log/app-search.
• Startup time has been improved.
• We now support Signed Search Keys.
• You can set custom HTTP headers on each request via app-search.yml.
• You can configure the number of worker threads you'd like to use.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the inconsistent behaviour with quoted search highlights.
• We'll clean up when a user is deleted from Elasticsearch.

Backward Compatibility

• Due to the change in app-search.log file format, any log ingestion configurations will need to be updated. The log uses a JSON schema now, so it should be easier to ingest.
• Docker logging directory has changed. For all users, who have a persistent Docker volume configured for App Search logs, the volume will now need to be mounted into /var/log/app-search.
• Additionally, if you have a Docker-based deployment with a persistent volume used for logging, you may need to change the owner of that volume to UID=1000/GID=1000 to allow the new version of App Search to write to that directory.

7.3.2

• Fixed the Reference UI to show "More" options on filters when there are more than 5 filters present.
• Fixed indexing retries.
• Fixed the ordering of Curations in search results.

7.3.1

• Fixed a bug which caused the Reference UI to generate a username and password prompt.

7.3.0

• No changes.

7.2.1

Updates

• The Reference UI now uses Search UI.

Bug Fixes

• List all Engines when editing role assignments or API Keys.
• Fixed truncating of null values.
• Fixed “view details” button.
• Fixed exception within the system log.
• Addressed React and JavaScript library vulnerabilities.
• A reset of search_settings will no longer reset result_fields.
• Relevance Tuning will no longer update result_fields.

7.2

• We released!

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