Every application should read and write through an alias rather than an index name, which turns a mapping change from an outage into a swap. The two actions…
February’s major does not change the query API and does change what happens when you start the container, which is a larger disruption for most people. Everything that…
Mapping types were deprecated in 6.0, made single-only in 7.0 and removed entirely in 8.0, which is an unusually long and well-signposted removal. The four-year runway means most…
The official clients check a product header and refuse to talk to anything that is not the version they expect, which makes a rolling upgrade a coordinated one.…
Laravel 9 ships a Scout driver backed by the database, which removes a search service from a project that had one for one feature. The ceiling is real…
The server APIs are compatible at the fork point and the official clients started refusing to talk to anything that is not Elasticsearch. The product check is a…