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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by taf2 on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:06PM (#15699111)
I wish after 1.x they had maintained backwards compatibility with upgrades as they had kind of promised... there is just so much money in making it hard to upgrade ;)
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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by eric_b on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:16PM (#15699206)
That consulting arm of Elastic needs something to do :)

More charitably, I can understand why they felt the need to make a hard break, but difficult upgrades plus fast release cycle means a fair bit of friction.

The no downtime upgrades will be nice, but on a big production system, I wouldn't feel comfortable upgrading major versions every 6 months.

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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by slantedview on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @07:58PM (#15700701)
Rolling upgrade support was a big part of this release, which obviously makes upgrades easier.
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Re:Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released by stingraycharles on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @04:14PM (#15699181)
I don’t think it will ever make sense for a business to make it hard to upgrade. There is much more to lose.
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