So, Elasticsearch 5.0.0 is out.
I’m using Chewy, a Ruby DSL gem that’s quite good. It’s not quite there yet with the deprecated Query APIs, (see Release Notes), so to keep using it you need to hold back to the Elasticsearch 2.4 series which is the last stable release. (Question about this, answered in the issue tracker.)
Here are a couple of Homebrew invocations to stay on 2.4, with full data-loss, since the index version has been upgraded.
curl localhost:9200
The output for 5.0.0 is:
{
"name" : "61mKC-n",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch_olle",
"cluster_uuid" : "EtOE3oHxQRSur5_qhRr-TQ",
"version" : {
"number" : "5.0.0",
"build_hash" : "253032b",
"build_date" : "2016-10-26T04:37:51.531Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "6.2.0"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
This is the version 5.0.0 that we can’t use with Chewy.
brew services status elasticsearch
If you don’t have one of those services running, you can skip a few steps.
brew services stop elasticsearch
brew unlink elasticsearch
Now, with a clean slate, we can ask Homebrew to install a specific version (actually, a release series, “2.4”):
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install elasticsearch24
brew services start elasticsearch24
If you now run curl localhost:9200 you’ll may perhaps not see JSON ouput: if your index has been running on the 5.0.0, its lucene_index version would’ve been bumped, so that 2.4 can no longer read it.
The data files used by your Elasticsearch resides in /usr/local/var/elasticsearch. My node was called elasticsearch_olle and I decided to move all of its data out to a non-important folder on my harddrive:
mv /usr/local/var/elasticsearch/elasticsearch_olle ~/slask
After that, I could
brew services restart elasticsearch24
and then curl localhost:9200, to see the following 2.4 output:
{
"name" : "Miss America",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch_olle",
"cluster_uuid" : "ym_Ovns4RHWqh-ZRcHWxcw",
"version" : {
"number" : "2.4.1",
"build_hash" : "c67dc32e24162035d18d6fe1e952c4cbcbe79d16",
"build_timestamp" : "2016-09-27T18:57:55Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "5.5.2"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
“Winning.”
Photo credit: Kamil Szybalski