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-# elasticsearch-js changelog
-
-## 12.0 (Oct 26 2016)
- - apiVersion `"5.0"` is now the default
-
-## 11.0 (Apr 5 2016)
- - apiVersion `"2.3"` is now the default
- - updated APIs, to use the new API's exposed by the `v5.0.0-alpha1` of elasticsearch use the `"master"` api version.
- - Switch to [promise](https://www.npmjs.com/package/promise) from [promise-js](https://www.npmjs.com/package/promise-js) to prevent polluting global environment
- - Pass the keepAlive configuration all the way to the Agent [#371](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/pull/371)
-
-## 10.1 (Jan 8 2016)
- - browser builds now include the "unstable" api's from elasticsearch
- - added `createNodeAgent` configuration value for overriding the agent that the node.js HttpConnector uses. (see [#329](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/pull/329))
- - fix a bug that could cause error statuses to be strings rather than numbers
- - doc fixes
- - support sniffing nodes that have published hostnames
- - error logging now includes information about the request where the error occured [#330](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/pull/330)
-
-## 10.0 (Nov 24 2015)
- - apiVersion `"2.1"` is now the default
- - Remove `bluebird` dependency, use an ES6 Promise shim instead. To use Bluebird in your project supply the [defer](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/configuration.html#config-defer) configuration option.
-
-## 9.0 (Oct 30 2015)
- - apiVersion `"2.0"` is now the default
- - Fix a memory leak caused by sniffing
- - Use the `application/x-ldjson` content-type for bulk formatted bodies
- - Added `wwwAuthenticateDirective` property to `401` errors
-
-## 8.2 (Sep 17 2015)
- - Added [`sniffedNodesProtocol`](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/configuration.html#config-sniffed-nodes-protocol) configuration option
- - Fixed an issue which prevented promised from getting rejected if the `GET` verb was used with a request body ([#263](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/issues/263))
-
-## 8.1 (Sep 8 2015)
- - Added apiVersion `"2.x"`, which will semi-regularly be updated to match the latest development at [elastic/elasticsearch#2.x](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/2.x)
- - Removed node engine upper-bound, supporting 4.0 and versions beyond.
-
-## 8.0 (Aug 26 2015)
- - apiVersion changed back to `"1.7"` until es 2.0 is actually released.
-
-## ~~7.0 (Aug 26 2015)~~ unpublished
- - Added apiVersion `"2.0"`, which is now the default
-
-## 6.1 (Aug 18 2015)
- - Added experimental support for apiVersion `"2.0"`
- - Added support for [many more status codes](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/blob/ea6721127fb239951fb86ac3b386e182b26f683c/src/lib/errors.js#L94-L138) so that "unknown error" is far less likely.
-
-## 6.0 (Aug 4 2015)
- - Added apiVersion `"1.7"`, which is now the default
- - Error objects resulting from a completed http request now have much more information about the request that caused them.
-
-## 5.0 (Jun 9 2015)
- - Added apiVersion `"1.6"`, which is now the default
-
-## 4.1 (May 19 2015)
- - Plugin configuration option added
- - Added support for object based error
-
-## 4.0 (Mar 26 2015)
- - Added apiVersion `"1.5"`, which is now the default
- - Changed the default pingTimeout to 3 seconds, and made it configurable
- - Improved compatibility with node 0.12
- - Updated dependencies
- - Make the stream logger actually usable (thanks @falmp!)
-
-## 3.1 (Jan 6 2015)
- - Added HTTPS/SSL configuration options and related errors
- - `client.scroll()` requests made without a body will use the `scrollId` param as the body to prevent #113 & #174
- - Updated bluebird to `v2.8.2` - [bluebird changelog](https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/master/changelog.md)
- - Added specific error message for 504 errors [#182](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/pull/182)
-
-## 3.0 (Nov 7 2014)
- - Added apiVersion `"1.4"`, which is now the default
- - Improved parsing of `host:` strings, [examples in the tests](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/blob/165b7d7986b2184b2e4b73d33bf5803e61ce7a54/test/unit/specs/host.js#L71-L92)
- - The Angular version of the client now uses `angular.toJson()` ([1.2](https://code.angularjs.org/1.2.27/docs/api/ng/function/angular.toJson), [1.3](https://code.angularjs.org/1.3.5/docs/api/ng/function/angular.toJson)) to serialize requests, override with `serializer: "json"`
- - Angular requests are now being [aborted properly](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/commit/4c106967d3e9ae208fae42ce013f0a21e1ace021)
-
-## 2.4 (Jul 30 2014)
- - Added apiVersion `"1.3"`, which is now the default
- - Angular connector (when used with Basic Auth) no longer modifies Angular's default headers
-
-## 2.3 (Jul 11 2014)
- - Added support for Node 0.11
- - Updated `bluebird`, which modified the [promise api](https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/blob/v2.2.1/API.md) somewhat
- - moved the log generator into it's own package [makelogs](https://www.npmjs.org/package/makelogs)
- - [Lower the logging level of `Request complete`](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/pull/122)
-
-## 2.2 (Mar 27 2014)
-- The default API version is now `'1.2'`
-- Node clinet now supports master, 1.x, 1.2, 1.1, 1.0, and 0.90
-- Browser client now supports versions 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2
-
-## 2.1 (Mar 27 2014)
-- The default API version is now `'1.1'`
-- Errors generated in the browser will now have stack traces
-- Clarified IE-support
-- Improvements to the bundled log-generator
-
-## 2.0 (Mar 27 2014)
-- The default API version is now `'1.0'`
-- Promises are now supported using the Bluebird module
-- If you try to reuse a configuration object, an error will be thrown. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/issues/33
-
-## 1.5 (Feb 6 2014)
-- Switched out `keepaliveagent` dependency with `forever-agent`, which is used in the ever popular `request` module, and is much simpler
-- The option to use keep-alive is now all or nothing. `maxKeepAliveTime` and `maxKeepAliveRequests` config parameters have been replaced by `keepAlive`, which will keeps at least `minSockets` connections open forever. See: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/configuration.html
-- Closing the client with `keepAlive` turned on will allow the process to exit. https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/issues/40
-- Fixed a bug that caused invalid param/type errors to not be reported properly, in the browser builds that use promises
-- added the cat.threadPool to the master/1.0/1.x apis
-- Enabled Basic auth in the Angular connector -- Thanks @jeff-french!
-- Fixed a bug that was preventing index requests (and any other POST/PUT request) from using connections in the connection pool
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-## 1.4 (Jan 30 2014)
-- The trace log messages will now diaplay the actual host connected to (without auth info) unless they are being written to a bash script
-- API Updated with latest changes awaiting 1.0 release
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-## 1.2/1.3 (Jan 17 2014)
-- `apiVersion` config parameter was added. Use this to specify which API the client should provide, we currently offer support for elasticsearch branches "0.90", "1.0", and "master"
-
-
-## 1.1 (Dec 22 2013)
-- Changed the resolution value of promises. Instead of being an object like `{body: ..., status: ...}` it is now
-  just the response body
-
-
-## 1.0 (Dec 17 2013)
-- Initial Release
-
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-## pre 1.0
-- Another module, now know as es on npm, used the elasticsearch module name. This module had several pre-1.0
-  releases so we started at 1.0 to prevent collisions in exiting projects. The history for that project is available [here](https://github.com/ncb000gt/node-es)
+The changelog has moved to https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/javascript-api/current/changelog.html