Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 14:11:10 +0000 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: State of Elasticsearch and related ports Message-ID: <7CC674CE-C814-45C1-9A7D-A7DAEC6A0048@punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <aa7Q9TEwUPJXcGo1@fc.opsec.eu> References: <A5C06584-C8B9-4978-B0FF-7FB9620D1A89@punkt.de> <aawUmaomyk9xPmMa@fc.opsec.eu> <24BA4834-620A-42EA-B58E-18C86A7507E5@punkt.de> <aa7Q9TEwUPJXcGo1@fc.opsec.eu>
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Hi! > Am 09.03.2026 um 14:53 schrieb Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org>: >>> As I'm not a user, can someone explain to me if we really need 9.1 and 9.2 >>> versions in parallel in the tree? >> >> I asked our local Elasticsearch guru and he cannot think of a reason to >> use 9.1 instead of 9.2 assuming the latter is available. >> >> It would be great to have current Elasticsearch ports and packages again. > > saro@ said that there are now 9.3 Elasticsearch releases ? > > How often do you as a 'user org' need 9.2 and 9.3 to test migrations etc ? We (punkt.de) have historically always used the latest version available. In many use cases the data is ephemeral, e.g. if you use Elastic for fulltext search in Nextcloud, you can always nuke everything, start fresh, and 24 hours or so later everything will be indexed again. But that is of course not the only use of Elasticsearch. Things to consider: Upgrades within a major release (9.x) are seamless. Just restart the new version with the existing data on disk, done. Whatever it migrates internally it will do. Upgrades to a new major release are guaranteed to work from the last minor version of the previous major one. So one day in the future you will be able to migrate from e.g. 9.17 to 10.1 or some such. Also it is important to have a complete set of Elastic, Kibana and Beats at the same major/minor version. So if Elastic 9.3 now exists but Kibana 9.3 does not yet, one would stick to Elastic and Kibana 9.2. That's how we run the product and how we go about which version to use. Of course I cannot speak for everyone. The creator of the new 9.x ports might be better qualified to help. Elasticsearch EOL policy can be found here: https://www.elastic.co/support/eol Actively developed/released branches seem to be 9.1, 9.2 and 9.3 together with 8.19, though: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases Kind regards, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Sophienstr. 187 76185 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de info@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Daniel Lienert, Fabian Steinhome | help
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