Elasticsearch and ELK 6.0

We are happy to announce a new version of the Bitnami Elasticsearch and ELK Stacks:

Elasticsearch is a popular open source, distributed, enterprise-quality search and analytics engine. Accessible through a REST API, it sifts through large amounts of data extremely quickly. ELK also includes Logstash (centralized logging, log enrichment, and parsing) and Kibana (powerful and beautiful data visualizations).

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Here are some of the most remarkable new features and enhancements included in Elasticsearch 6:

• Rolling Restart feature negates the need for a full cluster restart, minimizing downtime.
• Sorting at indexing time.
• New indices will be restricted to a single type (first step to remove mapping types).
• Based on Lucene 7, it supports Sparse Doc Values.
• More successful and efficient shard recovery.

To learn more information about this release, visit the ELK Stack upgrade page.

Do you want to try these new features? Deploy the Bitnami Elasticsearch and ELK Stack in just one click. To get started, you can choose to run them on any of our all-in-one free native installers (for Linux, Windows and OS X) and virtual machines, or launch them in the cloud.

And for the most demanding environments, you can also try Bitnami Elasticsearch Multi-Tier, already available on Google Cloud Platform or Azure.

New Node.js version 4.0.0 available on Bitnami!

The Node.js foundation has released version 4.0.0 (stable) that fixes important issues, improves its functionality and upgrades some of its included dependencies. 

It is a big upgrade from the last stable version (0.12.7) that released on July. You may be wondering why jump from 0.x to 4.x, that is because of io.js last version is 3.x and to avoid collision with Node.js it was decided to merge on 4.

• Node.js and io.js are united.
• NPM: Upgrade to version 2.14.2 from 2.13.3, that includes a security update.
• v8: Upgrade to version 4.5.103.30 from 4.4.63.30. 
• Node-gyp: This release bundles an updated version of node-gyp that works with all versions of Node.js and io.js including nightly and release candidate builds. From io.js v3 and Node.js v4 onward, it will only download a headers tarball when building addons rather than the entire source. 

You can find more information about this release on Node.js webpage.

We have released Bitnami Node.js version 4.0.0 on installers, virtual machines and cloud images.

Have questions about Bitnami Node.js or anything related? Post to our community forum, and we will be happy to help you.