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Release highlights

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These are the important new features and changes in minor releases. Every release also updates the Java API Client to the latest API specification. This includes new APIs and bug fixes in the specification of existing APIs.

For a list of detailed changes, including bug fixes, please see the GitHub project realease notes.

Version 8.12

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No new feature.

Version 8.11

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No new feature.

Version 8.10

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Add instrumentation API and native OpenTelemetry implementation - #588, docs

Version 8.9

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Refactor RestClientTransport to allow using other http client libraries - #584

Version 8.8

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Throw a TransportException when an error response cannot be parsed - #579
Speed up URL path encoding and remove dependency on httpclient - #576
Add buffered lookahead and JsonData implementation for Jackson - #489, #567
Expose additional BulkIngester metrics - #513
Allow unparsed binary data to be used for ingestion - #508

Version 8.7

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Add BulkIngester helper - #474, #513, docs
Allow unparsed binary data to be used for ingestion - #508, docs
Add convenience method BooleanQuery.hasClauses() - #525

Version 8.6

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Allow using java.lang.reflect.Type in addition to java.lang.Class to define application types for deserialization - #438
Add buffered lookahead for Jackson to speed up union deserialization - #489
Cache the result of JsonProvider.provider() - #485

Version 8.5

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Add support for API endpoints that return binary content, such as the Vector tile API - #434
Add support for plugin-defined custom components - #370, #371
Add SSL setup helper class and documentation - #390

Version 8.4

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Add troubleshooting documentation on MissingRequiredPropertyException - #301
Allow serializing aggregations without typed keys. This is useful in scenarios where the Java application is used as a proxy and the responses are sent back to its client - #316

Version 8.3

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Add toString() implementation to all value classes - #269

Version 8.2

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Add the withJson() method to all builder classes - #200
Add troubleshooting docs for jakarta-json and build systems like Spring - #215
Improve JSON mapping errors by adding location and property path in the exception message - #237

Version 8.1

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Add documentation for HLRC’s compatibility mode with Elasticsearch 8.x - #230

Version 8.0

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Change the JSON-P implementation from Glassfish to Parsson - #63
Accept null values in lists - #68

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