I tried to follow all of the trunk 6/branch 5x discussion, but... AFAICT there was no explicit decision or even implication that a release 5.0 would be imminent or that there would not be a 4.11 release. AFAICT, the whole trunk 6/branch 5x decision was more related to wanting to have a trunk that eliminated the 4x deprecations and was no longer constrained by compatibility with the 4x index – let me know if I am wrong about that in any way! But I did see a comment on one Jira referring to “preparation for a 5.0 release”, so I wanted to inquire about intentions. So, is a 5.0 release “coming soon”, or are 4.11, 4.12, 4.13... equally likely?
AFAICT, there isn’t anything super major in 5x that the world is super-urgently waiting for (WAR vs. server?), and people have been really good at making substantial enhancements in the 4x branch, so I would suggest that anybody strongly favoring an imminent 5.0 release (next six months) should make their case more explicitly. Otherwise, it seems like we can continue to look at an ongoing stream of significant improvements to the 4x branch and that a 5.0 is probably at least a year or so off – or simply waiting on some major change that actually warrants a 5.0. Open questions: What is Heliosearch up to, and what are Elasticsearch’s intentions? Comments? -- Jack Krupansky
