Since there has been no feedback whatsoever, I am inclined to assume
that the proposal is accepted.

If that is not the case, please respond within the next 72 hours.

On 5 January 2017 at 01:00, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
> To fix the word-cloud collection on ES 5.x will probably require use
> of the terminate_after parameter to replace the unsupported limit
> filter.
>
> terminate_after  appeared in 1.x but was marked experimental.
> It seems to be no longer experimental since 2.0.
>
> On 4 January 2017 at 12:40, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ES 5.x drops the scroll-scan search type.
>>
>> This was originally deprecated in 2.1 [1] released in Nov 2015
>>
>> The recommended approach is to use a scroll request that sorts
>> documents in _doc order.
>> Such sorts have been optimised to provide the same performance
>> characteristics as the former scan search type.
>>
>> However this optimisation presumably only applies from versions 2.1.
>> Earlier versions should work, but could be much slower.
>>
>> Dropping official support for earlier versions would allow us to make
>> the change without worrying about the performance impact.
>>
>> The alternative is to provide configurable behaviour.
>>
>> There may be other reasons to bump the minimum supported version further.
>>
>> Note: there will be no further releases of the 1.7 line after 1.7.6,
>> released in Nov 2016 [3]
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.1/breaking_21_search_changes.html#breaking_21_search_changes
>> [2] https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-2-1-0-and-2-0-1-released
>> [3] https://www.elastic.co/blog/category/releases

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