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[Aaron Wells <1315238@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To add a little more background info. Mahara uses the "Elastica" PHP
library to interface with the Elasticsearch search server software. Each
release of Elastica is tied to a particular version of Elasticsearch.

We should certainly upgrade Mahara's search plugin to have the latest
version of Elastica in place so that users can be using the latest
version of Elasticsearch. This will break compatibility for any sites
using a pre-1.x version of Elasticsearch. If for some reason we get a
lot of complaints about that (like if for some reason a large user
population wants to stay on Elasticsearch 0.9.x) we could always take
the Mahara 1.9.0 elasticsearch plugin and put that up on the Mahara
plugins page as a separate download.

Hm... it might also be worth adding a version check to the Elasticsearch
plugin. Like, have it check that the Elasticsearch server version is
compatible with the Elastica plugin version.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315238

Title:
  Upgrade Elasticsearch client to the latest version

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Mahara 1.8.3
  OS: Linux
  Database: Postgres and MySql
  Browser: Firefox

  The current Elastic client version is 0.90.1.0.

  A newer version 1.1.1.1 is out.  http://elastica.io

  Mahara's client Elastica should be upgraded.

  But, as aarow pointed out, "it's compatibility-breaking, so it may
  require some adaptation to the Mahara code to make it work."

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