0.8.0

0.8.0

Highlights

• #310: Introduce track parameters and allow to override them on the command line

Enhancements

• #371: Introduce put pipeline API
• #369: Prepare rename from operation-type "index" to "bulk"
• #363: Allow to retry operations (internally)
• #362: Make plugin remote URL optional
• #360: Show ES distribution version upon race start
• #358: Rally tables should always output the same rows
• #354: Be more lenient when custom parameter source does not provide a parameter
• #353: Make a few track properties optional
• #352: Allow to use a challenge element if there is only one challenge in a track
• #351 (Breaking): Ensure task names are unique
• #345: Allow to use an ES distribution for plugins that are built separately
• #326: Allow to define operations inline

Bug Fixes

• #356 (Breaking): Set a sane default socket timeout
• #350 (Breaking): Number of iterations should be treated per client, not "global"

Doc Changes

• #364: Deprecate --cluster-health

0.7.4

0.7.4

Enhancements

• #333: Provide a clear error message for non-existing releases
• #331: Don't demand a compressed representation of the document corpus
• #226: Provide a Rally package with all dependencies for offline install
• #217: Add ability to continuously stream metrics

Bug Fixes

• #344: Client assignment can miss a (small) number of docs
• #338: Documents are not found if track is referenced via a file
• #337: Only map numeric HTTP status codes to request meta-data
• #334: Data partition algorithm failling with parallel indexing tasks

Doc Changes

• #343: If python is required then python-dev should be as well
• #231: Simplify usage of Rally for offline-only use

0.7.3

0.7.3

Enhancements

• #332: Provide more information about errors
• #330: Provide better error message when Rally reads an incompatible track
• #329: Allow to skip cluster health check
• #323: Rally should not demand a local Java install
• #309: Allow to benchmark plugins from sources
• #292: Add a "simple track" mode
• #259: Prepare Rally for Java 9

Bug Fixes

• #328: Challenge-specific index settings are not applied to index template definitions

0.7.2

0.7.2

Enhancements

• #322: Add error-type to request meta-data
• #321: Don't log body when creating a new index
• #319: Upgrade to thespian 3.8.0
• #315: Simplify multi-node configuration
• #313: Allow car mixins
• #265: Have Rally detect and use more Java versions

Bug Fixes

• #318: Run tasks indefinitely

0.7.1

0.7.1

Highlights

• #257: Distribute load-test driver

Bug Fixes

• #316: KeyError: 'vm_vendor' when running benchmark against single host cluster with 0.7.0

0.7.0

0.7.0

Highlights

• #71: Allow to benchmark multi-machine clusters
• #60: Allow benchmarking with plugins

Enhancements

• #314: Allow to filter executed tasks
• #312 (Breaking): Move action-and-meta-data to (indexing) type definition
• #308: Unify implementation of track and team repositories
• #307: Check Python version on startup and fail if it does not meet requirements
• #304: Make distribution repositories configurable
• #296: Verify whether the number of documents in the track is correct
• #278: relative-time should be reset per task
• #228: Increased flexibility for termination of parallel tasks

0.6.2

0.6.2

Enhancements

• #299: Leave the host parsing on elasticsearch-py
• #227: Enhance flexibility of user tagging
• #196 (Breaking): Externalize car configuration

Bug Fixes

• #298: Rally froze at the end of a race, did not produce results

0.6.1

0.6.1

Enhancements

• #295: Provide number of query hits as metrics metadata
• #291: Show track size metrics when listing tracks
• #290: Allow to pass arbitrary request parameters for ES queries
• #286: Additional metrics for bulk requests
• #282 (Breaking): Remove list facts subcommand

0.6.0

0.6.0

Highlights

• #258: Make 'race' self-contained

Enhancements

• #284 (Breaking): Disallow previously deprecated usage of track properties in meta block
• #283: Store race results in a format optimized for reporting
• #279 (Breaking): Separate race and metrics indices
• #276: Add affected index to meta-data returned by bulk index runner
• #275: Allow to define per-challenge cluster-settings
• #267: Provide a progress-indication for downloads
• #266: Make the gc telemetry device Java 9 compatible
• #246: Rally should print a warning if there are no measurement samples
• #223: Allow unlimited number of pages for scroll queries
• #222: Report number of hits, not just pages, for scroll queries
• #220 (Breaking): Allow monthly indices for metrics
• #138 (Breaking): Improve support Elasticsearch 5 as metrics store

Bug Fixes

• #285: Rally is stuck for benchmarks with a very large number of requests
• #280: The file-reader parameter source does not seem to pass additional parameters

Doc Changes

• #288: Clarify usage of remote track repositories in docs
• #287: Document throughput semantics for each operation
• #274: Explain summary report output
• #271: Document how to implement custom runner classes
• #264: Documentation on settings and warning message when using a documents archive file

0.5.3

Highlights

• #251: Support for non-deterministic distribution of operations

Enhancements

• #260: Have bulk parameter source provide the bulk size
• #249: Saving tournament report
• #155: Improve document count handling

Bug Fixes

• #263: Race condition when rolling log files
• #261: Unable to determine valid external socket address
• #253: Cannot determine CPU info for POWER8 chips
• #242: Rally does not detect the distribution version correctly for externally provisioned clusters
• #235: Allow Python files in a track directory that are unrelated to the track plugin

Doc Changes

• #256: Document additional decompression options
• #247: Description of available operation types in the docs
• #241: Clearly document which Elasticsearch versions are supported