From e8fe624570b1dc815e82f2057e0f6127f78cc557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Tedor Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:15:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add migration note on the number of shards This commit adds a migration note regarding the default number of shards changing from five to one. Relates #30539 --- docs/reference/migration/migrate_7_0/indices.asciidoc | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/migration/migrate_7_0/indices.asciidoc b/docs/reference/migration/migrate_7_0/indices.asciidoc index 634a00e1f44..1135c63f421 100644 --- a/docs/reference/migration/migrate_7_0/indices.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/migration/migrate_7_0/indices.asciidoc @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ [[breaking_70_indices_changes]] === Indices changes +[float] +==== Index creation no longer defaults to five shards +Previous versions of Elasticsearch defaulted to creating five shards per index. +Starting with 7.0.0, the default is now one index per shard. + [float] ==== `:` is no longer allowed in index name