Gem

• Tested versions of Ruby for 9.2.0: Ruby (MRI) 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, JRuby 9.3, JRuby 9.4 and JRuby 10.

Support for base64 indexing for vector values

Adds support for base64 ingestion of floating point arrays. You can use this by calling the client's pack_dense_vector function with the data to be converted to Base64 vector encoding for Bulk ingestion:

> data = [1.0...

• Dev: This release replaces the deprecated artifacts API with a new up to date one (https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-ruby/pull/2844[Pull Request]). This is used for downloading the REST tests and specification from Elasticsearch in development.
• Dev: The 8.19 branch now tests for Ruby 4.0, so the gems ostruct and benchmark have been added to Gemfiles when RUBY_VERSION >= '4'....

API changes

Code updated to the latest Elasticsearch 8.19.6 specification.

• General: Better type documentation in source code for Number types.
• esql.async_query_stop: New parameter:
  • [Boolean] :drop_null_columns Indicates whether columns that are entirely null will be removed from the columns and values portion of the results.
• 🐈 Cat APIs update: The following par...

Elasticsearch API

Updates API code to the latest Elasticsearch 9.1 specification.

• Updates :bytes and :time parameters in Cat endpoints:
  • cat.aliases, cat.allocation, cat.component_templates, cat.count, cat.fielddata, cat.health, cat.indices, cat.master, cat.ml_data_frame_analytics, cat.ml_datafeeds, cat.ml_jobs, cat.ml_trained_models, cat.nodeattrs,...

Gem

• Tested versions of Ruby for 9.2.0: Ruby (MRI) 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, head, JRuby 9.3, JRuby 9.4 and JRuby 10.
• Cleaned up deprecated code for code generation in elasticsearch-api/utils.

Elasticsearch API

Code updated to the latest Elasticsearch 9.2 specification.

API Updates

• async_search.submit, cat.count, count, eql.search, field_caps, `indices.resolve_index...