Update version information
Bump current major version to 5, reflect bifurcation of packages.
@@ -36,25 +36,33 @@ It can be installed with pip:
pip install elasticsearch
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+The legacy version for Elasticsearch version 2.x can be installed with pip:
+
+[source,sh]
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+pip install elasticsearch2
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+
=== Versioning
-There are two branches for development - `master` and `1.x`. Master branch is
-used to track all the changes for Elasticsearch 2.0 and beyond whereas 1.x
-tracks Elasticsearch 1.*.
+Current development happens in the master branch.
+
+The master branch is the only branch under current development and
+is used to track all the changes for Elasticsearch 5.x and beyond.
-Releases with major version 1 (1.X.Y) are to be used with Elasticsearch 1.* and
-later, 0.4 releases are meant to work with Elasticsearch 0.90.*.
+Elasticsearch version 2.x is not longer under active development.
+We will only backport severe bug fixes.
The recommended way to set your requirements in your `setup.py` or
`requirements.txt` is:
[source,txt]
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- # Elasticsearch 2.x
- elasticsearch>=2.0.0,<3.0.0
+ # Elasticsearch 5.x
+ elasticsearch>=5.0.0,<6.0.0
- # Elasticsearch 1.x
- elasticsearch>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
+ # Elasticsearch 2.x
+ elasticsearch2
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=== Example use
@@ -112,7 +120,7 @@ some of the more engaging tasks like bulk indexing and reindexing.
=== License
-Copyright 2013-2016 Elasticsearch
+Copyright 2013-2017 Elasticsearch
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
