# \[ANN\] Elasticsearch Azure cloud plugin 2.5.2 released

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-elasticsearch-azure-cloud-plugin-2-5-2-released/1041>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [May 20, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-elasticsearch-azure-cloud-plugin-2-5-2-released/1041 "2015-05-20T21:53:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ann-elasticsearch-azure-cloud-plugin-2-5-2-released/1041/1 "2015-05-20T21:53:16Z")

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Heya,

We are pleased to announce the release of the **Elasticsearch Azure cloud plugin** , **version 2.5.2**

> The Azure Cloud plugin allows to use Azure API for the unicast discovery mechanism and add Azure storage repositories..

# Release Notes - Version 2.5.2

## Fix

- [[56](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/issues/56)] - [package] stax-api is added twice
- [[55](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/55)] - Failure when creating a container should raise an exception

## Update

- [[88](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/issues/88)] - Update to elasticsearch 1.4.5
- [[65](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/65)] - Simplify setting index.store.type with smb\_simple\_fs and smb\_mmap\_fs
- [[63](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/63)] - Use Azure Java Management SDK 0.7.0
- [[62](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/62)] - Rename settings for discovery and repositories
- [[61](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/61)] - Rename settings for repositories
- [[57](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/57)] - Use Azure Storage 2.0.0
- [[50](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/issues/50)] - [Test] use seed in container name and clean all after tests
- [[45](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/issues/45)] - Update to Lucene 4.10.3

## New

- [[64](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/64)] - Add keystore.type, deployment.name and deployment.slot settings for discovery
- [[60](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/pull/60)] - Open Lucene MMap/SimpleFSDirectory with Read option

For questions or comments around this plugin, feel free to use elasticsearch [mailing list](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elasticsearch)!

Enjoy,

- The [Elastic team](http://www.elastic.co/)

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