[ANN] Elasticsearch Azure cloud plugin 2.8.1 & 2.7.1 released

Hi,

We are pleased to announce the release of the Elasticsearch Azure cloud plugin, version 2.8.1 (for elasticsearch 1.7.1) and version 2.7.1 (for elasticsearch 1.6.2).

These releases fix an important bug concerning the snapshot/restore feature.

Release Notes - elasticsearch-cloud-azure - Version 2.8.1

Fix:

Release Notes - elasticsearch-cloud-azure - Version 2.7.1

Fix:

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

Enjoy,

-The Elasticsearch team