# \[ANNOUNCEMENT\] - FSCrawler 2.6 released
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-fscrawler-2-6-released/163604
**Category:** Community Ecosystem
**Created:** [January 9, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-fscrawler-2-6-released/163604 "2019-01-09T18:24:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-fscrawler-2-6-released/163604/1 "2019-01-09T18:24:13Z")
The FSCrawler team is pleased to announce the **FSCrawler 2.6** release!
# FSCrawler
FS Crawler offers a simple way to index binary files into elasticsearch.
## Usage
Download [FSCrawler 2.6](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler-es6/2.6/fscrawler-es6-2.6.zip):
```auto
wget https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler-es6/2.6/fscrawler-es6-2.6.zip
```
Start FS crawler with:
```auto
bin/fscrawler job_name
```
FS crawler will read a local file (default to `~/.fscrawler/{job_name}/_settings.json`).
If the file does not exist, FS crawler will propose to create your first job.
```auto
$ bin/fscrawler job_name
18:28:58,174 WARN [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawler] job [job_name] does not exist
18:28:58,177 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawler] Do you want to create it (Y/N)?
y
18:29:05,711 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawler] Settings have been created in [~/.fscrawler/job_name/_settings.json]. Please review and edit before relaunch
```
Create a directory named `/tmp/es` or `c:\tmp\es`, add some files you want to index in it and start again:
```auto
$ bin/fscrawler job_name
18:30:34,330 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] Starting FS crawler
18:30:34,332 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler started in watch mode. It will run unless you stop it with CTRL+C.
18:30:34,682 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler started for [job_name] for [/tmp/es] every [15m]
```
More details in the [documentation](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/fscrawler-2.6/).
## New features
- [#648](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/648): Add documentation on how to run as a Windows service . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#633](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/633): Ignore dirs when `.fscrawlerignore` file is detected . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#631](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/631): Support multiple OCR languages . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#616](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/616): Create specific elasticsearch clients . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#611](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/611): Add Release Drafter to automatically generate the release notes . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#597](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/597): Add LGTM code quality badges . Thanks to xcorail.
## Fixed Bugs
- [#658](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/658): Exit as soon as we close FSCrawler . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#647](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/647): Add a warning when using both silent and debug/trace . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#646](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/646): --silent with no job specify should warn the user . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#610](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/610): Add a Noop Parser . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#608](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/608): Can not start the REST Service standalone . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#605](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/605): Can not stop FSCrawler while crawling the local FS . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#595](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/595): Make default root dir Windows compatible . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#593](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/593): Support XML reoccurring structures . Thanks to dadoonet.
## Changes
- [#657](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/657): Update Jackson to 2.9.8 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#655](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/655): Update to Tika 1.20 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#649](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/649): Update to Elasticsearch 6.5.3 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#645](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/645): Update Guava transitive dependency to 27.0.1-jre . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#644](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/644): Force the default number of shards to be 1 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#642](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/642): Check Elasticsearch 6 minor version . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#638](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/638): Revisit Elasticsearch.Node and Rest settings . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#637](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/637): Update to elasticsearch 6.5.1 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#624](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/624): Update Tika to 1.19.1 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#609](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/609): Dump stack when not able to close FSCrawler . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#604](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/604): Update ossindex-maven-plugin to 3.0.1 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#603](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/603): Update to Tika 1.19 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#602](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/602): Update to Jackson 2.9.7 . Thanks to dadoonet.
- [#594](https://github.com/dadoonet/fscrawler//issues/594): Update to Elasticsearch 6.4.1 . Thanks to dadoonet.
Have fun!
-FSCrawler team
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/announcement-fscrawler-2-6-released/163604/3 "2020-06-23T06:03:54Z")