The docs ( https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/similarity ) and announcement blog post ( https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-5-0-0-released ) seem to disagree about the new default similarity. Is it classic or BM25?

Default similarity in Elasticsearch

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Default similarity in Elasticsearch