# Elasticsearch 1.6.0 released

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-6-0-released/2235>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [June 9, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-6-0-released/2235 "2015-06-09T16:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-6-0-released/2235/1 "2015-06-09T16:26:15Z")

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Today, we are pleased to announce the release of Elasticsearch 1.6.0, based on Lucene 4.10.4. This is the latest stable version of Elasticsearch and is packed with awesome new features:

- Faster restarts with synced flushing
- Shard allocation no longer blocks pending tasks JSON response body filtering
- Security fix for shared file-system repositories
- Upgrade API for ancient indices
- More lenient highlighting for Kibana users
- mlockall for Windows users
- Fine-grained script settings

You can read more in the blog post: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-1-6-0-released](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-1-6-0-released)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-1-6-0-released/2235/2 "2017-07-05T21:49:13Z")

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