# Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1 released

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-0-0-beta1-released/28134>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [August 26, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-0-0-beta1-released/28134 "2015-08-26T18:27:56Z")\
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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:** [August 26, 2015, 6:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-0-0-beta1-released/28134/1 "2015-08-26T18:27:56Z")

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Today, we are excited to announce the release of Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1, based on Lucene 5.2.1. This release contains over 2,500 pull requests from 469 committers. 850 of the pull requests are completely new to 2.0.

IMPORTANT: This is a beta release and is intended for testing purposes only. There is no guarantee that Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1 will be compatible with Elasticsearch 2.0.0 GA.

DO NOT DEPLOY IN PRODUCTION

You can read the [blog post about Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-2-0-0-beta1-released) here.

You can [download Elasticsearch 2.0.0-beta1 and read the full changes list here](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-2-0-0-beta1).

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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, 9:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-0-0-beta1-released/28134/2 "2017-07-05T21:48:35Z")

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