# Rally 0.5.0 released **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [February 23, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-0-5-0-released/76167 "2017-02-23T08:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![danielmitterdorfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/danielmitterdorfer/32/110510_2.png) [@danielmitterdorfer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/danielmitterdorfer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-0-5-0-released/76167/1 "2017-02-23T08:05:30Z")
Today we are proud to announce Rally 0.5.0 which brings a lot of improvements and fixes. ## How to...? - ... upgrade: `pip3 install --upgrade esrally` - ... install: `pip3 install esrally` Note: Depending on your system setup you probably need to prepend these commands with `sudo`. Please follow the [quickstart](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html) for a first time install though. ## Changes This release contains the following highlights: - Rally can now provision Elasticsearch clusters remotely ([#184](https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues/184)). For the moment, this is limited to single-machine "clusters" but we will [expand remote provisioning to multiple machines](https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues/71) next. From now on, this is the recommended mode in which you should run your benchmarks and our docs provide a [complete example on how to run a remote benchmark](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/recipes.html#benchmarking-a-remote-cluster). - Sparked by an [initiative](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/share-results/75643) from @ebuildy, we have created a new repository at [https://github.com/elastic/rally-results](https://github.com/elastic/rally-results) which allows us all to share results from benchmark that have been run on different hardware (think: bare metal, different EC2 instance types, Azure, GCE, ...). Rally can help you to gather the necessary meta-data by running `esrally list facts --target-host=IP_OF_YOUR_TARGET_HOST`. Over the next few days and weeks we will also transfer our own benchmarking results to this repo. - You can now use a new ["nested" track](https://github.com/elastic/rally-tracks/tree/master/nested) that has been contributed by @Mark_Harwood which let's you test the performance of nested documents. - If you write your own [track](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/adding_tracks.html#custom-parameter-sources) [plugins](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/adding_tracks.html#custom-runners), you can now use `--enable-driver-profiling` to check whether your track plugin has introduced a bottleneck. - Thanks to continued feedback from @Christian_Dahlqvist who pushes the functionality provided by Rally to its limits with his tracks, Rally provides now [better support to structure your tracks](http://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/adding_tracks.html#structuring-your-track). The [changelog](https://github.com/elastic/rally/milestone/8?closed=1) contains the complete list of changes. All users are recommended to upgrade to this version. I want to thank everbody that raised issues, questions, provided other feedback or even contributed code and documentation. If you also want to [get involved in Rally development](https://github.com/elastic/rally/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md), we have [tagged a number of Github tickets which we think are easy to get started with](https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22help+wanted%22). If you want to give it a try, just ask questions on the respective ticket. ## What's next? After we can benchmark single-machine "clusters" remotely, we will focus on expanding [remote provisioning capabilities to multi-node clusters](https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues/71) and also [make benchmark candidate configuration more flexible](https://github.com/elastic/rally/issues/195). ## Questions and Feedback If you have questions or feedback, please just post in the [Rally forum](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elasticsearch/rally). ---
**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, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-0-5-0-released/76167/2 "2017-07-05T21:46:36Z")