# Rally 1.2.1 released

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-1-2-1-released/186422>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-1-2-1-released/186422 "2019-06-19T09:25:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![dliappis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dliappis/32/56174_2.png) [@dliappis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dliappis)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-1-2-1-released/186422/1 "2019-06-19T09:25:49Z")

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We have just released Rally 1.2.1. This release contains several improvements and bug fixes. Some of the highlights of this release:

- Rally is now also available as Docker image. Please see the [documentation](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/docker.html) for more details on installation, usage and restrictions.

- Rally will now check whether any track parameters that are provided with `--track-params` are actually used. See the feature in action:

 ![rally-track-params](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/1/f1c843b78d0a1ea6fece8b44953c20e13414d3b7.gif)

There are also some breaking changes:

- With this release we have dropped support in Rally for Python 3.4 which is end of life. Rally now requires Python 3.5 or better.
- Rally will also [not pass the `request_cache` request parameter](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/710) anymore by default when issuing a query against Elasticsearch. This means the request cache needs to be disabled explicitly now. Please set `cache` on the respective operation to `false` to disable the request cache.

Please see the [1.2.1 release page](https://github.com/elastic/rally/releases/tag/1.2.1) for all details.

This release will be the final release supporting Elasticsearch 1.x which is [end-of-life](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) since January 2017. We will drop support for versions of Elasticsearch older than 2.0.0 with the next maintenance release Rally 1.3.0.

## How to...?

- ... upgrade: `pip3 install --upgrade esrally`
- ... install: `pip3 install esrally`

Please follow the [quickstart](https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html) for a first time install.

## Questions and Feedback

If you have questions or feedback, please just post in the [Rally forum](https://discuss.elastic.co/c/elasticsearch/rally).

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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:** [November 4, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rally-1-2-1-released/186422/2 "2022-11-04T07:12:55Z")

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