Release notes for #2573

CHANGELOG.txt

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Changelog
  * Unpublishing a page now gives the option to unpublish subpages too (Jordi Joan)
  * The Wagtail version number can now be obtained as a tuple using `from wagtail import VERSION` (Tim Heap)
  * ``send_mail`` logic has been moved from ``AbstractEmailForm.process_form_submission`` into ``AbstractEmailForm.send_mail``. Now it's easier to override this logic (Tim Leguijt)
+ * Elasticsearch 2 support (Karl Hobley)
  * Fix: Migrations for wagtailcore and project template are now reversible (Benjamin Bach)
  * Fix: The default image format label text ('Full width', 'Left-aligned', 'Right-aligned') is now localised (Mikalai Radchuk)
  * Fix: Text on the front-end 'password required' form is now marked for translation (Janneke Janssen)

docs/releases/1.7.rst

@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ Unpublishing subpages
 Unpublishing a page now gives the option to unpublish its subpages at the same time. This feature was developed by Jordi Joan.
 
 
+Elasticsearch 2 support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Wagtail now supports Elasticsearch 2. Note that you need to change backend in ``WAGTAILSEARCH_BACKENDS``, if you wish to switch to Elasticsearch 2. This feature was developed by Karl Hobley.
+
+See: :ref:`wagtailsearch_backends_elasticsearch`
+
+
 Minor features
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

docs/topics/search/backends.rst

@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ It also doesn't support:
 If any of these features are important to you, we recommend using Elasticsearch instead.
 
 
+.. _wagtailsearch_backends_elasticsearch:
+
 Elasticsearch Backend
 ---------------------