# Search Guard 2 released for Elasticsearch 2.3.4 and 5.0.0-alpha4

**URL:** <https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-2-released-for-elasticsearch-2-3-4-and-5-0-0-alpha4/235>\
**Category:** Search Guard\
**Created:** [July 16, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.search-guard.com/t/search-guard-2-released-for-elasticsearch-2-3-4-and-5-0-0-alpha4/235 "2016-07-16T21:22:59Z")\
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We’re happy to announce the release for Search Guard 2 for Elasticsearch 2.3.4 and 5.0.0-alpha4

Search Guard (®) is an Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication and authorisation. It builds on Search Guard SSL and provides pluggable auth/auth modules in addition.

Details: [GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard: Search Guard Plugin - Security for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki)  
Changelog: [GitHub - floragunncom/search-guard: Search Guard Plugin - Security for Elasticsearch](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/wiki/Changelog)

- Fix [Searchguard doens’t fail over with Multiple authc defined #166](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/166)
- Allow node client to connect. This is needed for full tribe node support (related to [#128](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/128)and [#47](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/47)).
- Support configurable OID ([PR #168](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/pull/168), thx @wtakase)
- Fixed [sgadmin.sh requires truststore and keystore to have file extention .jks to be parsed as JKS type #152](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/152)
- Improve reliability of sgadmin config updates ([#113](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/113) [#144](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/144))
- Fixed [indices:admin/create requires a wildcard #155](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/155)
- Do not authenticate request with HTTP method == OPTIONS
- Fixed [Can’t delete templates #163](https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard/issues/163)

Commercial support is also available here [Licensing | Search Guard Community, Enterprise and Compliance Edition](https://floragunn.com/searchguard/searchguard-license-support/)