Why was the assembly removed from the new 6.3.0 search-guard-ssl?

Hello All,

I notice that the assembly was removed from search-guard-ssl shortly before the 6.3.0-25.3 version was released.

Why was this removed? A perusal of the Github issues and commits doesn’t seem to give much background. The installation for our application uses elasticsearch-plugin and the search-guard-ssl-.zip packaging. Does this need to change?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

As of 6.3.0 (and beyond) we will no longer provide pre build SSL plugin assemblies.
You need to compile and distribute them yourself (which should not be a big deal btw).

The main reason for this decision is that we do not see a lot of people using it and it takes a lot of effort to release and maintain it.

For SG 7 we will merge the SSL plugin into Search Guard plugin. We think that SSL without authentication makes not much sense anyhow.

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On Thursday, 21 June 2018 18:52:27 UTC+2, Paul Steinbach wrote:

Hello All,

I notice that the assembly was removed from search-guard-ssl shortly before the 6.3.0-25.3 version was released.

Why was this removed? A perusal of the Github issues and commits doesn’t seem to give much background. The installation for our application uses elasticsearch-plugin and the search-guard-ssl-.zip packaging. Does this need to change?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Thanks very much for the explanation… much appreciated! We’ll start looking at Search Guard Community Edition as a replacement.

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On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 1:29:33 PM UTC-4, Search Guard wrote:

As of 6.3.0 (and beyond) we will no longer provide pre build SSL plugin assemblies.
You need to compile and distribute them yourself (which should not be a big deal btw).

The main reason for this decision is that we do not see a lot of people using it and it takes a lot of effort to release and maintain it.

For SG 7 we will merge the SSL plugin into Search Guard plugin. We think that SSL without authentication makes not much sense anyhow.