From aa243a4aad737a744160c658fe0e1ba3179a64a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" <41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:57:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [DOCS] Adds compatibility matrix to docs. (#816) (#818) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Co-authored-by: István Zoltán Szabó --- .doc/installation.asciidoc | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/.doc/installation.asciidoc b/.doc/installation.asciidoc index 3298d56e7a..ccc22a8b42 100644 --- a/.doc/installation.asciidoc +++ b/.doc/installation.asciidoc @@ -53,5 +53,19 @@ go run main.go [discrete] === {es} Version Compatibility -Language clients are forward compatible; meaning that clients support communicating with greater or equal minor versions of {es}. -{es} language clients are only backwards compatible with default distributions and without guarantees made. +The language clients are forward compatible; meaning that the clients support +communicating with greater or equal minor versions of {es} without breaking. It +does not mean that the clients automatically support new features of newer +{es} versions; it is only possible after a release of a new client version. For +example, a 8.12 client version won't automatically support the new features of +the 8.13 version of {es}, the 8.13 client version is required for that. {es} +language clients are only backwards compatible with default distributions and +without guarantees made. + +|=== +| Elasticsearch Version | Elasticsearch-Go Branch | Supported + +| main | main | +| 8.x | 8.x | 8.x +| 7.x | 7.x | 7.17 +|===