2.6.0

Good news everyone ! Elastic Suite 2.6.0 is now available !

• You can now blacklist products from category or search results pages.

• Contextualized optimizers : you are able to enable/disable optimizer by search term and/or category to fine tune your ranking .

• We now support ElasticSearch 6.X and 5.X

• ⚠️ ElasticSearch 2.x support has been dropped, (EOL of ElasticSearch 2.4.X was at the end of February).

• We also introduced support for latest Magento 2.3 alpha version (Open Source and Commerce).

✅ Detailed changes

• 💻 Infrastructure & Configuration

  • ElasticSuite now support both ES 6.x and ES 5.x. - (#730 #731 #732 #733 #735 #945 #946)

  • Support for ES 2.x has been dropped - #728

• 👩‍💻 Merchandising features

  • Ability to enable optimizers by category or search term - #591
    This feature can be accessed though the optimizer edit page in admin.

  • Blacklist products on categories and search results - #522 :
    You can use this feature on category preview panel, or via the "Merchandiser" button available on search term page : just tick/untick the small eye icon displayed near each product.

• 🔍 Search algorithm improvement

  • Better matching when searching on SKU (#810)
  • Now dealing better with hyphens "-" #1022

• 💻 Technical

  • Virtual categories rules are now considered as an extension attribute : Elasticsuite is not anymore altering the Magento database structure and can now be uninstalled without issues - #863

  • We introduced the concept of Search Context : It's now easy to define default filters that will be applied to each search request for a given type of query - #781

Eg we now define default visibility/stock filter like this via XML :

<request name="catalog_view_container" label="Category Product View" index="catalog_product" type="product" fulltext="false">
    <filters>
        <filter name="stock">Smile\ElasticsuiteCatalog\Model\Product\Search\Request\Container\Filter\Stock</filter>
        <filter name="visible-in-catalog">Smile\ElasticsuiteCatalog\Model\Product\Search\Request\Container\Filter\VisibleInCatalog</filter>
    </filters>
</request>

• 🐛 Bugfixes and improvements

  • Bugfixes

    • Properly pre-select layered filter value when clicking on an attribute on autocomplete result box. - #779
    • Various aggregation building enhancements - #1018 #1019 #1021
    • Code quality improvements - #1045

  • Improvements

    • Added support for "more like this" query support - #959 #1020
    • Allow Subclasses of backend models to be indexed - #1017

🚀 Roadmap update

• ElasticSuite 2.7.0 roadmap :
  Our roadmap for ElasticSuite 2.7.0 is published - Roadmap 2.7.0
  We plan to focus mostly on:

• Behavioral data usage and automated relevance tuning

• Improved search analytics

• Better autocomplete and spellchecking relevance

• Better REST API and GraphQL support

• And much more ...

Stay tuned and give us feedbacks !