[jlg23]

First, thanks for your response, it appeared much more straight forward and honest than the press release to me. Sincerely, thank you!

I personally was running an instance on FreeBSD and just went with the latest port after a quick glance at the docs. There was a new "lite" (or similar) port that did not include xpack, but after skimming the docs I saw no reason not to use these new features (even though in my setup they don't really provide any additional security). A few weeks later it all stopped working, some docs were broken (I checked against the source) and then I saved the rest of my weekend by simply rolling back to the previous setup.

To sum it up: My decision to move from Solr to ES due to much nicer configuration backfired and I effectively lost time compared to just using Solr (which I know but despise). But some early ES blog post (IIRC) indicated that the ridiculous setup of Solr was the initial motivation to write ES in first place, so it is a sad twist that ES messed up exactly that :(