Release 2.5.0 · Smile-SA/elasticsuite

Good news everyone ! Elastic Suite 2.5.0 is now available ! 🎉

🚀 You can now preview the search results and adjust the product order with drag'n'drop without leaving the back-office.
👩‍💻 Facet Advanced management : order and organized your facets as you want per category without any code.
💻 Search API - Access Elastic Suite results from the Magento's REST API
✋ We now support ElasticSearch 5.X and 2.X (remember the EOL of 2.4.X is at the end of February 2018-02-28).

⚠️ ES 2.x support will be dropped in ElasticSuite 2.6.0, so it's time to upgrade your favorite search engine.

✅ Detailed changes

💻 Infrastructure & Configuration
- ElasticSuite now support both ES 5.x and ES 2.x. - #623
- Configure ElasticSearch from the CLI - #623
  - At install time using setup:install additional params (--es-hosts, --es-enable-ssl, --es-user and --es-pass)
  - Using config:set for updating
👩‍💻 Merchandising features
- Search Preview and product order in search result - #588
  This feature can be accessed though the search term detail in admin.
- Facet configuration per category - #587 :
  You can access this new feature in the Display Settings section of the Category Edit Form :
  Configurable behaviors include : sort order of the facet / facet value / facet size / facet coverage rate (% of items having matching the value).
💻 Magento Search REST API support - #700
🕵️‍♂️ Behavior tracking
Smile_Tracker now create new indices (tracking_log_event/tracking_log_session) in ElasticSearch
with the tracking data - #648
💩 Bugfixes and improvements
- Enhancement / Optimization
  - Better precision of the facet coverage rate computation - #645
  - Better compression of ElasticSearch indices - #650
  - Using config to display / hide product count in facets - #711
  - Multiple currency support in price sliders - #696
- Bugfixes
  - Fatal error in autocomplete - https://github.com/Smile-SA/elasticsuite/pull/661/files

ElasticSuite 2.6.0 roadmap :
Our roadmap for ElasticSuite 2.6.0 is published - Roadmap 2.6.0
We plan to focus on :
- Search usage Dashboard - #589
- Search API improvement - #217
And much more ...

In our long backlog, for the next releases !
New exciting features in the next versions of ElasticSuite :
- Recommendations based on user behaviors (cross sell, up sell and related)
- New optimizers based on behavior (CTR, overall popularity, …)
- Search suggestions (did you mean?) and better spellchecking

Stay tuned and give us feedbacks !