From ab39534c256833a296378510d223e25463df5a0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pius Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:28:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update 8.15.1.asciidoc (#113221) (#113239) --- docs/reference/release-notes/8.15.1.asciidoc | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/reference/release-notes/8.15.1.asciidoc b/docs/reference/release-notes/8.15.1.asciidoc index 2c126cccbda9e..01a6233a83ebf 100644 --- a/docs/reference/release-notes/8.15.1.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/release-notes/8.15.1.asciidoc @@ -23,6 +23,14 @@ To work around this issue, you have a number of options: <> ** Change the default data view in Discover to a smaller set of indices and/or one with fewer mapping conflicts. +* Index Stats, Node Stats and Cluster Stats API can return a null pointer exception if an index contains a `dense_vector` field +but there is an index segment that does not contain any documents with a dense vector field ({es-pull}112720[#112720]). Workarounds: +** If the affected index already contains documents with a dense vector field, force merge the index to a single segment. +** If the affected index does not already contain documents with a dense vector field, index a document with a dense vector field +and then force merge to a single segment. +** If the affected index's `dense_vector` fields are unused, reindex without the `dense_vector` fields. + + [[bug-8.15.1]] [float] === Bug fixes