2.7.0

Highlights

• #1574: Include a new downsampling operation
• #1531: Support data streams in create-track
• #1517: Remove the check for internet connection

Enhancements

• #1599: add --user-tags as alias for --user-tag
• #1597: Add additional filter options to rally list races
• #1591: Support checking out remote branches
• #1588: Fail benchmark if assertion could not run
• #1576: Add build subcommand
• #1573: Add knn vectors to disk-usage-stats
• #1551: Switch from setuptools to hatchling
• #1542: Add new wait-for-current-snapshots-create operation
• #1541: Update opts.py to allow for 'None' timeout-value in client_options

Bug Fixes

• #1586: Fix supplier tests for aarch64
• #1580: Remove buggy indices.exists() calls from code
• #1578: Correctly retry HTTP downloads after incomplete reads
• #1563: Fix multi-cluster attribute check for wrapped runners
• #1540: Don't load libs path if not using it

Doc Changes

• #1600: Add docs for create-track from data streams
• #1572: Mention that create/restore-snapshot is an administrative operation
• #1568: Encourage users to read tracks documentation
• #1557: Remove duplicate property descriptions from corpora docs
• #1554: Link to the 7.14.0 ES Python client docs.
• #1552: Fix broken links on README.md

Miscellaneous Changes

• #1579: Use narrower exception to avoid pylint ignore
• #1571: Stop trying to test Elasticsearch 6.8.0 on ARM
• #1565: Fix make lint on Python 3.10
• #1564: Introduce rally-tracks compatibility testing
• #1555: Add an integration test for static responses.
• #1553: Run unit and integration tests in separate tox environments
• #1548: Move most packaging metadata to pyproject.toml
• #1546: Run lint with pre-commit
• #1539: Correctly log how long it took to close transports
• #1498: Bump upper tested version to 8.4.0
• #1497: Remove Elasticsearch 6.3 logic