added a top level try catch for threaded operations. Exception which bubbled up could cause requests to hang.
Switched all catch (Exception e) to catch (Throwable e)
use the now publicly available getDisjuncts
Fix search shards count method when targeting concrete and routing-aliased indices
Added test for #3268 and comments to test for #2682
XContentHelper.mergeDefaults with single key object list ([ { key: .. } , {key : ... } .. ] ) didn't add defaults which were not already in content

 Closes #3538
Added support for readable_format parameter when printing out time and size values (#3432), kept backwards compatibility in 0.90 (default true)

The following are the API affected by this change and support now the readable_format flag (default true when not specified):
- indices segments
- indices stats
- indices status
- cluster nodes stats
- cluster nodes info
Renamed readable_format flag to human

Closes #3541
when doing range queries within a query_string query, the range terms should only be lowercased if the field is not numeric

fixes #3540
Share shards computation logic between searchShards and searchShardsCount
Prevent FVH from entering a very long running loop on large docs with high freq phrase terms.

Terminate phrase searches early if max phrase window is exceeded in
FastVectorHighlighter to prevent very long running phrase
extraction if phrase terms are high frequent. See LUCENE-5182

Closes #3543
Bound processor size based cals to 32
We use number of processors to choose default thread pool sizes, and number of workers in networking (for HTTP and transport). Bound it to max at 32 by default as a safety measure to create too many threads.

This relates to #3478, where we set the default to 24, but 32 is probably a better default.

closes #3545
Smarter default to `index.index_concurrency`
closes #3546
Adding Contributing guidelines
Expose size statistics for completion suggest

In order to determine how many RAM the completion suggest structures will eat up, this data should be exposed.

Closes #3522
Checking for paylods as JSON objects in completion suggester

If the payload is not a JSON object on indexation, an exception will be thrown.
Completion Suggester: Allow payload to be a value
closes #3550
Plugin Manager can not download _site plugins from github
Sounds like github changes a bit download url for master zip file.

From `https://github.com/username/reponame/zipball/master` to `https://codeload.github.com/username/reponame/zip/master`.

We need to update plugin manager to reflect that change.

In the meantime, we invite users having this issue to use:

```sh
bin/plugin -install reponame -url https://codeload.github.com/username/reponame/zip/master
```

For example:

```sh
bin/plugin -install paramedic -url https://codeload.github.com/karmi/elasticsearch-paramedic/zip/master
```

Closes #3551
Plugin Manager can not download _site plugins from github
Sounds like github changes a bit download url for master zip file.

From `https://github.com/username/reponame/zipball/master` to `https://github.com/username/reponame/archive/master.zip`.

We need to update plugin manager to reflect that change.

In the meantime, we invite users having this issue to use:

```sh
bin/plugin -install reponame -url https://github.com/username/reponame/archive/master.zip
```

For example:

```sh
bin/plugin -install paramedic -url https://github.com/karmi/elasticsearch-paramedic/archive/master.zip
```

Closes #3551
(cherry picked from commit 352d2aa)
Prevent NPE if all docs for the field are pruned during merge

During segment merges FieldConsumers for all fields from the source
segments are created. Yet, if all documents that have a value in a
certain field  are deleted / pruned during the merge the FieldConsumer
will not be called at all causing the internally used FST Builder to
return `null` from it's `build()` method. This means we can't store
it and run potentially into a NPE. This commit adds handling for
this corner case both during merge and during suggest phase since
we also don't have a Lookup instance for this segments field.

Closes #3555