elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #7694 by bleskes (2014-09-11 14:32:50+00:00)
Title: Discovery: back port #7558 to 1.x and add bwc protections of the new ping on master gone introduced in #7493

The change in #7558 adds a flag to PingResponse. However, when unicast discovery is used, this extra flag can not be serialized by the very initial pings as they do not know yet what node version they ping (i.e., they have to default to 1.0.0, which excludes changing the serialization format). This commit bypasses this problem by adding a dedicated action which only exist on nodes of version 1.4 or up. Nodes first try to ping this endpoint using 1.4.0 as a serialization version. If that fails they fall back to the pre 1.4.0 action. This is optimal if all nodes are on 1.4.0 or higher, with a small down side if the cluster has mixed versions - but this is a temporary state.

Further two bwc protections are added:
1) Disable the preference to nodes who previously joined the cluster if some of the pings are on version < 1.4.0
2) Disable the rejoin on master gone functionality if some nodes in the cluster or version < 1.4.0