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Document removal of freeze index API in migration guide (#79801)
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Requests made to the old `_upgrade` API will return an error.
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.The deprecated freeze index API has been removed.
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*Details* +
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The freeze index API (`POST /<index>/_freeze`) has been removed.
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https://www.elastic.co/blog/significantly-decrease-your-elasticsearch-heap-memory-usage[Improvements
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in heap memory usage] have eliminated the reason to freeze indices.
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You can still unfreeze existing frozen indices using the
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{ref}/unfreeze-index-api.html[unfreeze index API]. For some use cases, the
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frozen tier may be a suitable replacement for frozen indices. See
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{ref}/data-tiers.html[data tiers] for more information.
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*Impact* +
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Requests made to the old freeze index API will return an error.
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.The force merge API's `max_num_segments` and `only_expunge_deletes` parameters cannot both be specified in the same request.
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