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Remove references to transport version from index version docs (elastic#135205) (elastic#135222)
Index versions and transport versions are now created in different ways. This commit adjusts the docs for index version to be independent of transport versions.
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## Index version
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Index version is a single incrementing version number for the index data format,
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metadata, and associated mappings. It is declared the same way as the
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transport version - with the pattern `M_NNN_S_PP`, for the major version, version id,
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subsidiary version id, and patch number respectively.
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metadata, and associated mappings. It is declared with the pattern `M_NNN_S_PP`,
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for the major version, version id, subsidiary version id, and patch number
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respectively.
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Index version is stored in index metadata when an index is created,
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and it is used to determine the storage format and what functionality that index supports.
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The index version does not change once an index is created.
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In the same way as transport versions, when a change is needed to the index
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data format or metadata, or new mapping types are added, create a new version constant
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below the last one, incrementing the `NNN` version component.
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When a change is needed to the index data format or metadata, or new mapping
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types are added, create a new version constant below the last one, incrementing
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the `NNN` version component.
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Unlike transport version, version constants cannot be collapsed together,
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Index version constants cannot be collapsed together,
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as an index keeps its creation version id once it is created.
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Fortunately, new index versions are only created once a month or so,
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so we don’t have a large list of index versions that need managing.

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