v8.8.0

What's Changed

• Re-evaluate predicate in FnCondition.whenReadyIf as the predicate may… by @ginkel in #502
• Allow unparsed binary data to be used for ingestion by @swallez in #508
• Expose additional BulkIngester metrics by @swallez in #513
• Add default variant to Analyzer by @swallez in #522
• Add BooleanQuery.hasClauses() by @swallez in #525
• [DOCS] Creates custom landing page for the Java client book by @szabosteve in #538
• Reorder key-values in meta header to match other clients #334 by @Ankit-Khachane in #535
• Add buffered JsonData implementation for Jackson by @github-actions in #569
• Speed up URL path encoding and remove dependency on httpclient by @github-actions in #578

New Contributors

• @ginkel made their first contribution in #502
• @Ankit-Khachane made their first contribution in #535

Full Changelog: v8.7.0...v8.8.0