Aerospike has released an initial version of Aerospike Connect for Elasticsearch, enabling full text search capabilities on data in Aerospike. New hotfix releases are available for various versions of the Aerospike Database, including 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, and 5.7. The company has also published new blog posts on topics such as connecting Aerospike clusters with Kubernetes environments using XDR-Proxy and exploring parallelism in Aerospike applications. Additionally, releases have been made for various clients, APIs, and connectors, including the Java Client, C# Client, Document API, Spring Data Aerospike, Connect for Event Stream Processing, Connect for Spark, and more. The community has also shared questions and topics of discussion, including troubleshooting issues with node versions, using filterExp in Aerospike Rest Gateway, and running Spark jobs on community Edition.