docs: eliminate confusing and obsolete http compression details (#1000)

* docs: eliminate confusing and obsolete http compression details

* patch version bump

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Karen Metts <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Karen Metts <[email protected]>

Author: yaauie

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## 11.0.4
+ - [DOC] Clarify that `http_compression` applies to _requests_, and remove noise about _response_ decompression [#1000](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-elasticsearch/pull/1000)
+
 ## 11.0.3
  - Fixed SSL handshake hang indefinitely with proxy setup [#1032](https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-output-elasticsearch/pull/1032)
 

docs/index.asciidoc

@@ -278,16 +278,11 @@ not reevaluate its DNS value while the keepalive is in effect.
 
 ==== HTTP Compression
 
-This plugin supports request and response compression. Response compression is
-enabled by default for HTTP and for Elasticsearch versions 5.0 and later.
+This plugin supports request compression, and handles compressed responses
+from Elasticsearch.
 
-You don't have to set any configs in Elasticsearch for it to send back a
-compressed response. For versions before 5.0, or if HTTPS is enabled,
-`http.compression` must be set to `true` {ref}/modules-http.html#modules-http[in
-Elasticsearch] to take advantage of response compression when using this plugin.
-
-For requests compression, regardless of the Elasticsearch version, enable the
-`http_compression` setting in the Logstash config file.
+To enable request compression, use the <<plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-http_compression>>
+setting on this plugin.
 
 ==== Authentication
 
@@ -640,8 +635,13 @@ Any special characters present in the URLs here MUST be URL escaped! This means
   * Value type is <<boolean,boolean>>
   * Default value is `false`
 
-Enable gzip compression on requests. Note that response compression is on by
-default for Elasticsearch v5.0 and beyond
+Enable gzip compression on requests.
+
+This setting allows you to reduce this plugin's outbound network traffic by
+compressing each bulk _request_ to {es}.
+
+NOTE: This output plugin reads compressed _responses_ from {es} regardless
+      of the value of this setting.
 
 [id="plugins-{type}s-{plugin}-ilm_enabled"]
 ===== `ilm_enabled`

logstash-output-elasticsearch.gemspec

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name            = 'logstash-output-elasticsearch'
-  s.version         = '11.0.3'
+  s.version         = '11.0.4'
 
   s.licenses        = ['apache-2.0']
   s.summary         = "Stores logs in Elasticsearch"