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+## Release 8.1.0
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+- Updated APIs for [Elasticsearch 8.1](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.1.0)
+  [e4c2ac9](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php/commit/e4c2ac9b2c71e06c99b7a43712ccd83711fe6510)
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 ## Release 8.0.1
 
 - Fixed `NoNodeAvailableException` exception in endpoints