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Document support for Elasticsearch 6.x is deprecated

Dylan Griffith requested to merge deprecate-support-for-es6 into master

What does this MR do?

This MR includes 2 changes.

(1) Note that supported for 6.x is deprecated

This simply changes our documentation and the name of the ES version check to highlight that 13.6 is deprecated with the intention to remove support in %13.8. The reason we're removing support for it is that Elasticsearch 6.x won't be supported by Elastic anymore once 8.x is released which is set to be released in the next few months. As soon as that's released we'll also add support immediately #247929 (closed) which will be simpler to do if we don't also have to support 6.x.

We'll want to document also in our release notes somewhere that users should upgrade to 7.x before %13.8 or it will stop working.

If there are suggestions about encouraging the upgrade also here in the docs in a clearer way I'd be happy to get that feedback.

(2) Fix docs for versions that didn't ever work

Since we recently discovered #271218 (closed) we also document that versions below 6.4 are not supported from GitLab 13.2 when we introduced these.

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#247929 (closed) Closes #271218 (closed)

Edited by Dylan Griffith

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