I believe this is just a badly worded blog post, intended to get across that ElasticSearch 5.0 will be available as soon as it launches in Elastic Cloud, not th

I believe this is just a badly worded blog post, intended to get across that ElasticSearch 5.0 will be available as soon as it launches in Elastic Cloud, not that they will prevent you from downloading it and running it yourself via the standard channels upon release.