The vote for Lucene/Solr 4.9 is underway and we need to get the Solr Ref Guide updated for the new release.
I went through the CHANGES.txt for Solr on Friday and updated the TODO list found at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Internal+-+TODO+List. I notice that many of the new features or changes in 4.9 haven't been documented in the Ref Guide yet. We need some volunteers to work on updating the guide before we can make a Ref Guide release candidate for 4.9. If you look at the TODO list, you'll see lots of stuff from earlier releases that haven't made it into the guide yet either. If we want users to be able to use the work we've done for each release, and if we want the Ref Guide to be a definitive source of Solr information, we have to add content on new features and keep content up to date as things change. Please take a few moments and see if there is anything you can add or change. If you need help with wording or don't know where something should go, speak up and I'll try to help. Cassandra