Hi all, Feature freeze for 8.0 was long time ago (January 29th) and there is interesting stuff that has not been released yet. In Lucene in particular there is the new BKD tree strategy for segment merging which provides a significant performance boost for high dimensions, the new Luke module or the new query visitor API for naming a few. I see that in Solr there is as well quite a few unreleased changes.
I might not be able to be the release manager this time as I will be on holidays the next few weeks but I would like to gauge the interest in the community to have a new release soonish. Cheers, Ignacio
