I'm reviewing the 8.8 section of CHANGES.txt to see what's coming. Perhaps my proposals might come off as nit-picking; if you don't care then you don't have to say so :-). I care about CHANGES.txt being well organized because it helps us all understand the changes better, especially for our users.
Should "New Features" include new options/toggles on existing features, leaving such for "Improvements"? It could helps delineate larger release highlights from incremental improvement features but I really have no strong opinion. It'd be nice to have some consistency on the matter; otherwise the distinct sections here become arbitrary. For 8.8, it appears all are on New Features; the two Improvements we have actually strike me as Optimizations... This Improvement issues sounds like Optimization issues: * LUCENE-9455: ExitableTermsEnum should sample timeout and interruption check before calling next(). (Zach Chen via Bruno Roustant) * LUCENE-9023: GlobalOrdinalsWithScore should not compute occurrences when the provided min is 1. (Jim Ferenczi) Mike Drob, why did you add this Solr item to Lucene under Other?: * SOLR-14995: Update Jetty to 9.4.34 (Mike Drob) ~ David Smiley Apache Lucene/Solr Search Developer http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley