The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.6.1. Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Solr project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing fault tolerant distributed search and indexing, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites.
Solr 9.6.1 is available for immediate download at: <https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html> ### Solr 9.6.1 Release Highlights: * Core loading at startup is no longer capped at 60 seconds * Replicas are ensured to be marked as down when a Solr node is started * 'Illegal character in query' exception in the new HttpJdkSolrClient has been fixed * Performance regression for aliases in SolrJ has been fixed via partially reverting a recent change * Fixed debugging of Rerank Queries when reRankScale is used * System file separator is now used in CachingDirectoryFactory, instead of '/', fixing a regression on Windows Please refer to the Upgrade Notes in the Solr Ref Guide for information on upgrading from previous Solr versions: < https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/9_6/upgrade-notes/solr-upgrade-notes.html > Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of bugfixes: <https://solr.apache.org/9_6_1/changes/Changes.html> Thanks to all contributors! hossman, Houston Putman, Jan Høydahl, Andy Webb, Christine Poerschke, Aparna Suresh, David Smiley, Vincent Primault
