Re: Need some help on solr versions (LTS vs stable)

2019-11-13 Thread Adam Walz
The LTS idea I believe comes from the solr downloads page where 7.7.x is designated as LTS. https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:41 AM Shawn Heisey wrote: > On 11/6/2019 9:58 AM, suyog joshi wrote: > > So we can say its better to go with latest stable version

Re: Need some help on solr versions (LTS vs stable)

2019-11-13 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 11/6/2019 9:58 AM, suyog joshi wrote: So we can say its better to go with latest stable version (8.x) instead of 7.x, which is LTS right now, but can soon become EOL post launching of 9.x sometime early next year. I don't know where you got the idea that 7.x is LTS ... but I do not think

Re: Need some help on solr versions (LTS vs stable)

2019-11-06 Thread Erick Erickson
Pretty much correct. The only change I’d make is that 7x is not actively being supported in the sense that only seriously critical bugs will be addressed. You’ll note that the last release of 7x was 7.7.2 in early June. Increased functionality, speedups, etc won’t be back-ported. So I can’t

Re: Need some help on solr versions (LTS vs stable)

2019-11-06 Thread suyog joshi
Hi Erick, Thank you so much for sharing detailed information, indeed its really helpful for us to plan out the things. Really appreciate your guidance. So we can say its better to go with latest stable version (8.x) instead of 7.x, which is LTS right now, but can soon become EOL post launching

Re: Need some help on solr versions (LTS vs stable)

2019-11-06 Thread Erick Erickson
It’s variable. The policy is that we try very hard to maintain one major version back-compat. So generally, if you start with, say, 7x upgrading to 8x should be relatively straightforward. However, you will _not_ be able to upgrade from 7x to 9x, you must re-index everything from scratch. The

Need some help on solr versions (LTS vs stable)

2019-11-05 Thread suyog joshi
Hi Team, Can you please guide us on below queries for solr versions ? 1. Are there any major differences (for security, platform stability etc) between current LTS and Stable Solr version ? 2. How long a version remains in LTS before becoming EoL ? 3. How frequently LTS version gets changed ?