There's nothing preventing you from getting/compiling the latest Solr 7x (what will be 7.1) for your own use. There's information here: https://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute
Basically, you get the code from Git (instructions provided at the link above) and execute the "ant package" command from the solr directory. After things churn for a while you should have the tgz and zip files just as though you have downloaded them from the Apache Wiki. You need Java 1.8 JDK and ant installed, and the first time you try to compile you may see instructions to execute an ant target that downloads ivy. One note, there was a comment recently that you may have to get ivy-2.4.0.jar to have the "ant package" complete successfully. Best, Erick On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Steve Rowe <sar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nawab, > > Committership is a prerequisite for the Lucene/Solr release manager role. > > Some info here about the release process: > <https://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseTodo> > > -- > Steve > www.lucidworks.com > >> On Sep 26, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Nawab Zada Asad Iqbal <khi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Where can I learn more about this process? I am not a committer but I am >> wondering if I know enough to do it. >> >> >> Thanks >> Nawab >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> In a word "no". Basically whenever a committer feels like there are >>> enough changes to warrant spinning a new version, they volunteer. >>> Nobody has stepped up to do that yet, although I expect it to be in >>> the next 2-3 months, but that's only a guess. >>> >>> Best, >>> Erick >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Nawab Zada Asad Iqbal <khi...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> How are the release dates decided for new versions, are they known in >>>> advance? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Nawab >>> >
