On Wed, 15 Jul, 2020, 8:37 pm Bernd Fehling, <bernd.fehl...@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> > > Am 15.07.20 um 16:07 schrieb Ishan Chattopadhyaya: > > Dear Solr Users, > > > > In this release (Solr 8.6), we have deprecated the following: > > > > 1. Data Import Handler > > > > 2. HDFS support > > > > 3. Cross Data Center Replication (CDCR) > > > > Seriously? :-( > Please see SOLR-14022. > So next steps will be kicking out Cloud and go back to single node or what? > Not something we've considered yet. > Why don't you just freeze the whole Solr development and switch to Elastic? > Not something we've considered yet. > > > > > > > All of these are scheduled to be removed in a future 9.x release. > > > > It was decided that these components did not meet the standards of > quality > > and support that we wish to ensure for all components we ship. Some of > > these also relied on design patterns that we no longer recommend for use > in > > critical production environments. > > > > If you rely on these features, you are encouraged to try out community > > supported versions of these, where available [0]. Where such community > > support is not available, we encourage you to participate in the > migration > > of these components into community supported packages and help continue > the > > development. We envision that using packages for these components via > > package manager will actually make it easier for users to use such > features. > > > > Regards, > > > > Ishan Chattopadhyaya > > > > (On behalf of the Apache Lucene/Solr PMC) > > > > [0] - > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Community+supported+packages+for+Solr > > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:30 PM Bruno Roustant <bruno.roust...@gmail.com > > > > wrote: > > > >> The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 8.6.0. > >> > >> > >> Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform > from > >> the Apache Lucene 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 8.6.0 is available for immediate download at: > >> > >> > >> <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html> > >> > >> > >> ### Solr 8.6.0 Release Highlights: > >> > >> > >> * Cross-Collection Join Queries: Join queries can now work > >> cross-collection, even when shared or when spanning nodes. > >> > >> * Search: Performance improvement for some types of queries when exact > >> hit count isn't needed by using BlockMax WAND algorithm. > >> > >> * Streaming Expression: Percentiles and standard deviation aggregations > >> added to stats, facet and time series. Streaming expressions added to > >> /export handler. Drill Streaming Expression for efficient and accurate > >> high cardinality aggregation. > >> > >> * Package manager: Support for cluster (CoreContainer) level plugins. > >> > >> * Health Check: HealthCheckHandler can now require that all cores are > >> healthy before returning OK. > >> > >> * Zookeeper read API: A read API at /api/cluster/zk/* to fetch raw ZK > >> data and view contents of a ZK directory. > >> > >> * Admin UI: New panel with security info in admin UI's dashboard. > >> > >> * Query DSL: Support for {param:ref} and {bool: {excludeTags:""}} > >> > >> * Ref Guide: Major redesign of Solr's documentation. > >> > >> > >> Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes: > >> > >> > >> <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_6_0/changes/Changes.html> > >> > >> > >> Solr 8.6.0 also includes features, optimizations and bugfixes in the > >> corresponding Apache Lucene release: > >> > >> > >> <https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_6_0/changes/Changes.html> > >> > >> > >> Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network > >> for > >> > >> distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may > >> not have > >> > >> replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another > mirror. > >> > >> This also applies to Maven access. > >> > > >
