Is there a replacement for DIH?
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:08 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya <ichattopadhy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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) > > > > 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. > >
