Thanks Aroop for your feedback. We shall try to ensure continuity of functionality via packages. Your help in those efforts would be greatly appreciated as well. Let us take this discussion to SOLR-14660.
> Is there a replacement for DIH? DIH is available as a community supported package. However, it is an anti-pattern for a search engine to be pulling data from outside. Instead, please consider writing separate indexing programs that pull data from the database systems and index into Solr. It is not only a good practice, but also more efficient in terms of throughput. For more information on this, please start another thread in solr-users@ list, and more people can suggest best alternatives here. On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 5:50 AM matthew sporleder <msporle...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > >
