Changes from the previous release are primarily off-heap FieldCache support for strings as well as as all numerics (the previous release only had integer support).
Benchmarks for string fields here: http://heliosearch.org/hs-solr-off-heap-fieldcache-performance Try it out here: https://github.com/Heliosearch/heliosearch/releases/ -Yonik http://heliosearch.org - native off-heap filters and fieldcache for solr