In which sense fields and types are now deprecated in schema.xml? Where can I found any pointer about this?
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Uwe Schindler <uschind...@apache.org>wrote: > 28 April 2014, Apache Solr™ 4.8.0 available > > The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 4.8.0 > > 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 (e.g., Word, PDF) > 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 4.8.0 is available for immediate download at: > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html > > See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of > details. > > Solr 4.8.0 Release Highlights: > > * Apache Solr now requires Java 7 or greater (recommended is > Oracle Java 7 or OpenJDK 7, minimum update 55; earlier versions > have known JVM bugs affecting Solr). > > * Apache Solr is fully compatible with Java 8. > > * <fields> and <types> tags have been deprecated from schema.xml. > There is no longer any reason to keep them in the schema file, > they may be safely removed. This allows intermixing of <fieldType>, > <field> and <copyField> definitions if desired. > > * The new {!complexphrase} query parser supports wildcards, ORs etc. > inside Phrase Queries. > > * New Collections API CLUSTERSTATUS action reports the status of > collections, shards, and replicas, and also lists collection > aliases and cluster properties. > > * Added managed synonym and stopword filter factories, which enable > synonym and stopword lists to be dynamically managed via REST API. > > * JSON updates now support nested child documents, enabling {!child} > and {!parent} block join queries. > > * Added ExpandComponent to expand results collapsed by the > CollapsingQParserPlugin, as well as the parent/child relationship > of nested child documents. > > * Long-running Collections API tasks can now be executed > asynchronously; the new REQUESTSTATUS action provides status. > > * Added a hl.qparser parameter to allow you to define a query parser > for hl.q highlight queries. > > * In Solr single-node mode, cores can now be created using named > configsets. > > * New DocExpirationUpdateProcessorFactory supports computing an > expiration date for documents from the "TTL" expression, as well as > automatically deleting expired documents on a periodic basis. > > Solr 4.8.0 also includes many other new features as well as numerous > optimizations and bugfixes of the corresponding Apache Lucene release. > > Please report any feedback to the mailing lists > (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.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 goes for Maven access. > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > uschind...@apache.org > Apache Lucene PMC Chair / Committer > Bremen, Germany > http://lucene.apache.org/ > > >
