The first release candidate for Solr 7.0 has been made, meaning we will probably see a release within days if no show stoppers pop up.
Update: The release was today, Sept 20th. Go and download the release now!
Solr 7 is a major version upgrade, featuring improvements such as:
New Solr versions are released quite frequently. Since we wrote about 4.7 back in March, we got Solr 4.8 on April 28th, 4.8.1 May 20th, 4.9.0 June 25th, 4.10.0 September 3rd, 4.10.1 September 29th, and 4.10.2 on October 31st.
The Apache Lucene project just released Apache Solr version 4.5. Please read the release announcement at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#5-october-2013-apache-solr-45-available and see CHANGES.txt for all details. Some highlights are multi-threaded faceting (SOLR-2548), multi-threaded updates with CloudSolrServer (SOLR-4816) and more intelligent routing of documents with SolrCloud. Enjoy!
Solr logging just got better
Using a product like Solr over time makes you blind to certain things. Logging is one such area. For me it started with realizing that the default logging was way too verbose, and soon I found a two year old bug ticket with the title “Reduce logging during startup and shutdown” that I brought to life again.
Turned out that we could reduce the log from a
bin/solr start -ffrom 31 to 9 lines, whilebin/solr create -c foowas shrunk from 129 lines to 48 lines andbin/solr start -c -fwas shrunk from 67 to 20 lines! Alan Woodward and Alexandre Rafalovitch joined the effort and soon SOLR-5563 was also committed.Startup logging for bin/solr start -f in Solr 6.3
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