It is a pleasure to inform you that the new version of the Solr search server has been released. It is the next release from the 9.x branch and it is numbered 9.6.
Some of the changes introduced in Solr 9.6:
- SolrJ offers improved asynchronous API and exposes a light client – HttpJdkSolrClient.
- The distributed IDF calculation can now be disabled via request param.
- It is possible to removed inactivate shards that are a result of shard split.
- Solr was upgraded to Lucene 9.10.0.
We encourage you to read the whole list of changes at: https://solr.apache.org/docs/9_6_0/changes/Changes.html.
Apache Solr 9.6 can be downloaded from https://dlcdn.apache.org/solr/.