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 9.9.0.
Some of the changes introduced in Solr 9.9.0:
- Starting from 9.9.0 Solr supports encoding text to vectors during indexing via external LLM services.
- Function queries can use a numeric subset of Javascript and in additon to that access fileds and score value. All thank to the Expressions module of Apache Lucene.
- Jetty’s Graceful Shutdown is now supported when SOLR_JETTY_GRACEFUL is set to true preventing Solr from disrupting queries during shutdown.
- Various optimizations and bug fixes in SolrJ clients.
- PKI Authentication supports caching and is more performant when working in high-throughput clusters.
We encourage you to read the whole list of changes at: https://solr.apache.org/docs/9_9_0/changes/Changes.html.
Apache Solr 9.9.0 can be downloaded from https://dlcdn.apache.org/solr/.