With the Solr 8.7 release, we were given a very useful feature called circuit breakers. A circuit breaker design pattern allows stopping execution when certain criteria are met. For example, when the memory usage is higher than defined a query execution may be stopped, or when the CPU usage on a given node is too high. Let’s look at what Solr 8.7 brings us.
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Apache Solr 8.7.0
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 8.x branch and it is numbered 8.7.0.
Read moreApache Solr 8.6.3
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 8.x branch and it is numbered 8.6.3. This release introduces fixes for the bugs found in the 8.6.2 version.
Read moreRankField & Rank Query Parser
One of the additions to Solr that we didn’t talk about yet is the new field type called the RankField and the Rank Query Parser that can leverage it. Together they can be used to introduce scoring based on the content of the document in an optimized way. Let’s have a quick look at what the mentioned pair gives us.
Read moreLucene and Solr 8.6.2
It is a pleasure to inform that the new version of the Lucene library and Solr search server has been released. It is the next release from the 8.x branch and it is numbered 8.6.2. This release introduces fixes for the bugs found in the 8.6.1 version.
Read moreLucene & Solr 5.2
It is again nice to announce that today a new version of Lucene library and Solr search server has been released. It is another release from the 5.x branch and it is numbered 5.2. This release is definitely worth checking, especially for Solr users,of new features coming to this search server.
Apache Solr – Splitting Its Ways From Lucene Code Base
So it happened, after the discussion started by Dawid Weiss and voting on Apache Solr becoming a top-level project it is clear – Lucene and Solr are going to split their ways, at least when it comes to sharing the same repository and release cycles. I think it is time to think a bit on what that means for us as users and as solr.pl 🙂
Read moreLucene and Solr 8.5.1
It is a pleasure to inform that the new version of the Lucene library and Solr search server has been released. It is the next release from the 8.x branch and it is numbered 8.5.1. This release introduces fixes for the bugs found in the 8.5.0 version.
Read moreSolr 8.4.0 – Plugin Management
With the release of Solr 8.4.0 we’ve got a new functionality that we can use that can help us with extending Solr functionality – plugin management. Starting with the mentioned version we can install and remove plugins that are downloaded from external plugin repositories. Let’s see how it works.
Read moreSolr 8.5.0 – bin/postlog tool
With the release of Solr 8.5.0, we’ve got the tool that allows us to index logs that Solr produces. Once we have such data in Solr we can search through it and analyze it using the tools that Solr provides. Let’s look into how we can use the newly introduced tool.
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