Yes; thanks Houston! This is a notable Solr release. ~ David
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 4:08 PM Alessandro Benedetti <a.benede...@sease.io> wrote: > Thanks Houston and everyone involved, for the release! > > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, 21:56 Houston Putman, <hous...@apache.org> wrote: > > > The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.3.0. > > > > Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from > > the Apache Solr project. Its major features include powerful full-text > > search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database > > integration, rich document 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 9.3.0 is available for immediate download at: > > > > <https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html> > > > > *Solr 9.3.0 Release Highlights:* > > > > - The Lucene version used by Solr has been upgraded to 9.7. > > - Solr releases now have a slim variant, both for the binary release > and > > the docker image. > > - The Slim variant is the same as the normal variant, except that > it > > does not include Solr modules or the Prometheus exporter. > > - Vector Search > > - Added support for byte vector encoding in DenseVectorField and > > KnnQParser > > - High dimensional vectors are now supported in Solr > > - Solr can now take advantage of SIMD optimizations for Vector > > calculations, when run with Java 20 or 21. > > - A new "vectorSimilarity" function query has been added to > calculate > > similarity scores for DenseVectorFields > > - Solr now provides an "Install Shard" API > > < > > > https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/9_3/deployment-guide/shard-management.html#installsharddata > > > > > to allow users who have built (per-shard) indices offline to import > them > > into SolrCloud shards. > > - Solr’s experimental "v2" API has seen a number of improvements in > the > > 9.3 release. > > - It is now approaching parity with the functionality offered by > > Solr’s v1 API. > > - The v2 API as a whole is being redesigned to be more REST-ful and > > intuitive > > See the Changelog and upgrade notes for information on which v2 > APIs > > have backward-incompatible changes. > > - New APIs for MigrateReplicas and BalanceReplicas. These work > > out-of-the-box with the built-in PlacementPlugins. > > - The AffinityPlacementPlugin now supports co-location of shards > > between collections, using the "withCollectionShards" parameter. > > - Join Queries may handle equally sharded collections on both sides. > > - Collections shards should be collocated via > > AffinityPlacementPlugin.withCollectionShards > > - This operation doesn't support SplitShard > > - Unknown cores are no longer deleted by default when Solr starts. Use > > "solr.deleteUnknownCores=true" to use the previous behavior. > > - Warning: Solr cannot be used with Java 20 on MacOS with the Java > > Security Manager. > > Please use the environment variable > SOLR_SECURITY_MANAGER_ENABLED=false > > when running with Java 20 on MacOS. > > > > > > Please refer to the Upgrade Notes in the Solr Ref Guide for information > on > > upgrading from previous Solr versions: > > > > < > > > > > https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/9_3/upgrade-notes/solr-upgrade-notes.html > > > > > > > Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features, changes and > > bugfixes: > > > > <https://solr.apache.org/9_3_0/changes/Changes.html> > > >
