Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache Solr 8.6.0 released

matthew,
In the future too, it's still going to be
"curl solr:8983/collection/dataimport?blah"

It's just that, you will have to run 2 or 3 extra commands for once
before you run that curl command

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 3:50 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> For any further discussion on the deprecations, please find a thread
> "Recent and upcoming deprecations" [0] and we can discuss there.
> Thanks,
> Ishan
>
> [0] -
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg151762.html
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 8:50 AM matthew sporleder <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I hear all of that and agree, obviously, but "curl
> > solr:8983/collection/dataimport?blah" in cron was *pretty freaking
> > easy* ;)
> >
> > Not sure why "pull" is elevated to "anti-pattern"; data is data is data
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:49 PM Ishan Chattopadhyaya
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks Aroop for your feedback. We shall try to ensure continuity of
> > > functionality via packages. Your help in those efforts would be greatly
> > > appreciated as well. Let us take this discussion to SOLR-14660.
> > >
> > > > Is there a replacement for DIH?
> > > DIH is available as a community supported package. However, it is an
> > > anti-pattern for a search engine to be pulling data from outside.
> > Instead,
> > > please consider writing separate indexing programs that pull data from
> > the
> > > database systems and index into Solr. It is not only a good practice, but
> > > also more efficient in terms of throughput. For more information on this,
> > > please start another thread in solr-users@ list, and more people can
> > > suggest best alternatives here.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 5:50 AM matthew sporleder <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a replacement for DIH?
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:08 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya
> > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear Solr Users,
> > > > >
> > > > > In this release (Solr 8.6), we have deprecated the following:
> > > > >
> > > > >   1. Data Import Handler
> > > > >
> > > > >   2. HDFS support
> > > > >
> > > > >   3. Cross Data Center Replication (CDCR)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > All of these are scheduled to be removed in a future 9.x release.
> > > > >
> > > > > It was decided that these components did not meet the standards of
> > > > quality
> > > > > and support that we wish to ensure for all components we ship. Some
> > of
> > > > > these also relied on design patterns that we no longer recommend for
> > use
> > > > in
> > > > > critical production environments.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you rely on these features, you are encouraged to try out
> > community
> > > > > supported versions of these, where available [0]. Where such
> > community
> > > > > support is not available, we encourage you to participate in the
> > > > migration
> > > > > of these components into community supported packages and help
> > continue
> > > > the
> > > > > development. We envision that using packages for these components via
> > > > > package manager will actually make it easier for users to use such
> > > > features.
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > >
> > > > > Ishan Chattopadhyaya
> > > > >
> > > > > (On behalf of the Apache Lucene/Solr PMC)
> > > > >
> > > > > [0] -
> > > > >
> > > >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/Community+supported+packages+for+Solr
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:30 PM Bruno Roustant <
> > [email protected]
> > > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr
> > 8.6.0.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search
> > platform
> > > > from
> > > > > > the Apache Lucene 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 8.6.0 is available for immediate download at:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ### Solr 8.6.0 Release Highlights:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Cross-Collection Join Queries: Join queries can now work
> > > > > > cross-collection, even when shared or when spanning nodes.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Search: Performance improvement for some types of queries when
> > exact
> > > > > > hit count isn't needed by using BlockMax WAND algorithm.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Streaming Expression: Percentiles and standard deviation
> > > > aggregations
> > > > > > added to stats, facet and time series.  Streaming expressions
> > added to
> > > > > > /export handler.  Drill Streaming Expression for efficient and
> > accurate
> > > > > > high cardinality aggregation.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Package manager: Support for cluster (CoreContainer) level
> > plugins.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Health Check: HealthCheckHandler can now require that all cores
> > are
> > > > > > healthy before returning OK.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Zookeeper read API: A read API at /api/cluster/zk/* to fetch
> > raw ZK
> > > > > > data and view contents of a ZK directory.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Admin UI: New panel with security info in admin UI's dashboard.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Query DSL: Support for {param:ref} and {bool: {excludeTags:""}}
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  * Ref Guide: Major redesign of Solr's documentation.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and
> > changes:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_6_0/changes/Changes.html>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Solr 8.6.0 also includes features, optimizations  and bugfixes in
> > the
> > > > > > corresponding Apache Lucene release:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   <https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_6_0/changes/Changes.html>
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring
> > > > network
> > > > > > for
> > > > > >
> > > > > > distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are
> > using may
> > > > > > not have
> > > > > >
> > > > > > replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another
> > > > mirror.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This also applies to Maven access.
> > > > > >
> > > >
> >



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