Title: Apache Solr™ 6.5.0 Available category: solr/news URL: save_as:
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 6.5.0.
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 and analytics, rich document parsing, geospatial search, extensive REST APIs as well as parallel SQL. Solr is enterprise grade, secure and 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 6.5.0 is available for immediate download at: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html
PointFields (fixed-width multi-dimensional numeric & binary types enabling fast range search) are now supported
In-place updates to numeric docValues fields (single valued, non-stored, non-indexed) supported using atomic update syntax
A new LatLonPointSpatialField that uses points or doc values for query
It is now possible to declare a field as “large” in order to bypass the document cache
New sow=false request param (split-on-whitespace) for edismax & standard query parsers enables query-time multi-term synonyms
XML QueryParser (defType=xmlparser) now supports span queries
hl.maxAnalyzedChars now have consistent default across highlighters
UnifiedSolrHighlighter and PostingsSolrHighlighter now support CustomSeparatorBreakIterator
Scoring formula is adjusted for the scoreNodes function
Calcite Planner now applies constant Reduction Rules to optimize plans
A new significantTerms Streaming Expression that is able to extract the significant terms in an index
StreamHandler is now able to use runtimeLib jars
Arithmetic operations are added to the SelectStream
Added modernized self-documenting /v2 API
The .system collection is now created on first request if it does not exist
Admin UI: Added shard deletion button
Metrics API now supports non-numeric metrics (version, disk type, component state, system properties...)
The disk free and aggregated disk free metrics are now reported
The DirectUpdateHandler2 now implements MetricsProducer and exposes stats via the metrics api and configured reporters.
BlockCache is faster due to less failures when caching a new block
MMapDirectoryFactory now supports “preload” option to ask mapped pages to be loaded into physical memory on init
Security: BasicAuthPlugin now supports standalone mode
Arbitrary java system properties can be passed to zkcli
SolrHttpClientBuilder can be configured via java system property
Javadocs and Changes.html are no longer included in the binary distribution, but are hosted online
See the Solr CHANGES.txt files included with the release for a full list of details.