Title: Apache Solr™ 8.1.0 available category: solr/news URL: save_as:

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 8.1.0

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 (e.g., Word, PDF) 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 8.1.0 is available for immediate download at: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html

Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:

https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_1_0/changes/Changes.html

Solr 8.1.0 Release Highlights

• Partial/Atomic Updates for nested documents. This enables atomic updates for nested documents, without the need to supply the whole nested hierarchy (which would be overwritten if absent).
• Category Routed Aliases feature introduced for data driven assignment of documents to collections based on values of a field
• JWT Token authentication plugin with OpenID Connect implicit flow login through Admin UI
• REINDEXCOLLECTION command for re-indexing of existing collections
• Collection RENAME command and support using aliases in most collection admin commands
• Read-only mode for SolrCloud collections

Solr 8.1.0 also includes many other new features as well as numerous optimizations and bugfixes of the corresponding Apache Lucene release:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_1_0/changes/Changes.html