Remove 'IndexUpgraderTool' page from ref-guide (#2500)
The IndexUpgraderTool doesn't have a clear use case for Solr users, and
after some discussion on the mailing list we decided documenting it
isn't worth the confusion it causes for users.
This commit removes the related page from our ref-guide.
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/deployment-nav.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/deployment-nav.adoc
index 5ba4dd5..cdf02d3 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/deployment-nav.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/deployment-nav.adoc
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
** xref:taking-solr-to-production.adoc[]
** xref:jvm-settings.adoc[]
** xref:upgrading-a-solr-cluster.adoc[]
-*** xref:indexupgrader-tool.adoc[]
** xref:backup-restore.adoc[]
** xref:solr-in-docker.adoc[]
*** xref:docker-faq.adoc[]
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/indexupgrader-tool.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/indexupgrader-tool.adoc
deleted file mode 100644
index e6aa84f..0000000
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/indexupgrader-tool.adoc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-= IndexUpgraderTool
-// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-// or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
-// distributed with this work for additional information
-// regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
-// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-// with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-// KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
-// specific language governing permissions and limitations
-// under the License.
-
-The Lucene distribution includes {lucene-javadocs}/core/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexUpgrader.html[a tool that upgrades] an index from the previous Lucene version to the current file format.
-
-The tool can be used from command line, or it can be instantiated and executed in Java.
-
-[IMPORTANT]
-====
-Indexes can *only* be upgraded from the previous major release version to the current major release version.
-
-This means that the IndexUpgraderTool in any Solr 8.x release, for example, can only work with indexes from 7.x releases, but cannot work with indexes from Solr 6.x or earlier.
-
-If you are currently using a release two or more major versions older, such as moving from Solr 6x to Solr 8x, you will need to reindex your content.
-
-The IndexUpgraderTool performs a forceMerge (optimize) down to one segment, which may be undesirable.
-====
-
-In a Solr distribution, the Lucene files are located in `./server/solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib`.
-You will need to include the `lucene-core-<version>.jar` and `lucene-backwards-codecs-<version>.jar` on the classpath when running the tool.
-
-[source,bash,subs="attributes"]
-----
-java -cp lucene-core-{dep-version-lucene}.jar:lucene-backward-codecs-{dep-version-lucene}.jar org.apache.lucene.index.IndexUpgrader [-delete-prior-commits] [-verbose] /path/to/index
-----
-
-This tool keeps only the last commit in an index.
-For this reason, if the incoming index has more than one commit, the tool refuses to run by default.
-Specify `-delete-prior-commits` to override this, allowing the tool to delete all but the last commit.
-
-Upgrading large indexes may take a long time.
-As a rule of thumb, the upgrade processes about 1 GB per minute.
-
-[WARNING]
-====
-This tool may reorder documents if the index was partially upgraded before execution (e.g., documents were added).
-If your application relies on monotonicity of document IDs (i.e., the order in which the documents were added to the index is preserved), do a full optimize instead.
-====
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/upgrading-a-solr-cluster.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/upgrading-a-solr-cluster.adoc
index c3d5821..a2efff5 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/upgrading-a-solr-cluster.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/deployment-guide/pages/upgrading-a-solr-cluster.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
= Upgrading a Solr Cluster
-:page-children: indexupgrader-tool
// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
// or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
// distributed with this work for additional information
@@ -22,6 +21,11 @@
IMPORTANT: The steps outlined on this page assume you use the default service name of `solr`.
If you use an alternate service name or Solr installation directory, some of the paths and commands mentioned below will have to be modified accordingly.
+NOTE: Previous versions of this reference guide mentioned an {lucene-javadocs}/core/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexUpgrader.html[IndexUpgraderTool] that is made available by the Lucene project, and that can be used to upgrade Solr index files offline if desired.
+Users with a business requirement that necessitates its use may use this tool as before, however it's not needed in the vast majority of upgrade workflows.
+The documentation below assumes the tool is not in use.
+
+
== Planning Your Upgrade
Here is a checklist of things you need to prepare before starting the upgrade process:
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-7.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-7.adoc
index b1f726a..1aab842 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-7.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/upgrade-notes/pages/major-changes-in-solr-7.adoc
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
Thus, Solr 6.x indexes will be compatible with Solr 7 but Solr 5.x indexes will not be.
If you do not reindex now, keep in mind that you will need to either reindex your data or upgrade your indexes before you will be able to move to Solr 8 when it is released in the future.
-See the section xref:deployment-guide:indexupgrader-tool.adoc[] for more details on how to upgrade your indexes.
See also the section xref:deployment-guide:upgrading-a-solr-cluster.adoc[] for details on how to upgrade a SolrCloud cluster.
