SOLR-17254 - Major Changes in 9.6 (#2425)
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Due to changes in Lucene 9, that isn't possible any more.
== Solr 9.6
+=== Dependency upgrades
+Lucene is upgraded to 9.10.0 and a variety of library dependencies have been upgraded. See https://solr.apache.org/docs/9_6_0/changes/Changes.html for specific upgraded libraries.
+
=== SolrJ
-* The suite of `Http2SolrClient`s, powered by the Jetty Http library are no longer marked as experimental.
+* The `Http2SolrClient` classes powered by the Jetty Http library are no longer marked as experimental.
+* Solrj now offers a lightweight client based on java.net.http.HttpClient: `HttpJdkSolrClient`
+* SolrJ now offers an improved async request API
+
+=== Queries
+* Distributed stats can be disabled via request parameter
+* Query timeouts (limits) may now be based on either CPU time as well as wall clock
+
+=== Other
+* Inactive shards will now be cleaned up periodically
== Solr 9.5
=== Dependency Upgrades
