solr 5


Solr 5.1 has been released! Here’s an overview of how to use some of the new features. Also see Solr download links and upcoming features of the next Solr release. New Facet Module The new facet module has a native JSON Facet API, first-class support for statistics and analytics via […]

Solr 5.1 Features


Here’s an overview of some of the new features in Solr 5.2 Also see Solr download links and upcoming features of the next Solr release. Solr caches can be limited by memory use Caches using the LRUCache implementation can specify a new parameter maxRamMB that will evict based on RAM […]

Solr 5.2 Features


Lucene/Solr trunk (the future 6.0 release) is now on Java8, while version 5.x is still on Java7. Linux and Windows allows one to install a JDK any place in the filesystem, and I use the convention of installing in /opt/jdk7 and /opt/jdk8. Things are a little more difficult on Mac […]

Switching between Java7 and Java8 in Lucene/Solr