Solr logging just got better

Using a product like Solr over time makes you blind to certain things. Logging is one such area. For me it started with realizing that the default logging was way too verbose, and soon I found a two year old bug ticket with the title “Reduce logging during startup and shutdown” that I brought to life again.

Turned out that we could reduce the log from a bin/solr start -f from 31 to 9 lines, while bin/solr create -c foo was shrunk from 129 lines to 48 lines and bin/solr start -c -f was shrunk from 67 to 20 lines! Alan Woodward and Alexandre Rafalovitch joined the effort and soon SOLR-5563 was also committed.

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Startup logging for bin/solr start -f in Solr 6.3

Apache Solr 4.7 released

Apache Solr version 4.7 is here! Please read the release announcement at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#26-february-2014-apache-solr-470-available and see CHANGES.txt for all details. Our favourite features Migrate documents from one collection to another one (SOLR-5308) File viewer in Admin GUI Efficient deep paging using ‘cursorMark’ (SOLR-5463) SSL support for SolrCloud (SOLR-3854) Enjoy!

Apache Solr 4.5 released

The Apache Lucene project just released Apache Solr version 4.5. Please read the release announcement at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/solrnews.html#5-october-2013-apache-solr-45-available and see CHANGES.txt for all details. Some highlights are multi-threaded faceting (SOLR-2548), multi-threaded updates with CloudSolrServer (SOLR-4816) and more intelligent routing of documents with SolrCloud. Enjoy!