Software Update: Apache Solr 7.2.1

The Apache Software Foundation has released a new version of Solr, with version number 7.2.1. Solr can be used as a search engine. It uses Lucene in the background and runs as a Java Servlet within Tomcat, for example. For more information, we refer you to this page. The announcement of this release looks like this:

Apache Solr 7.2.1 available

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 and analytics, rich document parsing, geospatial search, extensive REST APIs as well as parallel SQL. Solr is enterprise grade, secure and 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.

This release includes 3 bug fixes since the 7.2.0 release:

• Overseer can never process some last messages.
• Rename core in solr standalone mode is not persisted.
• QueryComponent’s rq parameter parsing no longer considers the defType parameter.
• Fix NPE in SolrQueryParser when the query terms inside a filter clause reduce to nothing.

Furthermore, this release includes Apache Lucene 7.2.1 which includes 1 bug fix since the 7.2.0 release.

please read CHANGES.txt for a detailed list of changes.