Solr 4.7 Now Available

Lucene & Solr 4.7 were announced today. You can download Solr 4.7 from the Apache mirror network.

In addition to 52 bug fixes, Solr 4.7 includes several significant new features folks should be aware of:

• A new migrate collection API to split all documents with a route key into another collection
• Support for tri-level compositeId routing
• A new Files screen in the Admin UI providing a conf directory file browser/viewer
• A new QParserPlugin for Lucene’s SimpleQueryParser
• A new SuggestComponent that fully utilizes the Lucene suggester module — queries can now use multiple suggesters including Lucene’s FreeTextSuggester and BlendedInfixSuggester
• A new cursorMark request param for efficient deep paging of sorted result sets
• A new Solr contrib that allows for building Solr indexes via Hadoop’s MapReduce
• Upgrade to Spatial4j 0.4 exposing various new options for the RPT field type
• SSL support for SolrCloud