Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

I added a line about lucene: • Powered by Lucene 9.0, bringing in new analyzers and better space efficiency of postings Please have a look at Lucene 9 changes to see if any other are worth a mention. I think we should have mor

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

I went through all the wiki page and it is a *+1 from me*! Thanks, Jan, Anshum, and everyone involved in the writing! Cheers -- Alessandro Benedetti Apache Lucene/Solr PMC member and Committer Director, R&D Software Engineer, Search Consultant www.sease.io On Wed, 30 Ma

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

I added a preliminary bullet point * Dense Vector "Neural" Search through DenseVectorField fieldType and Knn Query Parser But someone should QA it - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=199540620

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

Some nice improvements in the temporal graph queries: https://github.com/apache/solr/blob/main/solr/solr-ref-guide/modules/query-guide/pages/graph.adoc#temporal-graph-expressions Particularly useful for people building event correlation and SIEM products. Joel Bernstein http://joelsolr.blogspot

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

Oops, the auto-complete got me to send this to the Lucene dev list instead of the Solr one. Thanks for taking care of that, Jan. +1 on the KNN and other Lucene features that Solr 9.0 brings to the users. This list was curated more along the lines of 'operational features' so I'm going through the

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

Maybe release notes could mention a few benefits that Solr gets automatically from Lucene 9 like the new analyzers and better space efficiency of postings thanks to PFOR? I also concur with Jason, I was expecting vector search to make the top line of the release notes? On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

Is it worth mentioning something about the KNN/vector search work that (according to SOLR-15880 at least) made it in for 9.0? If skipping that was unintentional, I can add a bullet-point for it. (Though I'd also happily defer if someone who knows the functionality better is willing.) Best, Jason

Re: Release notes draft for Apache Solr 9.0

Thanks Anshum, I'm moving this mail thread from the Lucene dev-list to the Solr dev-list :) I think, as this is a major release, we should say explicitly in the release-notes something like: "This is a major-version release with several features removed and other major, breaking changes. Please