I will always look around here for versions / new functionality or fixes / release notes
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:changelog-panel Thanks On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:05 AM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/28/2015 5:12 AM, abhi Abhishek wrote: > > i am trying to determine stable version of SOLR 4. is there a blog > which > > we can refer.. i understand we can read through Release Notes. I am > > interested in user reviews and challenges seen with various versions of > > SOLR 4. > > Here's some information about Solr version numbers, with X.Y.Z providing > the legend: X is the major version number. Major versions are released > very infrequently. Y tracks the minor version number. Minor releases > are made quite frequently. Z is incremented with bugfix releases. Most > of the time, the third number in the version is zero. > > Every release of Solr that you can download from the official mirror > network is built from a version control branch that is known as the > stable branch. Currently that is branch_5x, at some point in the future > it will be branch_6x. > > The goal of the stable branch is to always be in a state where a viable > release candidate could be created. That's why it's called the stable > branch. If all of the tests in the included test suite are passing, > that's a good sign that there are no major problems. It's no guarantee, > just a good sign. > > All releases have bugs, but unless those bugs are very nasty, they do > not get fixed until the next minor version. When the bugs are > particularly bad, there might be a bugfix release. > > It sounds like you're trying to decide which release you should use. > The answer to that question is usually very easy -- the latest version, > which is currently 5.4.0. Right after a new release happens, the best > choice might be the newest bugfix release of the previous minor version. > > The pace of development is very high in Solr. Each new minor version > includes new features and enhancements. The sum total of the > differences between 4.0 and 4.10 is greater than the difference between > 4.10 and 5.0. > > I would not recommend using a 4.x release at this time. The 4.x line > went into maintenance mode ten months ago with the release of 5.0. The > community is now focused on 5.x versions. If you mention a problem with > a 4.x version now, the first thing you'll be told is that you need to > upgrade, because unless the bug you're experiencing is a showstopper > that affects a wide variety of users, it will not be fixed in 4.x. If > it is a major bug that affects a large number of users, it will only be > fixed a version like 4.10.5 -- a bugfix release on the last minor 4.x > version. > > Thanks, > Shawn > -- Ph: 9845704792
