Thanks Shawn! On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote:
> On 9/11/2017 9:36 AM, Gunalan V wrote: > > In our project we are planning to use SOLR and I'm new to it. So, what is > > the latest stable version we can use and that is supported by Apache? > > As of four days ago, the latest release is 6.6.1. This is a point > release, intended to fix known bugs in the 6.6.0 version without adding > any new features. > > All releases are considered "stable", or they would not be released. > Every attempt is made to find and fix problems before release, but bugs > do happen. > > > Kindly let me know your suggestions because we started with installing > SOLR > > 6.2 but heard that there are many issues and need to be upgraded to 6.3 > or > > so. > > If you need a search engine to be up and in production quickly, the > recommendation right now is the latest version - 6.6.1. This is the > thirteenth release in the 6.x line, and represents over a year of new > features and bugfixes since the 6.0.0 release. > > The 7.0 release is underway right now, and could be announced as soon as > later this week. It also might end up delayed. That depends on whether > problems are found and if so, what those problems are. > > If you have a longer timeframe before you need to be online, it would > probably be a good idea to plan on testing 7.0 when it is released, and > be ready to upgrade your test environment to new 7.x versions as they > come out. You could choose to test 6.6.1 and 7.x concurrently, and go > with whichever version you can get working correctly. > > My personal feeling is that a brand new major release (x.0 version) > should not be deployed into production without an extensive amount of > testing. That applies to ANY software, not just Solr. It's not that I > think the 7.0 version is going to be bad software. It's just that it > hasn't received any widespread user testing yet, so any major problems > are currently unknown. The developers do a lot of testing, but they can > only come up with so many test scenarios. Real-world installations tend > to be better at sniffing out bugs. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
