Do be aware that if you are using indexes created with 6x you will be required to completely re-index when you upgrade to Solr 8. IndexupgraderTool doesn’t help with this, i.e. you _cannot_ go from 6x->7x with 7x's IndexupGraderTool then go from 7x->8x.
Best, Erick > On Jul 31, 2019, at 6:35 AM, Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Go for 8.2, as 7.x will be end of life later this year. If you find any know > bugs in 8.2.0 that you cannot live with, wait for 8.2.1 which would maximize > stability. > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > >> 30. jul. 2019 kl. 22:53 skrev Arnold Bronley <arnoldbron...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi, >> >> We are trying to decide whether we should upgrade to Solr 7.7.2 version or >> Solr 8.2.0 version. We are currently on Solr 6.3.0 version. >> >> On one hand 8.2.0 version feels like a good choice because it is the latest >> version. But then experience tells that initial versions usually have lot >> of bugs compared to the later LTS versions. >> >> Also, there is one more issue. There is this major JIRA bug >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13336 which mostly won't get >> fixed in any 7.x version, but is fixed in Solr 8.1. I checked and our Solr >> configuration is vulnerable to it. Do you have any recommendation as to >> which Solr version one should move to given these facts? >
