The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.2.0. <solr.apache.org/downloads.html> Highlights: - Internally uses Jetty 10 instead of Jetty 9. - Now includes an OpenTracing module, with support for OTEL tracing in OTLP format using gRPC.

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce that Marcus for Peace has accepted the invitation to become a committer. Welcome on board, Marcus!

4th Solr Virtual Community Meetup meetup.com/apache-solr-vi…. Should be fun. Apache Solr via Meetup

DataImportHandler now has a new home at SearchScale (github.com/SearchScale/da…), with version 9.0.0 (for Apache Solr 9.0.0) just released. Thanks to Krzysztof Debski!

A brilliant training session to understand better #NeuralSearch in Apache Solr and learn to perform a full end-to-end neural search!

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.3.0. 🔗solr.apache.org/downloads.html Highlights: - Internally uses Lucene 9.7. - Improvements to Neural/Vector-based search - 'v2' API improvements to be more REST-ful and intuitive

The PMC is happy to announce the Apache Solr Birds of a Feather, tonight 5:50 PM at the Community Over Code conference (ex ApacheCon) in Halifax! After many good talks about Solr, it's time for some discussions!

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.4.0. solr.apache.org/downloads.html Highlights: * Lucene has been upgraded to 9.8  * Added support for node-level caches  * Circuit Breakers available for Update Requests ... solr.apache.org/docs/9_4_0/cha… for the full list!

Here is a short summary by Sease about the Apache Lucene/Solr Birds of a Feather we had in Halifax during Community Over Code (Community Over Code). Thanks to everyone involved! Feel free to share it and add comments and observations: sease.io/2023/10/apache…

Don't miss the TOKYO Lucene/Solr meetup today at 17:00 JST (01:00 PDT). Online streaming is also available! First talk: "How to Integrate Open Source Large Language Models with Apache Solr" by Alessandro Benedetti solr.doorkeeper.jp/events/166257 Thanks #SolrJP and Koji Sekiguchi for organising!

Apache Solr supports hybrid search! (mixing keyword-based and vector-based search) If you want to know more, this blog post offers interesting insights and practical examples #hybridsearch #opensource #vectorsearch

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 9.4.1! solr.apache.org/downloads.html Highlights: - a big regression to the JSON Query API has been fixed - security oriented improvements/fixes - many transitive dependencies have been upgraded solr.apache.org/9_4_1/changes/…

The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Solr has invited Sanjay Dutt to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that they have accepted! Welcome on board!

The first Community Over Code Europe in a while is approaching! Bratislava, 3-5 June! eu.communityovercode.org Many activities for our Solr passionates: - Search track - Birds of a Feather (exact time to be confirmed soon) - eu.communityovercode.org/blog/solr-trai… - a lot of networking! Don't miss it!

In the follow up talk on the Search track, we have Alessandro Benedetti talk about “Hybrid Search with Apache Solr” #communityovercode #theasf #solr #lucene #llm #search

The talk by Angad Sharma talking about Solr at zomato #communityovercode #lucene #solr #zomato

Next up is Yupeng Fu from Uber talking about their use of Lucene for Vector search at Uber and Uber eats! #communityovercode #lucene #solr #vectorsearch

If you are at Community Over Code EU, join us for Monday Birds of a Feather sessions! Apache Lucene/ Solr -> Mirror Suite It's the perfect place to share your questions/ideas/problems/considerations about your favourite open-source search technology!

We now have the official Apache Solr blog! Find interesting posts about your favourite open source search engine at: solr.apache.org/blog.html