In Solr 8.x, there have been some deprecations in Solr. Some of those features will either be available as community supported packages or first party Apache supported packages. Here is the status of some of those efforts:
Component | Status in Solr | Package Status | Package location | Remarks |
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Data Import Handler | Deprecated in 8.6 | Community package released | https://github.com/rohitbemax/dataimporthandler | |
Velocity | Deprecated in 8.4 | Community package released | https://github.com/erikhatcher/solritas | |
CDCR | Deprecated in 8.6 | No efforts for community package underway yet | TBD | |
HDFS support | Deprecated in 8.6 | Community package efforts underway | TBD | Some volunteers are already working on this. |
Autoscaling framework | May be deprecated by 8.7 | Redesigned autoscaling framework is under design, should be ready by 9.0 | TBD | |
Tika / SolrCell | May be deprecated by 8.7 | No efforts for community package underway yet | TBD | |
Solr Admin UI | No change in current status | A new admin UI (which can replace current UI, if needed) is being actively worked on | https://github.com/yasa-org/yasa | |
Runtime lib based plugin loading from blob store | Deprecated in 8.4 | NA | NA | Replaced by Package Management System |
StatelessScriptUpdateProcessor | May be deprecated by 8.7 | No efforts for community package underway yet | TBD | This should be extremely easy to package |
Check out solr.cool for more plugins and packages.