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 8.x | Status in Solr 9.0 | 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 | ||
Support for storing indexes and backups in HDFS | Deprecated in 8.6 | Community package efforts underway | TBD | Some volunteers are already working on this. | |
Autoscaling framework | Redesigned autoscaling framework is under design, should be ready by 9.0 | TBD | |||
Tika / SolrCell | 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 | NA | NA | Replaced by Package Management System | ||
StatelessScriptUpdateProcessor | No efforts for community package underway yet | TBD | This should be extremely easy to package |
Check out solr.cool for more plugins and packages.