## 29 December 2019, Apache Solr™ 8.4.0 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 8.4.0.
Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from
the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text
search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database
integration, rich document handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly
scalable, providing fault tolerant distributed search and indexing, and
powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest
internet sites.
Solr 8.4.0 is available for immediate download at:
<https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html>
### Solr 8.4.0 Release Highlights:
* A new package management system was introduced in order to ease
deploying plugins.
* Better security with the out-of-the-box configuration.
A summary of important changes is published in the Solr Reference Guide at <
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_4/solr-upgrade-notes.html>.
Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:
<https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_4_0/changes/Changes.html>
Solr 8.4.0 also includes features, optimizations and bugfixes in the
corresponding Apache Lucene release:
<https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_4_0/changes/Changes.html>
Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for
distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not
have
replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror.
This also applies to Maven access.
--
Adrien
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 8.4.0.
Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from
the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text
search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database
integration, rich document handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly
scalable, providing fault tolerant distributed search and indexing, and
powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest
internet sites.
Solr 8.4.0 is available for immediate download at:
<https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html>
### Solr 8.4.0 Release Highlights:
* A new package management system was introduced in order to ease
deploying plugins.
* Better security with the out-of-the-box configuration.
A summary of important changes is published in the Solr Reference Guide at <
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_4/solr-upgrade-notes.html>.
Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:
<https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_4_0/changes/Changes.html>
Solr 8.4.0 also includes features, optimizations and bugfixes in the
corresponding Apache Lucene release:
<https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_4_0/changes/Changes.html>
Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for
distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not
have
replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror.
This also applies to Maven access.
--
Adrien