Historical reasons for those names, all earlier links would break if we 
re-purposed the news.html address :) 

Jan

> 21. okt. 2026 kl. 14:24 skrev Eric Pugh <[email protected]>:
> 
> 
> 
> On 2026/10/21 06:36:25 Jan Høydahl wrote:
>> But that's exactly what we have, isn't it? https://solr.apache.org/posts.html
>> 
>> And those release highlight news is for people to learn about features in a 
>> new release. It links to major-changes ref-guide, which we now propose to be 
>> a pure upgrade note, not changes as in new features; they can instead link 
>> to the detailed Changes.html page for the full list of changes.
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>>> 20. okt. 2026 kl. 15:35 skrev Eric Pugh via dev <[email protected]>:
>>> 
>>> Maybe we just have a single news page that points to detailed pages?  
>>> https://rubyonrails.org/category/news
>>> 
>>> Then each news item could go as deep as we want?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 18, 2026, at 5:52 PM, Jan Høydahl <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> +1 Fully agree, repeating a few subjective "major new" features there 
>>>> won't buy us anything really.
>>>> 
>>>> Jan
>>>> 
>>>>> 18. okt. 2026 kl. 19:01 skrev David Smiley <[email protected]>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Our "major-changes-in-solr-10.adoc" (and similar) are under the "upgrade
>>>>> notes" directory of the Solr ref guide. They each have the following
>>>>> heading preface:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> This page highlights the most important changes including new features
>>>>> and changes in default behavior as well as previously deprecated features
>>>>> that have now been removed.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think the most important information on these pages are the upgrade
>>>>> aspect -- what should a user know about when upgrading to a particular 
>>>>> Solr
>>>>> version.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But including "new features" is debatable. It's extra work to include 
>>>>> this,
>>>>> takes a subjective decision, and can be forgotten. The distinction between
>>>>> forgotten and deciding not worthiness is indiscernible. I suspect I
>>>>> advocated for this scope years ago. It's certainly good to be aware of new
>>>>> things with each release but we already have the "release highlights" for
>>>>> each release, which does this. That is published with each release.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Proposal: The major changes pages should only have information related to
>>>>> upgrading. Upon every release, we can add a *link* to the release
>>>>> highlights.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Challenge/issues: The nice HTML form of the release highlights is one news
>>>>> entry with an anchor tag on an ever-growing/expanding list of whatever we
>>>>> categorize as "news" (mostly new releases + CVE it seems). The URL -- ex:
>>>>> https://solr.apache.org/news.html#apache-solrtm-9110-available 
>>>>> <https://solr.apache.org/news.html#apache-solrtm-9110-available> doesn't 
>>>>> seem
>>>>> particularly "durable". Meanwhile, our HTML Changelog is quite durable:
>>>>> https://solr.apache.org/docs/10_0_0/changes/Changes.html 
>>>>> <https://solr.apache.org/docs/10_0_0/changes/Changes.html> I could 
>>>>> imagine a
>>>>> standalone HTML release highlights page... but wouldn't it be a nicer user
>>>>> experience to integrate that into the HTML changelog at the top? One
>>>>> integrated page for "highlights" + the actual changelog details.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Heck, perhaps even release-specific upgrade notes are best placed on this
>>>>> page somehow (vs the ref guide).
>>>> 
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> 
> Thats funny!  We have:
> All News - https://solr.apache.org/posts.html
> Blog - https://solr.apache.org/blog.html
> Annoucements - https://solr.apache.org/news.html
> Security News - https://solr.apache.org/security-news.html
> 
> We should at least fix our names:
> All News - https://solr.apache.org/news.html
> Blog - https://solr.apache.org/blog.html
> Annoucements - https://solr.apache.org/announcements.html
> Security News - https://solr.apache.org/security-news.html
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