: Correct. In 3.6 it is simply ignored. In 4.x it currently does work. That's not true.
the example cofigs in Solr 3.6 no longer mention defaultSearchField, but Solr 3.6 will still respect a <defaultSearchField/> declaration if it exists in your schema.xml -- I just verified this by running Solr 3.6 using hte Solr 3.5 example configs. The only change SOLR-2274 made to the *CODE* in 3.6 was to improve the wording in the logs/error messages to better distiguish when it was refering to the "df" param vs the "<defaultSearchField/>" Rohit: if you are running 3.6 wit ha schema.xml that contains a <defaultSearchField> and you are seeing a failure related to not fiding hte default field, please post your schema.xml and the stack trace of the error. -Hoss
