You also have the option of using a recent nightly build, just pick one and work with that. That'll be much closer to 4.1 than the official 4.0 release. You can get them from here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/NightlyBuilds
Best Erick On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 6:22 AM, Per Steffensen <st...@designware.dk> wrote: > I would start using Solr Cloud now (keep experimenting), so that you will > have a chance to work on setting it up, creating and managing collection, > using it from your clients etc. Solr Cloud is very different from simple > standalone 3.5 Solr, so you have a lot to learn about how it works before > you are ready to use it in production. You can start that now, but maybe > you dont want to go into production with Solr Cloud before 4.1. It depends > on your "requirements on quality" if 4.0 is ready for production, but I > believe the same will be true for 4.1. There will be a lot of fixes in 4.1, > but Im sure there will still be lots of unfixed "issues". Best way (as > always) is to test if your system works as it is supposed to when it is > based on Solr 4.0. > I wouldnt start using Solr Cloud replication if you are running under high > load - it has (or had a month or two ago) a lot of issues, and IMHO it is > not ready for production usage - unless a lot happend within the last > months, and I couldnt imagine. We have just relased the first production > version of our product based on 4.0 plus a bunch of "our own" fixed and > improvements. This version of our product does not support replication, > simply because we have seen to many issues with Solr Cloud replication - > especially under high load. Replica is a goal for version 1.x of our > product and we are about to start up a phase where we will have a lot of > focus on stabilizing Solr Cloud replication - hopefully we will succeed in > collaboration with the rest of the Solr community, and hopefully Solr Cloud > replication will be production ready within the next half year. > > Regards, Per Steffensen > > > On 12/18/12 3:28 PM, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If you are not in a rush, I'd wait for Solr 4.1. Not that Solr 4.0 is not >> usable, but Solr 4.1 will have a ton of fixes. >> >> Otis >> -- >> SOLR Performance Monitoring - >> http://sematext.com/spm/index.**html<http://sematext.com/spm/index.html> >> Search Analytics - >> http://sematext.com/search-**analytics/index.html<http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Cool Techi <cooltec...@outlook.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> We have been using solr 3.5 in our production for sometime now and facing >>> the problems faced by a large solr index. We wanted to migrate to Solr >>> Cloud and have started some experimentation. But in the mean time also >>> following the user forum and seem to be noticing a lot of bugs which were >>> raised post the release and will be fixed in 4.1. >>> >>> Should we wait for 4.1 release for production or we can go ahead with the >>> current release? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ayush >>> >>> >>> >>> >
