2 September 2021, Apache Solr Operator™ v0.4.0 available

The Solr PMC is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Solr Operator v0.4.0

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Solr Operator v0.4.0 Release Highlights:

• A new Helm chart for templating the Solr resource.
  
  • Users must still run the Solr Operator, preferably through the Solr Operator Helm chart.
• Support for hostpath for the Solr data volume when in ephemeral mode
• Scheduled restarts of Solr Clouds and Solr Prometheus Exporters
• The default version of Solr has been upgraded to 8.9
• Allow for custom service accounts to be used when running Sol
• Upgrade the Zookeeper Operator dependency to v0.2.12
• Allow for ephemeral storage when running a provided Zookeeper cluster
  • The storage type for Zookeeper will default to the option chosen for Solr
• Enable configuration of provided Zookeeper Config options
• Use a more secure base image for the Solr Operator
• The PrometheusExporter now accepts custom pod probes (liveness, readiness, startup)
• Fix permissions in the default bootstrapped security.json
• Allow for loading in TLS information from a mounted directory (SolrCloud and SolrPrometheusExporter)
• SolrCloud now supports separate server and client certs for mTLS
• The Solr Operator supports hot-reloading of TLS client certs used to connect to Solr (enabled by default)

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