XX November 2021, Apache Solr™ 8.11 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 8.11

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Solr 8.11.0 Release Highlights

Security

MultiAuthPlugin (for authentication) and MultiAuthRuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin (for authorization) classes to support multiple authentication schemes, such as Bearer and Basic. This allows the Admin UI to use OIDC (JWTAuthPlugin) to authenticate users while still supporting Basic authentication for command-line tools and the Prometheus exporter.

A summary of important changes is published in the Solr Reference Guide at https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/8_11/solr-upgrade-notes.html. For the most exhaustive list, see the full release notes at https://lucene.apache.org/solr/8_11/changes/Changes.html or by viewing the CHANGES.txt file accompanying the distribution.  Solr's release notes usually don't include Lucene layer changes.  Lucene's release notes are at https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_11/changes/Changes.html