This article gives a temporal account of changes in Managed Search. Because Managed Search is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product, updates to the software occur as needed on an ongoing basis, instead of in numbered releases.
This article provides information about:
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Supported software versions
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New and improved features
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Known issues
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Fixed issues
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Other changes (miscellaneous noteworthy changes)
Information is listed by the dates on which changes occurred, and in some cases is aggregated over periods of time.
The most current information is at the top.
For additional information about compatible software, see Requirements.
Note
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If you are interested in Managed Search, contact Lucidworks. |
February 12, 2020
Software versions
Solr 8.4.1 |
Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services |
New features
Regions
Managed Search now runs on a variety of public cloud providers and their supported regions, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
For more information, see:
Backup and restore
You can now backup and restore your Managed Search collections, including all metadata and data. Backups are created programmatically and automatically, giving you full control of your backup process and granting notable advantages over Solr’s backup functionality.
For more information, see:
Improvements
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Solr is upgraded to version 8.4.1.
January 20, 2020
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
Improvements
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Managed Search now encrypts Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes by default.
January 13, 2020
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
Improvements
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Various security improvements are made.
Bug fixes
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Fixed a bug with the JSON Web Token (JWT) which prevented keys from invalidating under heavy load.
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The number of retry attempts for background tasks has been limited.
December 9, 2019
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
Improvements
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Various UI improvements.
Bug fixes
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Various bugs with cluster creation and deletion workflows are fixed.
December 2, 2019
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
Improvements
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Two attributes are added to the Tasks API
, `createdTime
andupdatedTime
. Both of these attributes follow the formatYYYY-MM-DD’T’hh:mm:ssZ
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createdTime
denotes when a task is first created. -
updatedTime
denotes when a task’sprogress
value reaches100
.
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The authentication service is updated to Spring Boot 2.0.
Bug fixes
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The logout link now successfully logs the user out of Okta before ending the local session.
November 25, 2019
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
Improvements
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Various changes are made to the Managed Search UI.
Bug fixes
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Fixed a bug that prevented the deletion of clusters in a production environment.
November 18, 2019
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
October 21, 2019
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
The Lucidworks Managed Search SolrJ client library was added. Its initial version is 8.2.0.a.
New features
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Lucidworks Managed Search SolrJ client library – A SolrJ client library (
managed-search-client-java.jar
) was added to facilitate integration of SolrJ clients with Managed Search.The SolrJ client library makes available an
OAuth2HttpRequestInterceptor
implementation of the JavaHttpRequestInterceptor
interface that simplifies obtaining and managing OAuth2 access tokens that are required in REST API requests.
October 11, 2019
Software versions
Solr 8.2 |
Google Cloud Platform |
The version of Solr was changed from 8.1 to 8.2.
Improvements
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Change the number of replicas for a collection – The Collections API now lets you change the number of replicas for a collection, with both
PUT
andPATCH
.
Bug fixes
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Updating the cluster configuration interfered with autoscaling.
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Failed tasks were sometimes reported as successful.
September 27, 2019
Other changes
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Names for Solr node types – Solr node type names changed to those listed in Solr Node Types.
September 11, 2019 (Inaugural release)
Software versions
Solr 8.1 |
Google Cloud Platform |
New features
In the inaugural release, all features are new. These are highlights.
REST APIs
Managed Search provides REST APIs for:
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Clusters: Create, update, and delete clusters.
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Collections: Create, update, and delete collections.
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Tasks: Get the status of long-running tasks (for cluster creation and deletion).
Autoscaling
In addition to having the ability to manually scale a cluster, you can set up autoscaling:
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Scheduled autoscaling –
Managed Search automatically scales the number of Solr nodes in a cluster to specified numbers at specified times on specified days. If no time is specified in a schedule entry, then the default time00:00
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is used. -
Search rate autoscaling –
Managed Search compares the actual average search rate across Solr nodes to the target average search rate (targetSearchRate
). Managed Search adds and removes Solr nodes to keep the actual average search rate in the vicinity of the target search rate. The number of Solr nodes can range between a minimum (minNodes
) and maximum (maxNodes
).