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Aug. 26, 2020
Tom Humbarger
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We are pleased to announce that we have added Sitecore 10 support for our Sitecore Solr Plugin. The Sitecore Solr Plugin accelerates the process and automates a number of manual tasks involved with connecting a Sitecore installation to a SearchStax Solr instance. Setting up Solr with the Plugin takes just a few minutes and will save you hours of time and effort.
As a Sitecore Technology Alliance Program partner, we know how important it is to stay in step with and support the new Sitecore 10 release. We continue to empower and support the Sitecore community by making Solr easier to install and manage on the Sitecore platform
Accelerating the Solr setup process dovetails with changes that Sitecore made in Version 10 to help developers easily create new Sitecore environments and onboard projects faster.
In addition, some of the other new features of Sitecore XP 10 include:
While Sitecore 10 supports two different search engines: Solr and Azure Search, support for Azure Search is deprecated in Sitecore XP 10.0.0 and will be completely removed in a later release. If you are not using Solr search currently, now is a great time to plan your migration and upgrade plan.
Here is what the Sitecore Solr Plugin automates:
Configuring and executing the SearchStax Sitecore Plugin is as easy as filling out a simple form that updates the config file and then hitting the return key. Complete integration and configuration details are listed in our Sitecore 10.0 product documentation.
To run the script, you need to update the information in the configuration file which contains the following fields:
The Sitecore Solr Plugin v1.7 currently supports the following versions of Sitecore:
| Sitecore Version | Sitecore XP | Sitecore XConnect | Sitecore Commerce |
| 9.0 Update-2 | ✓ | – | – |
| 9.1 Update-1 | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| 9.2 Initial Update | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 9.3 Initial Update | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 10.0 Initial Update | ✓ | ✓ |
The Plugin does not currently support Sitecore XC 10, but support is planned in the near future. There are two limitations for the Sitecore Solr Plugin as it does not support Sitecore SXA or SwitchOnRebuild for Sitecore XP.
The Sitecore Solr Plugin v1.7 is an open source solution and is publicly available for free download on GitHub. Full instructions for using the Plugin are included on the GitHub site and the latest Plugin is backwards compatible with earlier versions of Sitecore.
In the FAQ section on GitHub, we also added a new section on recommended Sitecore Solr performance optimization settings. These tuning settings will improve overall performance and cure some common issues from high memory consumption, slow response times and backup issues.
With the support of the Sitecore and Github community, we will continue to update and add new features to the Sitecore Solr Plugin in the future. Please join in the discussion and let us know what updates you’d like to see in the future versions.
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