Appendix A. Working with the Solr codebase

A new version of Solr (along with Lucene) is officially released several times per year, but because it is completely open source, the most recent trunk version of Solr is available to be pulled and built at any time. The Lucene and Solr codebases are combined, meaning that even though Lucene can be used without Solr, Solr’s development proceeds in lockstep with Lucene, and the codebases are built and officially released together. The trunk version of Lucene/Solr contains all committed changes, though any functionality in trunk could still be subject to change because it has not yet made it into an official release.

In addition to newly committed changes, there is a large collection of patches available ...

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