Opensolr Search for Drupal 2.0: Real-Time Sync, Async Bulk Ingestion to 500K+ Documents, and Contextual Help

Opensolr Search for Drupal 2.0 is a major release: content reaches your index as it changes, very large sites can be ingested in the background, and every admin tab now tells you where to read more.

01 Two ways content reaches the index

• Real-time sync. Every node save and every node delete is reflected in the index as it happens.
• Async bulk ingestion. Run through Drupal cron for the initial load and large backfills. It scales to sites of 500,000 documents and beyond.

Both are built on the new Data Ingestion API, which you can also call directly to push documents into an Opensolr index programmatically.

02 Text handling and security

The release brings full CJK and UTF-8 safety throughout, so Chinese, Japanese and Korean content — and anything else outside plain Latin text — survives ingestion intact. The module also went through a three-round security audit before release.

03 Contextual help on all ten admin tabs

Every one of the ten admin tabs now carries contextual help links: descriptions and field labels link directly to the relevant documentation and learn pages, including hybrid search, autocomplete, facets and query elevation. You no longer have to leave the screen and go looking for what a setting means.