Opensolr Changelog — Recent Updates & Improvements

Search Mar 31, 2026

Fix Fixed search queries containing apostrophes (e.g. "don't", "it's", "O'Brien") — the search box was showing the Solr-escaped version of the query instead of the original text. Now displays the clean, unescaped query back to the user.

Fix Fixed autocomplete highlight incorrectly highlighting short stopwords (e.g. "e", "a", "i") inside suggestions. Highlight now only applies to query terms that are 3 characters or longer.

Fix Fixed "Did you mean?" spellcheck suggestions — previously only corrected a single word in the query (e.g. "downloda invoicesr" → "download"). Now corrects all misspelled words and shows the full corrected query (e.g. "download invoices"). Works across all Search pages including hybrid vector search.

Fix Fixed a critical bug where pinning multiple documents to the same query only applied the last one. Solr was receiving the document IDs in the wrong format — now all pinned results correctly appear at the top in the order you set them.

Fix Search results no longer show Jan 01 1970 as the date when a document has no real creation date. The date badge is now hidden entirely when no valid date is available.
Fix Fixed title and description highlighting on complex search queries. When a query contained boolean operators like AND or OR, only the full-text body was being highlighted — titles and short descriptions were left plain. Highlighting now works consistently across all result fields, regardless of how complex your query is.

Fix Fixed search results showing blank descriptions on some indexes. When the Solr highlighter could not find matching terms in the description field, results appeared with no text at all — even though the document had a perfectly good description. The fallback logic now correctly shows the original description when no highlighted snippet is available.