Opensolr Changelog — Recent Updates & Improvements

Search Mar 28, 2026

Improved Price badges now display currency symbols (€, $, £, ¥, etc.) instead of raw currency codes in search results. Prices also display correctly for all indexes regardless of schema configuration.
Improved Improved vector search accuracy — the embedding model now uses instruction-tuned prefixes that optimize query vectors for retrieval. Expect 5–15% better recall on natural language queries and stronger cross-language matching (e.g. searching in Romanian and finding English results).

Improved Search clear button (✕) is now larger and more tappable on mobile — the button is bigger, has a generous tap target with padding, and shows a visual press animation on touch. Easier to clear a query on any device.
Improved Fresh mode is now a date window filter — Search Tuning now lets you set a Freshness Window of 2 to 365 days. When "Fresh" mode is selected, only content published within that window is returned — no more recent-but-irrelevant results pushing down the most relevant ones. The old boost-factor approach that could surface off-topic content is replaced by a clean date range filter.

Improved Search relevancy defaults updated to Flexible minimum match — queries now return more results by default, especially for longer natural-language searches. Short queries (1-2 words) still require all terms to match, while longer queries allow partial matches for better recall. Per-index Search Tuning overrides are unaffected.

Improved The Pin, Exclude, and Exclude All buttons on the search elevation toolbar are now high-contrast and color-coded — orange for Pin, red for Exclude — so they stand out clearly as interactive controls.
Improved Elevation actions are now mutually exclusive per document — clicking Pin on an excluded result automatically removes the exclude first, and vice versa. No more stale conflicting rules.
Improved Query Analytics & Tools — the former Query Statistics page has been completely redesigned into a clean tabbed application. Overview, Queries, and Elevation Rules each live in their own tab with lazy AJAX loading. Elevation rules now show full document details (title, description, URL) instead of raw Solr IDs, with accordion-style collapsible query groups and a regex search to instantly find any elevated document across all rules.