Opensolr Changelog

A deleted PDF stayed searchable forever. Removing a document from your Drupal site never removed it from the index, so visitors kept finding files that no longer existed and clicking through to nothing. Replacing a file under a different name was worse: the old text stayed in the index next to the new, and one search returned both versions. Documents are now kept in step as you delete, replace or unpublish them, and a newly uploaded document is searchable immediately rather than at the next bulk ingestion run.

EXCLUDE ALL rules were saved but never applied. Hiding a result from every search wrote a rule that the search itself never read, so the result stayed exactly where it was. Elevation rules of this kind now apply to every query.

Drupal module 4.4.0 — the PIN, EXCLUDE and EXCLUDE ALL buttons on your search results page did nothing. Every click came back with a permission error and no rule was saved, which means curating results from the page where you can actually see the problem had never worked since the buttons were added. They work now, and rules you create take effect on the next search.

The Fresh control is now an on/off switch, sitting with the rest of the search controls. It reads at a glance whether newer results are being favoured, and it is a far easier target on a phone. How it ranks has not changed. Module release 4.2.4.

Drupal module 4.2.3 — a Fresh toggle on your search page, and AI Hints that actually read your content. Visitors get a Fresh toggle beside the sort controls that pushes recent content up the ranking without hiding anything older. And a real fix: AI Hints was only ever shown the short teaser lines already on screen, and on many sites nothing at all, so it answered from almost no material — it now reads the full text of the most relevant matches straight from your index, PDFs and Office documents included. Answers are also longer and better structured, and identical to what the hosted search page produces. Update from drupal.org.

Opensolr Search for Drupal 3.5.0 — adds the Lexical Only search mode, matching the option in the Opensolr admin. Skips the embedding request entirely and runs pure lexical search. When selected, the Minimum Relevance Score is auto-zeroed (on save and at query time) so results aren't filtered out by a hybrid-calibrated threshold. Same feature across the stack — Opensolr admin, Drupal module, WordPress plugin.

Opensolr Search for Drupal 3.4.0 — adds the Minimum Relevance Score slider to Search Tuning, matching the feature in the Opensolr admin. Drops low-scoring hybrid hits from results and facet counts. Slider is in 0.1 increments, default 0.3. Includes an update hook that restores the setting for sites upgrading from older versions.

Fixed Drupal module Save & Connect not registering the sitemap URL with the crawler. The sitemap is now registered on every Save & Connect and Save & Start Fresh. Also fixed Save & Start Fresh not deleting the previous index before creating a new one. Released as 3.3.3.

Fixed Query Elevation REMOVE button appearing on results with no elevation rules. Visibility now controlled via CSS class specificity instead of inline styles, fixing conflicts between button display and hide states.

Drupal Module Partner Program — get 50% off any small or medium plan for a full year by installing and actively using the free Opensolr Search Drupal module. Provide feedback, suggestions, or bug reports in exchange. Apply from the pricing page.

Safari and iOS compatibility — fixed show-more buttons, async noUiSlider loading, expand dialog z-index above Drupal toolbar, mobile overflow handling. Show-more dialogs now use event delegation for reliable touch behavior.

Per-facet minimum count threshold — configure how many documents a facet value needs before it appears. Instant CSS tooltips on facet hover replace slow browser title popups. Facet values preserve original casing from the source data.

Hierarchical drill-down facets — navigate multi-level taxonomies like breadcrumbs (e.g. Products > Electrical testing > Clamp meters). Auto-detected from JSON-LD BreadcrumbList data. Supports starting from any level and "Show more" for large lists.

Language selector dropdown now shows the active language first instead of alphabetical order. Crawler Settings section moved above Content Types for better admin UX.

Data Crawler and Data Ingestion admin tabs now show live document counts next to each content type — checked types show the real count, unchecked show 0, with a running total that updates instantly as you toggle checkboxes.

Opensolr Search for Drupal — full multilingual support for meta tags and JSON-LD structured data. Product categories, tags, and brands now output in the correct page language, so the Web Crawler extracts translated facet values identical to Data Ingestion.

Opensolr Search for Drupal — added Stop Crawl button, price display with currency symbols, and optimized query embeddings for better search relevance.

Contextual help links across all 10 admin tabs — descriptions and labels now link directly to relevant documentation and learn pages for hybrid search, autocomplete, facets, elevation, and more.

Opensolr Search for Drupal 2.0 released — major update with Data Ingestion API, real-time sync on every node save/delete, async bulk ingestion via Drupal cron (scales to 500K+ documents), full CJK/UTF-8 safety, and a 3-round security audit. Full documentation.

Opensolr Search — official Drupal module now available on Drupal.org. Adds hybrid vector + keyword search, faceted navigation, autocomplete, AI Hints, AI Reader, spellcheck, Query Elevation, built-in analytics dashboard, and a sitemap generator — all powered by the Web Crawler. No dependency on Search API. Works with Drupal 10 and 11.