Opensolr Changelog — Recent Updates & Improvements

Index Management Feb 25, 2026

Improved The Indexes and Clusters list now remembers your search filter in the URL — bookmark or share a filtered view of your indexes, especially useful when managing a large number of indexes.

Improved Latest Queries now uses server-side pagination — browse through all your requests within any date range without loading everything at once. Filter by query text, HTTP status, or IP address and hit Search to find exactly what you need across all shards.
New New Full Request Inspector in Query Analytics — the Latest Queries table now includes a 🔍 button on each row that opens your complete Solr request broken down into a readable parameter table, along with the full raw URL ready to copy with one click

Improved Review badges in footer replaced with crisp inline SVG cards for Trustpilot, Google, and ISO certifications
Improved Security compliance section redesigned with individual SVG badge cards for Software Security, EU GDPR, PCI DSS, and Content Security Policy

New Changelog is now a fully dynamic, database-backed page with full-text search, filtering by category, date, and type, sidebar navigation, and pagination

Improved Reload, Reset, Commit, and Restart actions now run via AJAX with an elegant modal dialog showing a loading spinner and result status, instead of navigating away from the page
Improved Merged Delete By Query and Utilities into a single unified Index Tools panel with a cleaner design

Improved Available Backup Files and Restore Actions Log now display side by side for easier overview
Improved Redesigned Backup Manager with styled action buttons, emoji icons, and cleaner layout

Improved Adding an IP access rule now shows instant inline feedback and refreshes the rules list automatically
Improved Saving HTTP Auth credentials now shows an inline confirmation message without navigating away from the page

Improved Upload notes are now hidden by default behind an info button in the section header, reducing visual clutter
Improved Redesigned Config Files Manager with a cleaner panel layout, styled file selector, and a + toggle button to reveal the new file form inline

Fix Fixed display of special characters (umlauts, accents, etc.) in Query Analytics — queries like Wärmeenergie now show correctly instead of URL-encoded text

Fix Fixed database export download returning 403 Forbidden
New Database export download page now includes a ready-to-copy wget command for direct downloads via terminal

New Batch Embeddings API — generate vector embeddings for up to 50 text payloads in a single request via /api/batch_embed

Fix Popular Queries chart no longer overflows with long query labels — labels are now neatly truncated on the chart with full details visible on hover
Improved Filter queries (fq) are now extracted and displayed when the main query is a wildcard browse, so you can always see what your users were actually looking for
Improved Advanced Solr syntax — nested local params, boost wrappers, vector/hybrid search, function expressions, and dollar-reference variables — is now intelligently parsed and resolved to reveal the real search terms
Improved Queries from Drupal, WordPress, and other CMS platforms are now automatically translated into clean, readable strings
New Analytics now displays the actual human-readable search query sent to your Opensolr index, regardless of how complex the underlying request is

Fix Fixed analytics correlation for update/indexing requests — IP addresses and response sizes now correctly tracked
Fix Fixed garbled characters in Popular Queries for non-Latin text (Hindi, French accents, etc.) caused by double UTF-8 encoding
Fix Fixed analytics crash on indexes with numeric-only search queries (e.g. product IDs, lot numbers)
Improved Analytics queries now load significantly faster with parallel shard processing

Fix Fixed Google Search Console review snippet errors on the pricing page — structured data now uses the correct schema type for rich results

Fix Fixed incorrect downtime reporting on the Service Status page — servers were showing inflated downtime durations (e.g. hundreds of hours) instead of actual brief outages

New Dense vector indexes are now automatically recognized for semantic search
Fix Language/locale filter in search now correctly filters results
Improved AI-powered search summaries are now more accurate and context-aware
New Search relevance scores are now visible on all result pages
Improved Hybrid search (keyword + semantic) now produces more balanced, relevant results

Improved Better mobile responsiveness across all pages
Improved Live search demos now accessible directly from the homepage
Improved Step-by-step "How It Works" section to help new users get started quickly
New Completely redesigned homepage with a modern, clean layout

Fix Overall bandwidth usage percentage on the account dashboard now displays correctly
Fix Average response size metric now shows accurate values
Fix Search queries with special characters (accented letters, non-Latin text) now display correctly
Fix Recent Queries tab now loads reliably even when some data sources are temporarily unavailable
Fix Table columns now sort correctly by numeric values (dates, hit counts, sizes, bandwidth)
Improved Faster analytics loading with parallel data processing

New Server owners can now manage their own SSH keys directly from the control panel

Improved FAQ page headings now show the actual category name
New Blog posts and FAQ pages now include structured data for richer Google search results
Improved Sharing Opensolr links on social media now shows proper preview images, titles, and descriptions