This is a short Presentation on the current Status and the Outlook on the Roadmap of the EXT:solr.

1. Apache Solr
for TYPO3 CMS 6.x
Status and Outlook

2. Agenda
● About me
● History of EXT:solr
● Current status
● Roadmap
● Is it open source?

3. About me
Olivier Dobberkau
CEO of dkd Internet Service GmbH
Research and Development
over 10 years of TYPO3 CMS
Member of the T3A EAB
olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de
Twitter: T3RevNeverEnd

4. ... the TYPO3 CMS search itch
Scratching ...

5. History of EXT:solr
We all know when a solution fails ...

6. History of EXT:solr
● Indexed Search gave us some pain
● First prototype 2009
● What you get in one or two days of work

7. Current Status
Current version in TER: 2.8.2
Version was released in late 2012
Introduced the Add-ons for additional features
Supported TYPO3 CMS Versions
4.5, 4.6 & 4.7
Supported Solr Server
3.6.2
(Time flies when you are having fun!)

8. The next TER Release
TER: 2.8.3
Will introduce support for TYPO3 CMS
Versions 4.5 - 6.1
Loads of bug-fixes
Maintenance Release

9. Next Major Version
EXT:solr 3.x will be the next version
Release will be very soon after 2.8.3
Will have no new features on the TYPO3 side
Support for TYPO3 CMS 4.5 - 6.1
Add Apache Solr 4.4 as a Server

10. Roadmap for EXT:solr 4.x
● Backend parts of the EXT all in Extbase
● Templates go FLUID
● Frontend goes Extbase
● 4.x will be 6.2 only
● Effort estimated 2 to 4 man moths

11. The EXT:solr ecosystem
The base is EXT:solr
Features are added thru Add-ons
● EXT:solrfile (File-Indexing for CMS 4.5 - 4.7)
● EXT:solrdam (File-Indexing with DAM)
● EXT:solrfal (File-Indexing for CMS 6.1 & 6.2)
● EXT:solrmlt (More like this)
● EXT:solrgrouping
● EXT:tika (Extracting Service)

12. Some web resources
You will find a lot of infos around the Apache
Solr Extension:
● www.typo3-solr.com
● http://forge.typo3.
org/projects/show/extension-solr
● Mailing List / Newsgroup / Forums
● Afraid of Solr? try www.hosted-solr.com

13. Questions?

14. Thank you!
olivier.dobberkau@dkd.de