[lucene-solr] branch branch_8x updated: SOLR-14072: Deprecate Blob API and runtimeLib (#1086)

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/branch_8x by this push:
     new 0ea3ffd  SOLR-14072: Deprecate Blob API and runtimeLib (#1086)
0ea3ffd is described below

commit 0ea3ffd7173155255533ab8d91e3a7019ec82218
Author: David Smiley <ds...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Dec 15 23:53:17 2019 -0500

    SOLR-14072: Deprecate Blob API and runtimeLib (#1086)
    
    (cherry picked from commit 2db48314f97a6017fe216f77c34cf5b261985cf4)
---
 solr/CHANGES.txt                                                    | 4 ++++
 .../solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 400b735..7746dbb 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ Upgrade Notes
 
 * SOLR-14065: VelocityResponseWriter has been deprecated and may be removed in a future version.
 
+* SOLR-14072: The "Blob Store" API and "runtimeLib" plugin mechanism that uses it is now considered deprecated. The
+  replacement to it is the "Package Management" system, which includes a "File Store". These are experimental currently
+  but will grow/stabalize/mature.
+
 New Features
 ---------------------
 * SOLR-13821: A Package store to store and load package artifacts (noble, Ishan Chattopadhyaya)
diff --git a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc
index 95756f7..bafc6e6 100644
--- a/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc
+++ b/solr/solr-ref-guide/src/adding-custom-plugins-in-solrcloud-mode.adoc
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 
 In SolrCloud mode, custom plugins need to be shared across all nodes of the cluster.
 
+.Deprecated
+[IMPORTANT]
+====
+The functionality here is a subset of the <<package-manager.adoc#package-manager,Package Management>> system.  It will no longer be supported in Solr 9.
+====
+
 When running Solr in SolrCloud mode and you want to use custom code (such as custom analyzers, tokenizers, query parsers, and other plugins), it can be cumbersome to add jars to the classpath on all nodes in your cluster. Using the <<blob-store-api.adoc#blob-store-api,Blob Store API>> and special commands with the <<config-api.adoc#config-api,Config API>>, you can upload jars to a special system-level collection and dynamically load plugins from them at runtime without needing to restart [...]
 
 .This Feature is Disabled By Default