I wanted to run a Solr 4.0 client against a more modern Solr server (like Solr 4.3.1 - shard splitting!). While we should match client and server versions, it's not unheard of to float a little bit. 4.0 to 4.3.1 is more than a little bit but I wanted to get Lily to work against 4.3.1 - notsomuch.
You'll likely get an error like this in the Solr ClusterState code:
org.apache.solr.common.cloud.ZkStateReader: Updating cluster state from ZooKeeper...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.Map
So something changed with the way the cluster is recorded in ZK/Solr. I encountered this again by accident when I forgot to update the Solrj version in my app's POM (again, trying to run a 4.0 client against a 4.3+ server).
This is probably only an issue with SolrCloud so remaining Solr classic users likely aren't affected. But if you're not using SolrCloud yet, you should take a look.
