diff --git a/.github/workflows/php.yml b/.github/workflows/php.yml
index b9d543f24..080cab8c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/php.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/php.yml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        php-versions: ['7.1','8.1']
+        php-versions: ['8.1']
       fail-fast: false
 
     name: PHP ${{ matrix.php-versions }} Test
diff --git a/bin/install_solr_docker.sh b/bin/install_solr_docker.sh
index a5c545f2e..a7eed7089 100644
--- a/bin/install_solr_docker.sh
+++ b/bin/install_solr_docker.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-ant download-solr -DsolrVersion=7.7.2 -DdownloadDir=./downloads
-cd solr-7.7.2
+SOLR_VERSION="9.3.0"
+wget -q "https://dlcdn.apache.org/solr/solr/$SOLR_VERSION/solr-$SOLR_VERSION.tgz" -O - | tar -xz
+cd solr-$SOLR_VERSION
 ./bin/solr start -force
 ./bin/solr create -c opus4 -force
 cd server/solr/opus4/conf/
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index b5e220f3e..6d315b34d 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "jpgraph/jpgraph": "dev-master",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-common": "dev-master as 4.8.1",
     "opus4-repo/framework": "dev-master as 4.8.1",
-    "opus4-repo/search": ">4.7.2",
+    "opus4-repo/search": "dev-upgradeSolr35 as 4.8.1",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-bibtex": "^4.8",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-import": "^4.8",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-pdf": "^4.8",