diff --git a/application/configs/application.ini b/application/configs/application.ini
index df59f6da5..38f161ad4 100644
--- a/application/configs/application.ini
+++ b/application/configs/application.ini
@@ -241,6 +241,32 @@ search.index.field.year.order = 'PublishedDate,PublishedYear'
 ; Enrichment fields to be excluded from indexing (comma separated)
 search.index.enrichment.blacklist = 'opus_doi_json'
 
+; WEIGHTED SEARCH
+; if set to `1` a weighted search will be used where query matches in particular fields can be
+; assigned different importance 
+search.weightedSearch = 1
+
+; boost factors for fields which increase (>1.0) or decrease (<1.0) the importance of query matches
+; in that field; set a field's boost factor to `0` to ignore matches in that field
+search.simple.abstract = 1
+search.simple.author = 1
+search.simple.contributing_corporation = 1
+search.simple.creating_corporation = 1
+search.simple.fulltext = 1
+search.simple.identifier = 1
+search.simple.persons = 1
+search.simple.publisher_name = 1
+search.simple.publisher_place = 1
+search.simple.subject = 1
+search.simple.title = 1
+search.simple.title_additional = 1
+search.simple.title_parent = 1
+search.simple.title_sub = 1
+
+; multiplier (integer >0) to further increase field-specific boost factors (and thus the importance
+; of matches) when matching phrases (i.e., in cases where all query terms appear in close proximity)
+search.weightMultiplier = 5
+
 ;DOCTYPE VALIDATION SCHEMA FILE
 ; TODO determine path dynamically (does this belong into the framework)
 documentTypes.xmlSchema = APPLICATION_PATH "/vendor/opus4-repo/framework/library/Opus/Document/documenttype.xsd"
diff --git a/application/configs/config.ini.template b/application/configs/config.ini.template
index 393b00edf..7e3928ff5 100644
--- a/application/configs/config.ini.template
+++ b/application/configs/config.ini.template
@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ searchengine.solr.default.service.extract.endpoint.localhost.timeout = 10
 ; Turn on to display document titles of search results in user interface language if possible
 search.result.display.preferUserInterfaceLanguage = 0
 
+;WEIGHTED SEARCH
+; if set to `1` a weighted search will be used where query matches in particular fields can be
+; assigned different importance 
+;search.weightedSearch = 1
+
+; boost factors for fields which increase (>1.0) or decrease (<1.0) the importance of query matches
+; in that field
+;search.simple.title = 10
+; boost factors for your instance's enrichment fields can be added in a similar fashion, e.g.:
+;search.simple.Relation = 1.5
+
 ;MAIL SETTINGS
 ; mail.opus.smtp = localhost; SMTP server for sending email
 ; mail.opus.port = 25 ; SMTP server port for sending email
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 69743c91e..dac93df74 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <property name="adminPassword" value="AdminAdmin" />
     <property name="bindir" value="${basedir}/vendor/bin" />
     <property name="verbose" value="" />
-    <property name="solrVersion" value="9.4.0" />
+    <property name="solrVersion" value="9.5.0" />
     <property name="downloadDir" value="${basedir}/downloads" />
 
     <!-- Properties for configuration files (config.ini, console.ini, tests/config.ini) used for testing. -->
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 4dc83ae0b..8ca7cba96 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": "4.7.3.x-dev || 4.8.1.x-dev",
+    "opus4-repo/search": "dev-weightedSearch37 as 4.8.1",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-bibtex": "^4.8",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-import": "dev-main as 4.8.1",
     "opus4-repo/opus4-pdf": "^4.8",
diff --git a/tests/bin/install_solr_docker.sh b/tests/bin/install_solr_docker.sh
index 333f03a73..daf8c93aa 100755
--- a/tests/bin/install_solr_docker.sh
+++ b/tests/bin/install_solr_docker.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 #
-# Script to install Solr. By default, version 9.4.0 will be installed.
+# Script to install Solr. By default, version 9.5.0 will be installed.
 # Another Solr version can be specified using the `--version` option.
 
 # Define variables and their default values
-version="9.4.0"
+version="9.5.0"
 
 # Parse command line options
 while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ done
 # Check --version input
 if ! [[ "$version" =~ ^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$ ]]; then
   echo "Unrecognized version number: $version"
-  echo "The --version option requires a 3-digit version number, e.g.: 9.4.0"
+  echo "The --version option requires a 3-digit version number, e.g.: 9.5.0"
   exit 1
 fi