SOLR-17771: Deprecate CloudSolrClient.Builder in favor of CloudHttp2SolrClient.Builder

Author: jdyer1

solr/CHANGES.txt

@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ Other Changes
 
 * SOLR-17956: XLSXResponseWriter has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. (Jan Høydahl)
 
+* SOLR-17771: Deprecate `CloudSolrClient.Builder` in favor of `CloudHttp2SolrClient.Builder`. (James Dyer)
+
 ==================  9.9.1 ==================
 Bug Fixes
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solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/CloudSolrClient.java

@@ -124,7 +124,12 @@ public abstract class CloudSolrClient extends SolrClient {
 
   protected volatile Object[] locks = objectList(3);
 
-  /** Constructs {@link CloudSolrClient} instances from provided configuration. */
+  /**
+   * Constructs {@link CloudSolrClient} instances from provided configuration.
+   *
+   * @deprecated Please use {@link CloudHttp2SolrClient.Builder}
+   */
+  @Deprecated
   public static class Builder extends CloudHttp2SolrClient.Builder {
 
     /**