diff --git a/KeywordSearch/release/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml b/KeywordSearch/release/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml
index 0fad8acb50..b8ef0258d8 100644
--- a/KeywordSearch/release/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/KeywordSearch/release/solr/solr/configsets/AutopsyConfig/conf/schema.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     that avoids logging every request
 -->
 
-<schema name="Autopsy Keyword Search" version="1.7">
+<schema name="Autopsy Keyword Search" version="1.8">
   <!-- attribute "name" is the name of this schema and is only used for display purposes.
        Applications should change this to reflect the nature of the search collection.
        version="1.4" is Solr's version number for the schema syntax and semantics.  It should
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
        1.5: added content_ws field for regular expression friendly indexing 
        1.6: added num_chunks for chunking support
        1.7 added _version_ field for Solr Cloud
+       1.8 added new content_str string field and stopped copying content and file_name into content_ws
      -->
 
   <types>
@@ -637,15 +638,18 @@
 
    <copyField source="content" dest="text"/>
    <copyField source="file_name" dest="text"/>
-   <!--<copyField source="meta" dest="text"/>-->
-   <!--<copyField source="strings" dest="text"/>-->
    
+<!--
+    Version 1.8 uses the content_str field for regular expression
+    searches so we no longer need to copy into content_ws.
+    
    <copyField source="content" dest="content_ws"/>
    <copyField source="file_name" dest="content_ws"/>
-
+ -->
+ 
+    <!-- Copy content into content_str field for regex searches -->
    <copyField source="content" dest="content_str"/>
    <copyField source="file_name" dest="content_str"/>
-   <!--<copyField source="meta" dest="content_ws"/>-->
 	
    <!-- Above, multiple source fields are copied to the [text] field. 
 	  Another way to map multiple source fields to the same