The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 April 2016
>> this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/AbKe Apparently with the April Fool's excitement https://s.apache.org/P1Kk last week's News Round-up never made it online to blogs.apache.org! So here's what happened over the past two weeks: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's Bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 April 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock. - 7M+ weekly checks yield sunshine-y performance at 99.36% uptime http://status.apache.org/ ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. - ENDS 10 APRIL: Early Registration for Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon/YVR. Join us! http://apachecon.com/ Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. - Apache Camel 2.15.6 and 2.17.0 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html Apache Commons™ Compress –library for working with zip, ar, jar, bz2, cpio, tar, gz, dump, pack200, lzma, 7z, arj and xz files. - Apache Commons Compress 1.11 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/download_compress.cgi Apache Commons™ Configuration –a generic configuration interface which enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources. - Commons Configuration 2.0 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/download_configuration.cgi Apache Fortress™ –a standards based Access Management System for LDAPv3 compliant systems. - Apache Fortress 1.0-RC42 released http://directory.apache.org/fortress/downloads.html Apache Jackrabbit™ – a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283). - Apache Jackrabbit 2.10.2, Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.13, and Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Lens™ –a Unified Analytics interface. - Apache Lens 2.5.0-beta released http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html Apache Lucy™ –search engine library provides full-text search for a variety of programming languages. - Apache Lucy 0.5.0 released http://lucy.apache.org/download.html Apache Lucy™ Clownfish –symbiotic object system pairs with host dynamic language environments and facilitates the development of high performance host language extensions. - Apache Clownfish 0.5.0 released http://lucy.apache.org/download.html Apache MyFaces™ Core –a JavaServer Faces 2.0 implementation as specified by JSR-314. - MyFaces Core v2.1.18 and v2.0.24 released http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html Apache Mynewt (incubating) –a community-driven module OS for constrained, embedded applications. - Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/incubator/mynewt/apache-mynewt-0.8.0-b2-incubating Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. - Apache NiFi 0.6.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/download.html Apache OFBiz™ –an Open Source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications. - Apache OFBiz 12.04.06 and 13.07.03 released http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html Apache Olingo™ –a Java library that enables developers to implement OData service providers (server) and consumers (clients) for OData V2 and V4. - Apache Olingo 4.2.0 released http://olingo.apache.org/doc/odata4/download.html Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming. - Apache OpenMeetings 3.1.0 and 3.1.1. released http://openmeetings.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology. - Apache Syncope 2.0.0-M2 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Tajo™ –Big Data warehouse that provides distributed and scalable SQL analytical processing on Apache Hadoop. - Apache Tajo 0.11.2 released http://tajo.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Tomcat™ –a Web server that is an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies. - Apache Tomcat 8.0.33 and 8.5.0 BETA available http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi Apache UIMA™ uimaFIT –a library that facilitates the building of Apache UIMA components, the programmatic use of Apache UIMA analysis pipelines, and their testing. - Apache uimaFIT 2.2.0 released http://uima.apache.org/downloads.cgi#Latest Official Releases Apache Wave
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 6.0.0 released
8 April 2016, Apache Lucene™ 6.0.0 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.0.0. Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes: https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_0_0/changes/Changes.html Lucene 6.0.0 Release Highlights: * Java 8 is the minimum Java version required. * Dimensional points, replacing legacy numeric fields, provides fast and space-efficient support for both single- and multi-dimension range and shape filtering. This includes numeric (int, float, long, double), InetAddress, BigInteger and binary range filtering, as well as geo-spatial shape search over indexed 2D LatLonPoints. See https://www.elastic.co/blog/lucene-points-6.0 for details. Dependent classes and modules (e.g., MemoryIndex, Spatial Strategies, Join module) have been refactored to use new point types. * Lucene classification module now works on Lucene Documents using a KNearestNeighborClassifier or SimpleNaiveBayesClassifier. * The spatial module no longer depends on third-party libraries. Previous spatial classes have been moved to a new spatial-extras module. * Spatial4j has been updated to a new 0.6 version hosted by locationtech. * TermsQuery performance boost by a more aggressive default query caching policy. * IndexSearcher's default Similarity is now changed to BM25Similarity. * Easier method of defining custom CharTokenizer instances. Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_0_0/changes/Changes.html Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html) Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also applies to Maven access. Nick Knize
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Solr 6.0.0 released
8 April 2016, Apache Solr 6.0.0 available Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing fault tolerant distributed search and indexing, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. Solr 6.0.0 is available for immediate download at: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/6_0_0/changes/Changes.html Solr 6.0 Release Highlights: * Improved defaults for "Similarity" used in Solr, in order to provide better default experience for new users. * Improved "Similarity" defaults for users upgrading: DefaultSimilarityFactory has been removed, implicit default Similarity has been changed to SchemaSimilarityFactory, and SchemaSimilarityFactory has been modified to use BM25Similarity as the default for field types that do not explicitly declare a Similarity. * Deprecated GET methods for schema are now accessible through the bulk API. The output has less details and is not backward compatible. * Users should set useDocValuesAsStored="false" to preserve sort order on multi-valued fields that have both stored="true" and docValues="true". * Formatted date-times are more consistent with ISO-8601. BC dates are now better supported since they are now formatted with a leading '-'. AD years after have a leading '+'. Parse exceptions have been improved. * Deprecated SolrServer and subclasses have been removed, use SolrClient instead. * The deprecated configuration in solrconfig.xml has been removed. Users must remove it from solrconfig.xml. * SolrClient.shutdown() has been removed, use SolrClient.close() instead. * The deprecated zkCredientialsProvider element in solrcloud section of solr.xml is now removed. Use the correct spelling (zkCredentialsProvider) instead. * Added support for executing Parallel SQL queries across SolrCloud collections. Includes StreamExpression support and a new JDBC Driver for the SQL Interface. * New features and capabilities added to the streaming API. * Added support for SELECT DISTINCT queries to the SQL interface. * New GraphQuery to enable graph traversal as a query operator. * New support for Cross Data Center Replication consisting of active/passive replication for separate SolrClouds hosted in separate data centers. * Filter support added to Real-time get. * Column alias support added to the Parallel SQL Interface. * New command added to switch between non/secure mode in zookeeper. * Now possible to use IP fragments in replica placement rules. Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/6_0_0/changes/Changes.html Please report any feedback to the mailing lists ( http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.html) Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also applies to Maven access. Nick Knize
