The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 April 2016

2016-04-08 Thread Sally Khudairi
>> 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

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 6.0.0 released

2016-04-08 Thread Nicholas Knize
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

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Solr 6.0.0 released

2016-04-08 Thread Nicholas Knize
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.,