Apache Solr 1.2 is the first release since graduating from the Apache Incubator.
Solr is a high performance full-text search server based on Apache Lucene,
written in Java5, and easily extensible through plugins written in Java.
Documents are added to a search collection via XML over HTTP. The collection is
queried via HTTP to receive an XML response (or alternately JSON, Python or
Ruby text formats).
Major features include:
* A powerful data schema to define fields, types, and configure text
analysis
* External configuration via xml
* Faceted search
* Hit highlighting
* Flexible advanced caching
* Index replication for high availability
* A web admin interface
Some of the new features in 1.2 include CSV/delimited-text data loading, time
based autocommit, faster faceting, negative filters, a spell-check handler,
sounds-like word filters, regex text filters, and more flexible plugins.
Apache Solr 1.2 can be downloaded from
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
Thank you for your interest in Apache Solr!
-- The Apache Solr Team
