svn commit: r1626605 - /gora/site/trunk/content/index.md

[lewismc]

Author: lewismc
Date: Sun Sep 21 16:09:38 2014
New Revision: 1626605

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1626605
Log:
Release Announcement for 0.5 Release

Modified:
    gora/site/trunk/content/index.md

Modified: gora/site/trunk/content/index.md
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/gora/site/trunk/content/index.md?rev=1626605&r1=1626604&r2=1626605&view=diff
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--- gora/site/trunk/content/index.md (original)
+++ gora/site/trunk/content/index.md Sun Sep 21 16:09:38 2014
@@ -38,6 +38,33 @@ Title: Welcome to Apache Gora™
 
 ## News
 
+###20 September, 2014: Apache Gora 0.5 Release
+The Apache Gora team are pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+Apache Gora 0.5.
+
+This release addresses no fewer than [44 
issues](http://s.apache.org/0.5report) with many being
+improvements and new functionality. Most notably the release includes the
+addition of a new module for MongoDB, Shim ffunctionality to support
+multiple Hadoop versions, improved authentication for Accumulo, better
+documentation for many modules, and pluggable solrj implementations
+supporting a default value of http for HttpSolrServer. Available options
+include http (HttpSolrServer), cloud (CloudSolrServer), concurrent
+(ConcurrentUpdateSolrServer) and loadbalance (LBHttpSolrServer).
+
+Suggested Gora database support is as follows
+
+   - Apache Avro 1.7.6
+   - Apache Hadoop 1.0.1 and 2.4.0
+   - Apache HBase 0.94.14
+   - Apache Cassandra 2.0.2
+   - Apache Solr 4.8.1
+   - MongoDB 2.6
+   - Apache Accumlo 1.5.1
+
+Gora is released as both source code, downloads for which can be found at
+our [downloads page](http://gora.apache.org/downloads.html) as well as Maven 
artifacts which can be found on
+[Maven central](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|gora). 
+
 ### 01 July, 2014: Apache Gora joins the [DARPA Open 
Catalog](http://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog/)
 <img src="http://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog/Open-Catalog-Single-Big.png"; 
alt="Open Catalog Logo">