Here's what I had added to the "news" section on the solr site (which
was just additions/edits to what Robert first added):
<title>March 2011 - Solr 3.1 Released</title>
<p>
Solr 3.1 has been released and is now available for public <a
href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/";>download</a>!
New Solr 3.1 features include
</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved geospatial support</li>
<li>Sorting by function queries</li>
<li>Range faceting on all numeric fields</li>
<li>Example Velocity driven search UI at
http://localhost:8983/solr/browse</li>
<li>A new termvector-based highlighter</li>
<li>Improved spellchecking capabilities</li>
<li>Improved integration with Apache Lucene</li>
<li>New autosuggest component</li>
<li>Distributed support for more components</li>
<li>JSON document indexing and CSV response format</li>
<li>Apache UIMA integration for metadata extraction</li>
<li>Many other Bugfixes, improvements and optimizations</li>
</ul>
<p>See the <a
href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/tags/lucene_solr_3_1/solr/CHANGES.txt";>release
notes</a> for more details.
</p>
-Yonik
http://www.lucenerevolution.org -- Lucene/Solr User Conference, May
25-26, San Francisco
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote:
> Proposed Release Announcement (edits welcome). Also note we can have ASF
> Marketing put out a press release if we want.
>
> <snip>
> March 2011, Lucene 3.1 available
> The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.1 and
> Apache Solr 3.1.
>
> This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and
> improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release
> is available for immediate download at
> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java
> and http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java. See the respective
> CHANGES.txt
> file included with the release for a full list of details.
>
> Lucene 3.1 Release Highlights
> * Improved Unicode support, including Unicode 4
>
> * ReusableAnalyzerBase make it easier to reuse TokenStreams correctly
>
> * Protected words in stemming via KeywordAttribute
>
> * ConstantScoreQuery now allows directly wrapping a Query
>
> * Support for custom ExecutorService in ParallelMultiSearcher
>
> * IndexWriterConfig.setMaxThreadStates for controls of IndexWriter threads
>
> * Numerous performance improvements: faster exact PhraseQuery;
> natural segment merging favors segments with deletions; primary
> key lookup is faster; IndexWriter.addIndexes(Directory[]) uses
> file copy instead of merging; BufferedIndexInput does fewer bounds
> checks; compound file is dynamically turned off for large
> segments; fully deleted segments are dropped on commit; faster
> snowball analyzers (in contrib); ConcurrentMergeScheduler is more
> careful about setting priority of merge threads.
>
> * IndexWriter is now configured with a new separate builder API
> (IndexWriterConfig).
>
> * IndexWriter.getReader is replaced by
> IndexReader.open(IndexWriter). In addition you can now specify
> whether deletes should be resolved when you open an NRT reader.
>
> * MultiSearcher is deprecated; ParallelMultiSearcher has been
> absorbed directly into IndexSearcher
>
> * CharTermAttribute replaces TermAttribute in the Analysis process
>
> * On 64bit Windows and Solaris JVMs, MMapDirectory is now the
> default implementation (returned by FSDirectory.open).
> MMapDirectory also enables unmapping if the JVM supports it.
>
> * New TotalHitCountCollector just counts total number of hits
>
> * ReaderFinishedListener API enables external caches to evict
> entries once a segment is finished
>
> Solr 3.1 Release Highlights
>
> * Added spatial filtering, boosting and sorting capabilities
>
> * Added extend dismax (edismax) query parser which addresses some missing
> features in the dismax query parser along with some extensions
>
> * Several more components now support distributed mode: TermsComponent,
> SpellCheckComponent
>
> * Added an Auto Suggest component
>
> * Ability to sort by functions
>
> * Support for adding documents using JSON format
>
> * Leverages Lucene 3.1 and it's inherent optimizations and bug fixes as well
> as new analysis capabilities
>
> * Numerous bug fixes and optimizations.
>
> </snip>
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