Nice work. I think we should take the same approach for the lucene release notes, summarize the major features (for people who weren't alpha/beta testers), but also have a short list at the bottom for people who were.
Ill try to populate the lucene template (http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote40) in a similar style to get it started. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Apache Wiki <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Wiki user, > > You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Solr Wiki" for change > notification. > > The "ReleaseNote40" page has been changed by HossMan: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ReleaseNote40?action=diff&rev1=1&rev2=2 > > Comment: > merge beta & alpha highlights; add some newer stuff; add specific "since > beta" subsection; fill > > {{{ > > - MMM??? 2012, Apache Solr™ 4.0 available > - The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 4.0. > + MMM??? 2012, Apache Solr™ 4.0 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to > + announce the release of Apache Solr 4.0. > > - Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from > + Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform > - the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text > + from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful > - search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database > + full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic > - 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. > + 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 4.0 is available for immediate download at: > http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html > @@ -19, +19 @@ > > See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of > details. > > - Highlights of changes since 4.0-beta: > + Solr 4.0 Release Highlights: > > - * TODO > + The largest set of features goes by the development code-name "Solr > + Cloud" and involves bringing easy scalability to Solr. See > + http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud for more details. > + * Distributed indexing designed from the ground up for near real-time > + (NRT) and NoSQL features such as realtime-get, optimistic locking, > + and durable updates. > + * High availability with no single points of failure. > + * Apache Zookeeper integration for distributed coordination and > + cluster metadata and configuration storage. > + * Immunity to split-brain issues due to Zookeeper's Paxos distributed > + consensus protocols. > + * Updates sent to any node in the cluster and are automatically > + forwarded to the correct shard and replicated to multiple nodes for > + redundancy. > + * Queries sent to any node automatically perform a full distributed > + search across the cluster with load balancing and fail-over. > + * A collection management API. > + * Smart SolrJ client (CloudSolrServer) that knows to send documents > + directly to the shard leaders > > - Please report any feedback to the mailing lists > (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.html) > + Solr 4.0 includes more NoSQL features for those using Solr as a > + primary data store: > + * Update durability – A transaction log ensures that even uncommitted > + documents are never lost. > + * Real-time Get – The ability to quickly retrieve the latest version > + of a document, without the need to commit or open a new searcher > + * Versioning and Optimistic Locking – combined with real-time get, > + this allows read-update-write functionality that ensures no > + conflicting changes were made concurrently by other clients. > + * Atomic updates - the ability to add, remove, change, and increment > + fields of an existing document without having to send in the > + complete document again. > + > + Many additional improvements include: > + * New spatial field types with polygon support. > + * Pivot Faceting – Multi-level or hierarchical faceting where the top > + constraints for one field are found for each top constraint of a > + different field. > + * Pseudo-fields – The ability to alias fields, or to add metadata > + along with returned documents, such as function query values and > + results of spatial distance calculations. > + * A spell checker implementation that can work directly from the main > + index instead of creating a sidecar index. > + * Pseudo-Join functionality – The ability to select a set of > + documents based on their relationship to a second set of documents. > + * Function query enhancements including conditional function queries > + and relevancy functions. > + * New update processors to facilitate modifying documents prior to > + indexing. > + * A brand new web admin interface, including support for SolrCloud > + and improved error reporting > + * Numerous bug fixes and optimizations. > + > + Noteworthy changes since 4.0-BETA: > + * New spatial field types with polygon support. > + * Various Admin UI improvements. > + * SolrCloud related performance optimizations in writing the the > + transaction log, PeerSync recovery, Leader election, and > + ClusterState caching. > + * Numerous bug fixes and optimizations. > + > + Please report any feedback to the mailing lists > + (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.html) > > }}} > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
