Ah, that message clearly worked well, that's me. There's a little change to how those properties work. There was a wrong overlap in how those properties work. Now they are separated and work either only on the crawldb, or on the linkdb. Not both, or just half implemented.
We need to include such a message with the release notes. M. -----Original message----- > From:Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday 17th May 2016 18:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Breaking Change Note in CHANGES.txt > > Hi Folks, > What is going on with the note in CHANGES.txt? [0] Ive pasted it below for > convenience. > Did I miss some convo on dev@ which states there were breaking changes which > were being committee to master? > Thanks whoever can fill me in on this one. I am not going to progress with > the Nutch 1.12 release candidate until I get a response. > Thanks > Lewis > > =================== > 1 Fellow committers, Nutch 1.12 contains a breaking change NUTCH-2220. > Please use the note below and > 2 in the release announcement and keep it on top in this CHANGES.txt for > the Nutch 1.12 release. > 3 > 4 * replace your old conf/nutch-default.xml with the > conf/nutch-default.xml from Nutch 1.12 release > 5 * if you use LinkDB (e.g. invertlinks) and modified parameters > db.max.inlinks and/or db.max.anchor.length > 6 and/or db.ignore.internal.links, rename those parameters to > linkdb.max.inlinks and > 7 linkdb.max.anchor.length and linkdb.ignore.internal.links > 8 * db.ignore.internal.links and db.ignore.external.links now operate on > the CrawlDB only > 9 * linkdb.ignore.internal.links and linkdb.ignore.external.links now > operate on the LinkDB only > ==================== > > [0] https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L1-L9 > <https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/master/CHANGES.txt#L1-L9><br > clear="all" /> > -- > Lewis

