The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ OpenOffice™ 4.0
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/3KA Leading Open Source office productivity solution introduces major new user experience and improvements 23 July 2013 --Forest Hill, MD-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced the immediate availability of Apache OpenOfficeTM 4.0 Apache OpenOffice is the leading Open Source office document productivity suite, providing six productivity applications: Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw and Formula, with native support for OASIS Open Document Format 1.2 (ODF). OpenOffice supports multiple platforms, including Linux, OS X® and Microsoft Windows®, with additional 3rd party ports to other operating systems. Apache OpenOffice is translated by community volunteers into dozens of languages, including major market languages as well as regional and minority languages that are often ignored by commercial vendors. More than 58 million copies of Apache OpenOffice v3.4 have been downloaded since its release in May 2012. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is available for download at: http://www.openoffice.org. OpenOffice 4.0 features a new, more modern user interface, improvements to Microsoft Office interoperability, enhanced graphics support and many other improvements, which are detailed in the Release Notes: http://s.apache.org/fw With Apache OpenOffice we are making major improvements to our user experience by introducing the Sidebar, the first radical improvement to the OpenOffice user interface in years, said Andrea Pescetti, Vice President, Apache OpenOffice. Together with major new improvements in Microsoft Office interoperability, enhancements in graphics and color palette management as well as improvements in Calc, Chart and Draw editor modules, Apache OpenOffice 4.0 adds up to a compelling new release. With a rigorous quality assurance testing process, we wholeheartedly recommend our user community begin to upgrade. Innovation happens at Apache and is immediately available to everybody who wishes to build upon the OpenOffice source code. IBM is proud to see its source code contribution of IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ coming to fruition with the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.0, said Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, IBM Collaboration Solutions. The time is right for wide-scale enterprise adoption, especially with the upcoming end-of-support for Microsoft Office 2003. By choosing Apache OpenOffice, enterprises will free up resources for their cloud and mobile infrastructure investments. Under the Hood The new Sidebar makes better use of today's widescreen displays. Users may easily edit their document properties in-context, with the most-frequently needed controls available in panels in the Sidebar. Panels may be expanded or collapsed as needed. Twenty-two panels were implemented, offering users a major productivity improvement. A new framework was implemented allowing application developers to build extensions to the Sidebar. With this new framework Apache OpenOffice 4.0 offers a robust extensibility mechanism, enabling applications that integrate business application data, seamlessly integrate with cloud and mobile document editing environments, and automate common document workflow tasks. Apache OpenOffice Extensions may be downloaded from the new version of the Apache OpenOffice Extension Repository, maintained by SourceForge: http://extensions.openoffice.org We at SourceForge are proud to actively support the Apache OpenOffice community, said Alice Hill, President, Slashdot Media. The new versions of OpenOffice extensions and templates websites provide an enhanced user experience complete with notifications for new versions. We think the Apache OpenOffice community will be thrilled with these upgrades. Apache OpenOffice provides new Office Open XML (OOXML) support, including support for docx outline levels, support for table background color from table style in docx files, more bullet and numbering support in docx and support for font color in pptx files. Microsoft Office interoperability is a very high priority for the project, said Juergen Schmidt, Apache OpenOffice Release Manager. We are working hard to ensure that our users can successfully exchange documents and document content with colleagues who continue to use Microsoft Office. Moving forward we plan to continue our focus on OOXML document interoperability. Apache OpenOffice an all volunteer led project. All are welcome to make contributions to any aspect of the project. To get involved visit: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available
The Apache OpenOffice project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenOffice 4.0. You can download it from our website [1]. Details of new features and enhancements in this release are described in the Release Notes [2]. Those interested in the source code can download this via the links on this page [3]. Regards, Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee [1] http://www.openoffice.org/download/ [2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes [3] https://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 4.4 released
July 2013, Apache Lucene™ 4.4 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 4.4 Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Lucene 4.4 Release Highlights: * New Replicator module: replicate index revisions between server and client. See http://shaierera.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-replicator.html * New AnalyzingInfixSuggester: finds suggestions based on matches to any tokens in the suggestion, not just based on pure prefix matching. See http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2013/06/a-new-lucene-suggester-based-on-infix.html * New PatternCaptureGroupTokenFilter: emit multiple tokens, one for each capture group in one or more Java regexes. * New Lucene Facet module features: * Added dynamic (no taxonomy index used) numeric range faceting (see http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2013/05/dynamic-faceting-with-lucene.html ) * Arbitrary Querys are now allowed for per-dimension drill-down on DrillDownQuery and DrillSideways, to support future dynamic faceting. * New FacetResult.mergeHierarchies: merge multiple FacetResult of the same dimension into a single one with the reconstructed hierarchy. * FST's Builder can now handle more than 2.1 billion tail nodes while building a minimal FST. * FieldCache Ints and Longs now use bit-packing to save memory. String fields have more efficient compression if there are many unique terms. * Improved compression for NumericDocValues for dates and fields with very small numbers of unique values. * New IndexWriter.hasUncommittedChanges(): returns true if there are changes that have not been committed. * multiValuedSeparator in PostingsHighlighter is now configurable, for cases where you want a different logical separator between field values. * NorwegianLightStemFilter and NorwegianMinimalStemFilter have been extended to handle nynorsk. * New ScandinavianFoldingFilter and ScandinavianNormalizationFilter. * Easier compressed norms: Lucene42NormsFormat now takes an overhead parameter, allowing for values other than PackedInts.FASTEST. * Analyzer now has an additional tokenStream(String fieldName, String text) method, so wrapping by StringReader for common use is no longer needed. * New SimpleMergedSegmentWarmer: just ensures that data structures (terms, norms, docvalues, etc.) are initialized. * IndexWriter flushes segments to the compound file format by default. * Various bugfixes and optimizations since the 4.3.1 release. Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features. Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html) Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also goes for Maven access.
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Solr 4.4 released
July 2013, Apache Solr™ 4.4 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 4.4
Solr is the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform
from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful
full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic
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 4.4 is available for immediate download at:
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html
See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of
details.
Solr 4.4 Release Highlights:
* Solr indexes and transaction logs may stored in HDFS with full read/write
capability.
* Schemaless mode: Added support for a mode that requires no up-front schema
modifications, in which previously unknown fields' types are guessed based
on the values in added/updated documents, and are then added to the schema
prior to processing the update. Note that the below-described features
are also useful independently from schemaless mode operation.
* New Parse{Date,Integer,Long,Float,Double,Boolean}UpdateProcessorFactory
classes parse/guess the field value class for String-valued and unknown
fields.
* New AddSchemaFieldsUpdateProcessor: Automatically add new fields to the
schema when adding/updating documents with unknown fields. Custom rules
map field value class(es) to schema fieldTypes.
* A new schemaless mode example configuration, using the above-described
field-value-class-guessing and unknown-field-schema-addition features,
is provided at solr/example/example-schemaless/.
* Core Discovery mode: A new solr.xml format which does not store core
information, but instead searches for files named 'core.properties' in
the filesystem which tell Solr all the details about that core. The main
example and the schemaless example both use this new format.
* Schema REST API: Add support for creating copy fields.
* A merged segment warmer may now be plugged into solrconfig.xml.
* New MaxScoreQParserPlugin: Return max() instead of sum() of terms.
* Binary files are now supported in ZooKeeper.
* SolrJ's SolrPing object has new methods for ping, enable, and disable.
* The Admin UI now supports adding documents to Solr.
* Added a PUT command to the Solr ZkCli tool.
* New deleteshard collections API that unloads all replicas of a given
shard and then removes it from the cluster state. It will remove only
those shards which are INACTIVE or have no range.
* The Overseer can now optionally assign generic node names so that
new addresses can host shards without naming confusion.
* The CSV Update Handler now supports optionally adding the line number/
row id to a document.
* Added a new system wide info admin handler that exposes the system info
that could previously only be retrieved using a SolrCore.
Solr 4.4 also includes many other new features as well as numerous
optimizations and bugfixes.
Please report any feedback to the mailing lists
(http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.html)
In the coming days, we will also be announcing the first official Solr
Reference Guide available for download. In the meantime, users are
encouraged to browse the online version and post comments and suggestions on
the documentation:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Apache+Solr+Reference+Guide
Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network
for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using
may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please
try another mirror. This also goes for Maven access.
