[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 9.9.0 released

[Chris Hegarty]

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 9.9.0.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured search engine library 
written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any 
application that requires structured search, full-text search, faceting, 
nearest-neighbor search across high-dimensionality vectors, spell 
correction or query suggestions.


This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and 
improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is 
available for immediate download at:


https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html

Lucene 9.9.0 Release Highlights:

New Features
   • Add int8 scalar quantization to the HNSW vector format. This 
optionally allows for more compact lossy storage for the vectors, 
requiring approximately 4x less memory for fast HNSW search.
   • HNSW graph now can be merged with multiple threads, leveraging the 
same infrastructure that inter-segment concurrency utilizes.


Improvements
   • Speed up Panama vector support, use FMA, and test improvements.
   • FSTCompiler can now approximately limit how much RAM it uses to 
share suffixes during FST construction using the suffixRAMLimitMB method.


Optimizations
   • Faster top-level conjunctions on term queries when sorting by 
descending score.
   • Change Postings back to using FOR in Lucene99PostingsFormat. 
Freqs, positions and offset keep using PFOR.


... plus a multitude of helpful bug fixes!

Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/9_9_0/changes/Changes.html

-Chris.



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[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents Client 5.2.3 GA Released

[Oleg Kalnichevski]

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 5.2.3 GA 
release of HttpComponents HttpClient.


This is a maintenance release that fixes a regression introduced in 
5.2.2 that causes all requests over a TLS connection fail with a runtime 
exception and upgrades HttpCore to version 5.2.4.


Download - 
Release notes - 
 
HttpComponents site - 


About HttpComponents HttpClient

The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is perhaps the most significant 
protocol used on the Internet today. Web services, network-enabled 
appliances and the growth of network computing continue to expand the 
role of the HTTP protocol beyond user-driven web browsers, while 
increasing the number of applications that require HTTP support.


Designed for extension while providing robust support for the base HTTP 
protocol, HttpClient may be of interest to anyone building HTTP-aware 
client applications such as web browsers, web service clients, or 
systems that leverage or extend the HTTP protocol for distributed 
communication.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] HttpComponents Core 5.2.4 GA released

[Oleg Kalnichevski]

The Apache HttpComponents project is pleased to announce 5.2.4 GA 
release of HttpComponents Core.


This is a maintenance release that corrects a major defect discovered 
since release 5.2.3 that can lead to an H2 connection failing at runtime 
with the message "Frame size exceeds maximum" when executing requests 
with an enclosed message body and the remote endpoint having negotiated 
a maximum frame size larger than the protocol default (16KB).


Download - 
Release notes - 


HttpComponents site - 

About HttpComponents Core

HttpCore is a set of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 transport components that can 
be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a 
minimal footprint.

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache SkyWalking CLI 0.13.0 Released

[han liu]

Hi the SkyWalking Community

On behalf of the SkyWalking Team, I’m glad to announce that SkyWalking
CLI 0.13.0 is now released.

SkyWalking CLI: A Command Line Interface for Apache SkyWalking.

SkyWalking: APM (application performance monitor) tool for distributed
systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and
container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.

Download Links: http://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/

Release Notes: https://github.com/apache/skywalking-cli/blob/0.13.0/CHANGES.md

Website: http://skywalking.apache.org/

SkyWalking CLI Resources:
- Issue: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues
- Mailing list: d...@skywalking.apache.org
- Documents: https://github.com/apache/skywalking-cli/blob/0.13.0/README.md

The Apache SkyWalking Team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache OFBiz 18.12.10 released

[Jacopo Cappellato]

The Apache OFBiz community is pleased to announce the new release "Apache
OFBiz 18.12.10".

Apache OFBiz® is an open source product for the automation of enterprise
processes that includes framework components and business applications.

http://ofbiz.apache.org/

"Apache OFBiz 18.12.10" is the tenth release of the 18.12 series.

For details of the changes introduced with this new version
please refer to http://ofbiz.apache.org/release-notes-18.12.10.html

The history of security related fixes included in each release is
available here:
https://ofbiz.apache.org/security.html

The release files can be downloaded following the instructions in the OFBiz
download page:

http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Calcite Avatica 1.24.0 Released

[Francis Chuang]

The Apache Calcite team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Calcite Avatica 1.24.0.

Avatica is a framework for building database drivers. Avatica defines a
wire API and serialization mechanism for clients to communicate with a
server as a proxy to a database. The reference Avatica client and server
are implemented in Java and communicate over HTTP. Avatica is a
sub-project of Apache Calcite.

Apache Calcite Avatica 1.24.0 features mostly dependency upgrades with 
some minor bug fixes and features. Of note is the breaking change 
introduced in CALCITE-5675 where date literals not satisfying the 
Gregorian calendar will be rejected.


For a full list of changes, please see the release notes:

https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/docs/history.html#v1-24-0

The release is available here:

https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/downloads/avatica.html

We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to report
problems and get involved, visit the project website at:

https://calcite.apache.org/avatica/

or the Apache Calcite project website:

https://calcite.apache.org/

Thanks to everyone involved!

Francis Chuang, on behalf of the Apache Calcite team