[ANNOUNCE] Apache Solr 4.0-beta released.
14 August 2012, Apache Solr™ 4.0-beta available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 4.0-beta. 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 4.0-beta is available for immediate download at: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html?ver=4.0b See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Highlights of changes since 4.0-alpha: * Added a Collection management API for Solr Cloud. * Solr Admin UI now clearly displays failures related to initializing SolrCores * Updatable documents can create a document if it doesn't already exist, or you can force that the document must already exist. * Full delete-by-query support for Solr Cloud. * Default to NRTCachingDirectory for improved near-realtime performance. * Improved Solrj client performance with Solr Cloud: updates are only sent to leaders by default. * Various other API changes, optimizations and bug fixes. This is a beta for early adopters. The guarantee for this beta release is that the index format will be the 4.0 index format, supported through the 5.x series of Lucene/Solr, unless there is a critical bug (e.g. that would cause index corruption) that would prevent this. Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/discussion.html) Happy searching, Lucene/Solr developers
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 4.0-beta released.
14 August 2012, Apache Lucene‚ 4.0-beta available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 4.0-beta 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?ver=4.0b See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Highlights of changes since 4.0-alpha: * IndexWriter.tryDeleteDocument can sometimes delete by document ID, for higher performance in some applications. * New experimental postings formats: BloomFilteringPostingsFormat uses a bloom filter to sometimes avoid disk seeks when looking up terms, DirectPostingsFormat holds all postings as simple byte[] and int[] for very fast performance at the cost of very high RAM consumption. * CJK analysis improvements: JapaneseIterationMarkCharFilter normalizes Japanese iteration marks, added unigram+bigram support to CJKBigramFilter. * Improvements to Scorer navigation API (Scorer.getChildren) to support all queries, useful for determining which portions of the query matched. * Analysis improvements: factories for creating Tokenizer, TokenFilter and CharFilter have been moved from Solr to Lucene's analysis module, less memory overhead for StandardTokenizer and Snowball filters. * Improved highlighting for multi-valued fields. * Various other API changes, optimizations and bug fixes. Please read CHANGES.txt and MIGRATE.txt for a full list of new features and notes on upgrading. Particularly, the new apis are not compatible with previous version of Lucene, however, file format backwards compatibility is provided for indexes from the 3.0 series and the 4.0-alpha release. This is a beta release for early adopters. The guarantee for this beta release is that the index format will be the 4.0 index format, supported through the 5.x series of Apache Lucene, unless there is a critical bug (e.g. that would cause index corruption) that would prevent this. Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html) Happy searching, Apache Lucene/Solr Developers
[ANN] Apache Syncope 1.0.0-incubating released
After 7 months of work the Apache Syncope team is proud to announce the final release of the first stable version since entering the Apache Incubator. Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology . The release will be available within 24h from: http://incubator.apache.org/syncope/downloads.html The full change log is available here: http://s.apache.org/cid We welcome your help and feedback. For more information on how to report problems, and to get involved, visit the project website at http://incubator.apache.org/syncope/ The Apache Syncope Team
