Putting my marketing hat on... here's a draft for a release announcement on other sites like theserverside (for an audience that may or may not be familiar with what Solr is). I've tried to keep the new feature list limited, while still trying to convey the scope of this new release. Thoughts?
-Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download! http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. New Solr 1.4 features include - Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting - Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and can replicate config files - Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler - Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika - Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2 - Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single category to be selected) - Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary functions, nested queries of different syntaxes - Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics, TermVectors, Deduplication --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT --- DRAFT
