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[Lucene-java Wiki] Update of "ReleaseNote33" by MikeMcCandless

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The "ReleaseNote33" page has been changed by MikeMcCandless:
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ReleaseNote33?action=diff&rev1=2&rev2=3

  
  See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details.
  
- Lucene 3.3 Release Highlights
+ Lucene 3.3 Release Highlights:
  
+  * The spellchecker module now includes suggest/auto-complete functionality,
+    with three implementations: Jaspell, Ternary Trie, and Finite State.
-  * A TopDocs.merge API which facilitates merging results across different 
-    shards, as well as SearchGroup.merge and TopGroups.merge for distributed
-    grouping support.
  
-  * Suggest/Autocomplete functionality to the spellchecker module, 
-    with three implementations: Jaspell, Ternary Trie, and Finite State.
+  * Support for merging results from multiple shards, for both "normal"
+    search results (TopDocs.merge) as well as grouped results using the
+    grouping module (SearchGroup.merge, TopGroups.merge).
  
   * An optimized implementation of KStem, a less aggressive stemmer
     for English.
@@ -32, +32 @@

   * Improvements to MMapDirectory (now also the default implementation 
     returned by FSDirectory.open on 64-bit Linux).
  
-  * NRTManager API to simplify handling near-realtime search handling,
+  * NRTManager simplifies handling near-real-time search with multiple
-    allowing the app to control when indexing changes must be visible
-    to search requests.
+    search threads, allowing the application to control which indexing
+    changes must be visible to which search requests.
+ 
+  * TwoPhaseCommitTool facilitates performing a multi-resource
+    two-phased commit, including IndexWriter.
+ 
+  * The default merge policy, TieredMergePolicy, has a new method
+    (set/getReclaimDeletesWeight) to control how aggressively it
+    targets segments with deletions, and is now more aggressive than
+    before by default.
  
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