[Fwd: [ANN] Solr 1.4.0 Released]

[Sean Timm <ti...@aol.com>]

Re: [Fwd: [ANN] Solr 1.4.0 Released]

[Sean Timm <ti...@aol.com>]

Apologies.  Meant to forward the message to a corporate internal list.  
I blame my e-mail address auto-complete. ;-)

Sean Timm wrote:
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> Subject:
> [ANN] Solr 1.4.0 Released
> From:
> Grant Ingersoll <gs...@apache.org>
> Date:
> Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:01:27 -0500
> To:
> solr-user@lucene.apache.org, general@lucene.apache.org, 
> solr-dev@lucene.apache.org, announce@apache.org
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> To:
> solr-user@lucene.apache.org, general@lucene.apache.org, 
> solr-dev@lucene.apache.org, announce@apache.org
>
>
> 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.  Its major features include
> powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic
> clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF)
> handling.  Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and
> index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of
> many of the world's largest internet sites.
>
> Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server
> within a servlet container such as Tomcat.  Solr uses the Lucene Java
> search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has
> REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually
> any programming language.  Solr's powerful external configuration 
> allows it to
> be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and
> it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced
> customization is required.
>
>
> 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, and nested queries of different syntaxes
> - Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics,
> TermVectors, Deduplication
>
> Getting Started
> --------------------
> New to Solr?  Follow the steps below to get up and running ASAP.
>
> 1. Download Solr at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
> 2. Check out the tutorial at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
> 3. Read the Solr wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr) to learn more
> 4. Join the community by subscribing to solr-user@lucene.apache.org 
> <ma...@lucene.apache.org>
> 5. Give Back (Optional, but encouraged!) 
>  See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute
>      
> For more information on Apache Solr, see http://lucene.apache.org/solr
> =