svn commit: r1238883 - /mahout/site/new_website/index.html

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Author: squinn
Date: Wed Feb  1 00:41:17 2012
New Revision: 1238883

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1238883&view=rev
Log:
Updated index.html with the announcement notes for 0.6.

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Modified: mahout/site/new_website/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/mahout/site/new_website/index.html?rev=1238883&r1=1238882&r2=1238883&view=diff
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   <h1>Mahout News</h1>
 
+  <h2 class="boxed">6 Fed 2012 - Apache Mahout 0.6 released</h2>
+
+  <p>Apache Mahout has reached version 0.6. All developers are encouraged to begin using version
+  0.6. Highlights include:</p>
+
+  <ul>
+    <li>Improved Decision Tree performance and added support for regression problems</li>
+    <li>New LDA implementation using Collapsed Variational Bayes 0th Derivative Approximation</li>
+    <li>Reduced runtime of LanczosSolver tests</li>
+    <li>K-Trusses, Top-Down and Bottom-Up clustering, Random Walk with Restarts implementation</li>
+    <li>Reduced runtime of dot product between vectors</li>
+    <li>Added MongoDB and Cassandra DataModel support</li>
+    <li>Increased efficiency of parallel ALS matrix factorization</li>
+    <li>SSVD enhancements</li>
+    <li>Performance improvements in RowSimilarityJob, TransposeJob</li>
+    <li>Added numerous clustering display examples</li>
+    <li>Many bug fixes, refactorings, and other small improvements</li>
+  </ul>
+
+  <p>Changes in 0.6 are detailed in the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+MAHOUT+AND+resolution+%3D+Fixed+AND+fixVersion+%3D+12316364+ORDER+BY+priority+DESC">release notes</a>.</p>
+
+  <p>Downloads of all releases available from <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/mahout/">Apache mirrors</a>.</p>
+
   <h2 class="boxed">9 Oct 2011 - Mahout in Action released</h2>
 
   <p>At last, the book Mahout in Action is available in print. Sean Owen, Robin Anil, Ted Dunning