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svn commit: r831788 - in /lucene/solr/trunk: site/index.html site/index.pdf
src/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
Author: yonik
Date: Mon Nov 2 01:18:05 2009
New Revision: 831788
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=831788&view=rev
Log:
docs: update front page description + release announcement
Modified:
lucene/solr/trunk/site/index.html
lucene/solr/trunk/site/index.pdf
lucene/solr/trunk/src/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
Modified: lucene/solr/trunk/site/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/solr/trunk/site/index.html?rev=831788&r1=831787&r2=831788&view=diff
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--- lucene/solr/trunk/site/index.html (original)
+++ lucene/solr/trunk/site/index.html Mon Nov 2 01:18:05 2009
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
<a href="#news">News</a>
<ul class="minitoc">
<li>
-<a href="#21+October+2009+-+Solr+1.4.0+Released">21 October 2009 - Solr 1.4.0 Released</a>
+<a href="#3+November+2009+-+Solr+1.4+Released">3 November 2009 - Solr 1.4 Released</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#20+August+2009+-+Solr%27s+first+book+is+published%21">20 August 2009 - Solr's first book is published!</a>
@@ -248,11 +248,25 @@
<h2 class="boxed">What Is Solr?</h2>
<div class="section">
<p>
- Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the
- <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/">Lucene Java</a> search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs,
- hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features.
- It runs in a Java servlet container such as <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org">Tomcat</a>.
- </p>
+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.
+</p>
+<p>
+Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server
+within a servlet container such as <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org">Tomcat</a>.
+Solr uses the <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/">Lucene Java</a>
+search library at it's 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 allow 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.
+</p>
<p>
See the complete <a href="features.html">feature list</a> for more details.
</p>
@@ -261,7 +275,7 @@
</p>
</div>
-<a name="N1002D"></a><a name="getstarted"></a>
+<a name="N10030"></a><a name="getstarted"></a>
<h2 class="boxed">Get Started</h2>
<div class="section">
<ul>
@@ -283,17 +297,42 @@
</ul>
</div>
-<a name="N10056"></a><a name="news"></a>
+<a name="N10059"></a><a name="news"></a>
<h2 class="boxed">News</h2>
<div class="section">
-<a name="N1005C"></a><a name="21+October+2009+-+Solr+1.4.0+Released"></a>
-<h3 class="boxed">21 October 2009 - Solr 1.4.0 Released</h3>
-<p>Solr 1.4.0 is available for public download. This version contains many enhancements and bug fixes,
- Lucene 2.9.x performance improvements and many others.
- </p>
-<p>See the <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.4.0/CHANGES.txt">release notes</a> for more details. Download is
- available from a <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/">Apache Mirror</a>.</p>
-<a name="N10071"></a><a name="20+August+2009+-+Solr%27s+first+book+is+published%21"></a>
+<a name="N1005F"></a><a name="3+November+2009+-+Solr+1.4+Released"></a>
+<h3 class="boxed">3 November 2009 - Solr 1.4 Released</h3>
+<p>
+ Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/">download</a>!
+
+ New Solr 1.4 features include
+ </p>
+<ul>
+
+<li>Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting</li>
+
+<li>Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and
+ can replicate config files</li>
+
+<li>Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler</li>
+
+<li>Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika</li>
+
+<li>Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2</li>
+
+<li>Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single
+ category to be selected)</li>
+
+<li>Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary
+ functions, nested queries of different syntaxes</li>
+
+<li>Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics,
+ TermVectors, Deduplication</li>
+
+</ul>
+<p>See the <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.4.0/CHANGES.txt">release notes</a> for more details.
+ </p>
+<a name="N1008F"></a><a name="20+August+2009+-+Solr%27s+first+book+is+published%21"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">20 August 2009 - Solr's first book is published!</h3>
<p>
@@ -308,7 +347,7 @@
</p>
<p>Finally, this book covers various deployment considerations to include indexing strategies and performance-oriented configuration that will enable you to scale Solr to meet the needs of a high-volume site.
</p>
-<a name="N10091"></a><a name="18+August+2009+-+Lucene+at+US+ApacheCon"></a>
+<a name="N100AF"></a><a name="18+August+2009+-+Lucene+at+US+ApacheCon"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">18 August 2009 - Lucene at US ApacheCon</h3>
<p>
@@ -384,7 +423,7 @@
Search</a> - Jason Rutherglen @ 15:00</li>
</ul>
-<a name="N10105"></a><a name="09+February+2009+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Europe+2009+in+Amsterdam"></a>
+<a name="N10123"></a><a name="09+February+2009+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Europe+2009+in+Amsterdam"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">09 February 2009 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe 2009 in Amsterdam</h3>
<p>
@@ -422,23 +461,23 @@
</ul>
-<a name="N1014E"></a><a name="19+December+2008+-+Solr+Logo+Contest+Results"></a>
+<a name="N1016C"></a><a name="19+December+2008+-+Solr+Logo+Contest+Results"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">19 December 2008 - Solr Logo Contest Results</h3>
<p>Many great logos were submitted, but only one could be chosen. Congratulations Michiel,
the creator of the winning logo that is proudly displayed at the top of this page.
</p>
-<a name="N10157"></a><a name="03+October+2008+-+Solr+Logo+Contest"></a>
+<a name="N10175"></a><a name="03+October+2008+-+Solr+Logo+Contest"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">03 October 2008 - Solr Logo Contest</h3>
<p>By popular demand, Solr is holding a contest to pick a new Solr logo. Details about how to submit an entry can be found <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LogoContest">on the wiki</a>. The Deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2008 @ 11:59PM GMT.
</p>
-<a name="N10164"></a><a name="15+September+2008+-+Solr+1.3.0+Available"></a>
+<a name="N10182"></a><a name="15+September+2008+-+Solr+1.3.0+Available"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">15 September 2008 - Solr 1.3.0 Available</h3>
<p>Solr 1.3.0 is available for public download. This version contains many enhancements and bug fixes, including distributed search capabilities,
Lucene 2.3.x performance improvements and many others.
</p>
<p>See the <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.3.0/CHANGES.txt">release notes</a> for more details. Download is
available from a <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/">Apache Mirror</a>.</p>
-<a name="N10178"></a><a name="28+August+2008+-+Lucene%2FSolr+at+ApacheCon+New+Orleans"></a>
+<a name="N10196"></a><a name="28+August+2008+-+Lucene%2FSolr+at+ApacheCon+New+Orleans"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">28 August 2008 - Lucene/Solr at ApacheCon New Orleans</h3>
<p>
@@ -460,7 +499,7 @@
<li>An <a href="http://us.apachecon.com/c/acus2008/schedule/2008/11/05">entire day of Lucene sessions</a> on November 5th</li>
</ul>
-<a name="N101A6"></a><a name="03+September+2007+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Atlanta"></a>
+<a name="N101C4"></a><a name="03+September+2007+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Atlanta"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">03 September 2007 - Lucene at ApacheCon Atlanta</h3>
<p>
<a href="http://www.us.apachecon.com"><img alt="ApacheCon US logo" class="float-right" src="http://www.apache.org/ads/ApacheCon/2007-usa-125x125.png"></a>
@@ -480,7 +519,7 @@
<li>November 16, 4:00 pm: <a href="http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/2017"> Advanced Indexing Techniques with Apache Lucene</a> by Michael Busch. Information on payloads and advanced indexing techniques.</li>
</ul>
-<a name="N101DF"></a><a name="06+June+2007%3A+Release+1.2+available"></a>
+<a name="N101FD"></a><a name="06+June+2007%3A+Release+1.2+available"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">06 June 2007: Release 1.2 available</h3>
<p>
This is the first release since Solr graduated from the Incubator,
@@ -490,40 +529,40 @@
and more flexible plugins.
</p>
<p>See the <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.2.0/CHANGES.txt">release notes</a> for more details.</p>
-<a name="N101F0"></a><a name="17+January+2007%3A+Solr+graduates+from+Incubator"></a>
+<a name="N1020E"></a><a name="17+January+2007%3A+Solr+graduates+from+Incubator"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">17 January 2007: Solr graduates from Incubator</h3>
<p>
Solr has graduated from the Apache Incubator, and is now a sub-project of Lucene.
</p>
-<a name="N101FA"></a><a name="22+December+2006%3A+Release+1.1.0+available"></a>
+<a name="N10218"></a><a name="22+December+2006%3A+Release+1.1.0+available"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">22 December 2006: Release 1.1.0 available</h3>
<p>
This is the first release since Solr joined the Incubator, and brings
many new features and performance optimizations including highlighting,
faceted search, and JSON/Python/Ruby response formats.
</p>
-<a name="N10204"></a><a name="15+August+2006%3A+Solr+at+ApacheCon+US"></a>
+<a name="N10222"></a><a name="15+August+2006%3A+Solr+at+ApacheCon+US"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">15 August 2006: Solr at ApacheCon US</h3>
<p>Chris Hostetter will be presenting
<strong><a href="http://www.apachecon.com/2006/US/html/sessions.html#FR26">"Faceted Searching With Apache Solr"</a></strong>
at ApacheCon US 2006, on October 13th at 4:30pm.
See the <a href="http://www.us.apachecon.com/">ApacheCon</a> website for more details.
</p>
-<a name="N10217"></a><a name="21+April+2006%3A+Solr+at+ApacheCon"></a>
+<a name="N10235"></a><a name="21+April+2006%3A+Solr+at+ApacheCon"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">21 April 2006: Solr at ApacheCon</h3>
<p>Yonik Seeley will be presenting
<strong>"Apache Solr, a Full-Text Search Server based on Lucene"</strong>
at ApacheCon Europe 2006, on June 29th at 5:30pm.
See the <a href="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/">ApacheCon</a> website for more details.
</p>
-<a name="N10228"></a><a name="21+February+2006%3A+nightly+builds"></a>
+<a name="N10246"></a><a name="21+February+2006%3A+nightly+builds"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">21 February 2006: nightly builds</h3>
<p>Solr now has nightly builds. This automatically creates a
<a href="http://people.apache.org/builds/lucene/solr/nightly/">downloadable version of Solr every
night</a>. All unit tests must pass, or a message is sent to
the developers mailing list and no new version is created. This
also updates the <a href="api/index.html">javadoc</a>.</p>
-<a name="N1023A"></a><a name="17+January+2006%3A+Solr+Joins+Apache+Incubator"></a>
+<a name="N10258"></a><a name="17+January+2006%3A+Solr+Joins+Apache+Incubator"></a>
<h3 class="boxed">17 January 2006: Solr Joins Apache Incubator</h3>
<p>Solr, a search server based on Lucene, has been accepted into the Apache Incubator.
Solr was originally developed by CNET Networks, and is widely used within CNET
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Modified: lucene/solr/trunk/src/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
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--- lucene/solr/trunk/src/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml (original)
+++ lucene/solr/trunk/src/site/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml Mon Nov 2 01:18:05 2009
@@ -23,18 +23,36 @@
<body>
<section id="intro">
<title>What Is Solr?</title>
- <p>
- Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the
- <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/">Lucene Java</a> search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs,
- hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, a web administration interface and many more features.
- It runs in a Java servlet container such as <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org">Tomcat</a>.
- </p>
+
+<p>
+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.
+</p>
+<p>
+Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server
+within a servlet container such as <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org">Tomcat</a>.
+Solr uses the <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/">Lucene Java</a>
+search library at it's 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 allow 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.
+</p>
+
<p>
See the complete <a href="features.html">feature list</a> for more details.
</p>
+
<p>
For more information about Solr, please see the <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/solr">Solr wiki</a>.
</p>
+
</section>
<section id="getstarted">
<title>Get Started</title>
@@ -49,12 +67,30 @@
<section id="news">
<title>News</title>
<section>
- <title>30 October 2009 - Solr 1.4.0 Released</title>
- <p>Solr 1.4.0 is available for public download. This version contains many enhancements and bug fixes,
- Lucene 2.9.x performance improvements and many others.
- </p>
- <p>See the <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.4.0/CHANGES.txt">release notes</a> for more details. Download is
- available from a <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/">Apache Mirror</a>.</p>
+ <title>3 November 2009 - Solr 1.4 Released</title>
+ <p>
+ Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/">download</a>!
+
+ New Solr 1.4 features include
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting</li>
+ <li>Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and
+ can replicate config files</li>
+ <li>Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler</li>
+ <li>Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika</li>
+ <li>Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2</li>
+ <li>Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single
+ category to be selected)</li>
+ <li>Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary
+ functions, nested queries of different syntaxes</li>
+ <li>Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics,
+ TermVectors, Deduplication</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>See the <a href="http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/tags/release-1.4.0/CHANGES.txt">release notes</a> for more details.
+ </p>
+
</section>
<section>
<title>20 August 2009 - Solr's first book is published!</title>