Solr 3.5 released

Search technology, Solr, Technology

Today a new version of Apache Solr was released, version 3.5.0. Here’s the release statement from the Lucene PMC: The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 3.5.0! See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Solr 3.5.0 Release Highlights: Bug fixes and improvements from Apache

Read More

Becoming a committer

1 CommentJava, Search technology, Solr, , ,

The Apache way of developing open source software relies on an active community of users, contributors and developers. All of us can contribute in some way or another. Being a committer means that you participate actively in the software development work and have write access to the source code repository. Each project is lead by a the PMC (Project Management Committee) which consists of some of the committers taking an extra responsibility of staking out the future of the project.

Read More

Apache Solr 3.1 released

Search technology, Solr, Technology, , , , , , ,

It’s been a long wait, and now it’s here – the release of Solr version 3.1. The 1.4.1 release was in June 2010, and for various reasons there was never a 1.4.2 nor a 1.5 release. Part of the reason is the merge of Lucene and Solr codebase which is also why the version number is 3.1 instead of 1.5.

So what’s new? For me, the single most important features are the Extended Dismax parser (SOLR-1553) and Geospatial search. The full list of improvements is found in CHANGES.TXT, but here are my favorites:

Read More