The Apache Lucene Project has released the version 2.4.0 of Lucene JAVA. With 2.4.0 we have relaxed the backwards compatibility policy of the Fieldable interface: we now allow changes on a case by case basis. This means any custom classes that implement Fieldable will need to be updated. This was done to accommodate the new omitTf() method (to do pure boolean searching).
The detailed changes are here:
http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/changes/Changes.html
Lucene 2.4.0 includes index format changes that are not readable by older versions of Lucene. Lucene 2.4.0 can both read and update older Lucene indexes. Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be converted to the newer format.
Binary and source distributions are available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/
NEXT RELEASE
The next release will be 2.9. After that will be 3.0, which will remove all deprecated APIs from 2.9 and will be the first release of Lucene to require JRE 1.5. The timing on these two releases is not yet known.
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The Apache Lucene Project Team has annouced that Apache Lucene Java 2.3.2 is now available.
This release contains fixes for bugs found in 2.3.1. It does not contain any new features, API or file format changes, which makes it fully compatible to 2.3.0 and 2.3.1.
The detailed change log is at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_3_2/CHANGES.txt
Binary and source distributions are available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/
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The Apache Lucene Project has released the version 2.3.0 of Lucene Java.
Many new features, optimizations, and bug fixes have been added since 2.2, including:
The detailed change log is at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_3_0/CHANGES.txt
Lucene 2.3 includes index format changes that are not readable by older versions of Lucene. Lucene 2.3 can both read and update older Lucene indexes. Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be converted to the newer format.
Binary and source distributions are available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/
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Apache Lucene Java 2.2.0 is now available.
Many new features, optimizations, and bug fixes have been added since 2.1, including "point-in-time" searching over NFS, payloads, function queries and new APIs for pre-analyzed fields.
The detailed change log is at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_2_0/CHANGES.txt
Apache Lucene 2.2 includes index format changes that are not readable by older versions of Lucene. Apache Lucene 2.2 can both read and update older Lucene indexes. Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be converted to the newer format.
Binary and source distributions are available at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/
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Apache Solr 1.2 is the first release since graduating from the Apache Incubator.
Solr is a high performance full-text search server based on Apache Lucene, written in Java5, and easily extensible through plugins written in Java. Documents are added to a search collection via XML over HTTP. The collection is queried via HTTP to receive an XML response (or alternately JSON, Python or Ruby text formats).
Major features include:
* A powerful data schema to define fields, types, and configure text analysis
* External configuration via xml
* Faceted search
* Hit highlighting
* Flexible advanced caching
* Index replication for high availability
* A web admin interface
Some of the new features in 1.2 include CSV/delimited-text data loading, time based autocommit, faster faceting, negative filters, a spell-check handler, sounds-like word filters, regex text filters, and more flexible plugins.
Apache Solr 1.2 can be downloaded from
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
Thank you for your interest in Apache Solr!
-- The Apache Solr Team
The Apache Lucene Project has released the version 2.1 of Apache Lucene (JAVA). This release has many improvements since release 2.0, including new features, performance improvements, bug fixes, etc. See CHANGES.txt for details.
Apache Lucene 2.1 includes index format changes that are not readable by older versions of Lucene. Lucene 2.1 can both read and update older Lucene indexes. Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be converted to the newer format.
Binary and source distributions are available here.
The Apache Lucene Project has released the version 2.0 of Apache Lucene. Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
This is mostly a bugfix and cleanup release from release 1.9.1. Deprecated 1.x features have now been removed. Any code that compiles against Lucene 1.9.1 without deprecation warnings should work without further changes with any 2.x release.
For more information about this release, please read CHANGES.txt.
Binary and source distributions: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
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The Apache Lucene Team has relased the version 1.0 of Apache Lucene (Java), Java-based indexing and search technology.
This release has many improvements since release 1.4.3, including new features, performance improvements, bug fixes, etc. See CHANGES.txt for details.
1.9 will be the last 1.x release. It is both back-compatible with 1.4.3 and forward-compatible with the upcoming 2.0 release. Many methods and classes in 1.4.3 have been deprecated in 1.9 and will be removed in 2.0. Applications must compile against 1.9 without deprecation warnings before they are compatible with 2.0.
Binary and source distributions are available here.
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This is the first Apache Nutch release (version 0.7) as an Apache Lucene sub-project. See CHANGES.txt for more details. The release is available here.
Lucene has migrated from the Apache Jakarta project to the top-level. Along with this migration, the source code repository has been converted to Subversion. The new site may be found at lucene.apache.org and other Lucene resources will be adjusting accordingly (mail-list etc).