Apache Lucene 3.2 / Solr 3.2 released!
From the website:
Lucene can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/ and Solr can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
Highlights of the Lucene release include:
- A new grouping module, under lucene/contrib/grouping, enables search results to be grouped by a single-valued indexed field
- A new IndexUpgrader tool fully converts an old index to the current format.
- A new Directory implementation, NRTCachingDirectory, caches small segments in RAM, to reduce the I/O load for applications with fast NRT reopen rates.
- A new Collector implementation, CachingCollector, is able to gather search hits (document IDs and optionally also scores) and then replay them. This is useful for Collectors that require two or more passes to produce results.
- Index a document block using IndexWriter’s new addDocuments or updateDocuments methods. These experimental APIs ensure that the block of documents will forever remain contiguous in the index, enabling interesting future features like grouping and joins.
- A new default merge policy, TieredMergePolicy, which is more efficient due to being able to merge non-contiguous segments. See http://s.apache.org/merging for details.
- NumericField is now returned correctly when you load a stored document (previously you received a normal Field back, with the numeric value converted string).
- Deleted terms are now applied during flushing to the newly flushed segment, which is more efficient than having to later initialize a reader for that segment.
Highlights of the Solr release include:
- Ability to specify overwrite and commitWithin as request parameters when using the JSON update format.
- TermQParserPlugin, useful when generating filter queries from terms returned from field faceting or the terms component.
- DebugComponent now supports using a NamedList to model Explanation objects in its responses instead of Explanation.toString.
- Improvements to the UIMA and Carrot2 integrations.
- Highlighting performance improvements.
- A test-framework jar for easy testing of Solr extensions.
- Bugfixes and improvements from Apache Lucene 3.2.