Solr 3.1 (Lucene 3.1) Released!
Solr 3.1, which contains Lucene 3.1, was released on 31 March 2011.
Some of the new features include:
- Numeric range facets (similar to date faceting).
- New spatial search, including spatial filtering, boosting and sorting capabilities.
- Example Velocity driven search UI at
http://localhost:8983/solr/browse- A new faster termvector-based highlighter.
- Extended dismax (edismax) query parser with support for fielded queries, enhanced relevancy, and full lucene syntax support.
- Distributed search support for the Spell check
and Terms components.- Suggester, a fast trie-based autocomplete component.
- Sort results by any function query.
- JSON document indexing.
- CSV response format
- Apache UIMA integration for metadata extraction.
- Tons of optimizations, bugfixes, and new analysis capabilities via Apache Lucene 3.1.
Quick links:
I started out developing with Lucene 3.0.3 today, then upgraded to 3.1 after lunch when it became available throug the Maven repositories.
3.1 really does seem noticeably faster.
Comment by larsga@garshol.priv.no — April 1, 2011 @ 4:55 pm