From the official announcement:
Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download!
http://www.apache.org/dyn/
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.
Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its 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 allows 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.
New Solr 1.4 features include
- Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting
- Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and can replicate configuration files
- Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler
- Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika
- Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2
- Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single category to be selected)
- Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary functions, and nested queries of different syntaxes
- Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics, TermVectors, Deduplication
- A simple FieldCache load test
- Filtered query performance increases
- Solr scalability improvements
- Solr faceted search performance improvements
- Improvements in Solr Faceting Search
- SolrReplication wiki page
- Works on Microsoft Windows Platforms too!
Rich document processing
Dynamic Search Results Clustering
Multi-select Faceting
Query Enhancements
- Ranges over functions
- Nested query support for any type of query parser (via QParserPlugin). Quotes will often be necessary to encapsulate the nested query if it contains reserved characters. Example: _query_:"{!dismax qf=myfield}how now brown cow"
- TermsComponent (can be used for auto-suggest)
- TermVectorComponent
- Statistics
- Deduplication
- Faster, more efficient Binary Update format
- Javabean (POJO) binding support
- Fast multi-threaded updates through StreamingUpdateSolrServer
- Simple round-robin load balancing client - LBHttpSolrServer
- Stream documents through an Iterator API
- Many performance optimizations
- Rollback command in UpdateHandler
- More configurable logging through the use of SLF4J library
- 'commitWithin' parameter on add document command allows setting a per-request auto-commit time limit.
- TokenFilter factories for Arabic language
- Improved Thai language tokenization (SOLR-1078)
- Merge multiple indexes
- Expunge Deletes command
Although Solr 1.4 is backwards-compatible with previous releases, users are encouraged to read the upgrading notes in the Solr Change Log.
There are so many more new features, optimizations, bug fixes and refactorings that it is not possible to cover them all in a single blog post.
A large amount of effort has gone into this release. Many congratulations to the entire Solr community for making this happen!
Great things are planned for the next release and it is a great time to get involved. See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute for how to get started.
Enjoy Solr 1.4 and let us know on the mailing lists if you have any questions!
4 comments:
Hi Shalin,
We are looking for some help in trying to improve our uage of Solr. Would it be possible for you to guide us in any way?
I am reachable at basrur at gmail dot com
Thanks
Vijay
Vijay, it would be best to ask questions on the solr-user mailing list.
Hi Shalin
Please help me install SOLR 1.4 on windows with Tomcat. Dude, I've been googling for 2 straight days, and nothing, it just won't work, and there are no resources in plain english.
I had 1.3 and everything was fine, except I wanted to use the RequestExtractingHandler (Tika) so I downloaded 1.4.
So you know, I had the vanilla installation of 1.3 from the example folder.
These are my issues:
- The example folder contains a "conf" folder with an empty bin folder. It doesn't work. When I use my old bin folder from 1.3 and copy the solrconfig.xml from the exmaple folder, I get this error: HTTP Status 500 - Severe errors in solr configuration (...) Error loading class 'solr.FastLRUCache'
Also, in my original very simple multi-core config it worked fine. But I get a 404 error when I use the config and schema from the 1.4 example folder.
Dude, please help, I don't know why it won't just work...??
thatandyrose at gmail dot com
Andy, have you seen this page?
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat
FastLRUCache is a new feature in Solr 1.4 so if it is not loading, it probably means you still have the 1.3 jars somewhere in your classpath.
If you are facing a problem with Solr, it is best to ask questions on the solr-user mailing list.
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mailing_lists.html
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