June 29, 2009
Shortly after we released LucidWorks for Solr v.1.3_01 (see below), we found out that Apache Tomcat released a new minor version that fixes a security vulnerability. Our LucidWorks for Solr update v1.3_02 certified version now includes tomcat v6.0.20. Feel free to download it from our Downloads section; also, check out the update to Lucidworks for Lucene, out last week (see blog post).
The updated LucidWorks for Solr v1.3_01 change log
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June 23, 2009
Steve Arnold’s recent posts — about the announcement of In-Q-Tel’s investment in Lucid Imagination, and about the two meetups we sponsored in Washington DC and San Francisco — highlight how the virtuous cycle of open source is picking up momentum nicely. In citing Steve’s post, CNET’s Dave Rosenberg echoes Steve Arnold’s point about the government is stepping up to prod the market along.
Herein lies the virtuous cycle: the meetup unlocks grass…
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June 19, 2009
We’re happy to announce the availability of updated versions of LucidWorks for Lucene and LucidWorks for Solr
LucidWorks for Solr v1.3_01 and LucidWorks for Lucene v2.4.1 are minor update and bugfix releases, incorporating the feedback from many of our users who have downloaded and using it to power their search applications. LucidWorks releases were updated to use the latest release versions of Apache Lucene and Luke, have better windows support, fixed an issue in the…
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June 8, 2009
Solr 1.3 and 1.4 moved away from using BooleanQuery expansion for MultiTerm queries and to a ConstantScoreQuery method. In Lucene, a MultiTerm query is a query that expands to match multiple terms based on a given input. Common MultiTerm queries are wildcard, fuzzy, prefix, and range queries. Originally, Lucene supported these MultiTerm queries with an implementation that enumerated the matched terms and then added each as a clause to a BooleanQuery. This is a common…
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June 5, 2009
Slides from the first Lucene/Solr SF Bay Area meetup are now available here.
Thanks to everyone who participated.
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May 28, 2009
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There is going to be a meetup in the SF Bay Area on Lucene and Solr on June 3. See http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Lucene-Solr-Meetup/ for more details.
We’re working on getting a bigger room, so please put your name on the waiting list if you still want to attend.
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May 15, 2009
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Lucid will be presenting “Open Source Search Powered by Solr” at the upcoming Basis Technology Government Users Conference.
Apache Solr, an open source search engine built on Lucene, powers search and findability in many enterprise and government sector applications. Solr features incredibly fast indexing and querying speeds, top-notch relevancy and scoring flexibility, faceting, spell checking, distributed search, and much more. Not only can Solr
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