The third release candidate for Lucene 2.9 is about to hit and the final release is likely to be only days behind. Almost one year in the making, Lucene 2.9 is feature packed and progressively faster. With Solr 1.4 planning to release very shortly after 2.9, things are shaping up very nicely in Lucene land. Congrats to all the devs involved in both releases – I really think this is the culmination of some really fantastic work from both projects.
Is there anything community members and users can do to help in the days leading up to the release?
September 7, 2009 15:33 — Anonymous
Sure, try it out and give feedback on the mailing list.
September 7, 2009 15:38 — Grant Ingersoll
[...] Lucid Imagination » Lucene 2.9 Release Imminent The third release candidate for Lucene 2.9 is about to hit and the final release is likely to be only days behind. Almost one year in the making, Lucene 2.9 is feature packed and progressively faster. With Solr 1.4 planning to release very shortly after 2.9, things are shaping up very nicely in Lucene land. Congrats to all the devs involved in both releases – I really think this is the culmination of some really fantastic work from both projects. (tags: solr) [...]
September 8, 2009 14:03 — Webhamer Weblog: Search & ICT-related blogging » links for 2009-09-08
It was released tonight!
September 24, 2009 22:53 — Bill Bell
Yeah – took a little longer than I thought
Ended up taking 5 RC’s.
September 25, 2009 10:20 — Mark Miller
[...] Solr it” instead of “Just Google it”. I believe the release of Solr1.4 after the release of Lucene2.9.1 will bring in many newer and better features and improve the popularity of open source search [...]
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