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Solr 1.4 released!

Official announcement of the release of Solr 1.4:

Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download!
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/

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 config 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

Getting Started
New to Solr? Follow the steps below to get up and running ASAP.

1. Download Solr at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
2. Check out the tutorial at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
3. Read the Solr wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr) to learn more
4. Join the community by subscribing to solr-user@lucene.apache.org
5. Give Back (Optional, but encouraged!) See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute

For more information on Apache Solr, see http://lucene.apache.org/solr

Scandinavia Apache Lucene/Solr September Meetup

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The Scandinavia Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup!

I’m going to fill my slot with ramblings about various projects I’ve worked on over the past couple of years, including Solr, Flare, Blacklight, The Motley Fool, etc.  The Findwise folks will present “Migrating from commercial search engines to Solr”,Tobias Larsson Hult and Eskil Andreen, Findwise SE