We certainly could - only thought I would have is that we do want RC4 to get a little exposure if possible (though at this point, I don't see more than a couple days being needed, and we have had one or two).
I'll go when you guys say go. - Mark Yonik Seeley wrote: > We could cut a *real* release candidate that we could VOTE on soon, > right? It's bee 3.5 weeks since the first release candidate. > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Lucene users, > > On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger > than just the committers) I would like to announce the fourth release > candidate for Lucene 2.9. > > Please download and check it out - take it for a spin and kick the > tires. If all goes well, we hope to release the final version of > Lucene 2.9 very shortly. > > We let out a bug in the lock factory changes we made in RC3 - > making a new SimpleFSDirectory with a String param would throw > an illegal state exception - a fix for this is in RC4. We also > took the opportunity to add a few more documentation improvements, > take care of another another minor bug fix or two, and move the > message package from contrib queryParser to core. > > While we generally try and maintain full backwards compatibility > between major versions, Lucene 2.9 has a variety of breaks that are > spelled out in the 'Changes in backwards compatibility policy' section > of CHANGES.txt. > > We recommend that you recompile your application with Lucene 2.9 > rather than attempting to drop it in. This will alert you to any > issues you may have to fix if you are affected by one of the backward > compatibility breaks. As always, its a really good idea to thoroughly > read CHANGES.txt before upgrading. Also, remember that this is a > release candidate, and not the final Lucene 2.9 release. > > Lucene 2.9 comes with a bevy of new features, including: > > * Per segment searching and caching (can lead to much faster reopen > among other things) > > * Near real-time search capabilities added to IndexWriter > > * New Query types > > * Smarter, more scalable multi-term queries (wildcard, range, etc) > > * A freshly optimized Collector/Scorer API > > * Improved Unicode support and the addition of Collation contrib > > * A new Attribute based TokenStream API > > * A new QueryParser framework in contrib with a core QueryParser > replacement impl included. > > * Scoring is now optional when sorting by Field, or using a custom > Collector, gaining sizable performance when scores are not > required. > > * New analyzers (PersianAnalyzer, ArabicAnalyzer, > SmartChineseAnalyzer) > > * New fast-vector-highlighter > > * Lucene now includes high-performance handling of numeric fields. > Such fields are indexed with a trie structure, enabling simple to > use and much faster numeric range searching without having to > externally pre-process numeric values into textual values. > > --- > > And many, many more features, bug fixes, optimizations, and various > improvements. You can find the full list of changes here: > > HTML version: > http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9changes/Changes.html > > Text version: > http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9changes/CHANGES.txt > > Many changes have also occurred in Lucene's Contrib area: > > HTML version: > http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9changes/Contrib-Changes.html > > Text version: > http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9changes/CONTRIB-CHANGES.txt > > > Download release candidate 4 here: > http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9rc4/ > > Be sure to report back with any issues you find! > > Thanks, > > Mark Miller >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
