To be nit picky - I think its been 2.5 weeks. I feel pretty good about 2.9 myself at this point though.
Mark Miller wrote: > 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 >> > > > > > > > -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
