I'm pleased to announce the release of the XML search engine Lux,
version 0.10.5. There has been a lot of progress made since our last
announced release, which was 0.9.1. Some highlights:
The app server now provides full access to HTTP request data and control
of HTTP responses. We've implemented the excellent EXPath specification
for this (http://expath.org/spec/webapp
<http://expath.org/spec/webapp/editor>) with only a few gaps (eg. no
binary file upload yet).
Range comparisons (like [@title > 'median'] are now rewritten by the
optimizer to use the lux:key() function when a suitable index is
available, and comparisons involving lux:key() are optimized using the
Lucene index.
and there have been numerous performance optimizations and bug fixes,
detailed at http://issues.luxdb.org/ and in the release notes here:
http://luxdb.org/RELEASE-0.10.html.
Lots more information, including downloads, documentation and setup
instructions, is available at http://luxdb.org <http://luxdb.org/>,
source code is at http://github.com/msokolov/lux, and there is an email
list: lu...@luxdb.org, archived at
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/luxdb
<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#%21topic/luxdb>.
Finally, I'll be presenting Lux at Lucene/Solr Revolution in Dublin Nov.
6-7, so if you're anywhere nearby, I encourage you to come, and I look
forward to seeing you there!
-Mike Sokolov
soko...@falutin.net
