The Apache Nutch team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Nutch v1.19.
Nutch is a well matured, production ready Web crawler. Nutch 1.x enables fine grained configuration, relying on Apache Hadoop™ data structures. Source and binary distributions are available for download from the Apache Nutch download site: https://nutch.apache.org/downloads.html Please verify signatures using the KEYS file available at the above location when downloading the release. This release includes more than 80 bug fixes and improvements, the full list of changes can be seen in the release report https://s.apache.org/lf6li Please also check the changelog for breaking changes: https://apache.org/dist/nutch/1.19/CHANGES.txt Important changes are: - Nutch builds on JDK 11 - protocol plugins can provide a custom URL stream handler to support custom URL schemes, eg. smb:// and notable dependency upgrades include: Hadoop 3.3.4 Solr 8.11.2 Tika 2.3.0 Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!