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Subject: Re: draft 2.4 announcement
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:40:47 -0400
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Good points -- I'll update!  Thanks Grant.

Mike

Grant Ingersoll wrote:

> Couple of notes:
> I would call out the Fieldable change
>
> I would also add something to the effect that the next release, 2.9,  
> will be a deprecation release (or whatever you want to call it) and  
> that 3.0 will require Java 1.5.  I don't think we can start  
> spreading that news too soon.
>
> -Grant
>
>
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:08 AM, Michael McCandless wrote:
>
>>
>> OK here's the new version with suggestions folded in:
>>
>>
>> Release 2.4.0 of Lucene is now available!
>>
>> Many new features, fixes and optimizations have happened since 2.3,
>> including:
>>
>> * New InstantiatedIndex (contrib/instantiated): RAM-based index that
>>   enables much faster searching than RAMDirectory.
>>
>> * New IndexWriter constructors now default autoCommit to false.
>>
>> * New commit() method in IndexWriter lets you control when changes
>>   are made visible & permanent in the index.
>>
>> * A machine or OS crash, or power loss, while IndexWriter is writing
>>   to an index will no longer corrupt the index.
>>
>> * TimeLimitedCollector adds timeout to searches
>>
>> * Delete documents by Query in IndexWriter
>>
>> * Pure boolean indexing (no frequency, positions nor payloads are
>>   indexed) using Field.setOmitTf()
>>
>> * A new Directory implementation, NIOFSDirectory, using java.nio's
>>   APIs to allow multiple threads to read from the same open file
>>   without locking.
>>
>> * IndexWriter.expungeDeletes() reclaims disk space from deleted
>>   documents by merging away segments that have deletions.
>>
>> * All filters now return a DocIdSet instead of java.util.BitSet,
>>   making filters more efficient and flexible.
>>
>> * IndexReader can be opened with new readOnly=true mode, which gives
>>   better performance in a multi-threaded environment.
>>
>> The detailed changes are here:
>>
>> <URL to 2.4 Changes.html>
>>
>> Lucene 2.4 includes index format changes that are not readable by  
>> older
>> versions of Lucene.  Lucene 2.4 can both read and update older Lucene
>> indexes.  Adding to an index with an older format will cause it to be
>> converted to the newer format.
>>
>> Binary and source distributions are available at
>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
>>
>> Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at
>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
>>
>>> Looks good to me!
>>>
>>>
>>> Otis
>>> --
>>> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: Michael McCandless <lucene@mikemccandless.com>
>>>> To: java-dev@lucene.apache.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:00:17 PM
>>>> Subject: draft 2.4 announcement
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here's my current draft -- any feedback?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Release 2.4.0 of Lucene is now available!
>>>>
>>>> Many new features, fixes and optimizations have happened since 2.4,
>>>> including:
>>>>
>>>> * New IndexWriter constructors now default autoCommit to false.
>>>>
>>>> * New commit() method in IndexWriter, lets you control when changes
>>>>   are made visible & permanent in the index.
>>>>
>>>> * A machine or OS crash, or power loss, while IndexWriter is  
>>>> writing
>>>>   to an index should no longer corrupt the index (LUCENE-1044).
>>>>
>>>> * TimeLimitedCollector adds timeout to searches
>>>>
>>>> * Delete documents by Query in IndexWriter
>>>>
>>>> * Pure boolean indexing (no frequency, positions nor payloads are
>>>>   indexed) using Field.setOmitTf()
>>>>
>>>> * A new Directory implementation, NIOFSDirectory, using java.nio's
>>>>   APIs to allow multiple threads to read from the same open file
>>>>   without locking.
>>>>
>>>> * IndexWriter.expungeDeletes() reclaims disk space from deleted
>>>>   documents by merging away segments that have deletions.
>>>>
>>>> * All filters now return a DocIdSet instead of java.util.BitSet,
>>>>   making filters more efficient and flexible.
>>>>
>>>> * IndexReader can be opened with new readOnly=true mode, which  
>>>> gives
>>>>   better performance in a multi-threaded environment.
>>>>
>>>> The detailed changes are here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lucene 2.4 includes index format changes that are not readable by  
>>>> older
>>>> versions of Lucene.  Lucene 2.4 can both read and update older  
>>>> Lucene
>>>> indexes.  Adding to an index with an older format will cause it  
>>>> to be
>>>> converted to the newer format.
>>>>
>>>> Binary and source distributions are available at
>>>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/
>>>>
>>>> Lucene artifacts are also available in the Maven2 repository at
>>>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/lucene/
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
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