MMM??? 2011, Apache Solr™ 3.5.0 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 3.5.0. Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world's largest internet sites. This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr (see note below). See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Solr 3.5.0 Release Highlights: * Bug fixes and improvements from Apache Lucene 3.5.0, including a very substantial (3-5X) RAM reduction required to hold the terms index on opening an IndexReader. (LUCENE-2205) * Added support for distributed result grouping. (SOLR-2066, SOLR-2776) * Added support for Hunspell stemmer TokenFilter supporting stemming for 99 languages. (SOLR-2769) * A new contrib module "langid" adds language identification capabilities as an Update Processor, using Tika's LanguageIdentifier or Cybozu language-detection library (SOLR-1979) * Numeric types including Trie and date types now support sortMissingFirst/Last. (SOLR-2881) * Added hl.q parameter. It is optional and if it is specified, it overrides q parameter in Highlighter. (SOLR-1926) * Several minor bugfixes like date parsing for years from 0001-1000, ignored configurations when using QueryAnalyzer with SpellCheckComponent and many more. See CHANGES.txt entries for full details. Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another mirror. This also goes for Maven access.