The dist build issues have been addressed and RC2 will include the missing analyzer and db contrib binaries.
Unfortunately, people.apache.org is not up at the moment (https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_initial_report), but I will put up Lucene 2.9 RC2 when it comes back up. -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com Mark Miller wrote: > Apologies - you are correct - contrib/analyzers is in src but not the > jar distrib. I will address whatever is up with the build process and > put up another RC when apache servers are back up. > > Thanks for pointing this out, > > - Mark > > Bogdan Ghidireac wrote: > >> Thank you, Lucene 2.9 is a great release... >> >> I have one issue so far - I cannot find the contrib/analyzers jars, >> only the sources are present. >> >> Bogdan >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:17 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 first 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 in a little over a week. >> >> 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 queries, including NumericRangeQuery and NumericRangeFilter >> fast, highly scalable alternatives to RangeQuery/RangeFilter for >> numeric searches. >> >> Smarter, more scalable multi-term queries (wildcard, range, etc) >> >> A freshly optimized Collector/Scorer API >> >> Improved Unicode support >> >> A new Attribute based TokenStream API >> >> A new QueryParser framework in contrib with a core QueryParser >> replacement impl included. >> >> &. >> >> 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: >> http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9changes/contrib/CHANGES.txt >> >> Download release candidate 1 here: >> http://people.apache.org/~markrmiller/staging-area/lucene2.9rc1/ >> >> 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-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org