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<ahref="http://www.manning.com/hatcher3/"><imgborder="0"title="Lucene in Action, Second Edition"alt="Lucene in Action, Second Edition - logo"src="http://www.manning.com/hatcher3/hatcher3_cover150.jpg"style="width: 150px;height: 188px;"></a>
<ahref="#9+March+2009+-+Lucene+Java+2.4.1+available">9 March 2009 - Lucene Java 2.4.1 available</a>
</li>
<li>
<ahref="#09+February+2009+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Europe+2009+in+Amsterdam">09 February 2009 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe 2009 in Amsterdam</a>
</li>
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<ahref="#8+October+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.4.0+available">8 October 2008 - Lucene Java 2.4.0 available</a>
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<ahref="#06+May+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.3.2+available">06 May 2008 - Lucene Java 2.3.2 available</a>
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<ahref="#23+February+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.3.1+available">23 February 2008 - Lucene Java 2.3.1 available</a>
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<ahref="#24+January+2008+-+Lucene+Java+2.3.0+available">24 January 2008 - Lucene Java 2.3.0 available</a>
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<ahref="#23+January+2008+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Europe">23 January 2008 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe</a>
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<ahref="#24+December+2007+-+Nightly+Snapshots+available+in+the+Apache+Maven+Snapshot+Repository">24 December 2007 - Nightly Snapshots available in the Apache Maven Snapshot Repository</a>
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<ahref="#26+August+2007+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Atlanta">26 August 2007 - Lucene at ApacheCon Atlanta</a>
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<ahref="#19+June+2007+-+Release+2.2+available">19 June 2007 - Release 2.2 available</a>
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<ahref="#18+February+2007+-+Lucene+at+ApacheCon+Europe">18 February 2007 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe</a>
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<ahref="#17+February+2007+-+Release+2.1+available">17 February 2007 - Release 2.1 available</a>
</li>
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<ahref="#3+January+2007+-+Nightly+Source+builds+available">3 January 2007 - Nightly Source builds available</a>
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<h2class="boxed">Apache Lucene</h2>
<divclass="section">
<p>
Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any
application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
</p>
<p>
Apache Lucene is an open source project available for
<h3class="boxed">09 February 2009 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe 2009 in Amsterdam</h3>
<p>
<ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/"title="ApacheCon EU 2009"><imgalt="ApacheCon EU 2009 Logo"class="float-right"src="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/page_attachments/0000/0115/125x125_basic.gif"></a>
Lucene will be extremely well represented at
<ahref="http://us.apachecon.com/c/acus2008/">ApacheCon EU 2009</a>
in Amsterdam, Netherlands this March 23-27, 2009:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/197">Lucene Boot Camp</a> - A two day training session, March 23 & 24th</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/201">Solr Boot Camp</a> - A one day training session, March 24th</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/136">Introducing Apache Mahout</a> - Grant Ingersoll. March 25th @ 10:30</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/137">Lucene/Solr Case Studies</a> - Erik Hatcher. March 25th @ 11:30</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/138">Advanced Indexing Techniques with Apache Lucene</a> - Michael Busch. March 25th @ 14:00</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/251">Apache Solr - A Case Study</a> - Uri Boness. March 26th @ 17:30</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/250">Best of breed - httpd, forrest, solr and droids</a> - Thorsten Scherler. March 27th @ 17:30</li>
<li>
<ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/165">Apache Droids - an intelligent standalone robot framework</a> - Thorsten Scherler. March 26th @ 15:00</li>
<h3class="boxed">23 January 2008 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe</h3>
<p>
<ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com"><imgalt="ApacheCon EU logo"class="float-right"src="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/images/buttons/basic_125x125.jpg"></a>
Lucene projects will be well represented at <ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com">ApacheCon Europe</a> in Amsterdam this year.
Please join us at one or more of the following sessions:
</p>
<ul>
<li>April 7: <ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/program/talk/2423">Lucene Boot Camp</a> training by Grant Ingersoll.</li>
<li>April 8: <ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/program/talk/2450">Solr Boot Camp</a> training by Erik Hatcher.</li>
<li>April 8: <ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/program/talk/2406">Mastering and extending Apache Nutch</a> training by Sami Siren.</li>
<li>April 10: <ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/program/talk/2452">Lucene/Solr Case Studies</a> by Erik Hatcher</li>
<li>April 11: <ahref="http://eu.apachecon.com/eu2008/program/talk/2413">Apache Lucene Performance</a> by Grant Ingersoll</li>
<h3class="boxed">24 December 2007 - Nightly Snapshots available in the Apache Maven Snapshot Repository</h3>
<p>
We are now publishing nightly artifacts to the <ahref="http://people.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository/org/apache/lucene/">Maven Snapshot Repository</a>. The current version is '2.3-SNAPSHOT'.
</p>
<p>
The artifacts include:
<ul>
<li>Binary jars</li>
<li>Sources</li>
<li>Javadocs</li>
</ul>
You can find separate artifacts for the core, demo, and the different contrib modules.
<h3class="boxed">26 August 2007 - Lucene at ApacheCon Atlanta</h3>
<p>
<ahref="http://www.us.apachecon.com"><imgalt="ApacheCon US logo"class="float-right"src="http://www.apache.org/ads/ApacheCon/2007-usa-125x125.png"></a>
Lucene will once again be well represented at ApacheCon USA in Atlanta this November 12-16, 2007.
</p>
<p>The following talks and trainings are scheduled for this year's conference:
<ul>
<li>November 12: <ahref="http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/1859">Lucene Boot Camp</a> by Grant Ingersoll. An all-day training focusing on getting started with Lucene.</li>
<li>November 16, 9:00 am: <ahref="http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/1992">Apache Solr out of the Box</a> by Chris Hostetter. Introduction to Solr.</li>
<li>November 16, 10:00 am: <ahref="http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/1943">Building a Vertical Search Site using Apache Software</a> by Ken Krugler. Will cover many Lucene-based projects.</li>
<li>November 16, 3:00 pm: <ahref="http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/1953">Apache Lucene Performance</a> by Grant Ingersoll. Tips and techniques for improving Lucene performance.</li>
<li>November 16, 4:00 pm: <ahref="http://us.apachecon.com/us2007/program/talk/2017"> Advanced Indexing Techniques with Apache Lucene</a> by Michael Busch. Information on payloads and advanced indexing techniques.</li>
<h3class="boxed">18 February 2007 - Lucene at ApacheCon Europe</h3>
<p>
<ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com"><imgalt="ApacheCon Europe logo"class="float-right"src="http://www.apache.org/ads/ApacheCon/2007-europe-125x125.png"></a>
Lucene Java and related <ahref="http://lucene.apache.org/">Lucene</a> projects will have extensive representation at <ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com">ApacheCon Europe</a> in Amsterdam this year. For the 2007 session,
Yonik Seeley will be giving the <ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/program/talk/11">Full-Text Search with Lucene</a> talk at 10:30 am on May 2nd. Immediately following, Grant Ingersoll
will be presenting <ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/program/talk/12">Advanced Lucene</a> at 11:30. Grant will also be leading a full day tutorial session on May 1st titled
<p>Lucene related talks include Solr committer Bertrand Delacrétaz's talk titled <ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/program/talk/34">Beyond full-text searches with Solr and Lucene</a> and
Hadoop committer Owen O'Malley's <ahref="http://www.eu.apachecon.com/program/talk/36">Introduction to Hadoop</a>.
</p>
<p>Registration is now open on the ApacheCon website.</p>
<h3class="boxed">3 January 2007 - Nightly Source builds available</h3>
<p>Nightly source builds of the current development version of Lucene
are now available at
<ahref="http://people.apache.org/builds/lucene/java/nightly/">http://people.apache.org/builds/lucene/java/nightly/</a>. Files are named lucene-DATE-src.tar.gz where DATE is the date of the build.
