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-                    Apache Solr - solr-ruby and flare Version 1.3-dev
-                            Release Notes
-
-Introduction
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-solr-ruby is a Ruby client for the solr search engine.
-flare is a plugin adding faceted browsing, AJAX suggest and more to Rails controllers. 
-
-$Id$
-
-================== Release 1.3-dev ==================
-
-Status
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-This is the first release since solr-ruby and flare were added to the main solr
-distribution. The following changes list changes since the code was introduced,
-not since the first official release.
-
-
-Detailed Change List
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-
-New Features
- 1. SOLR-537: Use of hl.maxAlternateFieldLength parameter from solr-ruby (koji)
-
-Changes in runtime behavior
-
-Bug Fixes
-
-Other Changes
-
-