From fd37d3620fe5ab93233002865708a5888db18543 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yonik Seeley Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:48:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] adding intro and release notes type stuff to CHANGES git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/solr/trunk@486976 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- CHANGES.txt | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index 91095ec9f82..efae586dfca 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -1,20 +1,12 @@ -# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more -# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with -# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. -# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 -# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with -# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at -# -# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -# -# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -# limitations under the License. + Apache Solr Version 1.1.0-dev-incubating + Release Notes -========================= Solr Change Log ============================== -$Id$ +Introduction +------------ +Apache Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java +search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, +caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java +servlet container such as Tomcat. Apache Solr is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by Apache Lucene. Incubation is required of all @@ -24,6 +16,48 @@ a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. +See http://incubator.apache.org/solr for more information. + + +Getting Started +--------------- +You need a Java 1.5 VM or later installed. +In this release, there is an example Solr server including a bundled +servlet container in the directory named "example". +See the tutorial at http://incubator.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html + + +$Id$ + +================== Release 1.1.0-dev-incubating, YYYYMMDD ================== + +Status +------ +This is the first release since Solr joined the Incubator, and brings many +new features and performance optimizations including highlighting, +faceted browsing, and JSON/Python/Ruby response formats. + + +Upgrading from previous Solr versions +------------------------------------- +Older Apache Solr installations can be upgraded by replacing +the relevant war file with the new version. No changes to +the index format or configuration files are needed. + +The default version of the Solr XML response syntax has been changed to 2.2 +This will affect any clients not explicitly specifying the response version. + +By default, Solr will no longer use a searcher that has not fully warmed, +and requests will block in the meantime. To change back to the previous +behavior of using a cold searcher in the event there is no other +warm searcher, see the useColdSearcher config item in solrconfig.xml + +The XML response format when adding multiple documents to the collection +in a single command has changed to return a single . + + +Detailed Change List +-------------------- New Features 1. added support for setting Lucene's positionIncrementGap