A few minutes ago Lucene and Solr commiters published a new, stable version of Lucene library and Solr search engine – both numbered 3.1. There are numerous changes, but I’ll just mention some of them (following Grant Ingersoll announcement).
Lucene
CheckIndex for the rescue
While using Lucene and Solr we are used to a very high reliability of this products. However, there may come the day when Solr will inform us that our index is corrupted, and we need to do something about it. Is the only way to repair the index is to restore it from the backup or do full indexation ? Not only – there is hope in the form of CheckIndex tool.
Lucene 3.0.3 and Lucene 2.9.4
A few minutes ago Uwe Schindler announced that there are two new versions of Lucene library available: