Solr 1.1, Lucene based search server, released

 

Apache Solr 1.1 is the first Solr release since joining the Apache Incubator.

Solr is a high performance full-text search server based on Lucene, written in Java5, and easily extensible through plugins written in Java. Documents are added to a search collection via XML over HTTP, and the search collection is queried via HTTP to receive an XML response (or alternately JSON, Python or Ruby text formats).

Major featurs include:

• A powerful data schema
• External configuration via xml
• Faceted search
• Hit highlighting
• Flexible caching
• Replication
• A web admin interface

For more information see the detailed feature list.
The release is available for download here.
Apache Solr is currently under incubation and is slated to become a sub-project of the Apache Lucene project.