The Apache Software Foundation

Apache Mahout 0.2 has been released and is now available for public download at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout

Apache Mahout is a subproject of Apache Lucene with the goal of delivering scalable machine learning algorithm implementations under the Apache license. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Scale in terms of computation to the

size of data you manage today.  Scale in terms of community to support anyone interested in using machine learning. Scale in terms of business by providing the library under a commercially friendly, free software license.

Built on top of the powerful map/reduce paradigm of the Apache Hadoop project, Mahout's goal is to solve popular machine learning problems like clustering, collaborative filtering and classification over extremely large data sets over thousands of computers.

Up to date maven artifacts can be found in the Apache repository at
https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases/org/apache/mahout/

The complete changelist can be found here:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT/fixforversion/12313278

New Mahout 0.2 features include

Getting started: New to Mahout?

1) Download Mahout at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/mahout
2) Check out the Quick start: http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/quickstart.html
3) Read the Mahout Wiki: http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT
4) Join the community by subscribing to mahout-user@lucene.apache.org
5) Give back: http://www.apache.org/foundation/getinvolved.html (optional, but much appreciated!)
6) Consider adding yourself to the power by Wiki page: http://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/poweredby.html

For more information on Apache Mahout, see
http://lucene.apache.org/mahout

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Source-Release Assembly Descriptor, version 1.0.2.

This is a standardized assembly descriptor for use in the maven-assembly-plugin. Source-release artifacts are archives which contain the full project structure (sources only, no build output) that are the subject of an ASF release vote.

The new version of the descriptor fixes the erroneous exclusion of some file types like IDE files from the source archive even if those files are located in the src/ directory tree of a project, i.e. denote actual project sources (e.g. required for unit testing).

http://maven.apache.org/apache-resource-bundles/apache-source-release-assembly-descriptor/

This new descriptor will eventually be incorporated into the Apache Parent POM. If you want to try out the source-release descriptor in the meantime, you can include a configuration like the following:

Enjoy, The Maven Team

The Apache Tuscany team are pleased to announce the forth milestone release of the Tuscany SCA 2.0 project.

Apache Tuscany/SCA provides a runtime environment based on Service Component Architecture (SCA), which are a set of OASIS specifications aimed at simplifying SOA application development. The main features of this forth 2.0 milestone release are new support for the JMS and EJB specifications, new and improved support for Web clients, improvements in OSGi support and distributed SCA domains, and lots of updates for OASIS specification conformance.

See the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGES file for more details about the release, and to download the distributions please go to:

http://tuscany.apache.org/sca-java-2x-releases.html

To find out more about OASIS Open CSA go to:

http://www.oasis-opencsa.org

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, contributions to the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in
Apache Tuscany visit the website at:

http://tuscany.apache.org

Thank you for your interest in Apache Tuscany!

Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public download!
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.  Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic
clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.  Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of
many of the world's largest internet sites.

Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Tomcat.  Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has
REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually any programming language.  Solr's powerful external configuration allows it to be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced customization is required.

Getting Started
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New to Solr?  Follow the steps below to get up and running ASAP.

1. Download Solr at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/
2. Check out the tutorial at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html
3. Read the Solr wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr) to learn more
4. Join the community by subscribing to solr-user@lucene.apache.org
5. Give Back (Optional, but encouraged!)  See http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute
    
For more information on Apache Solr, see http://lucene.apache.org/solr

I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache PyLucene 2.9.1.

Apache PyLucene, a subproject of Apache Lucene, is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene. Its goal is to allow you to use Lucene's text indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene, 2.9.1.

This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements. Details can be found in the changes files:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/tags/pylucene_2_9_1/CHANGES
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/pylucene/tags/pylucene_2_9_1/jcc/CHANGES

Apache PyLucene 2.9.1 is available from the following download page:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/pylucene/pylucene-2.9.1-1-src.tar.gz

When downloading from a mirror site, please remember to verify the downloads using signatures found on the Apache site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/pylucene/KEYS

For more information on Apache PyLucene, visit the project home page:
http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene