MMM???? 2011, Apache Lucene™ 3.3 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.3.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine 
library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly 
any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. 

This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and
improvements, some of which are highlighted below.  The release
is available for immediate download at:
   http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java (see note below).

See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details.

Lucene 3.3 Release Highlights:

 * The spellchecker module now includes suggest/auto-complete functionality,
   with three implementations: Jaspell, Ternary Trie, and Finite State.

 * Support for merging results from multiple shards, for both "normal"
   search results (TopDocs.merge) as well as grouped results using the
   grouping module (SearchGroup.merge, TopGroups.merge).

 * An optimized implementation of KStem, a less aggressive stemmer
   for English.

 * Single-pass grouping implementation based on block document indexing.

 * Improvements to MMapDirectory (now also the default implementation 
   returned by FSDirectory.open on 64-bit Linux).

 * NRTManager simplifies handling near-real-time search with multiple
   search threads, allowing the application to control which indexing
   changes must be visible to which search requests.

 * TwoPhaseCommitTool facilitates performing a multi-resource
   two-phased commit, including IndexWriter.

 * The default merge policy, TieredMergePolicy, has a new method
   (set/getReclaimDeletesWeight) to control how aggressively it
   targets segments with deletions, and is now more aggressive than
   before by default.

 * PKIndexSplitter tool splits an index by a mid-point term.

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