Download Apache Solr 3.6.0

The Apache Software Foundation has released a new version of Solr, with version number 3.6.0. Solr can be used as a search engine. It uses Lucene in the background and runs as a Java Servlet within Tomcat, for example. For more information, we refer you to this page. The announcement of this release looks like this:

Apache Solr 3.6.0 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 3.6.0. Solr can be downloaded from
Highlights of the Solr release include:

• New SolrJ client connector using Apache Http Components http client (SOLR-2020)
• Many analyzer factories are now “multi term query aware” allowing for things like field type aware lowercasing when building prefix & wildcard queries. (SOLR-2438)
• New Kuromoji morphological analyzer tokenizes Japanese text, producing both compound words and their segmentation. (SOLR-3056)
• Range Faceting (Dates & Numbers) is now supported in distributed search (SOLR-1709)
• HTMLStripCharFilter has been completely re-implemented, fixing many bugs and greatly improving the performance (LUCENE-3690)
• StreamingUpdateSolrServer now supports the javabin format (SOLR-1565)
• New LFU Cache option for use in Solr’s internal caches. (SOLR-2906)
• Memory performance improvements to all FST based suggesters (SOLR-2888)
• New WFSTLookupFactory suggester supports finer-grained ranking for suggestions. (LUCENE-3714)
• New options for configuring the amount of concurrency used in distributed searches (SOLR-3221)
• Many bug fixes