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. events 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.