The 3.x line should be pretty stable. Hopefully we will do a release soon. A conversation was again started about more frequent releases recently, and hopefully that will lead to a 3.x release near term.
In any case, 3.x is the stable branch - 4.x is where the more crazy stuff happens. If you are used to the terms, 4.x is the unstable branch, though some freak out if you call that for fear you think its 'really unstable'. In reality, it just means likely less stable than the stable branch (3.x), as we target 3.x for stability and 4.x for stickier or non back compat changes. Eventually 4.x will be stable and 5.x unstable, with possible maintenance support for previous stable lines as well. - Mark lucidimagination.com On 9/17/10 9:58 AM, Mark Allan wrote: > OK, 1.5 won't be released, so we'll avoid that. I've now got my code > additions compiling against a version of 3.x so we'll stick with that > rather than solr_trunk for the time being. > > Does anyone have any sense of when 3.x might be considered stable enough > for a release? We're hoping to go to service with something built on > Solr in Jan 2011 and would like to avoid development phase software, but > if needs must... > > Thanks > Mark > > > On 9 Sep 2010, at 12:10 pm, Markus Jelsma wrote: > >> Well, it's under heavy development but the 3.x branch is more likely >> to become released than 1.5.x, which is highly unlikely to be ever >> released. >> >> >> On Thursday 09 September 2010 13:04:38 Mark Allan wrote: >>> Thanks. Are you suggesting I use branch_3x and is that considered >>> stable? >>> Cheers >>> Mark >>> >>> On 9 Sep 2010, at 10:47 am, Markus Jelsma wrote: >>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/branches/ > >
