Hi Jeff, For projects that are going live in 6 months I would use trunk.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jeff Schmidt <j...@535consulting.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 4:37:37 PM > Subject: Which version of Solr? > > Hello: > > I'm working on incorporating Solr into a SaaS based life sciences semantic >search project. This will be released in about six months. I'm trying to >determine which version of Solr makes the most sense. When going to the Solr >download page, there are 1.3.0, 1.4.0, and 1.4.1. I've been using 1.4.1 while >going through some examples in my Packt book ("Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search >Server"). > > But, I also see that Solr 3.1 and 4.0 are in the works. According to: > > >https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aroadmap-panel > > > there is a high degree of progress on both of those releases; including a > slew >of bug fixes, new features, performance enhancements etc. Should I be making >use of one of the newer versions? The hierarchical faceting seems like it >could be quite useful. Are there any guesses on when either 3.1 or 4.0 will >be >officially released? > > So far, 1.4.1 has been good. But I'm unable to get SolrJ to work due to the >'javabin' version mismatch. I'm using the 1.4.1 version of SolrJ, but I >always >get an HTTP response code of 200, but the return entity is simply a null >byte, >which does not match the version number of 1 defined in Solr common. Anyway, >I >can follow up on that issue if 1.4.1 is still the most appropriate version to >use these days. Otherwise, I'll try again with whatever version you suggest. > > Thanks a lot! > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Schmidt > 535 Consulting > j...@535consulting.com > (650) 423-1068 > > > > > >
