Revisiting Lucis

The lucis project is a key component of an increasing number of web sites. However, it is starting to show its age. Rushed into production in the summer of 2008 it included some "incorrect" decisions that were to be mended in its successor project, which was also going to include all the important updates. So lucis algo received small evolutions.

However, as the first release of conquiris is delayed again and again, and the number fo projects using lucis increases far more than expected, it is clear that a new impulse was needed.

So today, I've released version 0.0.31 (which should be in Maven Central in a few hours). The only (but fundamental) change is the upgrade from Lucene 2.4.1 to 3.1.0. As the new Lucene version already breaks backwards compatibility, I've gone the whole way and removed use of (now) deprecated parts of Lucene. So this version of lucis is totally incompatible with the previous stable one (0.0.29).

I hope to post about the changes real soon now.

As I said, the "only" change is the Lucene version, so this release won't be integrated in Port@l and GeNews until more improvements are added.

New Look

Three years after the First Post, I've decided to give this blog a new look, maybe as a first step in posting more often.

So, I've turned to the Blogger Template Designer, chosen a clear and simple one, removed most ads, and converted code snippets to Gist.GitHub.

I hope you like it.