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Due to a packaging error, two out of date files were included in the Lemur
toolkit 4.3 distribution. One of these files is also included in the Indri
2.3 distribution. To correct this, we have prepared a new distribution. We
have also included one bug fix for the Indri query language parser.

The changes are:

Problem: The file site-search/crawl-index.in does not copy the file
excluded_hosts to the crawl directory, causing a crawl to fail. (Lemur 4.3,
Indri 2.3)
Solution: add excluded_hosts to the files to be copied.

Problem: The file site-search/cgi/Makefile contains a typo the causes make
install to fail. (Lemur 4.3)
Solution: Change REAME to README in the install target.

Problem: Indri query parser fails to parse #date operators correctly. (Lemur
4.3, Indri 2.3)
Solution: Update grammar rule for #date operators.

We apologize for any inconvenience the packaging errors may have caused.

The new distributions are available for download via
http://www.lemurproject.org/download.html 

The Lemur Team

The Lemur Toolkit is transitioning from lemurproject.org to SourceForge.net
for various project services. Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/lemur to
see project's pages. The first item we will transition is this announcements
mailing list. 

Please go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lemur-announce to
subscribe to the new mailing list in order to continue receiving Lemur
Toolkit announcements.

Subsequently we will transition the discussion forum, CVS for the Lemur
Toolkit and Indri, and the tracking system for bugs, feature requests, and
support.

Lemur toolkit version 4.3 indri indexes are not backwards compatible
with older versions. All collections using indri indexes must be
reindexed.

Indri version 2.3 is not backwards compatible with older
versions. All collections must be reindexed.

All custom applications built against the Lemur Toolkit or Indri
libraries will need to be recompiled.

The indri Java wrappers have been refactored to facilitate integrating with
the new Lemur Toolkit Java wrappers. The package edu.umass.cs.indri has been
renamed lemurproject.indri. The package edu.umass.cs.indri.ui has been
renamed lemurproject.indri.ui. Users of the indri Java wrappers will need to
refactor their code accordingly.

For details about new functionality, API changes, and bug fixes see the
release notes for 4.3 at
http://www.lemurproject.org/lemur/releasenotes.html.

Key new features include:

Improved documentation and tutorials.

Out of the box site search, complete with web crawler, cgi, and PHP UI. See
http://www.lemurproject.org/lemur/SiteSearch.html for details.

Improved JNI support for using the Lemur toolkit with Java applications. The
indri API Java wrappers that were previously only available in the indri
standalone distribution are now available within the Lemur Toolkit.

C# wrapper support for using the Lemur toolkit and indri with C#
applications.

PHP wrapper support for using indri with PHP applications.

Java retrieval and indexing GUIs are now part of the main Lemur Toolkit
distribution. The retrieval GUI has been rewritten to use the new Java
wrappers.

The Indri applications harvestlinks, dumpindex, and makeprior have been
added to the Lemur toolkit distribution.

And numerous bug fixes.

Go to the download page at http://www.lemurproject.org/download.html to
download the latest release.

The Lemur Team