Apache Nutch v1.7 Released

The Apache Nutch PMC are extremely pleased to announce the immediate release of Apache Nutch v1.7. This release includes over 20 bug fixes, as many improvements; most noticeably featuring a new pluggable indexing architecture which currently supports Apache Solr and Elastic Search. Shadowing the recent Nutch 2.2 release, parsing of Robots.txt is now delegated to Crawler-Commons. Key library upgrades have been made to Apache Hadoop 1.2.0 and Apache Tika 1.3. Please see the list of changes or the release report made in this version for a full breakdown. As usual in the 1.x series, the release is made available as binary and source (zip + tar.gz) and is also available within Maven Central. The release is available here.