Nutch 2.3.1 Release

The Apache Nutch PMC are pleased to announce the immediate release of Apache Nutch v2.3.1, we advise all current users and developers of the 2.X series to upgrade to this release.

This bug fix release contains around 40 issues addressed. For a complete overview of these issues please see the release report.

As usual in the 2.X series, release artifacts are made available as only source and also available within Maven Central as a Maven dependency. The release is available from our DOWNLOADS PAGE.

The recommended Gora backends for this Nutch release are

• Apache Avro 1.7.6
• Apache Hadoop 1.2.1 and 2.5.2
• Apache HBase 0.98.8-hadoop2 (although also tested with 1.X)
• Apache Cassandra 2.0.2
• Apache Solr 4.10.3
• MongoDB 2.6.X
• Apache Accumlo 1.5.1
• Apache Spark 1.4.1

Thank you to everyone that contributed towards this release.