Editing Apache Lucene (section)

==History==
[[Doug Cutting]] originally wrote Lucene in 1999.<ref>KeywordAnalyzer
{{cite web |url=http://trijug.org/downloads/TriJug-11-07.pdf |title=Better Search with Apache Lucene and Solr |date=19 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131154001/http://trijug.org/downloads/TriJug-11-07.pdf |archive-date=31 January 2012}}</ref> Lucene was his fifth search engine. He had previously written two while at [[Xerox PARC]], one at [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], and a fourth at [[Excite (web portal)|Excite]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/cutting/status/1137030687003774976|title=I wrote a couple of search engines at Xerox PARC, then V-Twin at Apple, then re-wrote Excite's search, then Lucene. So, Lucene might be considered V-Twin 3.0? Almost 25 years later, V-Twin still lives on as Mac OS X Search Kit!|last=Cutting|first=Doug|date=2019-06-07|website=@cutting|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref> It was initially available for download from its home at the [[SourceForge]] web site. It joined the Apache Software Foundation's [[Jakarta Project|Jakarta]] family of open-source Java products in September 2001 and became its own top-level Apache project in February 2005. The name Lucene is Doug Cutting's wife's middle name and her maternal grandmother's first name.<ref>{{cite book |title=Web Content Management |last1= Barker |first1=Deane |year=2016 |publisher=O'Reilly |isbn=978-1491908105 |page=233 }}</ref>

Lucene formerly included a number of sub-projects, such as Lucene.NET, [[Apache Mahout|Mahout]], [[Apache Tika|Tika]] and [[Nutch]]. These three are now independent top-level projects.

In March 2010, the [[Apache Solr]] search server joined as a Lucene sub-project, merging the developer communities.

Version 4.0 was released on October 12, 2012.<ref name="apache.org">{{cite web|url = https://lucene.apache.org/|title = Apache Lucene - Welcome to Apache Lucene|work = apache.org|access-date = 4 February 2016|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160204002101/https://lucene.apache.org/|archive-date = 4 February 2016}}</ref>

In March 2021, Lucene changed its logo, and [[Apache Solr]] became a top level Apache project again, independent from Lucene.