I already posted some kind of spoiler couple weeks ago according to a new Nutch release! Again a message from Andrzej Bialecki appeared at the nutch mailing list announcing the release of Nutch 1.0 maybe in february (this year).

Comment from Andrzej:

We do exist. We plan to release in February – I can’t tell you yet when exactly, we need to review the (few) remaining issues that we want to resolve before the release.

Update: I also heard about a Nutch/SOLR integration coming with this release?! Will start my investigation tommorrow.

Update II, A few important snippets from the CHANGES.txt:

• NUTCH-442 – Integrate Solr/Nutch. (dogacan, original version by siren)
• NUTCH-663 – Upgrade Nutch to use Hadoop 0.19 (kubes)
• NUTCH-662 – Upgrade Nutch to use Lucene 2.4. (kubes)
• NUTCH-665 – Search Load Testing Tool (kubes)
• NUTCH-646 -  New Indexing Framework for Nutch. (kubes)