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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 5.4.0 released
14 December 2015, Apache Luceneâ„¢ 5.4.0 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 5.4.0

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine
library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly
any application that requires full-text search, especially
cross-platform.

This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and
improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release
is available for immediate download at:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html

Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:
https://lucene.apache.org/core/5_4_0/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 5.4.0 Release Highlights:

API Changes
* Query.getBoost and Query.setBoost are deprecated in favour of the
new BoostQuery
* The Filter class is deprecated in favour of FILTER clauses in a
BooleanQuery
* DefaultSimilarity has been renamed to ClassicSimilarity to
prepare for the move to BM25 in Lucene 6

New features
* New Serbian token filter
* New DecimalDigitFilter, to fold unicode digits to latin digits
* New UnicodeWhitespaceTokenizer, that uses Unicode's whitespace
definition and splits on NBSP
* New GeoPointDistanceRangeQuery to search for geo-points within
a ring
* Query caching is now enabled by default in IndexSearcher, use
IndexSearcher.setQueryCache(null) to disable

Optimizations
* MatchAllDocsQuery got faster
* Doc values now use less memory for multi-valued fields and
less disk in case of sparse fields
* Two-phase iterators got a match cost API so that the costly
bits can be checked last

Bug fixes
* PatternTokenizer no longer hangs onto heap sized to the maximum input
string it's ever seen.

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(http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html)

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