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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 6.0.0 released
8 April 2016, Apache Luceneâ„¢ 6.0.0 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.0.0.

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/6_0_0/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 6.0.0 Release Highlights:

* Java 8 is the minimum Java version required.

* Dimensional points, replacing legacy numeric fields, provides fast and
space-efficient support for both single- and multi-dimension range and
shape filtering. This includes numeric (int, float, long, double),
InetAddress, BigInteger and binary range filtering, as well as geo-spatial
shape search over indexed 2D LatLonPoints. See
https://www.elastic.co/blog/lucene-points-6.0 for details. Dependent
classes and modules (e.g., MemoryIndex, Spatial Strategies, Join module)
have been refactored to use new point types.

* Lucene classification module now works on Lucene Documents using a
KNearestNeighborClassifier or SimpleNaiveBayesClassifier.

* The spatial module no longer depends on third-party libraries. Previous
spatial classes have been moved to a new spatial-extras module.

* Spatial4j has been updated to a new 0.6 version hosted by locationtech.

* TermsQuery performance boost by a more aggressive default query caching
policy.

* IndexSearcher's default Similarity is now changed to BM25Similarity.

* Easier method of defining custom CharTokenizer instances.

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_0_0/changes/Changes.html

Please report any feedback to the mailing lists
(http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html)

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Nick Knize