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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 6.2.0 released
26 August 2016, Apache Luceneâ„¢ 6.2.0 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.2.0.

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

Lucene 6.2.0 Release Highlights:

New features
* The CREATE_NEW flag is passed when creating a file to ensure
Lucene is really write-once
* Index numeric ranges (min and max value in a single field) and
search by overlapping range
* IndexWriter methods return a sequence number indicating effective
order of operations across threads
* UkrainianMorfologikAnalyzer is a new dictionary based analyzer for
the Ukrainian language
* The Polygon class can now be created from a GeoJSON string
* Compound file creation now verifies checksum of its component files
* Index time sorting is now a core feature, and supports dimensional points
* StandardAnalyzer is moved to core and is the default analyzer
* MatchNoDocsQuery now includes the reason it was created
* QueryParser can now be told to not pre-split on whitespace
* MMapDirectory tries harder to prevent SIGSEGV if buggy code tries to execute
searches after the index was closed, but it's still best effort
* MMapDirectory no longer allocates weak references to ease garbage collection

Optimizations
* Conjunction (MUST, FILTER) queries are faster
* Dimensional points have much faster (~40%) flush time and use less
space in the index

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at:

http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_2_0/changes/Changes.html

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

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Happy searching,

Mike McCandless

http://blog.mikemccandless.com