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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 7.1.0 released
17 October 2017, Apache Luceneā„¢ 7.1.0 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 7.1.0.

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/7_1_0/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 7.1.0 Release Highlights:

* New Geo3D shapes for non-spherical planet models

* Serialization and deserialization support for Geo3D

* A new CoveringQuery, whose required number of matching clauses can
be defined per document

* New BengaliAnalyzer for Bengali language

* A point based range field called LatLonBoundingBox
FloatPointNearestNeighbor, an N-dimensional FloatPoint
K-nearest-neighbor search implementation

* Faster default taxonomy cache

* Support for computing facet counts for individual numeric values
via LongValueFacetCounts

* Faster geo-distance queries in case of dense single-valued fields
when most documents match

* Better heuristics in IndexOrDocValuesQuery

* Optimized builds for OrdinalMap (used by
SortedSetDocValuesFacetCounts and others)

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

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Regards,
Shalin Shekhar Mangar.