Mailing List Archive

24 October 2017, Apache Lucene™ 5.5.5 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 5.5.5.

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 one bug fix. 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_5_5/changes/Changes.html

This release includes a critical security fix. Details:

* Disallow resolving of external entities in queryparser/xml/CoreParser by default.

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/5_5_5/changes/Changes.html

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

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