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Lucene V8 Support
Hi there,

We are a user of the Lucene core library in our product.

With the release of Lucene 9.0.0 in Dec 07 2021 (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/9.0.0), we were wondering what the future support model for version 8 of the library will be? Will it be discontinued now that 9.0x is available or maintained into the future in parallel with V9? Does the Lucene project have a version 8 support cut-off date in mind?

I do see that a recent release of version 8 of the library (8.11.2, https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/8.11.2) on Jun 18, 2022 so perhaps this indicates that version 8 will be supported for the foreseeable future?

Regards,

Fergal.
Re: Lucene V8 Support [ In reply to ]
Hi Fergal,

You should not expect much support on version 8 going forward. It will
probably get critical security releases and not much else.

Mike

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 8:31 AM Fergal Gavin <fergal.gavin@merative.com>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> We are a user of the Lucene core library in our product.
>
> With the release of Lucene 9.0.0 in Dec 07 2021 (
> https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/9.0.0),
> we were wondering what the future support model for version 8 of the
> library will be? Will it be discontinued now that 9.0x is available or
> maintained into the future in parallel with V9? Does the Lucene project
> have a version 8 support cut-off date in mind?
>
> I do see that a recent release of version 8 of the library (8.11.2,
> https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/8.11.2)
> on Jun 18, 2022 so perhaps this indicates that version 8 will be supported
> for the foreseeable future?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fergal.
>