Preliminary Release Notes (Sept 15, 2012):

Bug

• LUCENENET-54 - ArgumentOurOfRangeException caused by SF.Snowball.Ext.DanishStemmer
• LUCENENET-420 - String.StartsWith has culture in it.
• LUCENENET-423 - QueryParser differences between Java and .NET when parsing range queries involving dates
• LUCENENET-445 - Lucene.Net.Index.TestIndexWriter.TestFutureCommit() Fails
• LUCENENET-464 - The Lucene.Net.FastVectorHighligher.dll of the latest release 2.9.4 breaks any ASP.NET application
• LUCENENET-472 - Operator == on Parameter does not check for null arguments
• LUCENENET-473 - Fix linefeeds in more than 600 files
• LUCENENET-474 - Missing License Headers in trunk after 3.0.3 merge
• LUCENENET-475 - DanishStemmer doesn't work.
• LUCENENET-476 - ScoreDocs in TopDocs is ambiguos when using Visual Basic .Net
• LUCENENET-477 - NullReferenceException in ThreadLocal when Lucene.Net compiled for .Net 2.0
• LUCENENET-478 - Parts of QueryParser are outdated or weren't previously ported correctly
• LUCENENET-479 - QueryParser.SetEnablePositionIncrements(false) doesn't work
• LUCENENET-483 - Spatial Search skipping records when one location is close to origin, another one is away and radius is wider
• LUCENENET-484 - Some possibly major tests intermittently fail
• LUCENENET-485 - IndexOutOfRangeException in FrenchStemmer
• LUCENENET-490 - QueryParser is culture-sensitive
• LUCENENET-493 - Make lucene.net culture insensitive (like the java version)
• LUCENENET-494 - Port error in FieldCacheRangeFilter
• LUCENENET-495 - Use of DateTime.Now causes huge amount of System.Globalization.DaylightTime object allocations
• LUCENENET-500 - Lucene fails to run in medium trust ASP.NET Application

Improvement

• LUCENENET-179 - SnowballFilter speed improvment
• LUCENENET-407 - Signing the assembly
• LUCENENET-408 - Mark assembly as CLS compliant; make AlreadyClosedException serializable
• LUCENENET-466 - optimisation for the GermanStemmer.vb?
• LUCENENET-504 - FastVectorHighlighter - support for prefix query
• LUCENENET-506 - FastVectorHighlighter should use Query.ExtractTerms as fallback

New Feature

• LUCENENET-463 - Would like to be able to use a SimpleSpanFragmenter for extrcting whole sentances
• LUCENENET-481 - Port Contrib.MemoryIndex

Task

• LUCENENET-446 - Make Lucene.Net CLS Compliant
• LUCENENET-471 - Remove Package.html and Overview.html artifacts
• LUCENENET-480 - Investigate what needs to happen to make both .NET 3.5 and 4.0 builds possible
• LUCENENET-487 - Remove Obsolete Members, Fields that are marked as obsolete and to be removed in 3.0
• LUCENENET-503 - Update binary names

Sub-task

• LUCENENET-468 - Implement the Dispose pattern properly in classes with Close
• LUCENENET-470 - Change Getxxx() and Setxxx() methods to .NET Properties

Planning

Lucene.Net 3.0.3 ToDo Items:

3.0.3 Java Tag

Ensure that the following are applied, 3.0.3 was branched before these were applied to 2.9.4

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