16 June 2021, Apache Lucene™ 8.9 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 8.9.

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 8.9 Release Highlights

• Compression was added to SortedSet DocValues, which allowed to significantly reduce their size on disk.
• BM25FQuery was extended to handle similarities beyond BM25Similarity. It was renamed to CombinedFieldQuery to reflect its more general scope.
• A new PatternTypingFilter was added to allow setting a type attribute on tokens based on a configured set of regular expressions.
• An option was added to supply a custom leaf sorter for IndexWriter and DirectoryReader, which allows to speed up sort queries with a provided sort criteria. 

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/8_9/changes/Changes.html

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

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