27 March 2017, Apache Lucene™ 6.5.0 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.5.0.

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/6_5_0/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 6.5.0 Release Highlights:

New features:

  • It is now possible filter out duplicates in the NRT suggester
  • SimpleQueryString now supports default fuziness
  • IndexWriter can return the list of visible field names
  • DisjunctionScorer now supports returning the matching children clauses
  • A new FunctionScoreQuery that modifies the internal query's score using the per-document values
  • A new FunctionMatchQuery that returns any documents with a value that matches a predicate
  • A new WordDelimiterGraphFilter that outputs a correct graph structure for multi-token expansion at query time
  • A new PatternTokenizer that uses Lucene's RegExp implementation
  • RangeFieldQuery now supports CROSSES relation
  • A new IndexOrDocValuesQuery that uses either an index (points or terms) or doc values in order to run a (range, geo box and distance) query, depending which one is more efficient

Optimizations:

  • index-time boosts are deprecated
  • Term filters are no longer cached
  • Compound filters are cached earlier than regular queries
  • BKDReader now calls grow on larger increments
  • LatLonPointInPolygonQuery are faster
  • LatLonPointDistanceQuery now skips distance computations more often
  • To-parent block joins now implements two-phase iteration
  • Point ranges that match most documents are faster
  • PointValues#estimatePointCount is faster with Relation.CELL_INSIDE_QUERY
  • Segments are now also sorted during flush, and merging on a sorted index is substantially faster by using some of the same bulk merge optimizations that non-sorted merging uses

Along with numerous bug fixes.

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_5_0/changes/Changes.html

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