30 July 2020, Apache Lucene™ 8.6.1 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 8.6.1.

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:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html

Lucene 8.6.1 Bug Fixes:

• LUCENE-9443: The UnifiedHighlighter was closing the underlying reader when there were multiple term-vector fields.

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_6_1/changes/Changes.html

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