Title: Apache Luceneā„¢ 6.6.0 available category: core/news URL: save_as:

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.6.0

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.

The release is available for immediate download at:

https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/java/6.6.0

See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of changes and further details.

Highlights of this Lucene release include:

  • A concurrent SortedSet facets implementation

  • spatial-extras HeatmapFacetCounter will now short-circuit it's work when Bits.MatchNoBits is passed

  • OfflineSorter now passes the total number of items it will write to getWriter()

  • Move dictionary for Ukrainian analyzer to external dependency

  • SortedSetDocValuesReaderState now implements Accountable so one can see how much RAM it is using

  • OfflineSorter can now run concurrently if you pass it an optional ExecutorService Sorted set facets now use sparse storage when collecting hits, when appropriate

  • PostingsHighlighter has been deprecated in favour of the UnifiedHighlighter