Title: Apache Luceneā„¢ 6.6.2 available category: core/news URL: save_as:

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.6.2.

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:

https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/lucene/java/6.6.2

Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/6_6_2/changes/Changes.html

This release includes a critical security fix. Details:

  • Disallow resolving of external entities in queryparser/xml/CoreParser by default.