Title: Apache Luceneā¢ 8.1.0 available category: core/news URL: save_as:
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 8.1.0.
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:
https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html
Lucene 8.1.0 Release Highlights:
- A query introspection API has been introduced.
- Luke, well-known GUI for inspecting Lucene indexes, now added as a Lucene module
- Merging dimensional points to use radix partitioning, which has also been optimized
- Bugfix: LatLonShapePolygonQuery returns incorrect WITHIN results with shared boundaries
- TieredMergePolicy#findForcedMerges now tries to create the cheapest merges
- Build point writers in the BKD tree only when they are needed
- SynonymQuery can now deboost the document frequency of each term when blending synonym scores
- ConstantScoreQuery can early terminate if minimum score > constant score (total hits are not requested)
- DateRangePrefixTree can now parse more precise dates
Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:
https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_1_0/changes/Changes.html