Lucene 2.0, search library, released

Lucene 2.0 has been released. The change from Lucene 1.9 is relatively small, with mostly bug fixes being applied; however, the deprecated methods and classes have been removed with one exception. From the changelog:

All deprecated methods and fields have been removed, except DateField, which will still be supported for some time so Lucene can read its date fields from old indexes

Note that Lucene 2.0 is not necessarily source-compatible with older versions; this may or may not be a good thing. (As the index page says: "Any code that compiles against Lucene 1.9.1 without deprecation warnings should work without further changes with any 2.x release.")