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12 April 2012, Apache Lucene™ 3.6.0 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.6.0.

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.

This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and

improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release

is available for immediate download at:

http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html (see

note below).

See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of

details.

Lucene 3.6.0 Release Highlights:

* In addition to Java 5 and Java 6, this release has now

full Java 7 support (minimum JDK 7u1 required).

* TypeTokenFilter filters tokens based on their TypeAttribute.

* Fixed offset bugs in a number of CharFilters, Tokenizers and TokenFilters

that could lead to exceptions during highlighting.

* Added phonetic encoders: Metaphone, Soundex, Caverphone,

Beider-Morse, etc.

* CJKBigramFilter and CJKWidthFilter replace CJKTokenizer.

* Kuromoji morphological analyzer tokenizes Japanese text, producing

both compound words and their segmentation.

* Static index pruning (Carmel pruning) removes postings with low

within-document term frequency.

* QueryParser now interprets '*' as an open end for range

queries.

* FieldValueFilter excludes documents missing the specified field.

* CheckIndex and IndexUpgrader allow you to specify the

specific FSDirectory implementation to use with the new -dir-impl

command-line option.

* FSTs can now do reverse lookup (by output) in certain cases and

can be packed to reduce their size. There is now a method to

retrieve top N shortest paths from a start node in an FST.

* New WFSTCompletionLookup suggester supports finer-grained

ranking for suggestions.

* FST based suggesters now use an offline (disk-based) sort, instead

of in-memory sort, when pre-sorting the suggestions.

* ToChildBlockJoinQuery joins in the opposite direction (parent down

to child documents).

* New query-time joining is more flexible (but less performant) than

index-time joins.

* Added HTMLStripCharFilter to strip HTML markup.

* Security fix: Better prevention of virtual machine SIGSEGVs when

using MMapDirectory: Code using cloned IndexInputs of already

closed indexes could possibly crash VM, allowing DoS attacks to

your application.

* Many bug fixes...

Note: The Apache Software Foundation uses an extensive mirroring network for

distributing releases. It is possible that the mirror you are using may not

have replicated the release yet. If that is the case, please try another

mirror. This also goes for Maven access.

Happy searching,

Apache Lucene/Solr Developers