MMM???? 2011, Apache Lucene‚ 3.5.0 available
The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.5.0.

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://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java (see note below).

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

Lucene 3.5.0 Release Highlights:

 * Added a very substantial (3-5X) RAM reduction required to hold the
   terms index on opening an IndexReader. (LUCENE-2205)

 * Added IndexSearcher.searchAfter which returns results after a
   specified ScoreDoc (e.g. last document on the previous page) to
   support deep paging use cases. (LUCENE-2215)

 * Added SearcherManager to manage sharing and reopening IndexSearchers
   across multiple search threads. Underlying IndexReader instances are
   safely closed if not referenced anymore. (LUCENE-3445, LUCENE-3558)

 * Added SearcherLifetimeManager which safely provides a consistent
   view of the index across multiple requests (e.g. paging/drilldown).
   (LUCENE-3558, LUCENE-3486)

 * Renamed IndexWriter.optimize to forceMerge to discourage use of
   this method since it is horribly costly and rarely justified
   anymore. (LUCENE-3454)

 * Added NGramPhraseQuery that speeds up phrase queries 30-50%
   when n-gram analysis is used. (LUCENE-3426)

 * Added a new reopen API (IndexReader.openIfChanged) that
   returns null instead of the old reader if there are no changes 
   in the index. (LUCENE-3464)

 * Improvements to vector highlighting: support for more queries
   such as wildcards and boundary analysis for generated snippets
   (LUCENE-1824, LUCENE-1889)

 * IndexSearcher and IndexReader now perform additional checks to 
   throw AlreadyClosedExceptions if searches are performed on a 
   closed IndexReader. Performing searches on already closed reader
   can cause JVM crashes when invalid memory mapped files are
   referenced. 

 * Several bugfixes, including a bug where closing an NRT reader 
   after the writer was closed was incorrectly invoking the 
   DeletionPolicy. See CHANGES.txt entries for full details.

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