15 June 2015, Apache Lucene™ 5.2.1 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 5.2.1

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 various bug fixes and optimizations since the 5.2.0 release. The release is available for immediate download at:

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

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

https://lucene.apache.org/core/5_2_1/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 5.2.1 includes 3 bug fixes:

  • Fix class loading deadlock relating to Codec initialization, default codec and SPI discovery.
  • NRT readers now reflect a new commit even if there is no change to the commit user data
  • Queries now get a dummy Similarity when scores are not needed in order to not load unnecessary information like norms

Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html)

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