17 June 2016, Apache Lucene™ 6.1.0 available The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 6.1.0.
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:
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/6_1_0/changes/Changes.html
Lucene 6.1.0 Release Highlights:
New features
- Numerous improvements to LatLonPoint, for indexing a latitude/longitude point and searching by polygon, distance or box, or finding nearest neighbors
- Geo3D now has simple APIs for creating common shape queries, matching LatLonPoint
Optimizations
- Faster indexing and searching of points.
- Faster geo-spatial indexing and searching for LatLonPoint, Geo3D and GeoPoint (see http://home.apache.org/~mikemccand/geobench.html )
- HardlinkCopyDirectoryWrapper optimizes file copies using hard links
- In case of contention, the query cache now prefers returning an uncached Scorer rather than waiting on a lock.
Bug fixes
- BooleanQuery could sometimes assign too low scores to ranges of documents that matched a single clause.
- Doc values updates could sometimes be applied in the wrong order.
Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/6_1_0/changes/Changes.html
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