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Hibernate Search 5.8.0.Beta2 is out!

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Hibernate Search is a library that integrates Hibernate ORM with Apache Lucene or Elasticsearch by automatically indexing entities, enabling advanced search functionality: full-text, geospatial, aggregations and more. For more information, see Hibernate Search on hibernate.org.

We just published Hibernate Search version 5.8.0.Beta2, with bugfixes and improvements over 5.8.0.Beta1.

Hibernate Search 5.8.0.Beta2, just as 5.7.0.Final, is only compatible with Hibernate ORM 5.2.3 and later.

If you need to use Hibernate ORM 5.0.x or 5.1.x and cannot upgrade, please use Hibernate Search 5.6.1.Final.

About 5.8

Hibernate Search 5.8 is about:

  • making the Elasticsearch integration compatible with Elasticsearch 5.x (done);

  • improving performance of the Elasticsearch integration (in progress);

  • introducing a new DSL for defining analyzers (in progress);

  • ensuring that Hibernate Search will work well with Java 9 (done, though Java 9 may still change);

  • improving and documenting Wildfly Swarm integration (in discussion);

  • removing the need for class definition on master nodes in JMS/JGroups integration (in discussion);

  • and of course, fixing reported bugs.

You can have a look at the roadmap for more details.

What’s new since the first Beta?

For a full list of changes since 5.8.0.Beta1, please see the release notes.

Below is a summary of the main changes:

  • HSEARCH-2606: duplicate parameters in analyzer definitions are now detected automatically and trigger an error on startup.

  • HSEARCH-2014 (local Lucene indexes only): index size is now reported as part of Hibernate Search statistics, available over JMX in particular if enabled.

  • HSEARCH-2208: use of org.apache.lucene.search.Filter throughout the APIs has been deprecated. You should use org.apache.lucene.search.Query instead, because org.apache.lucene.search.Filter will be removed when we next upgrade the Lucene dependency (in Hibernate Search 6). See the updated documentation for examples on how to achieve filters using queries (you might need to refresh your browser cache to see the latest version of the documentation).

  • HSEARCH-2675: master election when the current master fails now works correctly with the JGroups backend.

  • HSEARCH-1886: we made preliminary changes to make dynamic sharding work correctly with replicated (JGroups/JMS) backends. You can follow progress on HSEARCH-2676.

  • HSEARCH-2502: the worker can now be set to execute works asynchronously even when using Elasticsearch, by setting the same *.worker.execution configuration option as when using local Lucene indexes.

We’d also like to thank Andrej Golovnin for his work on HSEARCH-2691, fixing a bug related to query caching.

How to get this release

All versions are available on Hibernate Search’s web site.

Ideally use a tool to fetch it from Maven central; these are the coordinates:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-search-orm</artifactId>
   <version>5.8.0.Beta2</version>
</dependency>

To use the experimental Elasticsearch integration you’ll also need:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
   <artifactId>hibernate-search-elasticsearch</artifactId>
   <version>5.8.0.Beta2</version>
</dependency>

Downloads from Sourceforge are available as well.

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