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Today we’re proud to announce the first Alpha release sporting experimental integration with Elasticsearch!

We also updated to use Apache Lucene 5.5 - the latest stable release of our favourite search engine - as of course we’re not abandoning our traditional users!

I’m glad to announce the first release of the Eclipse plugin for Hibernate Search. In this post I want to describe its features and ask you for any comments, positive or (even more important for me) negative.

Version 5.5.2.Final is now available, our latest stable version sporting integration with Hibernate ORM 5 and Apache Lucene 5.3 - the state of the art.

Creating this version to be compatible with these two great OSS projects kept us busy for a good deal of this past year; I remember discussing this option with superstar OSS contributors Uwe Schindler (Apache Lucene developer) and Gustavo Nalle (Infinispan developer) at FOSDEM in January 2015! I am grateful to both for their guidance and suggestions, as driving progress forward is sometimes challenging when we strive to keep backwards compatibility as best as we can.

On top of that, our same small but amazing team as been working hard on Hibernate OGM 5, a bit of Hibernate Validator, incredible performance improvements on Hibernate ORM "classic" and is still tinkering on the internals of Hibernate Search to make an Elasticsearch backend an alternative to plain Lucene.

Hibernate Search 5.5.1.Final is now available!

Feedback about our recent 5.5.0.Final release has been great, and while the good news is that nobody reported significant issues, some people also pointed out that the new sorting system was a bit limited.

So we’ve been working on enhancing the FieldBridge API to make sure that those more expert users who implement their own bridging would have a better control on how sorting works as well.

We’ve also started some work to push the performance higher, and overall I’m proud to state that this 5.5.1.Final release is including some small internal polish, but results in measurable improvements.

I’m happy to announce the latest final release of Hibernate Search: Hibernate Search 5.5 Final. We mainly consolidated the features included in the latest candidate release and worked on fixing some bugs.

As a reminder on versions:

Hibernate Search now requires at least Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final, and at the time of writing only Infinispan 8.0.1.Final supports real time replication of an Apache Lucene 5.3 index.

"Order, ooorder!" - Sometimes not only the honourable members of the House of Commons need to be called to order, but also the results of Hibernate Search queries need to be ordered in a specific way.

To do so, just pass a Sort object to your full-text query before executing it, specifying the field(s) to sort on:

The first Candidate Release for Hibernate Search 5.5 is now available, introducing integration with Apache Lucene 5.3 and several nice improvements.

As a reminder on versions: Hibernate Search now requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final at least, and at the time of writing only Infinispan 8.0.1.Final supports real time replication of an Apache Lucene 5.3 index.

After two candidate releases and a bit of quiet time in waiting for Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final, we now published Hibernate Search 5.4.0.Final: the first stable release compatible with ORM 5.

In the last couple of months we’ve been working to upgrade Hibernate Search to use Apache Lucene 5, to keep up with the greatest releases from the Lucene community.

Today Hibernate Search 5.5.0.Alpha1 is available!

As the version suggests this is the first cut, but we’ll also need your feedback and suggestions to better assess the needed steps to evolve this into a great, efficient and stable Final release.

While Hibernate ORM applies some more polish before releasing the final version, so did the Hibernate Search team.

Hibernate Search version 5.4.0.CR2 is now available! It was built and tested with Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.CR3, again we’re just waiting for that to be final but decided to release another Candidate Release as some fixes and improvements were recently applied.