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Second maintenance release for Hibernate Search 5.10

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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 5.10.2.Final, the second maintenance release of Hibernate Search 5.10. This release adds previously missing handling of minimumShouldMatch constraints in boolean junctions.

What’s new?

Most of the changes are purely internal and related to building Hibernate Search from sources.

The only change impacting users is the introduction of minimumShouldMatch constraints in boolean junctions. This was an issue for users of the Elasticsearch integration in particular, since they could create a Lucene BooleanQuery with a minimumShouldMatch constraint, but the constraint was ignored when the query was translated to Elasticsearch. This is no longer the case.

We took this opportunity to backport the parts of the Query DSL that allow to set minimumShouldMatch constraints from the next version of Hibernate Search. You can now simply use code similar to this:

FullTextEntityManager fullTextEntityManager = Search.getFullTextEntityManager( entityManager );
QueryBuilder queryBuilder = fullTextEntityManager.getSearchFactory()
                .buildQueryBuilder().forEntity( MyEntity.class ).get();
Query luceneQuery = queryBuilder.bool()
                .minimumShouldMatchNumber( 2 ) // This is new
                .should( queryBuilder.keyword().onField( "foo" ).matching( "text1" ).createQuery() )
                .should( queryBuilder.keyword().onField( "bar" ).matching( "text2" ).createQuery() )
                .should( queryBuilder.keyword().onField( "foobar" ).matching( "text3" ).createQuery() )
                .createQuery();
FullTextQuery query = fullTextEntityManager.createFullTextQuery( luceneQuery, MyEntity.class );

... and the resulting query will only match documents that match at least two should clauses.

There are more advanced syntaxes, please refer to the javadoc of org.hibernate.search.query.dsl.BooleanJunction for more detailed information.

How to get this release

All details are available and up to date on the dedicated page on hibernate.org.

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