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This summer was relatively quiet in terms of releases, but many have been testing and improving the Beta1 release of our Hibernate Search / Elasticsearch integration.

So today we release version 5.6.0.Beta2 with 45 fixes and enhancements!

For a detailed list of all improvements, see this JIRA query.

Hi, I’m Mincong, an engineering student from France. I’m glad to present my Google Summer of Code 2016 project, which provides an alternative to the current mass indexer implementation of Hibernate Search, using the Java Batch architecture (JSR 352). I’ve been working on this project for 4 months. Before getting started, I want to thank Google for sponsoring the project, the Hibernate team for accepting my proposal and my mentors Gunnar and Emmanuel for their help during this period. Now, let’s begin!

We are making good progress on our next major release which focuses on Elasticsearch integration but we don’t forget our beloved users of Hibernate Search 5.5.x and here is a new stable release to prove it!

This bugfix release is entirely based on user feedback so keep it coming!

Hibernate Search version 5.5.4.Final is available now and fixes the following issues:

After over 60 resolved tasks, we’re proud to release Hibernate Search version 5.6.0.Beta1.

The Elasticsearch integration made significant progress, and we believe it to be ready for wider usage.

While the team has been busy implementing great new features such as the Elasticsearch integration for the next 5.6 release, some of you provided interesting feedback on our stable release.

The summary of the feedback I heard is that migrating to the new sorting requirements can be confusing, and there were some issues with our Faceting implementation.

Hibernate Search version 5.5.3.Final is available now, fixing the reported issues and improving the error messages around sorting.

The changelog is rather small, so this time I’ll post it verbatim:

Having fixed several issues and tasks since the previous milestone, it’s time to publish our third milestone towards Elasticsearch integration: Hibernate Search version 5.6.0.Alpha3 is now available!

In this post, I’d like you to meet Martin, who, in spite of his young age, has been very active in the Hibernate Search project development, implementing some interesting extensions or helping with pull request reviewing.

Because I’d love to see more university students getting involved with open source software, I took this opportunity and interviewed Martin about this experience.

During my talk at VoxxedVienna on using Hibernate Search with Elasticsearch earlier this week, there was an interesting question which I couldn’t answer right away:

"When running a full-text query with a projection of fields, is it possible to return the result as a list of POJOs rather than as a list of arrays of Object?"

The answer is: Yes, it is possible, result transformers are the right tool for this.

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.