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Tomorrow the London Java Community (LJC) meets for the monthly Meet a Project night. I'll be there again, this time to explain how to get started contributing to Hibernate Search and answer all the questions you might have about the mysterious world of open source professionals.

We're in Boston for JUDCon and Red Hat Summit; Emmanuel is on stage coding live a nice new demo using Hibernate Search to combine full-text with geographic filtering. It will be contributed to JDF quickstarts but you can already get the sources.

After a week from publishing Hibernate Search 4.3.0.Beta1 with its great performance improvements we're feeling it is actually solid enough to move quickly towards a release, so here you have...

Hibernate Search 4.3.0.Beta1 is now available both in Maven repositories and from Sourceforge.

The Hibernate Search 4.3 iteration reached its first milestone: version 4.3.0.Alpha1 is now available for download from Sourceforge.net and Maven repositories.

Past week I returned from my trip to Bengaluru, where we had one of our great developers conferences.

Hibernate Search 4.2.0.Final is ready for download; grab the distribution from Sourceforge or use the Maven artifacts.

Hibernate Search v.4.2.0.CR1 has just been released. Mostly bug fixes and performance improvements but also an easier way to deploy in JBoss AS 7 or JBoss EAP 6.

The latest Hibernate Search beta v. 4.2.0.Beta2 is available!

Inspired by these questions on the Search forum and stackoverflow I decided to blog about different solutions for the problem using only the tools available in Search right now (4.1.1.Final). But let's start with the problem.