In Relation To

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:

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One of the things library developers often miss in Java are property literals. In this post I’m going to show how to make creative use of Java 8 method references to emulate property literals, with the help of some byte code generation.

Akin to class literals (e.g. Customer.class), property literals would allow to refer to the properties of a bean class in a type-safe manner. This would be useful for designing APIs that run actions on specific bean properties or apply some means of configuration to them. E.g. consider the API for programmatic configuration of index mappings in Hibernate Search:

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We are getting closer and closer to the final release of Hibernate OGM 5.

This release includes support for Redis Cluster and a new dialect to store data within Redis hashes; java.util.UUID are now using the native uuid type in Apache Cassandra; more queries are now supported using the MongoDB CLI syntax.

This release is also aligned to the Hibernate 5 family and it will work with Hibernate ORM 5, Hibernate Search 5.5 and the latest WildFly 10. Check the previous post for more details about it.

The migration notes contains more information about migrating from earlier versions of Hibernate OGM to 5.x.

Have a look at the change log for a list of everything included in this release.

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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!

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Hibernate ORM 5.0.9.Final has just been tagged and published.

The complete list of changes can be found here (or here for people without a Hibernate Jira account).

In addition, the 5.0 Migration Guide has been updated to document migration issues when moving from earlier 5.0 releases to 5.0.8.

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.