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= DATE, Apache Lucene™ 7.3.0 available =

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 7.3.0.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and improvements, some of which are highlighted below. The release is available for immediate download at:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html 
Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of new features and changes:

https://lucene.apache.org/core/7_3_0/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 7.3.0 Release Highlights:

 * Performance improvements when running on Java 9
 * A new OpenNLP analysis module allows tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, lemmatization and phrase chunking using OpenNLP tools.
 * Shapes may now be indexed using Google S2 geometry
 * !IndexWriter can opt out of flushing on indexing threads
 * Better relevancy for highlight passages containing phrases

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/7_3_0/changes/Changes.html

Please report any feedback to the mailing lists (http://lucene.apache.org/core/discussion.html)

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