[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucene 7.3.0 released

[Alan Woodward <ro...@gmail.com>]

4 April 2018, 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-redir.html>

Lucene 7.3.0 changes include:
- Performance improvements when running on Java 9 or later
- 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
- Confirmed support for Java 10

Please read CHANGES.txt for a full list of changes:

  <https://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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