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Release notes for 7.1

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= 16 October 2017, Apache Lucene™ 7.1.0 available =

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 7.1.0.

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_1_0/changes/Changes.html

Lucene 7.1.0 Release Highlights:
 * New Geo3D shapes for non-spherical planet models
 * Serialization and deserialization support for Geo3D
 * A new !CoveringQuery, whose required number of matching clauses can be defined per document
 * New !BengaliAnalyzer for Bengali language
 * A point based range field called !LatLonBoundingBox
 * !FloatPointNearestNeighbor, an N-dimensional !FloatPoint K-nearest-neighbor search implementation
 * Faster default taxonomy cache
 * Support for computing facet counts for individual numeric values via !LongValueFacetCounts
 * Faster geo-distance queries in case of dense single-valued fields when most documents match
 * Better heuristics in !IndexOrDocValuesQuery
 * Optimized builds for !OrdinalMap (used by !SortedSetDocValuesFacetCounts and others)

Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/7_1_0/changes/Changes.html

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