Apache Lucene 9.1.0 Release: New Features, Optimizations, and Other Improvements

Apache Lucene 9.1.0 introduces modular JAR organization, nearest‑neighbor vector search support, internal query syntax, a Spanish plural stem filter, significant throughput and speed gains for high‑dimensional vectors, faster count queries, and various other enhancements and test framework changes.

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Apache Lucene 9.1.0 Release: New Features, Optimizations, and Other Improvements

Apache Lucene has released version 9.1.0. Compared with version 9.0, this release mainly improves the following aspects:

New Features

Lucene JARs are organized using Java modularization, providing module descriptors and dependency information.

Filters now support nearest‑neighbor vector search.

The standard query syntax supports inner queries.

A brand‑new token filter, SpanishPluralStemFilter , provides precise stemming for Spanish plurals.

Optimizations

Indexing throughput for high‑dimensional vectors improves by 30%.

Search speed for high‑dimensional adjacency vectors improves by 10%.

Count searches across different query types are faster.

Computation of classification aggregation information is faster.

Other minor search speed improvements, including enhancements to PointRangeQuery , MultiRangeQuery , and CoveringRangeQuery .

Other

The test framework has also been modularized; all package names are changed to org.apache.lucene.tests.* to avoid naming conflicts.

Lucene now faithfully implements the HNSW algorithm for nearest‑neighbor search by supporting multiple graph layers.

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