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Lucene 1.9 Release Scheduled

According to Doug Cutting and what he said in the lucene-java-dev mailinglist, Lucene 1.9 RC1 should be out by Monday next week, Feb. the 20th. Following this RC1 release the final version is planned for release a week later, around the 27th of February.

Lucene 1.9 includes brings new features including compressed storage for fields, an Iterator for the Hits objects, an IndexModifier for read/write operations combining IndexReader and IndexWriter and much more. See for instance the changes file in the SVN for more information.