Documentation per Series

8.0

8.0.0.Alpha1 2024-12-17 development

Integration with Hibernate ORM 7.0, metric aggregations, new Lucene-based backend, logging categories and more.

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide (ORM) HTML PDF

Getting started guide (Standalone) HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

7.2

7.2.2.Final 2024-11-25 latest stable

Re-licensing as Apache License 2.0, query string predicates on numeric/date fields, analyzer API

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide (ORM) HTML PDF

Getting started guide (Standalone) HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

7.0

7.0.1.Final 2024-04-10 limited-support

Switch to Jakarta EE / ORM 6.4 without -orm6 artifacts, Hibernate Search BOM

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide (ORM) HTML PDF

Getting started guide (Standalone) HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

6.2

6.2.4.Final 2024-04-10 limited-support

Standalone POJO Mapper, projection to custom (annotated) types, highlighting, excludePaths for @IndexedEmbedded, Elasticsearch schema export

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide (ORM) HTML PDF

Getting started guide (Standalone) HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

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7.1

7.1.2.Final 2024-08-30 end-of-life

Vector search, new query string predicate, simplified Standalone POJO mapper

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide (ORM) HTML PDF

Getting started guide (Standalone) HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

6.1

6.1.8.Final 2023-01-31 end-of-life

Asynchronous, distributed automatic indexing, OpenSearch compatibility, conditional mass indexing, Jakarta EE / ORM 6 artifacts

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

6.0

6.0.11.Final 2023-01-31 end-of-life

API overhaul, safer and more concise Search DSL, more powerful bridges, smarter automatic indexing, nested documents

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide HTML PDF

Migration guide HTML PDF

5.11

5.11.12.Final 2023-01-31 end-of-life

ORM 5.4 compatibility.

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Getting started guide HTML

Migration guide HTML

5.10

5.10.13.Final 2022-10-27 limited-support

ORM 5.3 and JPA 2.2 compatibility, integration to DI frameworks through Hibernate ORM 5.3, upgrade to WildFly 17 and JGroups 4, JPMS automatic module names.

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.9

5.9.3.Final 2018-09-10 end-of-life

JSR 352 (Batch for Java) mass indexing job, WildFly feature packs, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.8

5.8.2.Final 2017-10-26 end-of-life

Experimental integration with Elasticsearch 5.x, AWS integration, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.7

5.7.3.Final 2017-10-26 end-of-life

Improved integration with Elasticsearch 2.x, compatible with Hibernate ORM 5.2.x

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.6

5.6.6.Final 2018-09-10 end-of-life

Introduces experimental support for Elasticsearch, last release supporting Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.5

5.5.8.Final 2017-08-16 end-of-life

Being maintained as it's included in WildFly. Supports Lucene only, requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z

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Migration guide HTML

5.4

5.4.0.Final 2015-09-03 end-of-life

Requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final; Last version compatible with Apache Lucene 4.x

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Migration guide HTML

5.3

5.3.0.Final 2015-06-10 end-of-life

Improved Faceting

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Migration guide HTML

5.2

5.2.1.Final 2015-09-04 end-of-life

Multi-tenancy, optimisations in criteria based loaders

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.1

5.1.2.Final 2015-04-24 end-of-life

Upgrade to Lucene 4 and much much more ...

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

5.0

5.0.1.Final 2015-01-12 end-of-life

Upgrade to Lucene 4 and much much more ...

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

4.5

4.5.3.Final 2015-01-12 end-of-life

Performance, WildFly 8 compatibility, JPA 2.1 / Hibernate ORM 4.3 compatibility

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

Migration guide HTML

4.4

4.4.6.Final 2014-12-02 end-of-life

Dynamic index sharding, new Metadata API, Hibernate ORM 4.2.x compatible

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Migration guide HTML

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