Welcome to Apache Lucene
The Apache Lucene™ project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named Lucene™ core, as well as PyLucene, a python binding for Lucene.
Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. ThePyLucene sub project provides Python bindings for Lucene Core.
Latest Lucene Core News
Apache Lucene™ 10.3.1 available(06.Oct)
Apache Lucene™ 9.12.3 available(27.Sep)
Apache Lucene™ 10.3.0 available(13.Sep)
ANNOUNCEMENT: TheSolr™ sub project has moved to a separate Top Level Project (TLP). All things Solr can now be found athttps://solr.apache.org/. Mailing lists and git repositories have changed, please see details on the Solr website.
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