Continuing on our Hibernate Search 4 journey, we have decided to add a Beta2 to the schedule.
The main feature is that Hibernate Search is now fully abstracted from Hibernate Core. That means Infinispan Query users won't have to drag Hibernate Core and its dependencies anymore. It is also possible now to write an integration between Hibernate Search and another datastore: the contracts have been fleshed out. If we have done our job well, you will have nothing to change in your Maven dependency declaration. 'hibernate-search' is a shell POM depending on the new hibernate-search-orm module.
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We have also fixed a bunch of issues on both new and older features, so please upgrade and let us know how it goes.
And of course, Hibernate search 4 comes with new features like near real time search, new per-index backend architecture, Hibernate Core 4 support, new portable and efficient binary format between nodes. You can read more in our [previous=>http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateSearch4IsComing] [blog=>http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateSearch400Alpha2IsOut] [posts=>http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateSearch400Beta1].
++ Get the release
[Check out the release=>http://hibernate.org/subprojects/search/download] and as usual, make sure you read the [Migration guide=>http://community.jboss.org/wiki/HibernateSearchMigrationGuide] when you upgrade from a previous version.