Continuing our journey towards Hibernate Search 4, we have decided to add a Beta2 to the schedule.
The main feature is the full abstraction of Hibernate Search from Hibernate Core. This is especially good news for Infinispan Query users who won't have to drag Hibernate Core and its dependencies anymore. It is now also possible to write an integration between Hibernate Search and another datastore: all the contracts have been fleshed out.
If we have done our job right, you will have nothing to change in your Maven dependency declaration. 'hibernate-search' is still the main artifact to include, but it is now just a shell depending on the new 'hibernate-search-orm' module.
We also have upgraded to Lucene 3.4 which contains performance improvement and important bug fixes.