Here we go again! This release includes a fix for the AssemblyVersion (and other assembly metadata) of Lucene.Net.QueryParser and Lucene.Net.Expressions that were not correctly included because of linked file flakiness in project.json files. There are also updates to the initialization of Codec, PostingsFormat, and DocValuesFormat classes so the Reflection code is executed lazily instead of during static initialization when it is likely to fail in some types of applications. The default codec is now loaded lazily as well and some concurrency issues of the codec factories were addressed.
There were 3 new codec related test failures on .NET core, but after investigation this turned out to be due to the default codec being changed by the test framework to Lucene3x, which is not a writable codec, and the tests expect the codec to be writable. A fix is in the works (which will make these 3 tests no longer randomly fail) but this is no reason to hold up the release. The source and binary packages are available for inspection at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucenenet/. There is a MyGet feed that can be accessed at: V2: https://www.myget.org/F/lucene-net-nuget/api/v2 (VS2012+) V3: https://www.myget.org/F/lucene-net-nuget/api/v3/index.json (VS2015+) The tag is: https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/releases/tag/Lucene.Net_4_8_0_beta00004 Please review the beta and vote (build and test instructions now on the README). This vote will close no sooner than 72 hours from now, i.e. sometime after 18:00 UTC 21-May 2017 +1 - Let's do it 0 - Indifferent -1 - Not ready, because... Hopefully, all of the major issues have now been addressed...and thanks for participating. Thanks, Shad Storhaug (NightOwl888)
