Hi Fergal, You should not expect much support on version 8 going forward. It will probably get critical security releases and not much else.
Mike On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 8:31 AM Fergal Gavin <fergal.ga...@merative.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > We are a user of the Lucene core library in our product. > > With the release of Lucene 9.0.0 in Dec 07 2021 ( > https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/9.0.0), > we were wondering what the future support model for version 8 of the > library will be? Will it be discontinued now that 9.0x is available or > maintained into the future in parallel with V9? Does the Lucene project > have a version 8 support cut-off date in mind? > > I do see that a recent release of version 8 of the library (8.11.2, > https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/8.11.2) > on Jun 18, 2022 so perhaps this indicates that version 8 will be supported > for the foreseeable future? > > Regards, > > Fergal. >
