Hi oak-dev, I’ve just created OAK-7769 in which I would like us to consider backporting the similarity search feature that Tommaso implemented in OAK-7575 to Oak 1.8. There is a patch file included in the issue which applies cleanly to 1.8 and all unit tests pass. It includes unit tests written for OAK-7575. The change is almost all additive, meaning there is little existing functionality in 1.8 that is being modified.
Tommaso has viewed the patch; IIUC he feels comfortable with it but I will allow him to speak for himself and comment further one way or the other. -MR
