Hi,
yes I'm aware the check is no longer needed, in fact we dropped it in
HSEARCH-860, where you can find a short explanation too [1].
So since v.4 it won't prevent IPv6 anymore. Versions 3.x are expected
to be compatible with Java5 so backporting the same patch as
HSEARCH-860 would not be the bes
The app I work on needs to bind to ipv6 addresses and to communicate with
other network nodes using ipv6. The library component that does this
communication breaks if I set 'preferIPV4Stack=true'. I've had to remove
the code that forces this from hibernate-search and
hibernate-search-infinispan a