Hibernate Search 3.0.0 Beta3 has been released. It primarily fix a severe bug introduced in beta2 (HSEARCH-66). Besides bug fixes, this release brings some new features: - Lucene index optimization (searchFactory.optimize()) - configurable batch size limit for indexing (drastically simplifying complete data (re-)indexations) - cleaner access to native Lucene (incl shared IndexReaders) Download available at http://www.hibernate.org/6.html