I am please to announce the GA release of Hibernate Search 3.1. This release focuses on performance improvement and code robustness but also add interesting new features focused on usability: • An analyzer configuration model to declaratively use and compose features like phonetic approximation, n-gram approximation, search by synonyms, stop words filtering, elision correction, unaccented search and many more. • A lot of performance improvements at indexing time (including reduced lock contention, parallel execution). • A lot of performance improvements at query time (including I/O reduction both for Lucene and SQL, and better concurrency). • Additional new features both for indexing and querying (including support for term vector, access to scoped analyzer at query time and access to results explanation). • And more. Thanks to all involved, especially Hardy and Sanne who worked tirelessly pushing new features and enhancements and fixing bugs while John and I where finishing Hibernate Search in action. Read more at http://is.gd/acml Enjoy!