The team is pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Search 4.0 Final available in a SourceForge and Maven repository near you. The main changes are - support for Hibernate Core 4 - support for source of data/events other than Hibernate Core (which is now an optional dependency) - clearer split between APIs, SPIs and implementation classes - better log and error reporting - better underlying architecture - index managers allow now for one backend per index and even non directory based indexes - near real time search - optimized and cross-version compatible wire format for communications between master and slaves - performance improvements (more analyzer parallelization etc) - support for projections on custom bridges fields - support for @IndexedEmbedded on collections of basic types - easier way to work on documentation translation More info at http://goo.gl/pZILz Happy holidays Emmanuel