Hibernate Search has a new beta out and comes with a bunch of interesting new features: - Named filters: query result filter (transparently cacheable) - Automatic index optimization - Access to query metadata (Score, ...) - Support for the Java Persistence API - Index sharding (indexing an entity into several underlying Lucene indexes) and a few more, check out http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/ blosxom.cgi/2007/08/01#hsearch300beta4 for more info. The download page is http://www.hibernate.org/6.html Many thanks to John Griffin and Hardy Ferentschik for stepping up on this release. The feature set is up to what was envisioned for the final release and has proven fairly stable. We expect a short CR cycle and the GA soon after. Emmanuel