Hibernate Search 3.0.0.Beta2 is out with a bunch of new interesting features: * shared Lucene IndexReader, significantly increasing the performances especially in read mostly applications * ability to customize the object graph fetching strategy * properties projection from the Lucene index * ability to sort queries (thanks to Hardy Ferentschik) * expose the total number of matching results regardless of pagination * and some other surprises and bug fixes Check http://blog.hibernate.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/ 2007/05/31#HSearch-3.0.0.Beta2 for more information.