We are very pleased to announce the official public BETA release of Lucene.Net 4.8.0!

Lucene.Net is a port of the Java Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET users. Lucene.NET makes it easy to add full-text search capabilities, as well as geo-spatial search, faceting and m...

We are about to release Lucene.NET 4.8, and it's time to show what it can do, and how it can be done. During the MVP Summit I recorded a hands-on introduction video, and it's now live here.

The Demo application can be found here: https://github.com/synhershko/LuceneNetDemo.

nuget packages can be dow...

I have previously blogged about Lucene.NET - saying we are nearing a release, and are happy with what we have so far to call it Beta and ask all to upgrade and let us know how it goes.

Thanks to our contributors, with a lot of great work done by Shad Storhaug we are getting ever closer.

Tests and st...

I am happy to announce that after a long development cycle, Lucene.NET v4.8 is finally ready to be used by your projects.

As you are probably aware, the last release of Lucene.NET (3.0.3) was about 4 years ago, in October 2012. That's a long time for anything - and especially for a project like Luce...

An interview I had with Channel9's Seth Juarez is now live on their website.

In the interview we mostly discussed Lucene.NET and a few related topics, like .NET Fringe - the OSS .NET conference (which is going to be back very soon!).

You can watch it here, and it's also embedded below.

.NET and open-source software. It's not picking up.

I have been sitting on this for a while, and had dozens of discussions about it too. The things I'm about to say here are a result of a journey. Yes, this is criticism; but from a respecting and caring place, coming from a long time OSS contributor...