"Hopefully early next year" according to one of the committers at Apache Eurocon.
But that said, I know that there are people running trunk versions of Solr in production, so that *is* a possibility although one that makes people nervous. An alternative *might* be "sounds like" (various soundex filters). It's not really the same thing, but could be "good enough"... Best Erick On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Liz Sommers <lizswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anybody know when lucene 4.0 will be coming out? I really need the > improvements to fuzzy searching. Right now it is taking me a minute or > more to do a fuzzy search on my very large index. I need to bring it down. > Does anybody have any solutions for this that do not depend on lucene 4.0? > > Thanks > > Liz Sommers > Madison Systems Solutions > lizswo...@gmail.com >