Codecs for reading indexes from older versions of Lucene.
Packages 
Package Description
org.apache.lucene.codecs
Common APIs for use by backwards compatibility codecs.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene50
Lucene 5.0 file format.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene70
Lucene 7.0 file format.
org.apache.lucene.codecs.lucene80
Lucene 8.0 file format.