Apache Lucene Migration Guide

Migration from Lucene 9.0 to Lucene 9.1

Test framework package migration and module (LUCENE-10301)

The test framework is now a Java module. All the classes have been moved from org.apache.lucene.* to org.apache.lucene.tests.* to avoid package name conflicts with the core module. If you were using the Lucene test framework, the migration should be fairly automatic (package prefix).

Minor syntactical changes in StandardQueryParser (LUCENE-10223)

Added interval functions and min-should-match support to StandardQueryParser. This means that interval function prefixes (fn:) and the @ character after parentheses will parse differently than before. If you need the exact previous behavior, clone the StandardSyntaxParser from the previous version of Lucene and create a custom query parser with that parser.

Lucene Core now depends on java.logging (JUL) module (LUCENE-10342)

Lucene Core now logs certain warnings and errors using Java Util Logging (JUL). It is therefore recommended to install wrapper libraries with JUL logging handlers to feed the log events into your app's own logging system.

Under normal circumstances Lucene won't log anything, but in the case of a problem users should find the logged information in the usual log files.

Lucene also provides a JavaLoggingInfoStream implementation that logs IndexWriter events using JUL.

To feed Lucene's log events into the well-known Log4J system, we refer to the Log4j JDK Logging Adapter in combination with the corresponding system property: java.util.logging.manager=org.apache.logging.log4j.jul.LogManager.

Kuromoji and Nori analysis component constructors for custom dictionaries

The Kuromoji and Nori analysis modules had some way to customize the backing dictionaries by passing a path to file or classpath resources using some inconsistently implemented APIs. This was buggy from the beginning, but some users made use of it. Due to move to Java module system, especially the resource lookup on classpath stopped to work correctly. The Lucene team therefore implemented new APIs to create dictionary implementations with custom data files. Unfortunately there were some shortcomings in the 9.1 version, also when using the now deprecated ctors, so users are advised to upgrade to Lucene 9.2 or stay with 9.0.

See LUCENE-10558 for more details and workarounds.

Migration from Lucene 8.x to Lucene 9.0

Rename of binary artifacts from '-analyzers-' to '-analysis-' (LUCENE-9562)

All binary analysis packages (and corresponding Maven artifacts) have been renamed and are now consistent with repository module analysis. You will need to adjust build dependencies to the new coordinates:

LucenePackage class removed (LUCENE-10260)

LucenePackage class has been removed. The implementation string can be retrieved from Version.getPackageImplementationVersion().

Directory API is now little-endian (LUCENE-9047)

DataOutput's writeShort(), writeInt(), and writeLong() methods now encode with little-endian byte order. If you have custom subclasses of DataInput/DataOutput, you will need to adjust them from big-endian byte order to little-endian byte order.

NativeUnixDirectory removed and replaced by DirectIODirectory (LUCENE-8982)

Java 11 supports to use Direct IO without native wrappers from Java code. NativeUnixDirectory in the misc module was therefore removed and replaced by DirectIODirectory. To use it, you need a JVM and operating system that supports Direct IO.

BM25Similarity.setDiscountOverlaps and LegacyBM25Similarity.setDiscountOverlaps methods removed (LUCENE-9646)

The discountOverlaps() parameter for both BM25Similarity and LegacyBM25Similarity is now set by the constructor of those classes.

Packages in misc module are renamed (LUCENE-9600)

These packages in the lucene-misc module are renamed:

The following classes were moved to the lucene-core module:

• org.apache.lucene.document.InetAddressPoint
• org.apache.lucene.document.InetAddressRange

Packages in sandbox module are renamed (LUCENE-9319)

These packages in the lucene-sandbox module are renamed:

Backward codecs are renamed (LUCENE-9318)

These packages in the lucene-backwards-codecs module are renamed:

JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory loads default stop tags if "tags" argument not specified (LUCENE-9567)

Previously, JapanesePartOfSpeechStopFilterFactory added no filter if args didn't include "tags". Now, it will load the default stop tags returned by JapaneseAnalyzer.getDefaultStopTags() (i.e. the tags fromstoptags.txt in the lucene-analyzers-kuromoji jar.)

ICUCollationKeyAnalyzer is renamed (LUCENE-9558)

These packages in the lucene-analysis-icu module are renamed:

Base and concrete analysis factories are moved / package renamed (LUCENE-9317)

Base analysis factories are moved to lucene-core, also their package names are renamed.

The service provider files placed in META-INF/services for custom analysis factories should be renamed as follows:

• META-INF/services/org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenizerFactory
• META-INF/services/org.apache.lucene.analysis.CharFilterFactory
• META-INF/services/org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilterFactory

StandardTokenizerFactory is moved to lucene-core module.

The org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard package in lucene-analysis-common module is split into org.apache.lucene.analysis.classic and org.apache.lucene.analysis.email.

RegExpQuery now rejects invalid backslashes (LUCENE-9370)

We now follow the Java rules for accepting backslashes. Alphabetic characters other than s, S, w, W, d or D that are preceded by a backslash are considered illegal syntax and will throw an exception.

RegExp certain regular expressions now match differently (LUCENE-9336)

The commonly used regular expressions \w \W \d \D \s and \S now work the same way Java Pattern matching works. Previously these expressions were (mis)interpreted as searches for the literal characters w, d, s etc.

NGramFilterFactory "keepShortTerm" option was fixed to "preserveOriginal" (LUCENE-9259)

The factory option name to output the original term was corrected in accordance with its Javadoc.

IndexMergeTool defaults changes (LUCENE-9206)

This command-line tool no longer forceMerges to a single segment. Instead, by default it just follows (configurable) merge policy. If you really want to merge to a single segment, you can pass -max-segments 1.

FST Builder is renamed FSTCompiler with fluent-style Builder (LUCENE-9089)

Simply use FSTCompiler instead of the previous Builder. Use either the simple constructor with default settings, or the FSTCompiler.Builder to tune and tweak any parameter.

Kuromoji user dictionary now forbids illegal segmentation (LUCENE-8933)

User dictionary now strictly validates if the (concatenated) segment is the same as the surface form. This change avoids unexpected runtime exceptions or behaviours. For example, these entries are not allowed at all and an exception is thrown when loading the dictionary file.

# concatenated "日本経済新聞" does not match the surface form "日経新聞"
日経新聞,日本 経済 新聞,ニホン ケイザイ シンブン,カスタム名詞

# concatenated "日経新聞" does not match the surface form "日本経済新聞"
日本経済新聞,日経 新聞,ニッケイ シンブン,カスタム名詞

JapaneseTokenizer no longer emits original (compound) tokens by default when the mode is not NORMAL (LUCENE-9123)

JapaneseTokenizer and JapaneseAnalyzer no longer emits original tokens when discardCompoundToken option is not specified. The constructor option has been introduced since Lucene 8.5.0, and the default value is changed to true.

When given the text "株式会社", JapaneseTokenizer (mode != NORMAL) emits decompounded tokens "株式" and "会社" only and no longer outputs the original token "株式会社" by default. To output original tokens, discardCompoundToken option should be explicitly set to false. Be aware that if this option is set to false, SynonymFilter or SynonymGraphFilter does not work correctly (see LUCENE-9173).

Analysis factories now have customizable symbolic names (LUCENE-8778) and need additional no-arg constructor (LUCENE-9281)

The SPI names for concrete subclasses of TokenizerFactory, TokenFilterFactory, and CharfilterFactory are no longer derived from their class name. Instead, each factory must have a static "NAME" field like this:

    /** o.a.l.a.standard.StandardTokenizerFactory's SPI name */
    public static final String NAME = "standard";

A factory can be resolved/instantiated with its NAME by using methods such as TokenizerFactory.lookupClass(String) or TokenizerFactory.forName(String, Map<String,String>).

If there are any user-defined factory classes that don't have proper NAME field, an exception will be thrown when (re)loading factories. e.g., when calling TokenizerFactory.reloadTokenizers(ClassLoader).

In addition starting all factories need to implement a public no-arg constructor, too. The reason for this change comes from the fact that Lucene now uses java.util.ServiceLoader instead its own implementation to load the factory classes to be compatible with Java Module System changes (e.g., load factories from modules). In the future, extensions to Lucene developed on the Java Module System may expose the factories from their module-info.java file instead of META-INF/services.

This constructor is never called by Lucene, so by default it throws an UnsupportedOperationException. User-defined factory classes should implement it in the following way:

    /** Default ctor for compatibility with SPI */
    public StandardTokenizerFactory() {
      throw defaultCtorException();
    }

(defaultCtorException() is a protected static helper method)

TermsEnum is now fully abstract (LUCENE-8292, LUCENE-8662)

TermsEnum has been changed to be fully abstract, so non-abstract subclasses must implement all its methods. Non-Performance critical TermsEnums can use BaseTermsEnum as a base class instead. The change was motivated by several performance issues with FilterTermsEnum that caused significant slowdowns and massive memory consumption due to not delegating all method from TermsEnum.

RAMDirectory, RAMFile, RAMInputStream, RAMOutputStream removed (LUCENE-8474)

RAM-based directory implementation have been removed. ByteBuffersDirectory can be used as a RAM-resident replacement, although it is discouraged in favor of the default MMapDirectory.

Similarity.SimScorer.computeXXXFactor methods removed (LUCENE-8014)

SpanQuery and PhraseQuery now always calculate their slops as (1.0 / (1.0 + distance)). Payload factor calculation is performed by PayloadDecoder in the lucene-queries module.

Scorer must produce positive scores (LUCENE-7996)

Scorers are no longer allowed to produce negative scores. If you have custom query implementations, you should make sure their score formula may never produce negative scores.

As a side-effect of this change, negative boosts are now rejected and FunctionScoreQuery maps negative values to 0.

CustomScoreQuery, BoostedQuery and BoostingQuery removed (LUCENE-8099)

Instead use FunctionScoreQuery and a DoubleValuesSource implementation. BoostedQuery and BoostingQuery may be replaced by calls to FunctionScoreQuery.boostByValue() and FunctionScoreQuery.boostByQuery(). To replace more complex calculations in CustomScoreQuery, use the lucene-expressions module:

SimpleBindings bindings = new SimpleBindings();
bindings.add("score", DoubleValuesSource.SCORES);
bindings.add("boost1", DoubleValuesSource.fromIntField("myboostfield"));
bindings.add("boost2", DoubleValuesSource.fromIntField("myotherboostfield"));
Expression expr = JavascriptCompiler.compile("score * (boost1 + ln(boost2))");
FunctionScoreQuery q = new FunctionScoreQuery(inputQuery, expr.getDoubleValuesSource(bindings));

IndexOptions can no longer be changed dynamically (LUCENE-8134)

Changing IndexOptions for a field on the fly will now result into an IllegalArgumentException. If a field is indexed (FieldType.indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE) then all documents must have the same index options for that field.

IndexSearcher.createNormalizedWeight() removed (LUCENE-8242)

Instead use IndexSearcher.createWeight(), rewriting the query first, and using a boost of 1f.

Memory codecs removed (LUCENE-8267)

Memory codecs (MemoryPostingsFormat, MemoryDocValuesFormat) have been removed from the codebase.

Direct doc-value format removed (LUCENE-8917)

The Direct doc-value format has been removed from the codebase.

QueryCachingPolicy.ALWAYS_CACHE removed (LUCENE-8144)

Caching everything is discouraged as it disables the ability to skip non-interesting documents. ALWAYS_CACHE can be replaced by a UsageTrackingQueryCachingPolicy with an appropriate config.

English stopwords are no longer removed by default in StandardAnalyzer (LUCENE-7444)

To retain the old behaviour, pass EnglishAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS_SET as an argument to the constructor

StandardAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS_SET has been moved

English stop words are now defined in EnglishAnalyzer.ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS_SET in the analysis-common module.

TopDocs.maxScore removed

TopDocs.maxScore is removed. IndexSearcher and TopFieldCollector no longer have an option to compute the maximum score when sorting by field. If you need to know the maximum score for a query, the recommended approach is to run a separate query:

  TopDocs topHits = searcher.search(query, 1);
  float maxScore = topHits.scoreDocs.length == 0 ? Float.NaN : topHits.scoreDocs[0].score;

Thanks to other optimizations that were added to Lucene 8, this query will be able to efficiently select the top-scoring document without having to visit all matches.

TopFieldCollector always assumes fillFields=true

Because filling sort values doesn't have a significant overhead, the fillFields option has been removed from TopFieldCollector factory methods. Everything behaves as if it was previously set to true.

TopFieldCollector no longer takes a trackDocScores option

Computing scores at collection time is less efficient than running a second request in order to only compute scores for documents that made it to the top hits. As a consequence, the trackDocScores option has been removed and can be replaced with the new TopFieldCollector.populateScores() helper method.

IndexSearcher.search(After) may return lower bounds of the hit count and TopDocs.totalHits is no longer a long

Lucene 8 received optimizations for collection of top-k matches by not visiting all matches. However these optimizations won't help if all matches still need to be visited in order to compute the total number of hits. As a consequence, IndexSearcher's search() and searchAfter() methods were changed to only count hits accurately up to 1,000, and Topdocs.totalHits was changed from a long to an object that says whether the hit count is accurate or a lower bound of the actual hit count.

RAMDirectory, RAMFile, RAMInputStream, RAMOutputStream are deprecated (LUCENE-8467, LUCENE-8438)

This RAM-based directory implementation is an old piece of code that uses inefficient thread synchronization primitives and can be confused as "faster" than the NIO-based MMapDirectory. It is deprecated and scheduled for removal in future versions of Lucene.

LeafCollector.setScorer() now takes a Scorable rather than a Scorer (LUCENE-6228)

Scorer has a number of methods that should never be called from Collectors, for example those that advance the underlying iterators. To hide these, LeafCollector.setScorer() now takes a Scorable, an abstract class that scorers can extend, with methods docId() and score().

Scorers must have non-null Weights

If a custom Scorer implementation does not have an associated Weight, it can probably be replaced with a Scorable instead.

Suggesters now return Long instead of long for weight() during indexing, and double instead of long at suggest time

Most code should just require recompilation, though possibly requiring some added casts.

TokenStreamComponents is now final

Instead of overriding TokenStreamComponents.setReader() to customise analyzer initialisation, you should now pass a Consumer<Reader> instance to the TokenStreamComponents constructor.

LowerCaseTokenizer and LowerCaseTokenizerFactory have been removed

LowerCaseTokenizer combined tokenization and filtering in a way that broke token normalization, so they have been removed. Instead, use a LetterTokenizer followed by a LowerCaseFilter.

CharTokenizer no longer takes a normalizer function

CharTokenizer now only performs tokenization. To perform any type of filtering use a TokenFilter chain as you would with any other Tokenizer.

Highlighter and FastVectorHighlighter no longer support ToParent/ToChildBlockJoinQuery

Both Highlighter and FastVectorHighlighter need a custom WeightedSpanTermExtractor or FieldQuery, respectively, in order to support ToParentBlockJoinQuery/ToChildBlockJoinQuery.

MultiTermAwareComponent replaced by CharFilterFactory.normalize() and TokenFilterFactory.normalize()

Normalization is now type-safe, with CharFilterFactory.normalize() returning a Reader and TokenFilterFactory.normalize() returning a TokenFilter.

k1+1 constant factor removed from BM25 similarity numerator (LUCENE-8563)

Scores computed by the BM25Similarity are lower than previously as the k1+1 constant factor was removed from the numerator of the scoring formula. Ordering of results is preserved unless scores are computed from multiple fields using different similarities. The previous behaviour is now exposed by the LegacyBM25Similarity class which can be found in the lucene-misc jar.

IndexWriter.maxDoc()/numDocs() removed in favor of IndexWriter.getDocStats()

IndexWriter.getDocStats() should be used instead of maxDoc() / numDocs() which offers a consistent view on document stats. Previously calling two methods in order to get point in time stats was subject to concurrent changes.

maxClausesCount moved from BooleanQuery To IndexSearcher (LUCENE-8811)

IndexSearcher now performs max clause count checks on all types of queries (including BooleanQueries). This led to a logical move of the clauses count from BooleanQuery to IndexSearcher.

TopDocs.merge shall no longer allow setting of shard indices

TopDocs.merge()'s API has been changed to stop allowing passing in a parameter to indicate if it should set shard indices for hits as they are seen during the merge process. This is done to simplify the API to be more dynamic in terms of passing in custom tie breakers. If shard indices are to be used for tie breaking docs with equal scores during TopDocs.merge(), then it is mandatory that the input ScoreDocs have their shard indices set to valid values prior to calling merge()

TopDocsCollector Shall Throw IllegalArgumentException For Malformed Arguments

TopDocsCollector shall no longer return an empty TopDocs for malformed arguments. Rather, an IllegalArgumentException shall be thrown. This is introduced for better defence and to ensure that there is no bubbling up of errors when Lucene is used in multi level applications

Assumption of data consistency between different data-structures sharing the same field name

Sorting on a numeric field that is indexed with both doc values and points may use an optimization to skip non-competitive documents. This optimization relies on the assumption that the same data is stored in these points and doc values.

Require consistency between data-structures on a per-field basis

The per field data-structures are implicitly defined by the first document indexed that contains a certain field. Once defined, the per field data-structures are not changeable for the whole index. For example, if you first index a document where a certain field is indexed with doc values and points, all subsequent documents containing this field must also have this field indexed with only doc values and points.

This also means that an index created in the previous version that doesn't satisfy this requirement can not be updated.

Doc values updates are allowed only for doc values only fields

Previously IndexWriter could update doc values for a binary or numeric docValue field that was also indexed with other data structures (e.g. postings, vectors etc). This is not allowed anymore. A field must be indexed with only doc values to be allowed for doc values updates in IndexWriter.

SortedDocValues no longer extends BinaryDocValues (LUCENE-9796)

SortedDocValues no longer extends BinaryDocValues: SortedDocValues do not have a per-document binary value, they have a per-document numeric ordValue(). The ordinal can then be dereferenced to its binary form with lookupOrd(), but it was a performance trap to implement a binaryValue() on the SortedDocValues api that does this behind-the-scenes on every document.

You can replace calls of binaryValue() with lookupOrd(ordValue()) as a "quick fix", but it is better to use the ordinal alone (integer-based datastructures) for per-document access, and only call lookupOrd() a few times at the end (e.g. for the hits you want to display). Otherwise, if you really don't want per-document ordinals, but instead a per-document byte[], use a BinaryDocValues field.

Removed CodecReader.ramBytesUsed() (LUCENE-9387)

Lucene index readers are now using so little memory with the default codec that it was decided to remove the ability to estimate their RAM usage.

LongValueFacetCounts no longer accepts multiValued param in constructors (LUCENE-9948)

LongValueFacetCounts will now automatically detect whether-or-not an indexed field is single- or multi-valued. The user no longer needs to provide this information to the ctors. Migrating should be as simple as no longer providing this boolean.

SpanQuery and subclasses have moved from core/ to the queries module

They can now be found in the org.apache.lucene.queries.spans package.

SpanBoostQuery has been removed (LUCENE-8143)

SpanBoostQuery was a no-op unless used at the top level of a SpanQuery nested structure. Use a standard BoostQuery here instead.

Sort is immutable (LUCENE-9325)

Rather than using setSort() to change sort values, you should instead create a new Sort instance with the new values.

Taxonomy-based faceting uses more modern encodings (LUCENE-9450, LUCENE-10062, LUCENE-10122)

The side-car taxonomy index now uses doc values for ord-to-path lookup (LUCENE-9450) and parent lookup (LUCENE-10122) instead of stored fields and positions (respectively). Document ordinals are now encoded with SortedNumericDocValues instead of using a custom (v-int) binary format. Performance gains have been observed with these encoding changes, but to benefit from them, users must create a new index using 9.x (it is not sufficient to reindex documents against an existing 8.x index). In order to remain backwards-compatible with 8.x indexes, the older format is retained until a full rebuild is done.

Additionally, OrdinalsReader (and sub-classes) have been marked @Deprecated as custom binary encodings will not be supported for Document ordinals in 9.x onwards (SortedNumericDocValues are used out-of-the-box instead).

9.12.0: Indexing vectors with 8 bit scalar quantization is no longer supported but 7 and 4 bit quantization still work (GITHUB#13519)

8 bit scalar vector quantization is no longer supported: it was buggy starting in 9.11 (GITHUB#13197). 4 and 7 bit quantization are still supported. Existing (9.11) Lucene indices that previously used 8 bit quantization can still be read/searched but the results from KNN*VectorQuery are silently buggy. Further 8 bit quantized vector indexing into such (9.11) indices is not permitted, so your path forward if you wish to continue using the same 9.11 index is to index additional vectors into the same field with either 4 or 7 bit quantization (or no quantization), and ensure all older (9.11 written) segments are rewritten either via IndexWriter.forceMerge or IndexWriter.addIndexes(CodecReader...), or reindexing entirely.