Jakarta Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

Jakarta Lucene is an open source project available for free download from Apache Jakarta. Please use the links on the left to access Lucene.

25 November 2003 - Lucene 1.3 RC3 Released

A new release candidate is available with many new features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

12 June 2002 - Lucene 1.2 Final Released

The Lucene Team is proud to announce the release of Lucene 1.2. This is the first production release of Lucene since it moved to the Apache project. This release contains many features and bug fixes. See CHANGES.txt for details. Binary and source distributions are available here.

The goal of the Apache Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions, based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion.