Hi, Please vote for release candidate 1 for Lucene 9.9.0
The artifacts can be downloaded from: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-9.9.0-RC1-rev-92a5e5b02e0e083126c4122f2b7a02426c21a037 You can run the smoke tester directly with this command: python3 -u dev-tools/scripts/smokeTestRelease.py \ https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-9.9.0-RC1-rev-92a5e5b02e0e083126c4122f2b7a02426c21a037 The vote will be open for at least 72 hours, and given the weekend in between, let’s it open until 2023-12-04 12:00 UTC. [ ] +1 approve [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) Here is my +1 Draft release highlights can be viewed here (comments and feedback welcome): https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LUCENE/ReleaseNote9_9_0 -Chris.