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  https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_0_0/changes/Changes.html
  
- Lucene 8.0.0 Release Highlights:
+ == Lucene 8.0.0 Release Highlights: ==
-  * Indices that were created before the previous major version will now fail to open even if they have been merged with the previous major version.
-  * Codecs now have the ability to index score impacts.
-  * Queries now support faster collection of top hits when the total hit count is not required.
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+ === Query execution ===
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+ Term queries, phrase queries and boolean queries introduced new optimization that enables efficient skipping over non-competitive documents when the total hit count is not needed. Depending on the exact query and data distribution, queries might run between a few percents slower and many times faster, especially term queries and pure disjunctions.
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+ In order to support this enhancement, some API changes have been made:
+  * `TopDocs.totalHits` is no longer a long but an object that gives a lower bound of the actual hit count.
-  * IndexSearcher's search and searchAfter methods now only compute total hit counts accurately up to 1,000 in order to enable top-hits optimizations.
+  * `IndexSearcher`'s `search` and `searchAfter` methods now only compute total hit counts accurately up to 1,000 in order to enable this optimization by default.
-  * Queries are now required to produce positive scores.
+  * Queries are now required to produce non-negative scores.
-  * FSTs can now remain off-heap, accessed via IndexInput, and the default codec's term dictionary will now leave the FST for the terms index off-heap for non-primary-key fields using MMapDirectory, reducing heap usage for such fields.
-  * Index-time jump-tables for DocValues, for O(1) advance when retrieving doc values.
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+ === Codecs ===
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+  * Postings now index score impacts alongside skip data. This is how term queries optimize collection of top hits when hit counts are not needed.
+  * Doc values introduced jump tables, so that advancing runs in constant time. This is especially helpful on sparse fields.
+  * The terms index `FST` is now loaded off-heap for non-primary-key fields using `MMapDirectory`, reducing heap usage for such fields.
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+ === Custom scoring ===
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+ The new `FeatureField` allows efficient integration of static features such as a pagerank into the score. Furthermore, the new `LongPoint#newDistanceFeatureQuery` and `LatLonPoint#newDistanceFeatureQuery` methods allow boosting by recency and geo-distance respectively. These new helpers are optimized for the case when total hit counts are not needed. For instance if the pagerank has a significant weight in your scores, then Lucene might be able to skip over documents that have a low pagerank value.
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  Further details of changes are available in the change log available at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/8_0_0/changes/Changes.html