It is a pleasure to inform you that the new version of the Lucene library has been released. It is the next release from the 8.x branch and it is numbered 8.11.2.
Full list of changes can be found at https://lucene.apache.org/core/8_11_2/changes/Changes.html.
Apache Lucene library 8.11.2 can be downloaded from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java.