Re: Lucene 10.5.1 bugfix release

is this really a candidate for a bugfix release? We've had this
behavior ever since 9.0 -- seems more like an improvement that could
wait for the next minor release. But, you know if the Ignacio wants to
take it on, I wouldn't block it.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 10:52 AM Eran Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've opened a backport of #16368 to branch_10_5: https://github.com/apache/lucene/pull/16490 .
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> The fix makes HNSW graph construction check the merge abort flag before each node insertion, so IndexWriter#rollback and abortMerges no longer block until the entire graph is built. Without it, rollback on a large vector segment can block for tens of minutes. The fix has already been merged to main and branch_10x (#16391).
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> Is it possible to include it in 10.5.1?
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> Thanks,
> Eran.