Re: How are precompiled ICU files generated in Lucene upgrade

Robert Muir <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:41:22 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.jakarta.lucene.user
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:50=E2=80=AFPM Anh D=C5=A9ng B=C3=B9i <dungba.sg@=
gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Dawid!
>
> What you said makes sense (reducing build time and catch inconsistency).
>
> I have some follow-up questions, when is the ICU library usually upgraded
> (I previously thought of a major release, but the last upgrade seems to b=
e
> in the middle (10.1 to 10.2)), and are there any drawbacks on upgrading t=
he
> ICU library whenever it's released? Maybe it adds some workloads, but may=
be
> it can be automated?

In the past this was inconsistent, it was "whenever there was time".
Now at least dependabot alerts us by sending a PR, so maybe that
improves. There is automation run by "gradle regenerate" that handles
the upgrade.