The latest stable release of Hibernate Search is 5.8.2.Final

Note that this version:
- requires Java 8
- requires Hibernate ORM 5.2.3 or later (beware, 5.2.0 to 5.2.2 won't work)
- requires Apache Lucene 5.5.x
- includes support for Elasticsearch integration!

For migration instructions from Hibernate Search version 5.7, please see:
http://hibernate.org/search/documentation/migrate/5.8/
For migration instructions from Hibernate Search version 4.x, please see:
http://hibernate.org/search/documentation/migrate/5.0/