I'm happy to report the latest release of Lucene4c, which hopefully will be the last release I do before the project moves into the ASF Incubator, a precursor to it becoming part of the new Lucene TLP at the ASF.
You can get the scoop on exactly what changed from the CHANGES file, but for the curious the major changes are the addition of new APIs for manipulating an entire index instead of simply a single segment, the addition of document and field objects, improvement of many error messages and algorithms, fixes to the compound file stream code and most importantly the addition of doxygen documentation for the public APIs.
You can grab the new version (along with all previous versions) from the project web site.