Luxir is an open source hybrid search engine: full-text relevance, vector similarity, faceting, and analytics in one native-code core.https://luxir.org/enhttps://luxir.org/blog/luxir-0-1-0/https://luxir.org/blog/luxir-0-1-0/The first release of Luxir is out, and luxir.org is live with downloads and documentation.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p>Luxir 0.1.0 is out, and this website is live.</p> <p>Luxir is an open source search engine: full-text, vector, and faceted search with analytics, in one native-code engine that you talk to over HTTP/JSON or gRPC. It is released under the Apache License 2.0, and the source is on <a href="https://github.com/luxir-search/luxir">GitHub</a>.</p> <div><h2 id="try-it">Try it</h2></div> <p>The release is a single executable for Linux on x86-64. This gets the build that runs on any x86-64 machine; the <a href="https://luxir.org/download/">download page</a> has faster builds for newer CPUs and explains how to choose one.</p> <div><figure><figcaption><span></span></figcaption><pre><code><div><div><span>curl</span><span> </span><span>-fL</span><span> </span><span>https://github.com/luxir-search/luxir/releases/download/v0.1.0/luxir-0.1.0-linux-x86_64-v2</span><span> </span><span>-o</span><span> </span><span>luxir</span></div></div><div><div><span>chmod</span><span> </span><span>+x</span><span> </span><span>luxir</span></div></div><div><div><span>./luxir</span></div></div></code></pre></figure></div> <p>The HTTP/JSON API is now listening on port 9400. The <a href="https://luxir.org/docs/latest/guide/quickstart/">quickstart</a> takes it from there: index a few documents with curl and search them, with no schema, client library, or cluster to set up first.</p> <div><h2 id="what-is-on-the-site">What is on the site</h2></div> <ul> <li><a href="https://luxir.org/docs/latest/">Documentation</a> for 0.1.0: the guide, the API reference, and the <a href="https://luxir.org/docs/latest/features/">features list</a>, which is the compact answer to what Luxir does today.</li> <li>The <a href="https://luxir.org/docs/latest/design/architecture/">architecture overview</a>, for how the engine is put together and why.</li> <li><a href="https://luxir.org/download/">Downloads</a>, with checksums and a build per x86-64 CPU tier.</li> <li><a href="https://luxir.org/community/">Community</a>: where to ask questions, report bugs, and get involved.</li> </ul> <p>For why I wrote another search engine after Solr, and the first benchmark numbers, see <a href="https://yonik.com/blog/introducing-luxir/">Introducing Luxir</a> on my own blog.</p> <div><h2 id="what-to-expect-from-010">What to expect from 0.1.0</h2></div> <p>This is an early release, put out so people can start using it and telling me what they find. The APIs and the on-disk index format will change before 1.0, so expect to reindex when you upgrade. Luxir is a single-node engine today: replication and distributed search are not implemented yet, and neither is authentication or TLS, so run it behind your own network boundary. The <a href="https://luxir.org/docs/latest/guide/operations/">operations guide</a> has the details.</p> <div><h2 id="say-hello">Say hello</h2></div> <p>Questions and ideas go in <a href="https://github.com/luxir-search/luxir/discussions">GitHub Discussions</a>, bugs in <a href="https://github.com/luxir-search/luxir/issues">Issues</a>, and there is a <a href="https://discord.gg/dEHxRF24uq">Discord server</a> for chat. I would love to hear how it works for you.</p> release