diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 3fa2759e67a7..288536f297df 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ Other
 
 API Changes
 ---------------------
-(No changes)
 
 New Features
 ---------------------
@@ -139,7 +138,8 @@ New Features
 
 Improvements
 ---------------------
-(No changes)
+* GITHUB#12574: Make TaskExecutor public so that it can be retrieved from the searcher and used
+  outside of the o.a.l.search package (Luca Cavanna)
 
 Optimizations
 ---------------------
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
index 9aa865f351a8..6e66d5c2af19 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/IndexSearcher.java
@@ -951,7 +951,12 @@ public Executor getExecutor() {
     return executor;
   }
 
-  TaskExecutor getTaskExecutor() {
+  /**
+   * Returns the {@link TaskExecutor} that this searcher relies on to execute concurrent operations
+   *
+   * @return the task executor
+   */
+  public TaskExecutor getTaskExecutor() {
     return taskExecutor;
   }
 
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TaskExecutor.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TaskExecutor.java
index d416d70c2f54..6e64df31400f 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TaskExecutor.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/TaskExecutor.java
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@
  * calls, and not for potential {@link #invokeAll(Collection)} calls made from one of the tasks.
  * This is to prevent deadlock with certain types of pool based executors (e.g. {@link
  * java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor}).
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
  */
-class TaskExecutor {
+public final class TaskExecutor {
   // a static thread local is ok as long as we use a counter, which accounts for multiple
   // searchers holding a different TaskExecutor all backed by the same executor
   private static final ThreadLocal<Integer> numberOfRunningTasksInCurrentThread =
@@ -61,7 +63,7 @@ class TaskExecutor {
    * @return a list containing the results from the tasks execution
    * @param <T> the return type of the task execution
    */
-  final <T> List<T> invokeAll(Collection<Task<T>> tasks) throws IOException {
+  public <T> List<T> invokeAll(Collection<Task<T>> tasks) throws IOException {
     if (numberOfRunningTasksInCurrentThread.get() > 0) {
       for (Task<T> task : tasks) {
         task.run();
@@ -85,11 +87,24 @@ final <T> List<T> invokeAll(Collection<Task<T>> tasks) throws IOException {
     return results;
   }
 
-  final <C> Task<C> createTask(Callable<C> callable) {
+  /**
+   * Creates a task given the provided {@link Callable}
+   *
+   * @param callable the callable to be executed as part of the task
+   * @return the created task
+   * @param <C> the return type of the task
+   */
+  public <C> Task<C> createTask(Callable<C> callable) {
     return new Task<>(callable);
   }
 
-  static class Task<V> extends FutureTask<V> {
+  /**
+   * Extension of {@link FutureTask} that tracks the number of tasks that are running in each
+   * thread.
+   *
+   * @param <V> the return type of the task
+   */
+  public static final class Task<V> extends FutureTask<V> {
     private Task(Callable<V> callable) {
       super(callable);
     }