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Aug 18, 2007. Site updates again, 0.9.8 dev news, and a public snapshot
The last week was pretty busy again, being heavily packed with
a number of urgent debugging and bugfixing sessions. Nevertheless,
the changes to 0.9.8 do not only include bugfixes but a number
of new features as well. Since the last update, the following
features were implemented:
- added an option to install searchd as a Windows service;
- added an option to return all MVA values back to client through the API (another protocol update);
- updated index merge to support changes in index format (notably, 64-bit IDs and MVAs).
Also there's a number of features already implemented in 0.9.8 that I forgot to mention last week, namely:
- added support for bitfield attributes (reduces RAM usage);
- added ranged query throttling;
- added an option to mlock() precached data (to prevent it from being swapped out);
- added seamless rotation option (earlier, queries could stall for a few seconds while new data was precached).
There was moderate interest in 0.9.8 snapshots so this time I am also
publishing a new snapshot in Downloads section.
It must be considered alpha quality at this point, but on the other hand
there already were reports of succesful production use. The snapshots
are going to be updated from time to time; notices will appear both here
and in the mailing list, so if you did not
yet subscribe for some reason, it's a good time to.
As you could notice website just had another major update too:
It's possible to view the issues anonymously but you will
need to self-register in the tracker
in order to be able to report and/or monitor bugs (ie. receive e-mail notifications
whenever the bug is updated). Available bug statuses and severities are explained here in
Mantis doc;
and here are the instructions on reporting Sphinx bugs.
So everyone's encouraged to grab a copy of 0.9.8-cvs; give it a try; report any bugs
using the tracker... and full sail to 0.9.8-release!
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