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Jan 15, 2008. 0.9.8 dev news: feature flood
Jan 14, 2008 - 0.9.8 dev news: feature flood
Despite (or maybe thanks to) the holidays the change rate since
the last update was pretty high. In addition to a number of bugfixes,
there was a plethora of new features and improvements.
Major new features include:
- added “xmlpipe2” source type that lets you wrap
arbitrary fields and attributes in a new XML format which indexer
understands (“xmlpipe” was limited to only two fixed
fields and two fixed attributes);
- added “wordforms” feature that checks tokenized words
against word forms dictionaries, and a new utility called “spelldump”
that creates such dictionaries from ispell
.dict+.aff files.
- added ranking modes to ext2 querying engine: you now can choose
faster BM25-only or no-ranking modes on per-query basis;
- added max_iops, max_iosize settings to indexer that
enable you to throttle its disk I/O.
Other changes at a glance:
- added SetFieldWeights() API call to bind field weights by names;
- added SetMaxQueryTime() API call to limit query execution time;
- added 64-bit document IDs support everywhere in the API (namely, to SetIDRange(), to UpdateAttributes(), and to result set on PHP instances with 32-bit integers);
- added per-index HTML stripping settings (html_strip, html_index_attrs, html_remove_elements), and made BuildExcerpts() utilize these settings;
- added metaphone support;
- added log file reopen on SIGUSR1 to searchd (for log rotation), and removed log file locking;
- added --servicename, --iostats switches to searchd;
- added config file validation, and backslash escaping for number sign.
Proceed to Downloads
for a fresh copy of source and Win32 binaries. Ah, and we also have
Sphinx Wiki now so if there are
any other features I forgot to mention, that would be the right place
to help document them!
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