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News entryOct 30, 2008. 0.9.8.1-release is outToday's Downloads star is Sphinx 0.9.8.1. This is a bugfix release, and every commit received especially careful review, so upgrades from 0.9.8 should be smooth. Most of the issues were actually pretty subtle and only occurred under (combinations of) special, and rather rare, circumstances. Except for the index merge feature, where several major bugs were reported in about a month since 0.9.8 release (and then it took another month to get them all caught, reproduced, and fixed). The complete change log is available in the documentation. Speaking of months, we've been silent (on the website) for a while. Not really intentionally, rather just because a whole lot of things happened in the meantime, making me uber-busy, and thus postponing the release rollout somewhat past the point when it was due. For one, October was especially busy; in late September the update rollout was scheduled for October, 1st, but.. you see the calendar. I'd rant about all the events leading to this much of a deadline slip if they were not that numerous. On the brighter side, the update includes more fixes this way. And speaking of events, here goes a new section called Presentations. For now, it only carries our own talks; but please submit yours too! I've just added new slides from 2 conferences held this fall in Russia that I talked at. Going to translate the slides to English as time permits. Some slides back from 2007 are also there (marked as new based on the time of addition, not the talk). Community contributors also did a bunch of work in the meantime, resulting in a couple of new localized articles (in Italian and Turkish), and more contributed software - namely, a patch that adds Firebird support, Drupal modules, Haskell API port, and PECL API port. Of these, I'd especially like to highlight PECL API port. It's based on libsphinxclient (bundled with Sphinx), works as a drop-in replacement to the reference PHP API, and is naturally faster (though we've yet to see the benchmarks). Cheers to Tony, Pierre, Johannes, Markus, Chris, Eelco, Ludovico, and Salih! Last but not least, likely the final teaser for 0.9.9. It adds a number of shiny new features, it now runs in production on several sites, and the only thing that currently holds the alpha release from going public is actually simply the lack of documentation on those features. Ah, and it is where the most changes went, which is one of the reasons why the change log for 0.9.8.1 is so small. Permalink // del.icio.us // digg // stumble Add commentName and Comment are required; other fields are optional. Email will never be displayed nor transferred nor used for anything else except getting back in touch. Register and then login to skip spambot check and filling your name every time. Sorry, no markup at all for now. |
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