0.9.9-rc1 is out

All the new features just have been finally documented, all the internal tests pass, so here goes another major step towards version 1.0 (or maybe 1.10 right away? or even 3.23?). Meet a beta version of Sphinx 0.9.9, introducing 34 new features; a handful of improvements and fixes worth a mention in the changelog; and numerous minor changes I did not count. Choosing top-10 features to highlight here was actually a tough job. (Even though choosing top-3 was a no-brainer.) Here they go.

added select-list feature w/full expressions support
added arbitrary brackets/negations nesting support to query language
added config reload on SIGHUP
added signed 64bit attrs support (sql_attr_bigint directive)
added persistent connections, UNIX-socket, and multi-interface support (Open(), Close(), listen)
added kill-lists support
added MS SQL (aka SQL Server) source type support
added inplace inversion of .spa and .spp (inplace_enable, 1.5-2x less disk space for indexing)
added multiforms support (multiple source words in wordforms file)
...and 20+ other features in the changelog

Normally this major changeset would be declared an alpha. However, thanks to brave testers, 0.9.9 already runs in production on several sites. And also its test coverage is actually even better than that of 0.9.8. So we can light-heartedly call it beta (as in "no known major bugs").

Bundled website update includes a few extra links, of which I personally would claim C# .NET API port and Ubuntu package (in Contributed software section) most interesting. And, as you see, we've also refit News and Docs sections; you now can (anonymously) comment on the posts and submit 'em to places like Digg. Testing time!

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#1. Alex Ksikes | 2008-11-18 02:01:07, anonymous

Hi Andrew,

Congratulations on the new release and thank you so much for having added the link to Chiefmall.

Alex Ksikes
CEO - www.chiefmall.com
All Contractors, localized on the Web!

#2. popox | 2008-11-18 20:48:34, anonymous

Congratulations too !
Digg it !

#3. Yohay Elam | 2011-05-03 13:36:43

Congratulations for the new version!

I have a small question: Is this version faster than 0.9.8? Are there performance improvements?

Thanks,
Yohay.

#4. Valery Victorovsky | 2011-05-03 13:37:06

wow!

#5. goodwin | 2011-05-03 13:37:43

Andrew,
Congratulations!

#6. jason | 2008-12-26 17:54:49, anonymous

great job. congs!

#7. Doug Collier | 2009-01-03 19:13:26, anonymous

Hi Andrew,

Are you planning on supporting MS SQL for linux builds?

thanks
-Doug

#8. yhzwql | 2009-01-28 06:05:58, anonymous

Congratulations!!!!

waiting the sphinx for windows prodution ^-^

#9. ARTI | 2009-02-24 23:02:59, anonymous

Thanks you too much for this entry !

#10. sujith | 2009-02-25 06:59:12, anonymous

Congratulations for the new version!!!!

#11. micah | 2009-03-04 19:11:56, anonymous

When will the actual release happen? This looks like a release candidate...

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