Sphinx 3.1.1 released

And Sphinx updates again. Enters Sphinx 3.1.1, not hugely different from 3.0.x series on one hand, but on the other one, with a few new features and (beware!) enough breaking legacy SphinxAPI changes that they warranted a version bump. The highlights are as follows.

Sphinx 3.0.3 released

Time for a bugfix spring update. Enters Sphinx 3.0.3, somewhat faster (upto 2x compared to 3.0.2) and more stable. Read on for a little more, or just update now, it will be worth it.

Sphinx 3.0.2 released

A new year, a new build! Slightly behind the initial schedule, but here goes Sphinx 3.0.2, with a few bugfixes, somewhat optimized RT inserts, and last but not least FreeBSD builds.

Sphinx 3.0.1 released

Suddenly, enters the current state of Sphinx 3, tagged 3.0.1. Get Sphinx 3.0.1 here. Production ready (and deployed), with document storage, attribute indexes, lifted index size limits, JSON key compression, etc. Read on for downloads and more details.

First indexing run with 4.0

One of the mysterious internal Sphinx 3.0 4.0 milestones that I mentioned earlier was, in fact, a first super-tiny but working index that got built using the new indexer. Today, I hit another little milestone, and now I can share a few figures obtained with a more reasonably sized test index (1 million documents) that just got built the same way. 1 000 000 documents, 1316.6 MB raw text size, and...

Sphinx 2017

Suddenly, here goes an overdue status update. Short version: Sphinx still goes on in 2017. (And I myself, ie. Andrew, ie. that weird guy who created Sphinx, am still quite alive, in case anyone's curious.) We have downsized, we have been through a rather rough patch, and Sphinx is currently in a semi-stealth mode, again. However, the work still goes on, mostly focused on a 3.0 uber-update these days. Read on for details.

2.3.2 feature : HTTP protocol

Version 2.3.2 introduces a proof-of-concept HTTP protocol as an alternative way to connect to Sphinx.