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Mar 06, 2008. Let's call it 0.9.8-rc1

Looks like we're feature complete for 0.9.8, and it's time to announce RC1. There are no more internal requirements to 0.9.8-release. All that's left is testing, fixing, and polishing the documentation. A number of nice contributions were also made during the last month: there's an OpenBSD port and a phpBB plugin now (for the sake of completeness, MovableType plugin was spotted, and a WordPress plugin was announced).

Notable changes since the last snapshot are as follows:

  • added shebang syntax (interpreter execution) to config files;
  • added preopen, preopen_indexes, unlink_old config options;
  • added EscapeString(), BuildKeywords() API calls;
  • added long query support to SphinxSE (query column can now be TEXT or BLOB, default limit is 256 KB);
  • added quorum searching support;
  • added query comments (comments are passed verbatim to query.log);
  • added --rotate support on Windows;
  • added 'field' and 'range-query' source type support for MVAs;
  • added MVA support to xmlpipe2;
  • added full support for all xhtml1 named entities to the stripper;
  • updated SphinxSE, Python API, and Java API to support all recently added features;
  • updated unified documentation;
  • optimized expression evalution, upto 1.5x-2.0x faster now;
  • optimized "frequent|rare" queries in extended2 mode;
  • optimized RAM usage for tiny indexes;
  • now working well on Solaris (believe it or not, unrelated to the recent Sun's acquisitions).

I'd also like to use this occasion to remind that MySQL UC 2008 is due in about 1 month, and I'm going to buy the tickets and finalize the schedule in about a week. So if you were thinking of any possible changes to that schedule of mine (as in: invitations to user group meetings; on-site consulting visits; suggestions to participate in assessment of Bay Area restaurants; etc) then please do email me now.

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