Release Overview for 1.0.16

This page contains a high level description of the more notable changes made for release 1.0.16. For full details of user-visible changes, see the NEWS files in each module:

• xapian-core
• omega
• xapian-bindings
• Search::Xapian

See also the full list of bug reports marked as fixed in 1.0.16.

Flint Backend

• Fix a typo which stopped this fix in 1.0.12 from working (ticket#398):

If we fail to get the lock after we spawn the child lock process (the common case is because the database is already open for writing) then we now clean up the child process properly.

Portability

• Fix build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.

Omega

• omega: Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability in reporting of exceptions (CVE-2009-2947).