= Release Overview for 1.0.8 =

This page contains a high level description of the more notable changes made for release 1.0.8.
For full details of user-visible changes, see the NEWS files in each module:

 - [http://svn.xapian.org/*checkout*/tags/1.0.8/xapian-core/NEWS xapian-core]

 - [http://svn.xapian.org/*checkout*/tags/1.0.8/xapian-applications/omega/NEWS omega]

 - [http://svn.xapian.org/*checkout*/tags/1.0.8/xapian-bindings/NEWS xapian-bindings]

 - [http://svn.xapian.org/*checkout*/tags/1.0.8/search-xapian/Changes Search::Xapian]

== Flint backend ==

  * Fix WritableDatabase::add_document() and replace_document() not to be O(n*n)
    in the number of values in the new document.

  * Fix handling of a table created lazily after the database has had commits,
    and which is then cursored while still in sequential mode.

  * Fix failure to remove all the Btree entries in some cases when all the
    postings for a term are removed (bug#287).

  * xapian-inspect: Show the help message on start-up.  Correct the documented
    alias for next from {{{' '}}} to {{{''}}}.  Avoid reading outside of input string when it
    is empty (bug#286).

== Quartz backend ==

  * Backport fix from flint for {{{WritableDatabase::add_document()}}} and
    {{{replace_document()}}} not to be O(n*n) in the number of values in the new
    document.

== Python bindings ==

  * Fix mangling of exceptions thrown from Python subclasses of Xapian classes
    (bug#289).

  * Fix memory leaks in the {{{xapian.Query}}} constructor (bug#294).

== Omindex ==

  * If the character encoding is specified using {{{<meta http-equiv=...>}}} in an
    HTML document then reparse the document if it isn't the encoding we're
    already using so that any preceding {{{<title>}}} is converted correctly
    (bug#292).
	  
  * Convert text from meta tag parameters to UTF-8 (bug#293).
  
  * Handle {{{<meta charset="...">}}} (new in HTML 5).
	  
  * Fix bug in HTML tag parameter parsing which was probably just a small
    performance penalty in real world cases, but could perhaps result in
    parsing bogus extra parameters in carefully contrived situations.  

  * Add missing <signal.h> which caused compilation to fail on at least FreeBSD.