Release Overview for 1.2.17

This page contains a high level description of the most notable changes in this release. 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 this release.

xapian-core

API

• Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance_then_value() and Enquire::set_sort_by_relevance_then_key(): Fix sense of reverse parameter. Reported by "boomboo" on IRC.

Portability

• Assorted improvements for various platforms and compilers.

xapian-bindings

Python

• configure: Some distros now point /usr/bin/python at Python 3, so the check for a Python 2 interpreter now checks for 'python2' first, and checks that the version of found interpreter is 2.x.

Ruby

• Tweak configure to work with Ruby 2.0.