Release Overview for 1.2.22

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.

API

• Add FLAG_CJK_NGRAM for QueryParser and TermGenerator. Has the same effect as setting the environment variable XAPIAN_CJK_NGRAM. Fixes #180.

testsuite

• Skip timed tests if $AUTOMATED_TESTING is set. Fixes #553, reported by Dagobert Michelsen.

remote backend

• Fix to handle total document length exceeding 34,359,738,368. (Fixes #678, reported by matf).
• Stop apparent error from remote server when read-only client disconnects. A read-only client just closes the connection when done, but the server previously reported "Got exception NetworkError: Received EOF", which sounds like there was a problem. Now we just say "Connection closed" here, and "Connection closed unexpectedly" if the client connects in the middle of an exchange. Possibly fixes #654, reported by German M. Bravo.
• Give a clearer error message when the client and server remote protocol versions aren't compatible.

build system

• pkg-config: Fix library name in .pc file to say "xapian" not "xapian-core". Reported by Eric Lindblad to the xapian-devel list.

tools

• xapian-replicate: Fix replication for files > 4GB on 32-bit platforms. Previously replication would fail to copy a file whose size didn't fit in size_t. Fixes #685, reported by Josh Elsasser.

portability

• Portability fixes for FreeBSD, Cygwin, mingw, Interix, Sun C++, xlC, newer GCC and clang, GCC < 3.4.2.

Omega

• Assorted documentation improvements.
• Fix error reporting in configure if PCRE isn't installed. Fixes #693, reported by lhz7370.

PHP bindings

• Fix memory leak and crash when using PHP subclasses of Xapian functors.
• Subclasses of XapianMatchSpy and XapianPostingSource with implicit constructors now work.

Search::Xapian

• Wrap MatchSpy and ValueCountMatchSpy classes
• Wrap Enquire's add_matchspy and clear_matchspies methods, keeping track of references to Perl MatchSpy objects to avoid leaks.
• Fix infinite loop trying to build with CPANPLUS (fixes #692, reported by Andreas Vögele).