Release Overview for 1.0.15

This page contains a high level description of the more notable changes made for release 1.0.15. 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 1.0.15.

WritableDatabase::replace_document() is now lazier

• WritableDatabase::replace_document() now updates the database lazily in simple cases - for example, if you just change a document's values and replace it with the same docid, then the terms and document data aren't needlessly rewritten. Caveats: currently we only check if you've looked at the values/terms/data, not if they've actually been modified, and only keep track of the last document read.

API documentation improved

• Overhaul the doxygen options we use and tweak various documentation comments to improve the generated API documentation.

Omega

• omindex: Implement correct handling of paths when calling external filter programs on Microsoft Windows.