Release Overview for 1.2.13

This page contains a high level description of the most notable changes made for release 1.2.13. 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 1.2.13.

API

• TermGenerator: Add new method TermGenerator::set_max_word_length() to allow this limit to be adjusted by the user.

• QueryParser: Implicitly close any unclosed brackets at the end of the query string. Patch from Sehaj Singh Kalra.

Disk based databases

• Close excess file handles before we get the fcntl lock, which avoids the lock being released again if one is open on the lock file. Notably this avoids a situation where multiple threads in the same process could succeed in locking a database concurrently.

xapian-replicate

• Add a --full-copy option to force a full copy to be sent. (ticket#436)

• Add --quiet option, and be a little more verbose by default.

• Allow files > 32G to be be copied by replication.

Examples

• quest: New --flags command line option to allow setting arbitrary QueryParser flags.

Omega

• Fix to decode %-encoded character at the end of the query string.

CSharp

• configure: Overhaul checks for C# tools to use modern names in preference.

PHP

• Document that subclassing Xapian classes in PHP currently doesn't work with PHP 5.4.

Search::Xapian

• Wrap 2 and 3 parameter forms of StringValueRangeProcessor constructor so prefixes and suffixes can be specified. (ticket#607)

• Wrap the zero argument Query constructor.

• Add wrappers for Query::MatchAll and Query::MatchNothing.