wiki:ReleaseOverview/1.2.20

Release Overview for 1.2.20

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:

See also the full list of bug reports marked as fixed in this release.

  • Several portability improvements.
  • When locking a database for writing, use F_OFD_SETLK where available, which avoids having to fork() a child process to hold the lock. This currently requires Linux kernel >= 3.15, but it has been submitted to POSIX so hopefully will be widely supported eventually. Thanks to Austin Clements for pointing out this now exists.
  • xapian-check: For chert and brass, cross-check the position and postlist tables to detect positional data for non-existent documents.
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