Release Overview for 1.2.9

This page contains a high level description of the most notable changes made for release 1.2.9. 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 1.2.9.

QueryParser

• Fix FLAG_AUTO_SYNONYMS not to enable auto multi-word synonyms too.

Portability

• Address new warnings from GCC 4.6.

• Fix argument order when linking xapian-check to fix mingw build. (ticket#567)

• Add some missing explicit header includes to fix build with STLport.

Omega

• Our HTML parser now ignores sections bracketed by <!--UdmComment--> and <!--/UdmComment-->, like we already do for <!--htdig_noindex-->.

• omindex: Add more extensions to the default ignore list: bin dat db fon jar lnk pyc pyd pyo sqlite sqlite3 sqlite-journal tmp ttf

Lua

• Handle an exception from C++ by raising a xapian.Error object as an error in Lua.

• Rename get_description() methods to __tostring(), so that you can use write tostring(obj) in Lua.

Search::Xapian

• Wrap Document::get_docid() method.