Release Overview for 1.4.30

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

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

Xapian::Stem

• 1.4.28 changed the English stemmer code to remove an exception for "skis" which we incorrectly thought wasn't needed. This was not intended to be a functional change, so we've restored the exception.

omindex

• Fix segmentation fault if an SVG file contains both <dc:title> and <title> with <dc:title> first. Bug introduced in 1.4.21.

Ruby bindings

• Link to RUBY_LIBS on all platforms. We were avoiding this on platforms which allow undefined symbols in shared libraries (which then get resolved when the Ruby interpreter dynamically loads the module). However this was failing to work on macOS, and it seems the Ruby norm is to explicitly link to librubyX.Y so we now do that. Fixes #837, reported by Graeme Porteous.