1 Omega 1.4.16 (2020-06-08):
5 * Fix handling of XML empty tag syntax when there's a quoted parameter right
6 before the closing `/>`. This caused `<title xml:lang="en-US"/>` to treat
7 the body text as the document title. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
9 * omindex: Fix killing of filter child process if the parent process receives a
10 signal. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
14 * Reject $setrelevant without an argument list. This has never been documented
15 as allowed, and previously crashed with a segfault. Fixes #802, reported by
18 * If there's an error opening the databases we now close any we managed to open
19 successfully before the error so that things like $dbsize can't end up
20 reporting values for a subset of the specified databases.
24 * Use our own autoconf cache variable namespace (xo_cv_ prefix instead of
25 ac_cv_) to avoid colliding with standard autoconf macro use if config.site or
26 a shared config.cache is used. The former case caused a build failure for
27 the OpenBSD port with 1.4.15, reported by Lucas R.
29 Omega 1.4.15 (2020-02-24):
33 * Update documentation about how to add a new format to omindex. Patch from
38 * Check for a BOM on HTML files, which for HTML5 should determine the encoding.
42 * Allow $if{COND} without any actions which is useful as a way to evaluate
43 something but ignore the result if you just want the side effects. Indeed
44 we were already recommending to use it if you want to ignore the return value
45 of $log. Fixes bug introduced in 1.4.14, reported by tuftedocelot.
47 * Add OmegaScript support for $jsonbool{COND} for encoding a boolean value for
48 use in JSON. This is equivalent to $if{COND,true,false} but more readable.
50 * Add OmegaScript support for $jsonobject{} which allows producing a JSON
51 object from an OmegaScript map.
53 * Allow specifying a format to $jsonarray{} so it is no longer restricted to
54 producing an array of strings.
56 * Add $keys{MAP} OmegaScript command which gives a sorted list of the keys from
61 * Simplify probes for snprintf. The broken snprintf in libbsd in Linux libc4
62 is from ~25 years ago so way too ancient to matter now, and all callers
63 already handle the pre-ISO semantics of returning -1 for an undersize buffer
64 so we don't need to run a test program to probe for this at configure time,
65 which is more cross-compile friendly.
67 * Avoid deprecation warning on recent Linux. We were including sys/sysctl.h if
68 it existed, which it does on Linux but we don't actually use it there.
69 Including it now warns that it is deprecated, so skip including it under
70 Linux. Reported on IRC by kumaran.
72 Omega 1.4.14 (2019-11-23):
76 * Improve omindex --help docs for --duplicates.
80 * Add built-in support for iso-8859-15 so we can handle it without iconv.
81 This charset is a variant of iso-8859-1 with 8 characters changed, most
82 notably including the euro currency symbol. It's the most commonly seen
83 charset we didn't have built-in support for.
87 * Fix error handling in $lookup. We now check for errors from cdb_init()
88 and cdb_get(). We've never checked for errors from cdb_init(), while
89 for cdb_get() this bug was introduced by a warning fix in 1.2.20.
91 Omega 1.4.13 (2019-10-14):
95 * Document that $log will start to return an error message in 1.5.0, and that
96 one can wrap it using a $if with no action now to be future-proof.
100 * Optimise converting us-ascii to UTF-8 to do nothing, like we already do when
101 converting UTF-8 to UTF-8.
105 + Add new 'gap' action which provides a way to leave a gap in the term
106 positions between fields to prevent phrases and positional operators from
107 matching across fields.
111 * Future-proof use of $log against changes in 1.5.0.
113 Omega 1.4.12 (2019-07-23):
117 * Improve docs for OmegaScript $hitlist{}.
119 * Fix RST formatting errors in omega docs.
121 * Clarify use of Q prefix for unique ID terms - it was described as "reserved",
122 but the use of "Q" is really just a convention (and in fact omindex uses "U"
125 * Clarify scriptindex's weight action takes parameter >= 0.
127 * Correct typo in OmegaScript $add parameter documentation.
133 + Fix typo in mimetypes used for Apple iWork documents ("apply" instead of
134 "apple") which meant that these documents weren't actually being indexed.
135 Patch from Bruno Baruffaldi.
137 + Pipe input to ps2pdf as this accepts input on stdin. Possibility pointed
142 + If parsedate action's format includes %z adjust for the timezone if
143 possible (this requires the non-POSIX tm_gmtoff member of struct tm)
144 and flag an error for other platforms.
146 + If parsedate action's format include %Z flag an error as that doesn't
147 seem to be usefully supported by strptime() anywhere.
149 + Fix parsedate action to treat formats without a timezone as being UTC
150 instead of localtime.
152 + Add date=unixutc. The existing date=unix works in localtime which is
153 unhelpful if you want to use it on the output of parsedate since that's in
154 UTC; date=unixutc is just like date=unix except it always works in UTC.
156 + The date action now emits a warning for invalid values. The documentation
157 used to say "invalid values are ignored at present", but it's more helpful
158 to flag bad data than quietly ignore it.
160 + We now check the date action's parameter at script parse time and unknown
161 values result in an error and nothing being indexed. Previously an unknown
162 format uselessly resulted in the terms D, M and Y literally being added to
165 + The split action now supports a new "prefixes" split style. This gives all
166 the prefixes from the split, so split=/,prefixes on a file path gives all
171 * Remove documented limitation of $subdb and $subid - the implementation
172 assumed that each omega database name corresponded to a single Xapian
173 database, and if a database name referred to a stub database file expanding
174 to multiple Xapian databases then they would misbehave. Such cases are now
175 handled properly as well.
177 * Extend $addfilter to support adding negated filters via a new optional second
178 argument which specifies the type of filter to add.
180 * Stop $sort from needlessly ensuring the match has run.
182 * Handle corner case of nested $hitlist gracefully instead of potentially
183 entering an infinite loop.
187 * omegatest: Avoid setting TZ globally during tests as that hides bugs where
188 behaviour depends on the local timezone when it shouldn't.
190 * omegatest: Support testing when built using LeakSanitizer by suppressing
191 leak reports for cached compiled pcre regular expressions. These aren't
192 released when the program exits but aren't memory leaks.
196 * Remove outdated deprecation warning suppression which was there to support
197 building from git in the run up to 1.3.2 - a development version which is
198 nearly 5 years ago now.
202 * Fix problems with fallback strptime() implementation which was being included
203 in the wrong binary, and was lacking a required const_cast on the return
206 * Rework setenv() compatibility handling. Now that Solaris 9 is dead we can
207 assume setenv() is provided by Unix-like platforms (POSIX requires it). For
208 other platforms, provide a compatibility implementation of setenv() so the
209 compatibility code is encapsulated in one place rather than replicated at
212 Omega 1.4.11 (2019-03-02):
218 + outlookmsg2html: Handle Subject, Date, and From headers.
222 * In $div and $mod we were converting a non-zero denominator from string to int
223 twice for no good reason.
227 * omegatest: Fix testcase which was failing if the local timezone was behind
228 UTC. This testcase was added in 1.4.10.
230 * omegatest: Tweak to not fail when $time not supported - it seems that the
231 OS time functions we use report an error on GNU Hurd for unknown reasons.
235 * Sync up probes for OS time functions in omega's configure with those in
236 xapian-core which may solve $time not being supported on GNU Hurd.
240 * Add missing includes of <cerrno>. Fixes #776, reported by Matthieu Gautier.
242 * Stop using htonl()/ntohl() in a non-network context which should improve
243 portability to platforms without a POSIX-like socket API.
245 Omega 1.4.10 (2019-02-12):
249 * Use https for URLs where supported.
255 + Index .apxl and .kth files as Apple Keynote. The .apxl extension is used
256 for the XML files inside .key bundles/directories which hold the text
257 content of the presentation, and by handling them we can index .key
258 directories more usefully. It seems they are also sometimes found by
259 themselves. Keynote themes have a .kth extension, and key2text can also
262 + Pipe input to pdftotext, pdfinto and dpkg. These tools all support piping
263 an input file on stdin, which can be a little more efficient when we
264 already have the file open (e.g. to determine its type using libmagic, or
265 to calculate its checksum).
267 + An empty string for the start directory is now flagged as an error.
268 Previously `/` was used instead, which is unlikely to be what is wanted
269 (and `/` can be explicitly specified if that really is what is wanted).
271 + Fix emulation of stderr redirection when the indexer's stderr has been
272 closed. We try to avoid using the shell when running external filters, and
273 emulate 2>/dev/null in commands, but if the indexer's stderr was closed
274 this emulation was buggy and would make give the filter a closed stderr
275 instead of one redirected to /dev/null.
277 + When emulating redirection to /dev/null, we now open /dev/null once and
278 dup that fd each time which is a little more efficient and simplifies the
283 + date=unix is now a no-op for empty input - previously it would unhelpfully
284 add boolean date terms for 1970-01-01.
286 + Warn for empty filename in LOAD action. Previously this gave a slightly
287 confusing error: "Couldn't load file '': No such file or directory"
289 + Unknown command-line options now cause scriptindex to give a non-zero exit
294 * omegatest: Add testcase for SPAN.n on different slots.
296 * omegatest: Update expected QueryParser output for the xapian-core change to
297 produce flatter Query trees.
301 * Use AM_ICONV to detect iconv() which should handle non-system install of GNU
302 libiconv properly. Fixes #775, reported by Ryan Schmidt.
306 * Provide fall-back strptime() implementation for platforms which don't provide
307 it, using the C++11 std::get_time() function. We use strptime() directly
308 where it's available as some older C++11 compilers seem to lack
309 std::get_time() (GCC 4.8 for example). This is used by the parsedate action,
310 which was added in 1.4.6.
312 Omega 1.4.9 (2018-11-02):
318 + Try harder to avoid opening a file being indexed more than once by
319 reusing the file descriptor in more cases.
321 + Hint to the OS not to cache output from external filters which require
322 using a temporary file.
326 + If the LOAD action successfully opens a file but hits a read error the
327 error message now reports the file name correctly. Previously it would
328 report the partial file contents read so far instead of the file name.
332 * We no longer call posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE under Linux,
333 since it's still not implemented there. We also now only call
334 posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED right before we close the file
335 descriptor under Linux.
337 Omega 1.4.8 (2018-10-25):
341 * Assorted minor documentation improvements.
347 + Improve date handling in .eml files. We now handle a "Date:" header
348 without the day of the week, which is allowed by RFC822 and RFC2822
349 (though seems rare in practice). If the date can't be parsed, we now
350 just omit the date information rather than failing to process the file.
352 + Add support for indexing Apple iWork documents (Keynote (.key), Numbers
353 (.numbers) and Pages (.pages)) using libetonyek. Currently only the file
354 variants are handled since omindex doesn't currently support indexing a
355 directory as a document.
357 + Index Visio files using vsd2xhtml.
359 + Extend --filter to support filters which produce SVG as output.
361 + Handle SVG embedded in XML with svg: namespace prefix.
363 + Add --read-filters option to read a list of filters from a file, each line
364 of which is a rule as passed to --filter. Based on a patch from Gaurav
367 + Add new --mime-type-match option which allows specifying a MIME
368 Content-Type for a given shell filename pattern pattern (with the special
369 Content-Type values "ignore" and "skip" supported, as for --mime-type).
371 + Adjust --mime-type to allow ':' in the extension. A valid MIME
372 Content-Type can't contain a colon, so if the argument to --mime-type
373 contains more than one colon it makes more sense to split at the *last*
374 colon (we used to split at the first), as an extension could conceivably
375 contain a colon. Mostly this change is for consistency with the new
376 --mime-type-match option, where the leafname pattern could reasonably
379 + Remove failed entries for ignored files. If a file is mapped to
380 pseudo-mimetype "ignore" then remove any existing failure record for it so
381 that ignored files so we don't potentially end up with a lot of cruft
382 failure records for files we are no longer trying to index.
384 + If a file fails to index due to failing to allocate enough memory we now
385 try to flag it as failed to index so it will be skipped by default on
386 future runs. This should help to avoid indexing getting stuck on
389 + Add a "pages" field with the number of pages in the document where we
390 know how to determine this (currently only for PDF files for which pdfinfo
391 reports this information).
393 + Handle initially empty database exactly the same was as when --overwrite
394 is specified. This probably has no user-visible consequences, but it's
395 cleaner for the handling to be exactly the same.
399 + Improve scriptindex diagnostic messages. All diagnostics are now labelled
400 as "error", "warning" or "note" as appropriate, and we now consistently
401 report "FILE:LINE:" (and also "COLUMN:" in most cases) to make it clearer
402 where the problem lies.
404 + Add new "split" action which splits the text on a specified delimiter and
405 executes the following actions for each piece. Based on a patch by Gaurav
408 + Missing whitespace after the closing " on an action argument is now
409 flagged as an error. Previously scriptindex would attempt to parse
410 the following characters as the next action.
412 + Support C-like escapes for quoted parameter values. Notably this means it
413 is now possible to include `"` in quoted parameter values.
417 + Value-based date range filters can now be specified via CGI parameters
418 START.N, END.N and/or SPAN.N where N is a value slot number, allowing
419 multiple concurrent filters on different slots to be specified.
421 + Support YYYY and YYYYMM limits in term-based date ranges. Previously
422 value-based date ranges supported these as limits, but term-based date
423 ranges gave an error.
425 + Add stem_strategy option and deprecate existing stem_all option in favour
426 of this new more versatile option.
428 + Support "natural" $sort option via new flag "#" which sorts embedded
429 natural numbers in numerical order.
431 + Support numeric $sort option via new flag "n", similar to GNU sort -n.
433 + Rewrite field parsing to be more efficient, and store fields in an
434 unordered_map for faster lookup.
438 * htmlparsetest: Test whitespace collapsing.
442 * omegatest: Avoid "set -". The autoconf manual notes that POSIX no longer
443 requires this, and that with traditional shells it resets -v and -x which
444 makes debugging harder.
446 * omegatest: Fix shell printf quoting issues which were a latent bug on macOS.
448 * Drop special handling for Compaq C++. We never actually achieved a working
449 build using it, and I can find no evidence that this compiler still exists,
450 let alone that it was updated for C++11 which we now require.
452 Omega 1.4.7 (2018-07-19):
456 * New OmegaScript $unique command. The existing $uniq only removes adjacent
457 entries (like the Unix uniq command) so to fully remove duplicates you need a
458 sorted input. Sometimes it is desirable to remove duplicates from an
459 unsorted list without changing the order of the entries which are left, so
460 add $unique to do that. If the list is sorted already, then $uniq is more
463 * Fix $map to cleanly reject a single argument.
467 * templates/query: Merge multiple entries in the term frequency information,
468 which came from searching several prefixes by default. Reported by Alistair
469 Buxton on #xapian-discuss.
471 * When multiple words with the same stem are in the query string we now fully
472 eliminate duplicates when showing term frequency information.
474 Omega 1.4.6 (2018-07-02):
478 * Fix generate_sample() (used by OmegaScript $truncate and omindex) to return
479 an empty sample instead of throwing an exception when the requested sample
480 size is less than the size of the truncation indicator string. Patch from
481 Addy. Fixes https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/754 reported by Gaurav Arora.
485 * Use terminology "value slot number" instead of "value number".
487 * Stop talking about "probabilistic terms" and "probabilistic queries" - we've
488 supported other families of weighting schemes since 1.3.2.
492 * Check for the HTML5 doctype or legacy doctype declaration and use default
493 charset UTF-8 if either is present. Previously we always used ISO-8859-1,
494 which is correct for older HTML versions, but not for HTML5.
498 + When running commands without going through the shell, emulate shell exit
499 codes 127 (for command not found) and 126 (for other cases where we fail to
500 run the command). This means the "missing filter" handling should now work
501 properly for such commands. Noted by Gaurav Arora.
503 + Index POD files despite minor formatting errors. We now pass
504 --errors=stderr to pod2text so that minor formatting errors don't prevent
505 us from indexing a file. (It may seem that --errors=none is a better
506 option, but for podlators < 4.11 that results in an ERRATA section in the
507 generated text version which we then end up indexing; 4.11 fixed that but
508 we can't assume that's in use). Reported by Gaurav Arora.
512 + Avoid some unnecessary copying of Action objects by making use of C++11
515 + Consistently send errors to stderr - some were sent to stdout.
516 Patch from Gaurav Arora.
518 + Add new "hextobin" action. Based on a patch from Gaurav Arora.
520 + Warn about non-integer arg to hash.
522 + Fix hash action without an argument, which was failing with an assertion.
523 Based on a patch by Gaurav Arora: https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/189
525 + Reject 'hash' with argument < 6. The hashing truncates and then adds a
526 6 character hash of the removed part, so can't produce a result shorter
527 than 6 characters. Patch from Gaurav Arora.
529 + Look for alphanumerics when parsing index actions. None of the current
530 index actions contain digits, but we give more helpful error messages this
533 + Deprecate allowing spaces around = in scripts. This was never documented
534 as supported, and leads to a missing argument quietly swallowing the next
535 action rather than using an empty value or giving an error. Reported by
536 Gaurav Arora in https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/182
538 + In boolean and unique actions, add a colon between prefix and term when
539 the term starts with a colon. This means the mapping is reversible, and
540 matches what omega actually does in this case when it tries to reverse the
541 mapping. Thanks to Andy Chilton for pointing out this corner case.
543 + Add parsedate and valuepacked actions. Together these assist adding date
544 values for sorting and date range filtering. Based on a patch from Gaurav
547 + Use DB_RETRY_LOCK to wait if the database is already in use rather than
548 sleeping for a second and retrying. On most platforms this means we make a
549 blocking request for the lock, and even on platforms where that's not
550 supported, we now sleep and retry inside libxapian, and without having to
551 throw and catch an exception each time.
555 * $freq: Speed up some cases by avoiding throwing and catching an exception
556 when we know the MSet has no term frequency information.
558 * $sort: New OmegaScript command which does a string sort on an OmegaScript
559 list, with u (unique) and r (reverse) options.
561 * $cond: New OmegaScript conditional multi-way conditional. Inspired by LISP's
562 COND, this provides a neater way to write a cascade of $if checks.
564 * $switch: New OmegaScript multi-way conditional which provides an even neater
565 way to write a cascade of $if{$eq{X,VALUE1},$if{$eq{X,VALUE2},...}}.
567 * $subdb and $subid: New commands which report the subdatabase name and the
568 docid in that subdatabase.
570 + $termprefix and $unprefix: New OmegaScript commands which expose the existing
571 code inside omega for splitting up a term.
573 * Use str() to convert time_t to string, which is simpler code and faster than
578 * omegatest: Fix message when faketime is not installed - we were misreporting
579 this case as "faketime not working".
581 * omegatest: Add feature tests of $map.
583 * Add testcases for XML charset. We already handle both default and specified
584 charsets for XML, but we didn't have any testcases for it.
588 * configure: Fix potentially confusing messages suggesting snprintf was added
589 in C90 - it was actually standardised in C99.
591 * Improve handling of multitarget rule stamp files. Clean them on "make
592 maintainer-clean" and ship them so that --enable-maintainer-mode when
593 building from a tarball doesn't needlessly rerun the multitarget rules.
597 * Check for EAGAIN as well as EINTR from select(). The Linux select(2) man
598 page says: "Portable programs may wish to check for EAGAIN and loop, just as
599 with EINTR" and that seems to be necessary for Cygwin at least.
603 * Use https for tarball URLs in .spec files. This provides protection against
604 MITM attacks on people building packages using these spec files, and is also
605 slightly more efficient as the http: URLs redirect to the https: versions
608 Omega 1.4.5 (2017-10-16):
612 * Direct users towards $set{flag_spelling_correction,true} rather than the
613 deprecated $set{spelling,true} (which is slated for removal in 1.5.0).
621 + Check file size before calling libmagic to get the mime type, since
622 reading the file size is a much cheaper check and we can skip the
623 libmagic test if the file is empty or larger than the specified
624 maximum size. Patch from caiyulun.
628 + Reject index scripts with multiple "unique" actions. We don't handle this
629 case sensibly, and it doesn't seem like it really has a use, so better to
630 give an error for people who do this inadvertently.
634 * New $seterror command to set the error message. Implemented by Gaurav Arora.
636 * Make $highlight more efficient. Patch from Vivek Pal.
640 * query: Use $prettyurl for the URL shown at the end of each match (previously
641 we only used it on the URL shown as a fallback when the document has no
642 title). Split off from changes by Vivek Pal in
643 https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/161
647 * omegatest: Tell faketime to freeze the clock - previously the clock ran on
648 from the specified fake time, and on a slow and/or heavily loaded machine a
649 test taking more than a second might fail due to this.
651 * Start adding feature tests for scriptindex (so far, checking that specifying
652 multiple 'unique' actions results in an error).
654 Omega 1.4.4 (2017-04-19):
660 + 1.4.3 added a new --sample option, but contrary to the documentation
661 the default behaviour was to take the sample from the meta description
662 (which was the hard-wired behaviour in 1.4.2 and earlier). The default
663 has now been changed to take the sample from the body.
665 + Index .shtm, .xhtml and .xhtm as HTML by default - .shtm is another
666 extension used for server-parsed HTML (in addition to the more common
667 .shtml), and .xhtm and .xhtml are XHTML.
669 + Fix fallback lookup for extension containing upper case. User mappings
670 worked, but built-in extension to MIME type mappings were effectively being
671 ignored (because the result of the function call was not being checked).
672 Bug introduced in 1.3.4.
674 + Fix term-based date ranges, broken by changes in 1.4.2. Found and
675 diagnosed by Gaurav Arora.
677 + Handle date range with start after end better - with term-based ranges,
678 this used to generate a bogus filter, but now just generates Dlatest.
680 + Use Y-term when range starts/ends at year start/end. Previously we used 12
681 M-terms for these cases.
683 + Use full leap-year check when constructing term-based date ranges -
684 previous code was good until 2100, but even then it would only result
685 in an extra term being included for a non-existent February 29th in
690 * New OmegaScript command $cgiparams which returns a list of the parameter
693 * Handle tab in a CGI parameter name in the same way as space. Mostly this is
694 a way to avoid having tabs in CGI parameter names - they aren't useful, but
695 if they could have tabs in we can't put CGI parameter names in a list.
699 * query: Fix highlighting of matching terms. We were using both $snippet and
700 $highlight, which results in double highlighting and HTML escaping, most
701 noticeable by literal <strong> and </strong> appearing around matching terms
702 in the rendered HTML snippet. Reported by Mark Thomas on xapian-discuss.
706 * If gen-mimemap failed after creating mimemap.h, the rule wouldn't get rerun.
708 Omega 1.4.3 (2017-01-25):
714 + Add support for indexing vCard files if Perl and its Text::vCard module
717 + Recognise application/x-rpm as alternative type since libmagic reports this
718 rather than application/x-redhat-package-manager.
720 + Use official MIME type application/vnd.debian.binary-package for debian
721 packages. We used to map .deb and .udeb to application/x-debian-package,
722 but in 2014 (after we added that support for .deb) an official type was
723 registered with IANA. We now map extensions .deb and .udeb to the official
724 type, but the unofficial type is still recognised (older versions of
725 libmagic probably report it, and users may be mapping to it).
727 + Handle PHP as MIME type text/x-php. The main difference this makes is that
728 PHP files which don't have extension '.php' (e.g. .phtml, .phps, .php5,
729 .ph4, etc) get identified by libmagic as text/x-php and will now be indexed.
730 It also means that the user can now more easily configure different filters
733 + Don't use meta description as sample by default. Now we have dynamic
734 snippets (via $snippet), the body text is a better default. Also generated
735 HTML sometimes has unhelpful content in the meta description. To get the
736 previous behaviour, use the new omindex command line option:
739 Omega 1.4.2 (2016-12-26):
743 * Replace auto-generated list of the supported MIME types with an
744 auto-generated table showing the extensions that are mapped to each MIME type
745 by default. Partly addresses #569, reported by catkin.
749 * omindex: Add support for indexing markdown files (extension .md or .markdown,
750 mime-type text/markdown, using "markdown" to convert to HTML).
754 * Add support for "make installcheck" to run tests against installed version.
758 * configure: Fail with clear error with xapian-core < 1.4.0.
762 * Fix GCC -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning.
764 * Add missing <ctime> for time_t.
766 * Avoid snprintf_for formatting fixed-width integers - it results in warnings
767 about possible output truncation with GCC7 (which aren't actually possible
768 due to limited input range) and it's a bit heavyweight for this job anyway.
770 Omega 1.4.1 (2016-10-21):
774 * Document bug in how $filters encodes DOCIDORDER=A.
776 * Suggest DOCIDORDER=X for DONT_CARE.
778 * Correct mentions of C++ API method MSet::get_snippet() to MSet::snippet().
780 * Fix typo in Omega 1.4.0 NEWS entry. Patch from James Aylett.
784 * omindex: Also index leafname with _ and & replaced by spaces. Literal spaces
785 are often avoided in filenames, and "hello_world.txt" ought to be searchable
786 for via "hello" and "world". Partly addresses #618, reported by Julien
791 * Add support for sorting by more than one value - e.g. SORT=+1,-2
793 * Add $msizelower and $msizeupper which provide access to the lower and upper
794 bounds on the number of matches.
796 * Add support for $set{weighting,coord}.
798 * Add weightingpurefilter option. Normally a query consisting only of filter
799 terms won't have relevance weights calculated. This new option allows you to
800 specify a weighting scheme to use for such queries, with the same values
801 supported as for the existing weighting option. For example,
802 $set{weightingpurefilter,coord} will weight such queries by how many filter
803 terms match each document.
805 * $filters now includes DATEVALUE, which means we'll force the first page when
806 reloading or changing page starting from existing URLs upon upgrade to 1.4.1,
807 but the exact same existing URL could be for a search without the date filter
808 where we want to force the first page, so there's an inherent ambiguity
809 there. Forcing first page in this case seems the least problematic
810 side-effect. Omission noted by Gaurav Arora.
814 * Add feature test for boolprefix and prefix maps.
816 * Add more feature tests for $filters.
820 * GCC 4.7 is now enforced as the minimum version.
822 * Drop unused configure check for symbol visibility
824 * Drop compiler options that are no longer useful:
825 + -fshow-column is the default in all GCC versions we now support
826 (checked as GCC 4.6).
827 + -Wno-long-long is no longer necessary now that we require C++11 where
828 "long long" is a standard type.
832 * Fix build on platforms which don't provide timegm(), such as Cygwin.
833 Reported on xapian-discuss by John Bankert.
835 Omega 1.4.0 (2016-06-24):
839 * Clarify $allterms and $terms documentation. Make it clearer how they differ,
840 and document that $allterms without a parameter list gives all terms indexing
841 the current hit. Noted by Andy Chilton.
843 Omega 1.3.7 (2016-06-01):
847 * Make named entity look-up (e.g. é -> 233) use the same keyword-lookup
848 table approach we already use for HTML tags and built-in MIME content-types,
849 rather than a std::map, which makes it faster while using less memory.
851 Omega 1.3.6 (2016-05-09):
855 * Fix overview.rst processing in VPATH build. Our workaround for lack of an
856 include path in docutils was only handling the first include in the file.
860 * Implement $match command for omegascript. Patch from Richhiey Thomas.
864 * Lower case all HTML tags, attributes and values; explicitly close <option>
865 tags. Patches from Vivek Pal and Nirmal Singhania.
867 * Migrate Omega Templates to HTML5. Patch from Nirmal Sighania.
869 * templates/query: Remove stray double quote from generated URL for spelling
870 suggestion when THRESHOLD is set. Patch from Nirmal Singhania.
872 * templates/opensearch: Change response feeds to support OpenSearch 1.1.
873 Patch from Nirmal Singhania.
877 * Update omegatest - the order of subqueries has changed in some cases, due
878 to the "grouping" changes in the C++ API.
882 * Drop workaround for old git master before 1.3.2
884 Omega 1.3.5 (2016-04-01):
886 This release includes all changes from 1.2.23 which are relevant.
890 * Add optional prefix argument to $terms.
892 * $snippet now uses MSet::snippet() instead of the Snipper class.
894 * Add $contains{STRING1,STRING2}. Contributed by Ayush Gupta.
896 * Add support for negated boolean filter terms, specified by CGI parameter "N".
898 * Support a direction prefix on SORT: '+' for ascending, '-' for descending.
899 SORTREVERSE set to non-0 now flips the direction. Fixes #697, reported by
904 * Need to AC_SUBST probed value of ZLIB_LIBS. Noted by Paul Wise.
908 * omegatest; Test faketime actually works, and if it doesn't work skip
909 testcases which use it. On OS X 10.11, faketime from homebrew doesn't seem
910 to work, probably due to the new "System Integrity Protection". Fixes part
911 of #707, reported by James Aylett.
913 Omega 1.3.4 (2016-01-01):
915 This release includes all changes from 1.2.22 which are relevant.
919 * The lists of recognised MIME types and of ignored extensions are now
920 generated along with the corresponding source code from a single master list.
921 Partly addresses #569, reported by Charles Atkinson.
923 * Note when $json and $jsonarray were added.
929 + Avoid using the shell to run most external commands as it's unnecessary
930 overhead. For the built-in filters, the only cases which now use a shell
931 are where we run two unzip commands. For user-specified commands, a simple
932 and slightly conservative test is used, which should avoid a shell in most
933 common cases where it isn't needed. Notably, environment variables set
934 before the command are handled.
936 + Track files which couldn't be indexed in the user metadata and skip them by
937 default on subsequent runs to avoid the costs of repeatedly running a
938 filter on a file it can't handle. Run omindex with --retry-failed to retry
941 + Overhaul the "per-site" terms:
942 - 'H' prefix is hostname as before, except that if the term would be > 240
943 bytes (unlikely but possible) the end is hashed is the same way 'U'
945 - 'P' terms are now added for every directory level, not just the start
947 - A new 'J' prefix term is added with the start URL (less any trailing
948 '/'), which means all files indexed from a particular "site" are now
949 indexed by one term. See #376.
951 + Add 'skip' pseudo-mimetype which extensions can be mapped to, and they will
952 then be reported and skipped (to complement the existing 'ignore'
953 pseudo-mimetype which causes files with the specified extension to be
956 + Treat a command of 'true' specially as meaning make the text extraction a
957 no-op (as actually running /bin/true effectively would). This provides a
958 way to index some file types by only meta-data. Fixes #519, reported by
961 + Add support for wildcard mimetypes */* and *. Combined with filter command
962 ``true`` for indexing by meta-data only, you can specify a fall back case
963 of indexing by meta-data only using ``--filter '*:true'``. From a
964 suggestion by Brian Burton on xapian-discuss.
966 + Index message/rfc822 and message/news. These are individually saved email
967 messages and news articles.
969 + Index archived web page formats MAFF and MHTML.
971 + Handle .xla, yet another XL extension.
973 + Handle metadata in LibreOffice HTML export (dcterms.subject,
974 dcterms.description, dcterms.creator and dcterms.contributor).
976 + Use zlib's gzopen() instead of invoking "gzip -dc" for compressed Abiword
981 * Add options argument to $transform.
983 * Cache compiled regexps used in $transform.
985 * Add $ord OmegaScript command which returns the Unicode codepoint for the
986 first character of a UTF-8 string.
988 * Add $chr OmegaScript command which returns the UTF-8 string for given Unicode
991 * Add $csv OmegaScript command which escapes a string for use as a field in a
992 CSV file ("always quote" mode inspired by patch from Gaurav Arora.)
994 * New $filters encoding which avoids collisions. We also compare CGI parameter
995 xFILTERS to what $filters would have returned in previous releases, so that
996 on upgrades old format serialised filters are handled correctly.
998 * Fix $jsonarray not to prepend ']' to the first array element.
1000 * Skip weighting scheme setup for a pure date range query - it won't be
1001 weighted anyway, so we can avoid having to parse weighting scheme parameters,
1004 * Use value ranges when date range filtering by value. Should be more
1005 efficient than a MatchDecider, and will automatically take advantage of any
1006 future value range optimisations in xapian-core.
1008 * Add default_db and default_template config options. These allow the default
1009 template and default database name to be set via the config file, rather than
1010 being stuck with the respective defaults of "default" and "query". Fixes
1011 #310, reported by Marco Hennigs.
1013 * Add support for non-exclusive filters. Fixes #234, reported by Thomas
1018 * Add start of testsuite for omega CGI.
1022 * configure script now defaults to looking for xapian-config-1.3. This is now
1023 automatically done for development series (odd middle component of the
1024 version number), but not for stable series (even middle component). Fixes
1025 #695, reported by Jorge C. Leitão
1027 * Don't pointlessly link omega binary with libmagic (as we have since 1.3.1).
1031 * Fix "make check" compilation failure on platforms without timegm().
1033 Omega 1.3.3 (2015-06-01):
1035 This release includes all changes from 1.2.20-1.2.21 which are relevant.
1039 * INSTALL: IRIX is past EOL so drop information about IRIX make.
1045 + Add support for %f in command passed to --filter to allow specifying
1046 commands where the input file is not the final argument. Fixed #570,
1047 reported by Charles Atkinson.
1049 + Allow --filter to handle commands which produce output in a temporary file
1050 rather than on stdout.
1052 + Allow --filter to specify the character set of the output the filter
1055 + Handle application/vnd.ms-excel, text/x-perl and application/x-dvi via
1056 default --filter settings instead of hardcoded cases (now possible thanks
1057 to the new abilities that --filter has).
1059 + Add support for specifying a MIME subtype of '*' in --filter arguments.
1061 + Add -track-ctime option to allow omindex to pick up changes to file
1062 ownership and permissions.
1064 + Index terms from the leafname with an 'F' prefix, rather than treating them
1065 as more body text. (Fixes #633, reported by Emmanuel Garette)
1069 * Fix handling of multiple P.<prefix> fields - previously only the first seen
1070 was used. These fields are also now taken into account when deciding if the
1071 query has changed. $query now returns an OmegaScript list with one entry for
1072 each CGI parameter passed.
1076 * templates/query: Fix setting setting of prefix map for P - in 1.3.2, this
1077 would failed to also search in the subject. Now it also searches in the
1082 * configure: Fix typo in message: 'libmagic-devl' -> 'libmagic-devel'
1086 * Require a compiler with good C++11 support, like xapian-core now does.
1088 * Now we require C++11, just include <cstdint> for uint32_t.
1090 * Link omindex-list with our (GNU) getopt for platforms which don't use GNU libc.
1091 Thanks to James Aylett
1093 * Add timegm.cc to scriptindex_SOURCES to fix build on platforms which don't
1096 * Suppress bogus uninitialised variable warning with -Os under GCC 4.7.2.
1100 Omega 1.3.2 (2014-11-24):
1102 This release includes all changes from 1.2.16-1.2.19 which are relevant.
1106 * docs/overview.rst: Document built-in list of stopwords.
1108 * docs/termprefixes.rst: Update for renaming of 'brass' backend to 'glass'.
1114 + The starting URL wasn't previously URL encoded. In 1.2.18, a minimally
1115 intrusive fix was implemented. In 1.3.2, we now encode the starting URL
1116 as we do for the rest of the filename.
1118 + Don't assume .doc is application/msword but let libmagic decide, since .doc
1119 files may actually be RTF, and sometimes people use .doc for plain-text
1122 + Add support for indexing 'topic' and 'created date' meta-data for
1123 OpenDocument format and HTML.
1125 + Index "topic" for PDF documents.
1127 + Commit changes and exit, rather than skipping the current file on most
1128 unexpected errors reading directories or initialising libmagic - otherwise
1129 we can end up deleting a lot of database entries on errors like EHOSTDOWN
1130 when indexing network mounts.
1132 + Add --opendir-sleep=SECS option to allow working around problems with
1133 indexing files on Microsoft DFS shares.
1135 + If we get ENOTDIR trying to index a file, skip it quietly (unless in
1136 verbose mode) as we already do if we get ENOENT, since ENOTDIR is what we
1137 get if the file and the directory it was in got removed between us getting
1138 the filename and trying to open it.
1140 + Handle ENOENT, ENOTDIR and EACCES from readdir().
1142 + If we've already opened the file (as we often will have if using a modern
1143 libmagic with magic_descriptor() available), then use fstat() on that fd
1144 rather than stat()/lstat() on the pathname.
1146 + Pass error message string and errno value in ReadError exceptions.
1148 + Report strerror(errno) if we can't read a file.
1150 + Filtering via text/html now handles HTML documents which specify a charset.
1152 + Add support for indexing Microsoft Publisher files using pub2xhtml.
1154 + Restrict the length of what we consider to be an extension, currently to 7
1155 characters or whatever the longest extension in the mime_map is if it is
1158 + Avoid '//' in temporary filenames (cosmetic only).
1160 * omindex-list: New tool to list URLs of all the documents in a database (or
1161 list of databases) indexed by omindex.
1165 * Allow setting query expansion scheme to "bo1".
1167 * Make the $json and $jsonarray force the text to be valid UTF-8, since
1168 otherwise the output isn't valid JSON.
1170 * Check parameters to $set{weighting,bm25 ...} and $set{weighting,trad ...}
1171 converted OK. Based on patch from Aarsh Shah.
1173 * Add support to $set{weighting,...} for bb2, dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2, inl2, lm,
1174 pl2 when we're built against a xapian-core which is new enough to have these
1177 * Add $snippet to generate a snippet of text tailored to the search.
1181 * configure: Enable GCC's -Woverloaded-virtual warning.
1185 * Ship common/safewinsock2.h, needed under mingw.
1187 Omega 1.3.1 (2013-05-03):
1189 This release includes all changes from 1.2.10-1.2.15 which are relevant.
1193 * INSTALL,configure: Provide hints as to what package to install for magic.h.
1197 * The HTML parser now explicitly handles <APPLET>, <OBJECT> and <TR>.
1199 * Use a generated compact and efficient table to convert HTML tag names
1200 to enum codes - this is both faster and smaller than the approach we were
1201 using, with the benefit that the table is auto-generated.
1203 * Always use our built-in conversion code for the character sets it can handle
1204 (previously we'd use iconv if available; now we only use iconv for other
1205 character sets). This gives us more consistent results, and in particular
1206 means we now handle BOMs better (at least when using GNU iconv).
1208 * A lot of data labelled as "iso-8859-1" is actually "windows-1252". The two
1209 only differ in characters which are control characters in iso-8859-1, so
1210 assume the latter when we see the former.
1214 + Extend --filter to handle commands which produce HTML on stdout.
1216 + Don't report an error if a file is deleted (or renamed) between us reading
1217 the directory entry for it and trying to read the file itself by default.
1218 In --verbose mode, the situation is still reported, but now with a
1221 + If omindex receives any of the signals SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT or SIGTERM,
1222 then kill any active external filter child process, then handle the signal
1223 as we did before. If setpgid() is available, put each external filter in
1224 its own process group and kill the whole process group when we get a
1227 + Use magic_descriptor() if the version of libmagic we're building against
1228 is new enough to have it. This eliminates an extra opening of a file
1229 being indexed in certain cases.
1231 + Use rst2html to handle .rst and .rest files.
1235 * Add new $json and $jsonarray OmegaScript commands to support producing JSON
1238 * Add $truncate command which truncates a string after a word.
1240 * Add support for $set{weighting,tfidf} to allow the new TfIdfWeight weighting
1245 * configure: Now looks for libmagic in MAGIC_PREFIX, to allow building with
1246 libmagic installed in a non-standard location.
1248 * Remove support for 'configure --enable-quiet', 'make QUIET=' and 'make
1249 QUIET=y' - automake now supports 'configure --enable-silent-rules', 'make
1250 V=1' and 'make V=0' which are broadly equivalent and more standard.
1254 * tmpdir.cc: Add safeunistd.h for rmdir, required by GCC 4.7 (reported by
1257 Omega 1.3.0 (2012-03-14):
1261 * Make libmagic a required dependency.
1265 * docs/termprefixes.html: Document how to map a user prefix to multiple term
1268 * docs/overview.html: Improve documentation of htdig_noindex.
1274 + Index title with an 'S' prefix rather than no prefix.
1276 + If the document with the highest existing docid before the run was updated,
1277 we were reporting it as "added", but now we correctly report it as
1280 + Catch and report std::exception explicitly, so failing to allocate memory
1281 is no longer reported as "Unknown exception".
1285 + Remove special error handling case noting that index=nopos was replaced
1286 with indexnopos - this was removed in 1.1.0 so there's been enough time to
1291 + DEFAULTOP now defaults to AND rather than OR, since that matches what pretty
1292 much every search engine does these days. Closes ticket#512.
1294 * Allow mapping a query string prefix to more than one term prefix (which
1295 xapian-core has supported since 1.0.4).
1297 * Add support for search inputs for multiple probabilistic prefixes, with
1298 support for per-prefix stemmers.
1300 * Drop legacy support for handling '.' separated terms in xP - that changed in
1301 Omega 0.9.7, more than 5 years ago now.
1303 * Remove support for OLDP CGI parameter which was superseded by xP
1304 approximately a decade ago, and isn't even documented!
1306 * Drop special handling for R-prefixed terms in $prettyterm - we stopped
1307 generating these in Xapian 1.0.
1313 + We now map unprefixed queries to include S-prefixed terms to match the
1314 change in omindex to prefixing terms from the title with S. You may want
1315 to make the same update to your own templates.
1317 + Set up prefixes for 'author:' and 'title:'.
1321 * xapian-omega.spec: We're ABI compatible within a release series so make
1322 dependency on xapian-core-libs >= rather than =.
1324 Omega 1.2.23 (2016-03-28):
1328 * Update links to Xapian website and trac to use https, which is now supported,
1329 thanks to James Aylett.
1333 * Fix HTML/XML entity decoding to be O(n) not O(n²) - processing HTML/XML with
1334 a lot of entities is now much faster.
1338 * Remove unused country code to name maps. These were intended as examples,
1339 but they aren't very useful as such, and really just bloat the templates
1342 Omega 1.2.22 (2015-12-29):
1346 * Stop maintaining ChangeLog files. They make merging patches harder, and stop
1347 'git cherry-pick' from working as it should. The git repo history should be
1348 sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
1350 * Clarify help text for omindex --mime-type option.
1352 * docs/omegascript.rst:
1354 + Fix documentation of $last to say it's the MSet index *one beyond* the end
1355 of the current page. Reported by Andrew Chilton.
1357 + Clarify that $split and $substr work in bytes. Previously we said
1358 "characters" which could be taken as meaning they work with UTF-8
1361 + Update documentation for $filters - it was missing these CGI parameters
1362 from the list of those serialised: COLLAPSE, DOCIDORDER, SORT, SORTREVERSE,
1365 + Explicitly note user can use $setmap to create their own maps.
1367 * docs/overview.rst:
1369 + SVG extraction is built-in too.
1371 + Expand paragraph about command `false`. Note the versions where explicit
1372 support was added, and that this will also work with any version on Unix,
1373 where `false` is a command.
1375 + Document `cdb_dir`.
1377 * docs/cgiparams.rst: Document behaviour if xDB is not set.
1379 * Change "characters" to "bytes" in a few places to clarify that we don't mean
1380 Unicode code points.
1386 + Add '--title-size' option.
1388 + Handle .oft the same way as .msg - it's some sort of template email, and
1389 has essentially the same format.
1393 * Make $querydescription ensure the match has been run, so that it includes
1396 * Avoid $allterms, $cgilist, $filterterms and $terms being O(n²) in the number
1397 of items in the returned list.
1399 * If xFILTERS is not set, don't force the first page as that's unhelpful if
1400 someone fails to set it in their template.
1402 * When environment variable SERVER_PROTOCOL is set to INCLUDED (as it is when
1403 we're being included in a page), we already suppress the HTTP headers, but
1404 now we suppress the blank line after the header too.
1406 * Support option flag_cjk_ngram if built against xapian-core >= 1.2.22.
1410 * Add test coverage for parsing of HTML entities.
1414 * Fix error reporting if PCRE isn't installed. Fixes #693, reported by lhz7370.
1418 * Avoid warning when building with glibc >= 2.21.
1420 * Don't provide our own implementation of sleep() under __WIN32__ if there
1421 already is one - mingw provides one, and in some situations it seems to clash
1422 with ours. Reported to xapian-discuss by John Alveris.
1424 * Stop trying to use O_STREAMING - the patch to implement it was never merged
1425 into the Linux kernel, and I can't find any evidence that other platforms
1426 implement it. The constant value O_STREAMING used now seems to be used for
1427 the part of O_SYNC which isn't covered by O_DSYNC, which seems likely to hurt
1428 performance if anything.
1430 Omega 1.2.21 (2015-05-20):
1434 * docs/overview.rst: Document 'E' prefixed boolean terms for filtering by
1435 extension (see #668, reported by bramvdh).
1437 * docs/encodings.rst: Add a document about character encoding, as suggested by
1438 James Aylett in #550.
1444 + outlookmsg2html: Fix handling of message/rfc822 subparts.
1448 * $prettyurl now decodes valid UTF-8 sequences, and some additional ASCII
1449 characters in the path part: []@!$&'()*+.;= (Fixes #550 and #644, reported by
1450 catkin and terencz.)
1452 * $prettyurl now leaves the query and fragment parts of the URL alone and won't
1453 decode an escaped "/" (omindex doesn't create URLs with any of these, so we
1454 only risk breaking other URLs which have them).
1456 * Drop compilation date and time from output when run from the command line -
1457 they prevent reproducible builds and the version number is sufficient
1462 * templates/query: When listing matching terms, don't make the commas italic.
1464 * templates/query: Eliminate blank line before <html>.
1466 * templates/xml: Add XML declaration.
1468 * templates/godmode: Specify charset utf-8 in the content-type.
1472 * Link test programs with libtool's '-no-install' or '-no-fast-install', like
1473 we already do in xapian-core, which means that libtool doesn't need to
1474 generate shell script wrappers for them on most platforms.
1478 * Add spaces between literal strings and macros which expand to literal strings
1479 for C++11 compatibility.
1481 * Remove 'register' as it's deprecated and clang spits out warnings because of
1482 that. Any modern compiler likely just ignores it as an optimisation hint
1485 Omega 1.2.20 (2015-03-04):
1489 * docs/cgiparams.rst: Improve wording of docs for SORT parameter.
1491 * docs/omegascript.rst: Update documentation references to DATE1, DATE2, and
1492 DAYSMINUS which were renamed in 0.6.x and the compatibility aliases removed
1499 + Ignore extensions .msi and .msp, which are Microsoft installer files, but
1500 which libmagic sometimes incorrectly identifies as application/msword.
1502 + Interpret a command of "false" in "--filter" as meaning to ignore files
1503 with that MIME type.
1507 * Handle CGI parameter [=0 as [=1.
1511 * templates/xml: Update handling of DATE1, DATE2 and DAYSMINUS which were
1512 renamed in 0.6.x and the compatibility aliases removed in 1.0.0.
1516 * configure: Use pkg-config in preference to determine flags needed to
1517 compile and link with PCRE, as this will just work when cross-compiling
1518 (at least under MXE).
1520 * configure: Define MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API under mingw to get _putenv_s()
1521 declared in stdlib.h.
1523 * Enable automake option 'subdir-objects' to avoid warning from newer automake.
1527 * Avoid doing link tests with libmagic in configure as they fail on mingw due
1528 to not automatically picking up libraries which libmagic itself depends on.
1530 Omega 1.2.19 (2014-10-21):
1534 * docs/overview.rst: Note that pdftotext is part of poppler as well as xpdf.
1535 (Noted by Paul Wise)
1537 Omega 1.2.18 (2014-06-22):
1543 + Work around libmagic returning a MIME content-type of "Composite Document
1544 File V2 Document[...]" or "application/CDFV2-corrupt" by returning a more
1545 suitable filetype based on looking at the file's extension.
1547 + The starting URL wasn't previously URL encoded. In 1.3.2, this will be
1548 fixed by URL encoding it as we do for the rest of the path, for the 1.2
1549 branch we only URL encode it if it contains a character <= 31 or at least
1550 one of '#', '%', ':' or '?'. This avoids a one-off reindex of every
1551 document in the database in cases which work OK in practice.
1553 + When we skip a file because it exceeds the configured size limit, include
1554 that size limit in the message.
1558 * Add support for setting the query expansion scheme to use.
1562 * Don't compile in unixperm.cc - it isn't currently used, and it fails to build
1563 with mingw. (fixes #635, reported by Alexis Denis)
1565 * Fix warning when built with GCC 4.7.2 using -Os.
1567 * Removed unused inline function, fixing compiler warning.
1569 Omega 1.2.17 (2014-01-29):
1573 * docs/overview.html: Add Abiword as an example use of --filter, based on patch
1574 from Frank J Bruzzaniti (fixes#383).
1578 * Fix "no previous declaration" warning on platforms which don't have
1581 Omega 1.2.16 (2013-12-04):
1587 + Fix off-by-one when finding documents to delete which would sometimes cause
1588 omindex to fail to delete documents from the database when they weren't
1589 refound during an index update.
1591 + Decode dates in xlsx files.
1593 + Ignore extensions 'adm', 'cur', and 'ico' by default.
1595 + Group-readable files which are owner-readable but not world-readable should
1596 still get a "readable by owner" term added. Reported by Emmanuel Garette.
1600 * Compress source tarballs with xz instead of gzip.
1602 * configure: Sync compiler warning flag machinery against xapian-core. The
1603 changes are special handling for clang, passing -fshow-column where
1604 supported, and handling for new warning flags in GCC 4.6 and 4.7.
1606 Omega 1.2.15 (2013-04-16):
1610 * Don't pointlessly link utf8convert.o into the omega CGI.
1612 Omega 1.2.14 (2013-03-14):
1618 + Correct "max" -> "min" when reserving space for shared strings in .xlsx
1619 files. This just means we now reserve a more appropriate amount of space
1622 + Ignore .com files by default.
1624 Omega 1.2.13 (2013-01-09):
1630 + Extracting text using external filters now works for filenames containing a
1631 newline character - previously the newline got lost during escaping for the
1634 + Fix segfault when -F option without a ':' is passed.
1636 + Skip a file if we get a read error while calculating the MD5 checksum (used
1637 for duplicate detection) - previously we used a checksum of the file up to
1640 + Avoid rereading SVG and Atom files when we calculate their MD5 checksums.
1642 + Improvement --help output and man page, most notably:
1644 - Say explicitly that --sample-size accepts the same formats as --max-size.
1646 - Note default size limit on files to index is unlimited.
1648 + When generating a sample for a CSV file, limit the size we pre-allocate to
1649 the CSV file size if that's smaller than the requested sample size, in case
1650 the user sets that limit very high.
1654 * Fix to decode %-encoded character at the end of the query string.
1658 * INCLUDES is now deprecated in automake, so use AM_CPPFLAGS instead.
1660 Omega 1.2.12 (2012-06-27):
1662 No changes since 1.2.11 except to bump the version - this release was made to
1663 fix an incorrect library version information update in xapian-core 1.2.11.
1665 Omega 1.2.11 (2012-06-26):
1669 * Change HTML parser's handling of multiple <body> tags and of text outside of
1670 <body> to match the behaviour of modern web browsers. (ticket#599)
1674 + Add command line option to control the size of the document sample stored.
1675 Patch from Mihai Bivol.
1677 + Rework .xlsx parsing to substitute the shared strings into the positions
1678 they are used in, so that the sample actually matches what appears in the
1679 spreadsheet, and to index calculated cell contents.
1681 + Improve handling of headers and footers in OpenDocument documents.
1683 + pdftotext outputs a formfeed between each page, which messes up our "empty
1684 body" check, so trim any trailing formfeeds before this check.
1688 * Don't explicitly link indirect shared library dependencies on FreeBSD,
1689 OpenBSD, and Solaris.
1691 Omega 1.2.10 (2012-05-09):
1695 * Add support for CDATA to HTML/XML parser.
1699 + Add --max-size option, based on patch from ndaley in ticket#587.
1701 + Add support for atom feed files, patch from Mihai Bivol in ticket#595.
1703 + If the document with the highest existing docid before the run was updated,
1704 we were reporting it as "added", but now we correctly report it as
1705 "updated". (Backported from 1.3.0).
1707 + Catch and report std::exception explicitly, so failing to allocate memory
1708 is no longer reported as "Unknown exception". (Backported from 1.3.0).
1714 * Fix to build with GCC 4.7 by adding cast to rlim_t to fix error about C++11
1715 compatibility (reported by Gaurav Arora).
1717 Omega 1.2.9 (2012-03-08):
1721 * docs/overview.html:
1723 + Document that libmagic is used to determine the MIME type if the extension
1724 isn't known. Partly addresses ticket#569.
1726 + We now limit time as well as CPU and memory for external filters.
1730 * Our HTML parser now ignores sections bracketed by <!--UdmComment--> and
1731 <!--/UdmComment-->, like we already do for <!--htdig_noindex-->.
1733 * omindex: Add more extensions to the default ignore list: bin dat db fon jar
1734 lnk pyc pyd pyo sqlite sqlite3 sqlite-journal tmp ttf
1736 Omega 1.2.8 (2011-12-13):
1740 * scriptindex.cc: Add link to http://xapian.org/docs/omega/scriptindex.html to
1741 --help output (and so also to the man page which is generated from this).
1743 * omegascript.html: Add note to discourage use of percentage scores.
1749 + If we don't get any data from an external filter for 5 minutes, give up -
1750 it has probably ended up blocked indefinitely.
1752 + Improve --help output (and man page which is generated from it). Closes
1757 + If no rules are found in the index script, report an error and give up -
1758 this is inevitably the result of a mistake, and adding empty documents to
1759 the database isn't helpful.
1763 + Add new $prettyurl{} command which undoes RFC3986 URL escaping which
1764 doesn't affect semantics in practice. Partly addresses ticket#550.
1766 + Replace URL decoder with new implementation which handles various corner
1767 cases better. Fixes bug#578.
1769 + If CGI parameter P has trailing spaces, we now remove them all rather than
1774 * templates/query: HTML escape topterms.
1776 * templates/godmode: HTML escape the contents of document values.
1778 * templates/query: Don't show the percentage score in the default template.
1782 * Add new urlenctest unit test of URL encoding and decoding.
1786 * configure: Sync changes from xapian-core: Don't pass -Wshadow for GCC < 4.1;
1787 don't pass -Wstrict-null-sentinel for GCC 4.0.x; only enable symbol
1788 visibility on platforms where it is supported.
1792 * xapian-omega.spec: Package outlookmsg2html helper.
1794 Omega 1.2.7 (2011-08-10):
1798 * docs/termprefixes.html: Document how to map a user prefix to multiple term
1801 * docs/overview.html: Improve documentation of htdig_noindex.
1805 * Improve $version output from "Xapian - xapian-omega 1.2.7" to "xapian-omega
1810 * xapian-omega.spec: We're ABI compatible within a release series so make
1811 dependency on xapian-core-libs >= rather than =.
1813 Omega 1.2.6 (2011-06-12):
1817 * docs/omegascript.html: Correct the documentation of the colours used by
1820 * docs/overview.html: Add using unoconv as more complex example of using
1821 --filter (ticket#324).
1827 + Make search query input type=search.
1829 + Autofocus the search query input (using HTML autofocus attribute with
1830 Javascript fallback for older browsers). (ticket#544)
1834 * Fix a compiler warning.
1836 Omega 1.2.5 (2011-04-04):
1840 * Add index page which links to all the other documentation pages.
1842 * INSTALL: Copy new Multi-Arch section from xapian-core/INSTALL. Replace VPATH
1843 section with better equivalent from Xapian-core/INSTALL.
1845 * docs/omegascript.html: Minor improvements.
1849 * The HTML parser no longer uses an exception to signify it has finished in
1850 the normal case as exceptions are typically costly to handle. In tests,
1851 this made omindex ~0.23% faster when indexing a lot of HTML files.
1855 + Add --ignore-exclusions option, which will index HTML files despite meta
1856 robots tags, etc - omindex is often used in environments where such
1857 exclusions aren't relevant.
1859 + Fix to compile with older versions of libmagic which don't have
1860 MAGIC_MIME_TYPE (e.g. on Ubuntu hardy).
1862 + Tell xls2csv to separate fields with spaces rather than commas, and not to
1863 quote them. Fixes indexing of numeric fields, and means we don't need to
1864 use our CSV parser to get a sample.
1866 + Add whitespace between chunks of text extracted from Microsoft Office 2007
1867 formats to prevent words in adjacent chunks from being run together.
1869 + Encode reserved characters in URLs - links to files with names containing
1870 '#' and '?' now work.
1872 + Handle .xlr extension the same way as .xls (later Microsoft Works versions
1873 apparently produce such files which are really the same format).
1875 + Index filename extension with new standard prefix E.
1877 + Just report the mimetype as unknown instead of saying "unknown Office 2007
1880 + Ignore *.css and *.js by default too.
1882 + Messages reporting skipping files are now more consistent and always report
1885 + New --empty-docs option to allow documents we extract no body text from to
1886 be indexed (existing behaviour), skipped, or reported and then indexed.
1890 * Fix double Content-Type header in some error reporting situations (regression
1891 introduced in 1.2.4).
1893 * Update $url's URL encoding to follow RFC3986.
1895 * Allow QueryParser flags to be set from OmegaScript (ticket#418). The
1896 FLAG_SPELLING_CORRECTION flag can now be set using
1897 $opt{flag_spelling_correction,1} - the old $opt{spelling,true} way to
1898 enable this flag still works, but it now deprecated.
1902 * templates/emptydocs,templates/godmode,templates/opensearch,templates/query,
1903 templates/xml: Add missing escaping. Some of these instances may allow
1904 cross-site scripting, so upgrading your templates is recommended, especially
1905 if you have any sensitive cookies set on the domain Omega is running on.
1909 + Try $field{caption} (which is what omindex sets) before $field{title} when
1910 getting a value for the hit tag's title attribute - this is consistent with
1911 how the query template gets the title.
1913 + Add new 'type' attribute which gives $field{type}.
1915 + Add 'DBSize' attribute to <result> element.
1917 + Fix double escaping of matching terms. This is only likely to affect cases
1918 where a matching term contains '&'.
1920 + Remove support for undocumented HILITECLASS CGI variable. There's no
1921 evidence I can find using Google code search or web search that this has
1922 been used anywhere, and it's difficult to handle escaping it properly in
1923 the face of all the ways it could reasonably be used.
1927 * Fix to compile on Microsoft Windows (ticket#350).
1929 Omega 1.2.4 (2010-12-19):
1933 * Minor documentation improvements.
1937 * Some iconv implementations (such as that on Mac OS X) don't handle many of
1938 the commonly seen mis-punctuated charset names (e.g. UTF16, UTF_16). We now
1939 check for this if iconv fails, fix up the charset name, and retry.
1941 * The built-in character encoding converter now handles spaces in charset
1944 * Use O_NOATIME if available and either the file is owned by the current euid,
1945 or the current euid is 0 (i.e. we're running as root). This avoids updating
1946 the access time of files we index which saves time. Fixes ticket#222.
1948 * Report get_description() for Xapian exceptions, which provides additional
1949 information above get_msg().
1951 * Add boolean terms with add_boolean_term() so they get wdf of 0 and don't
1952 contribute to document length.
1956 + Escape wildcard patterns being passed to unzip - in the unlikely event that
1957 one of these matched files in or under the current directory, we might fail
1958 to extract all the files we wanted to.
1960 + Add explicit support for indexing CSV files (better samples than from
1961 using '-Mcsv:text/plain').
1963 + Add support for indexing .msg files from Microsoft Outlook (using the Perl
1964 module Email::Outlook::Message. (ticket#334)
1966 + Improve --help for --mime-type option.
1968 + Optionally use libmagic to detect MIME types for files for which we have no
1969 extension mapping, which allows us to handle files with a misleading
1970 extension, or no extension at all. (ticket#114)
1972 + Add new --filter option which allows the user to specify new filters
1973 provided they return UTF-8 text on stdout.
1975 + If a filter command isn't installed, previously we wouldn't try it again
1976 for the same file extension - now we won't try it again for the same
1979 + Index the leafname of the file (without any extension) as extra keywords.
1981 + Extract author from HTML, OpenDocument, and PDF files. Index it with an A
1982 prefix, and add it as a field.
1984 + Add support for indexing text and metadata from SVG files.
1986 + Extract metadata from Microsoft Office 2007 file formats.
1988 + Index text in headers and footers for .odt and .docx files.
1990 + Use the CSV parser to generate a nicer sample for files of type
1991 application/vnd.ms-excel.
1993 + Add support for indexing Debian and RPM package files (ticket#493).
1995 + Make the memory limit for filter processes the size of physical memory,
1996 which is a little less arbitrary than 7/8 of this value (ticket#424).
1998 + Under --duplicate=ignore, fix so that old documents which aren't seen get
1999 deleted, which wasn't implemented before (to suppress this deletion, pass
2002 + Rename the short option for --version from -v to -V for consistency with
2003 scriptindex and many other packages, and to free up -v as the short option
2004 for --verbose. For backward compatibility, "omindex -v" is handled
2005 specially and still reports the version.
2007 + Add --verbose option, and disable the less interesting output unless it is
2010 + Deprecate "--preserve-nonduplicates" in favour of new long option
2011 "--no-delete" which does the same thing, but has a clearer name.
2013 + The deletion of documents pass at the end of indexing is now more
2014 efficient. We track how many documents in the database we haven't seen so
2015 we can stop once we've found them all (a particularly big improvement if
2016 there are no documents to delete), and we now use a PostingIterator over
2017 all documents which avoids needing to catch an exception for every gap in
2018 the used document ids.
2020 + Quietly ignore files with mimetype set to "ignore". The initial list of
2021 extensions set to ignore is: .a .dll .dylib .exe .lib .o .obj .so
2023 + Index file owner and read permissions, to allow finding documents with a
2024 particular owner, and so searches can be restricted to documents a user is
2027 + Add file size as a document value, so you can sort on it and filter by it.
2031 + Fix file descriptor leak if the LOADFILE action is used on something which
2036 * Make sure we write out HTTP headers when reporting an error early on.
2038 * Extend $field to take an optional DOCID argument, rather than always using
2039 the context from $hitlist.
2041 * Add new $emptydocs command which returns a list of documents with doclength
2044 * Add support for size: range filtering. Currently the end points of the range
2045 have to be specified in bytes (e.g. size:102400..204800 for 100-200KB).
2049 * templates/emptydocs: New template which lists documents with doclength zero.
2053 * configure: Probe for any options needed to enable large file support.
2054 Handling files >= 2GB isn't especially useful, but more importantly this is
2055 needed to allow omindex to index files on filing systems with 64 bit inodes
2056 on some platforms (e.g. 32-bit Linux).
2058 * Use -no-undefined on platforms which need it to dynamically link such as
2059 cygwin (need to do this taken from ticket#282).
2063 * Fix to compile with Sun C++.
2065 Omega 1.2.3 (2010-08-24):
2069 * docs/termprefixes.html: Update "flint and quartz" to "flint and chert" as
2070 quartz is no longer supported. Give exact term length limit for flint and
2075 * xapian-omega.spec: Don't run autoreconf - it's no longer required.
2077 Omega 1.2.2 (2010-06-27):
2081 * Apply getopt portability fixes from xapian-core 1.2.0, fixing build failures
2082 on Mac OS X (and probably some other platforms with non-GNU getopt
2083 implementations). (ticket#469)
2085 Omega 1.2.1 (2010-06-22):
2087 This release includes all changes from 1.0.21 which are relevant.
2089 Omega 1.2.0 (2010-04-28):
2091 This release includes all changes from 1.0.20 which are relevant.
2095 * configure: Tell libtool not to link in deplibs on platforms where we know
2098 * configure: On Linux, extract the library search path from ldconfig which
2099 gives us the default entries reliably.
2101 Omega 1.1.5 (2010-04-15):
2103 This release includes all changes from 1.0.19 which are relevant.
2105 Omega 1.1.4 (2010-02-15):
2107 This release includes all changes from 1.0.18 which are relevant.
2111 * Use the optimised integer to string conversion routines from xapian-core.
2113 Omega 1.1.3 (2009-11-18):
2115 This release includes all changes from 1.0.15-1.0.17 which are relevant.
2119 * templates/query: If JavaScript is available, convert $field{modtime} to a
2120 string on the client-side so that the timezone is correct. If JavaScript
2121 isn't available, fall back to the existing behaviour of using UTC.
2126 * configure: Default to looking for xapian-config-1.1 unless XAPIAN_CONFIG is
2129 Omega 1.1.2 (2009-07-23):
2131 This release includes all changes from 1.0.14 which are relevant.
2137 + Handle the "macroenabled" versions of MS Office 2007 files too
2140 + Extract pptx notesSlides and comments, if present. (ticket#290).
2142 Omega 1.1.1 (2009-06-09):
2144 This release includes all changes from 1.0.13 which are relevant.
2150 + Check the last modification time of files before reindexing (ticket#342).
2152 + Add "--spelling" option to index spelling correction data.
2156 + Add new "spell" action for indexing spelling correction data (ticket#296).
2160 * Add $suggestion and $opt{spelling} to provide access to spelling correction
2163 * Add $opt{weighting} to allow the weighting scheme and parameters to be
2164 specified (ticket#298).
2166 * If SERVER_PROTOCOL in the environment is set to INCLUDED, then our output is
2167 being included in another page (e.g. using SSI) so suppress the output of any
2172 * templates/query: Offer any spelling correction QueryParser gives.
2176 * configure: Sync warning flags used with GCC with xapian-core apart from
2177 -Woverloaded-virtual which fires for MyHtmlParser::parse_html(). That
2178 probably should be tidied up at some point, but not right now.
2180 Omega 1.1.0 (2009-04-23):
2186 + Make deprecated "index=nopos" an error.
2190 * New OmegaScript command $transform{} which performs regular expression
2191 substitutions using the PCRE library (which is now required to build Omega).
2196 * The build system is now bootstrapped with newer versions of autoconf and
2197 libtool which should produce smaller files and speed up configure and
2200 Omega 1.0.23 (2011-01-14):
2206 + Escape wildcard patterns being passed to unzip - in the unlikely event that
2207 one of these matched files in or under the current directory, we might fail
2208 to extract all the files we wanted to when indexing document formats like
2209 OpenDocument which use a zip file container.
2211 + The parser for OpenDocument metadata wasn't initialising its "state" field.
2212 Often you'd be lucky and it would be initialised to zero, but this could
2213 have caused misparsing of metadata in some cases.
2215 * scriptindex: Fix file descriptor leak if the LOADFILE action is used on
2216 something that isn't a file.
2218 * If fstat() fails when trying to load a file, preserve the errno value from
2219 the fstat call to report to the user.
2223 * configure: Probe for any options needed to enable large file support.
2224 Handling files >= 2GB isn't especially useful, but more importantly this is
2225 needed to allow omindex to index files on filing systems with 64 bit inodes
2226 on some platforms (e.g. 32-bit Linux).
2228 * Add -no-undefined to AM_LDFLAGS on platforms which need it to dynamically
2229 link such as cygwin (need to do this taken from ticket#282).
2231 Omega 1.0.22 (2010-10-03):
2235 * Fix to compile with Sun C++.
2237 Omega 1.0.21 (2010-05-18):
2241 * Fix build failure in freemem.cc on Microsoft Windows.
2243 Omega 1.0.20 (2010-04-27):
2247 * Fix build failure on Mac OS X and possibly some other platforms (regression
2248 caused by fix for getopt-related warnings on Cygwin in 1.0.19).
2250 Omega 1.0.19 (2010-04-15):
2254 * Fix getopt-related warning on Cygwin.
2256 Omega 1.0.18 (2010-02-14):
2260 * Make the default charset "utf-8" not "UTF-8" as we lower case explicitly
2261 specified character sets to compare to see if we need to reparse. Previously
2262 XML documents which explicitly specified their character set as UTF-8 would
2263 cause needless restart or the parser.
2267 + Increase the wdf boost for the document title from 2 to 5, since 2 isn't
2272 + Don't abort with "Unknown Exception" if indexing is disallowed or we hit
2273 </body> for a document which had an overridden character set. Fixes
2276 Omega 1.0.17 (2009-11-18):
2282 + On Linux, change the memory limit on external filters to use _SC_PHYS_PAGES
2283 since _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES excludes pages used by the OS cache and so will
2284 often report a really low value. Fixes Debian bug#548987 and ticket#358.
2286 + Fix likely crash when reading output from external filter program if read()
2287 is interrupted by a signal.
2289 + Fix potential crash when indexing PostScript files (fixed by using delete[]
2290 (not delete) for array allocated by new[]).
2294 * utf8converttest: Charset "8859_1" isn't understood by Solaris libiconv, and
2295 isn't a standard charset name, so just test it when using our built-in
2296 converter and GNU libc.
2300 * Fix build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.
2302 * Also check for socketpair() in -lxnet if it isn't found without, which
2303 enables resource limits on external filter programs called by omindex on
2304 Solaris, and possibly some other platforms. Fixes ticket#412.
2306 Omega 1.0.16 (2009-09-10):
2308 * omega: Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability in reporting of exceptions
2311 Omega 1.0.15 (2009-08-26):
2315 * omegascript.vim: The list of OmegaScript commands in the vim mode was rather
2316 out of date, and a few commands were misclassified. Fix both problems and
2317 avoid future recurrences by automatically generating those lists from the
2318 command list in query.cc.
2322 * omegascript.html: Document that $date uses UTC. (ticket#314)
2326 * query: Link to "xapian.org" rather than "www.xapian.org".
2328 * inc/toptermsjs: Use double-quotes rather than single quotes for parameter
2329 values on the <script> tag.
2333 * omindex: Implement correct handling of paths when calling external filter
2334 programs on Microsoft Windows.
2336 Omega 1.0.14 (2009-07-21):
2340 * omindex: Make sure that output is flushed after every message, not just after
2345 * Avoid infinite loop in omindex and scriptindex when reading files under
2346 Cygwin with automatic end of line translation enabled. This same bug can
2347 also manifest on Unix platforms if the file is truncated by another process
2350 Omega 1.0.13 (2009-05-23):
2356 + If the filter program needed for a file format isn't installed, report this
2357 explicitly when skipping subsequent files with the extension instead of
2358 misleadingly reporting "Unknown extension".
2360 + Make -s actually work as a short-form for --stemmer (as documented by
2361 "omindex --help" and "man omindex").
2363 + Drop the copyright info from the output of --version as it's perennially
2364 out of date and we don't report it for any other Xapian programs.
2368 + Add new "valuenumeric" action to add a document value using
2369 Xapian::sortable_serialise() to allow numeric sorting (ticket#260).
2373 * configure: Enable more GCC warnings - "-Wstrict-null-sentinel" for 4.0+,
2374 "-Wlogical-op -Wmissing-declarations" for 4.3+.
2376 Omega 1.0.12 (2009-04-19):
2380 * $log now retries a partial write, or one interrupted by a system call.
2384 * configure: Fix iconv parameter type probe not to implicitly cast a string
2385 literal to char* - this a warning under GCC currently, but the user could
2386 pass -Werror explicitly in CXXFLAGS, and this could be promoted to an error
2387 in future GCC versions, and may already be so for some other compilers.
2389 * Overriding CXXFLAGS at make-time (e.g. "make CXXFLAGS=-Os") no longer
2390 overrides any flags required for building with Xapian.
2392 * We now actually use the compiler warning flags which configure detects.
2394 Omega 1.0.11 (2009-03-15):
2398 * cgiparams.html: Note the technique of using a stub database file to allow a
2399 default of searching over multiple databases.
2405 + Add support for indexing Microsoft Office 2007 formats and XPS files
2408 + Fix the extraction of metadata from OpenDocument formats.
2410 + Fix "-l" which would previously always cause a segmentation fault if used
2411 ("--depth-limit" wasn't affected).
2415 * configure: The output of g++ --version changed format (again) with GCC 4.3
2416 which meant configure got "g++" for the version. Instead use the (hopefully)
2417 more robust technique of using g++ -E to pull out __GNUC__ and
2420 * configure: Turn on _FORTIFY_SOURCE where available (as we do in xapian-core).
2424 * Fix to compile when RLIMIT_AS isn't available (as on NetBSD and OpenBSD).
2425 Instead use RLIMIT_VMEM or RLIMIT_DATA if either is available, else don't try
2426 to limit the memory the filter process can use.
2428 Omega 1.0.10 (2008-12-23):
2432 * This release now uses newer versions of the autotools (autoconf 2.62 ->
2433 2.63; automake 1.10.1 -> 1.10.2). The newer autoconf fixes a regression
2434 in autoconf 2.62 (and so Omega 1.0.7) with detecting the endian-ness of some
2437 Omega 1.0.9 (2008-10-31):
2441 * docs/overview.html: Document HTML parsing a bit, including robots
2442 meta and htdig_noindex.
2446 * omega: Catch std::exception and report what its what() method returns.
2448 * omega: Remove undocumented and non-functional support for numeric sorting
2449 via CGI parameter SORT=#<slot> (SORT=<slot> works as before).
2453 * configure: Sync warning flag handling changes from xapian-core to eliminate
2454 many warnings from GCC 4.3.
2456 Omega 1.0.8 (2008-09-04):
2460 * Fix a few typos and improve wording in a few places.
2466 + If the character encoding is specified using <meta http-equiv=...> in an
2467 HTML document then reparse the document if it isn't the encoding we're
2468 already using so that any preceding <title> is converted correctly
2471 + Convert text from meta tag parameters to UTF-8 (bug#293).
2473 + Handle <meta charset="..."> (new in HTML 5).
2475 + Fix bug in HTML tag parameter parsing which was probably just a small
2476 performance penalty in real world cases, but could perhaps result in
2477 parsing bogus extra parameters in carefully contrived situations.
2481 * Add missing <signal.h>, noted on FreeBSD by Henrik Brix Andersen.
2483 Omega 1.0.7 (2008-07-14):
2487 * omegascript.html,scriptindex.html: Fix empty titles.
2493 + When indexing text files, handle UCS-2 and UTF-16 text files with a
2494 byte-order mark (BOM), and ignore any UTF-8 "byte-order" mark.
2496 + The built-in conversion code (used when iconv isn't available) now handles
2497 UCS-2/UTF-16 with and without a BOM, and also the explicit BE and LE forms.
2501 * Overhaul the $highlight colour combinations since some were rather
2502 unreadable (Debian bug 484456).
2506 * configure: Synchronise code for working out warning flags used for builds
2507 with that used for xapian-core, which in particular handles different
2508 output formats from "gcc --version".
2512 * configure: Fix header checks to pre-include <sys/types.h> which Mac OS X
2513 needs for some other headers to work.
2515 * configure: Fix probing for iconv to work better when iconv isn't found
2516 (previously this only worked on Mac OS X with fink).
2518 * Fix compilation error on FreeBSD, introduced in 1.0.5.
2520 * In omega, cast size to unsigned before division to avoid a warning about
2525 * xapian-omega.spec: Remove "www." from xapian.org and oligarchy.co.uk URLs.
2527 Omega 1.0.6 (2008-03-17):
2531 * docs/omegascript.html: Improve formatting.
2537 + Add support for DjVu files.
2539 + If we get an error trying to read a directory entry, report it to the user
2540 rather than ignoring it.
2544 * New OmegaScript commands $addfilter, $lower, $upper.
2548 * Check "defined HAVE_SYSMP" rather than just "HAVE_SYSMP". This doesn't
2549 change behaviour, but fixes a compile warning on platforms other than Linux
2552 Omega 1.0.5 (2007-12-21):
2556 * Convert .txt docs to reStructedText which we process to produce HTML.
2558 * Add a note inviting suggestions for additional reliable filter programs.
2560 * overview.html: omindex hasn't generated "W"-prefix terms since 0.9.7, so
2561 remove the documentation saying it does.
2567 + If a file's extension isn't found in the mime_map and contains uppercase
2568 ASCII characters, check for the lower cased extension (so .PDF and .Pdf
2569 behave the same way as .pdf, unless you deliberately add different mappings
2572 + '-f' is documented by --help as a short option for '--follow', but wasn't
2573 previously actually recognised.
2575 + Limit filter programs to 7/8 of free physical memory on platforms where we
2576 know how to determine this statistic (currently at least Linux, FreeBSD,
2577 IRIX, HP-UX; probably Solaris and a few others too). This helps to prevent
2578 runaway filters from causing a denial of service (bug#111).
2580 + Avoid rereading uncompressed AbiWord documents in order to calculate their
2585 + Now inserts a ':' between prefix and term, using the same criteria which
2586 Xapian::QueryParser does.
2588 + The 'BOOLEAN' action now ignores an empty input rather than adding just the
2591 + The 'UNIQUE' action now issues a warning for empty input but otherwise
2596 * Add explicit includes of C headers needed to build with the latest snapshots
2599 Omega 1.0.4 (2007-10-30):
2603 * If an OmegaScript template specifies the same field name as both a boolean
2604 and a probabilistic term prefix then previous the boolean setting would
2605 be ignored (e.g. $setmap{prefix,foo,A}$setmap{boolprefix,foo,H}). Now this
2606 generates an error. If you set prefixes in your templates, you may wish to
2607 check them over before upgrading.
2609 Omega 1.0.3 (2007-09-28):
2613 * Distribution tarballs are now in the POSIX "ustar" format since it saves
2614 a few KB and we need to use it for xapian-core anyway.
2618 * Expand the output of 'mbox2omega --help' and refer the reader to it from
2619 docs/scriptindex.txt.
2625 + Add support for indexing AbiWord documents and TeX DVI files.
2627 + Impose a 5 minute CPU time limit on filter programs to prevent problems if
2628 a filter program goes into an infinite loop on a malformed input. Partly
2633 + Fix line number tracking in dump files.
2637 * Add $muldiv{A,B,C} which calculates int(A*B/C).
2639 * Fix bug in decimal fraction in $size for files >= 1M in size.
2645 + Set HTML charset to utf-8 since that's what databases now are by default.
2647 + Restyle to use CSS to draw a "score bar" instead of using images.
2649 + Rework the layout of each hit.
2651 + Add popup hints on mouse-over for various items.
2653 + Tidy up some HTML gremlins.
2655 Omega 1.0.2 (2007-07-05):
2659 * scriptindex.txt: Fix typo.
2665 + If --url isn't passed, default to "/", but print a warning noting that this
2666 default has been used (at least for now).
2668 + Report files that aren't indexed because their extensions aren't
2673 * Value of XAPIAN_CONFIG supplied to configure is now passed to distcheck,
2674 to ensure that it works with uninstalled copies of Xapian.
2678 * Fix test programs to build with a development snapshot of GCC 4.3.
2680 Omega 1.0.1 (2007-06-11):
2684 * overview.txt: As of 1.0.0, we no longer use pstotext for PostScript, but
2685 instead use ps2pdf followed by pdftotext (since this works for Unicode).
2687 * scriptindex.txt: Document that you can delete a document by supplying a new
2688 document which only contains the unique term.
2692 * Fix bug in HTML parser - if the text between two tags consisted entirely of
2693 whitespace it would just be ignored which could run words together if
2694 the tags didn't produce implicit whitespace. This bug dates back to at least
2697 * omindex: Under Linux (and probably some other platforms) struct dirent can
2698 tell us the type of a directory entry for some filing systems, so make use of
2699 this to avoid calling stat() (or lstat()) unnecessarily - when indexing
2700 /usr/share/doc on my Linux box, this saves about 14000 explicit calls to
2701 stat() (leaving about 7000).
2705 * Fix handling of query parsing errors (broken by changes in 1.0.0).
2709 * The required automake version has been lowered to 1.8.3, so RPMs can now be
2710 built on RHEL 4 and SLES 9.
2712 Omega 1.0.0 (2007-05-17):
2716 * Omega and the indexers now work in UTF-8. If iconv() is available, omindex
2717 will use it to convert documents from other formats, otherwise it has
2718 built-in support for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1; omindex knows how to run the
2719 various external filter programs to generate UTF-8 output; scriptindex
2720 assumes input is already in UTF-8.
2722 * Change the project name (used to name tarballs, and default installation
2723 paths) to "xapian-omega" since that's what the RPMs and Debian packages
2724 already use (there's a Rogue-like game called Omega).
2728 * docs/overview.txt: Document what each of the OmegaScript templates does.
2730 * docs/quickstart.txt: Assorted minor improvements.
2732 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Document new 'Z' prefix, and that the 'R' and 'W'
2733 prefixes are no longer used by Xapian.
2735 * docs/cgiparams.txt: FMT isn't limited to just `a-z' - the actual restriction
2736 is that it may not contain `..'.
2738 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Explicitly note that index=nopos is deprecated
2739 (scriptindex already emits a warning).
2741 * NEWS: Add note that Omega < 0.8.0 NEWS entries are in the xapian-core NEWS
2748 * Updated to use the new Xapian::TermGenerator class. This means that the
2749 indexing strategy has changed.
2751 * "--help" now reports the default stemming language (i.e. "english").
2753 * Implement new sample generating function which normalises all runs of
2754 whitespace to a single space, and fixes invalid UTF-8 in the sample.
2758 + We now index PostScript by converting to PDF with ps2pdf and then indexing
2759 that. This allows us to index PostScript files containing Unicode
2760 characters outside of ISO-8859-1, and also means we now get metadata from
2761 PostScript files. The downside is it is quite a bit slower.
2763 + Add support for indexing MS Works documents using wps2text (part of
2766 + Don't index empty files.
2770 + Fix optimisation of "load truncate=N" to actually work!
2772 + The "truncate" action knows not to chop off a multibyte UTF-8 character.
2774 + Update short option list for scriptindex to match documented usage (-h, -V
2775 and -s were not working).
2777 + Remove -q and -u options - they no longer do anything and are only accepted
2778 for compatibility with really old versions (0.6.1 and earlier for -q; 0.7.5
2779 and earlier for -u).
2783 * Add an alternative implementation of date range filtering which uses a
2784 MatchDecider. This allows everything that the existing implementation does,
2785 plus you can support sorting on a choice of dates (e.g. first published or
2786 last updated), and filtering works to a resolution of a minute rather than a
2787 day. Set CGI parameter DATEVALUE to enable this, and to specify the value to
2788 use. Since omindex now adds the last modified date as value 0, this will
2791 * Enhance $substr{} to accept a negative length (meaning to count back from the
2794 * New CGI parameters to allow finer control of sorting and ranking - SORTAFTER
2797 * The sorting options are now encoded in $filters so Omega can automatically
2798 reset to page 1 if they are changed.
2800 * Add new OmegaScript $weight command which returns the raw document weight -
2801 mostly useful for debugging purposes.
2803 * $topterms{} now generates unstemmed terms.
2805 * $prettyterm{TERM} has been updated to fit with changes to the term generation
2808 * Add 'you' and 'your' as stopwords.
2810 * $filesize{SIZE} enhanced to return a decimal point for K, M, and G (e.g.
2811 "2.1K" and "4.0M" rather than "2K" and "4M"); $filesize{0} is now "0 bytes";
2812 $filesize{1} is now "1 byte"; $filesize{SIZE} where SIZE is negative is now
2815 * Remove $freqs as it has been deprecated for ages.
2817 * Remove support for xB, xDATE1, xDATE2, xDAYSMINUS, and xDEFAULTOP which were
2818 deprecated in favour of xFILTER in 0.7.5 (over 3 years ago).
2820 * Remove deprecated aliases for CGI parameters (deprecated in 0.6.3 or 0.6.5,
2821 more than 3.5 years ago): RAW_SEARCH (now RAWSEARCH), DATE1 (now START),
2822 DATE2 (now END), DAYSMINUS (now SPAN but with slightly different semantics),
2823 and MIN_HITS (now MINHITS).
2825 * Remove "bias_weight" and "bias_halflife" CGI parameters since they rely on
2826 Enquire::set_bias() which has been removed.
2830 * The 'query' template no longer uses $topterms by default.
2832 * New 'topterms' template provides a query template with $topterms support.
2834 * Template fragments which aren't intended for direct use have been moved to
2835 an "inc" subdirectory.
2839 * md5test: Add tests for MD5 code.
2843 * `./configure --enable-quiet' already allows you to specify at configure time
2844 to pass `--quiet' to libtool. Now you can override this at make-time by
2845 using `make QUIET=' (to turn off `--quiet') or `make QUIET=y' (to turn on
2848 * configure: Disable probes for f77, gcj, and rc completely by preventing
2849 the probe code from even appearing in configure - this reduces the size of
2850 configure by 29% and should speed it up significantly.
2854 * Fixed to build with GCC 4.3 snapshot.
2856 * We now make use of the safe*.h portability headers from xapian-core.
2858 * Ensure that the result of snprintf is zero terminated since MSVC's snprintf
2859 is broken (by design it seems).
2861 * configure: xapian-config --cxxflags now includes -ptused for SGI's C++
2862 compiler, so we don't need to probe for it here.
2864 * configure: Perform a link test for posix_fadvise to fix misdetection on
2867 Omega 0.9.10 (2007-03-04):
2871 * docs/omegascript.txt: Rewrite introductory paragraph. Note that
2872 whitespace is significant, and add explicit warning to $setmap.
2874 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Expand section on boolean prefixes, showing
2875 how to generate them using scriptindex, and how to allow them to be
2876 selected in an HTML form.
2880 * omindex: Generate correct MD5 checksums on big-endian platforms.
2884 * Fix $substr{} with negative start to actually work.
2886 * Fix $substr{} to never cause a C++ exception.
2890 * omega.spec.in: Remove "." from the end of the Summary.
2892 Omega 0.9.9 (2006-11-09):
2896 * Ship our custom INSTALL file rather than the generic one from autoconf which
2897 we've accidentally been shipping instead since 0.9.5.
2901 * scriptindex: The "date" action no longer modifies the value it operates on
2902 (it was never meant to!)
2906 * Report an error if $setmap is called with an even number of parameters.
2907 An incorrect example in the documentation used to suggest this, so it's
2908 particularly useful to catch this case.
2912 * RPMs: Prevent binaries getting an rpath for /usr/lib64 on FC6.
2914 Omega 0.9.8 (2006-11-02):
2918 * $substr where the start is negative and longer than the string (e.g.
2919 $substr{abcd,-5,1}) wasn't working as intended.
2923 * configure: Tell AC_CHECK_HEADERS to suppress its backward compatibility mode,
2924 so it only checks headers with the compiler. This speeds up configure a
2925 little, and is what we do elsewhere.
2927 * configure: Warning flags for GCC weren't actually getting used. Fix this to
2928 work and use the same warning flags for GCC and Intel C++ as xapian-core does.
2929 Fix all the warnings this uncovered!
2931 * omega,omindex,scriptindex: Remove some old unused code.
2935 * Ensure that we always pass an unsigned char value to isupper(), toupper(),
2936 etc as they are undefined on other values (glibc makes them work for signed
2937 char values too, but this is an extension).
2939 * configure: Pass magic options to SGI's C++ compiler to allow linking of
2942 * configure: IRIX doesn't allow stdint.h to be included from C++ so we need
2943 a smarter configure test than AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
2945 * Fix warnings from SGI's C++ compiler.
2947 Omega 0.9.7 (2006-10-10):
2951 * omegascript.txt: Note that (by design) an omegascript template can't
2952 contain an infinite loop.
2954 * termprefixes.txt: "$setmap{title,S}" should be "$setmap{prefix,title,S}".
2956 * Use the default paths to the database directories and the omega CGI binary in
2959 * README: Update reference to "CVS" to say "SVN".
2963 * Don't get confused by "a<b" in Javascript in a <script> tag. Fixes bug#91.
2965 * Support htdig's "ignore this bit" comments.
2967 * Don't generate terms with more than 3 trailing symbols ('-', '+', or '#').
2971 + Add the file last modified time as value #0.
2973 + Generate an MD5 checksum of each file indexed and store it in value #1
2974 to allow duplicates to be collapsed.
2976 + Store the file's last modified time in the document data as "modtime" so it
2977 shows up in search results (and tweak the query template so the display of
2978 this information looks nicer). Don't add "modtime" field if the timestamp
2981 + Run pdfinfo once and pull out the fields we want using string operations,
2982 instead of running it twice filtered through sed.
2984 + Parse the XML from OpenDocument and OpenOffice using new subclasses of
2985 HtmlParser. Only extract meta.xml once.
2987 + Add "size" field to document data.
2989 + Run xls2csv on MS Excel files, run catppt on MS Powerpoint files, and also
2990 index MS Word templates (.dot) the same way as .doc files.
2992 + Don't generate 'W' terms since omega doesn't use them.
2994 + If a filter program isn't installed, then don't try it again for the same
2995 extension (not perfect but an improvement - previously we indexed an empty
2998 + If popen() fails, treat it as a read error.
3002 + Add new "load" action to allow the contents of an external file to be
3005 + Fix check for whether a record has content in the case where the same field
3006 is processed more than once.
3010 * Add $pack and $unpack OmegaScript commands to allow big endian binary values
3011 to be encoded and decoded (for use with omindex's lastmod in value #1).
3013 * omega.conf: Fix code which reads omega.conf to be line based as documented
3014 rather than the wacky whitespace based scheme that was actually implemented.
3015 Also we now allow "#" comments and blank lines in omega.conf.
3017 * Fix $highlight{} to work with capitalised words (it used to work but
3018 regressed in 0.8.2).
3020 * Use '\t' to separate terms in xP since filter terms might contain '.'. Fixes
3025 * Add htmlparsetest which tests the MyHtmlParser class.
3029 * Makefile.am: Make use of the dist_ prefix to avoid having to list files in
3030 EXTRA_DIST as well as in *_SCRIPTS, *_DATA, and man_MANS.
3032 * Makefile.am: Prefer $(sysconfdir) to @sysconfdir@ since the former can be
3033 overridden on the "make" command line.
3037 * xapian-config will now switch Sun's C++ compiler into ANSI C++ compliant
3038 mode, so remove all the special case bits of code added for just this one
3041 * omindex: Fix escaping of filenames to cast characters to "unsigned char" so
3042 that isalnum() works correctly everywhere. Not a security hole as dangerous
3043 characters were still being escaped.
3045 * Call pclose() not fclose() on a FILE* obtained from popen(). This bug could
3046 cause us to run out of file descriptors on some platforms.
3048 * configure: Check for strftime.
3052 * omega.spec.in: Include documentation in the RPM package.
3054 Omega 0.9.6 (2006-05-15):
3058 * docs/omegascript.txt: Clarified description of $now.
3062 * scriptindex: Fix "index" and "indexnopos" without a prefix to set the weight
3063 correctly (bug introduced in 0.9.5).
3067 * Added new OmegaScript commands $filterterms and $substr.
3071 * configure: Update snprintf detection to match xapian-core.
3073 * Fix MSVC warnings.
3077 * omega.spec.in: Create and package /var/lib/omega/cdb and /var/log/omega.
3079 Omega 0.9.5 (2006-04-08):
3083 * README: Add pointer to documentation.
3085 * Added man pages for omindex and scriptindex, generated using help2man.
3091 + If we fail to open the index script, die with an error (previously we
3092 acted as if an empty file was specified).
3094 + Warn about a useless "weight" action, even if it's followed by another
3095 non-useless action (e.g. "field") - previously we only warned if it
3096 was last or followed only by other useless actions.
3098 + Warn if "unique=<prefix>" is used without a corresponding
3099 "boolean=<prefix>" on the same line.
3101 + Warn that "index=nopos" is deprecated and should be replaced by
3104 + Add explanatory text "(note that actions are executed from left to right)"
3105 when reporting useless actions.
3107 + Added new "hash" command to allow hashed terms to be generated from long
3108 URLs like omindex does.
3110 * htdig2omega.script,mbox2omega.script: Make use of the new scriptindex "hash"
3113 * dbi2omega: Check DBIDRIVER environmental variable to allow a driver other
3114 than mysql to be specified without modifying the script.
3118 * Fix $opt[fieldnames] handling. Previously it would try to kick in if you
3119 didn't set fieldnames but set any alphabetically later option! The symptom
3120 was that $field{} would stop working (bug#72).
3124 * omindex,omega: Tweaks for MSVC compilation.
3126 Omega 0.9.4 (2006-02-21):
3130 * COPYING: Updated FSF address.
3132 Omega 0.9.3 (2006-02-16):
3136 * overview.txt: The U prefix (URL term) was grouped with the date searching
3137 prefixes, but it makes more sense to group it with the prefixes relating to
3138 parts of the URL (H for hostname, P for path, etc).
3140 * overview.txt: Add pointer to documentation of the supported query syntax.
3142 * omegascript.txt: Improve descriptions of $cgi, $collapsed, $value, $version.
3144 * termprefixes.txt: Fix typo.
3148 * omindex: add --preserve-nonduplicates / -p option to not delete any documents
3149 that aren't updated, in replace duplicates mode (so that multiple runs of
3150 omindex on different subsites don't stomp on each other).
3152 * omindex,scriptindex: Add "--stemmer" option to omindex and scriptindex
3153 to allow the stemming language to be set. Fixes bug#11.
3155 * omindex,scriptindex: More consistent --help and --version output.
3157 * omindex: Add support for OpenDocument format mimetypes and extensions out of
3158 the box. Previously you could index them but had to pass a "-m" option for
3159 each OpenDocument filename extension you wanted to handle.
3161 * scriptindex: The "-q" option no longer actually controls anything. Just
3162 ignore it for backwards compatibility (and don't document it in --help).
3166 * If executing an OmegaScript command causes a Xapian exception to be thrown,
3167 catch it and copy the error message into error_msg (which is read by the
3168 $error command). This allows such errors to reported in a nicer way.
3170 * Added "SORTREVERSE" CGI parameter which allows the sort order to be reversed
3171 when sorting on a value. Removed "SORTBANDS" CGI parameter since it no
3172 longer does anything.
3174 * Added $find{LIST,STRING} to return the subscript of the first occurrence of
3175 string STRING in list LIST.
3177 * Added $lookup{CDBFILE,KEY} OmegaScript command to perform a lookup in a CDB
3180 * Added new feature which allows you to avoid storing fieldnames in every
3181 document. Instead you just store the field values, one per line, and add
3182 something like "$set{fieldnames,$split{caption sample url}}" to the
3183 OmegaScript template to specify the fieldnames to use. This can save a lot
3184 of disk space for a large database.
3186 * Add new "$split{}" OmegaScript command which splits a string to give an
3189 * Fix $url{} to escape "+" to "%2b". Also fix encoding of top-bit-set
3190 characters on platforms where char is signed by default.
3192 * Speed up $highlight{} - only compare terms which are the same length.
3194 * Reduce memory usage if a lot of documents are marked as relevant.
3198 * query: Make the page title shorter so there's more chance it will fit on icon
3201 * opensearch: Add missing escaping.
3203 * godmode: If a non-existent docid is specified, report the error and prompt
3204 the user to enter another docid. Fixes bug#60.
3208 * omega: Fix printf type mismatch on 64 bit platforms.
3210 * omega: Cast time_t to unsigned long to avoid problems on 64bit platforms.
3212 * Use snprintf where available.
3214 * Write top-bit set characters using \xXX notation to avoid warnings from
3215 Intel's C++ compiler.
3217 Omega 0.9.2 (2005-07-15):
3219 * omega: Changed $highlight so if OPEN and CLOSE aren't specified, they default
3220 to highlighting each word from the query with a different background colour
3221 like gmane does (previous default was to use '<strong>' and '</strong>').
3223 * omega: Call QueryParser::set_database() as this is now used to decide what to
3224 do for terms like "C#".
3226 * omega: Added the ability to set boolean prefixes for the QueryParser by
3227 setting a "boolprefix" map in the omegascript template.
3229 * omega: Added $length{} and $stoplist{} commands to OmegaScript.
3231 * scriptindex: Fix infinite loop if there's no newline at the end of a dumpfile.
3233 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Explain how to use termprefixes with scriptindex and
3234 omega, since that's what most people will want to know.
3236 * docs/omegascript.txt: Use standard "S" prefix for title in example for
3237 $setmap, rather than "XT".
3239 Omega 0.9.1 (2005-06-06):
3241 * Releases are now created using libtool 1.5.18 and automake 1.9.5.
3243 * Updated RPM packaging.
3245 Omega 0.9.0 (2005-05-13):
3247 * Updated for 0.9.0 API changes.
3249 * omindex/scriptindex: Generate terms like "c#".
3251 * Added mbox2omega script which allows a mail folder to be indexed using
3252 scriptindex. Mostly it's an example as there's no mechanism included to show
3253 the full original message.
3257 * The configuration file is now looked for differently - you can now set
3258 the environmental variable OMEGA_CONFIG_FILE. See docs/overview.txt for
3261 * $highlight can now highlight terms like "C#".
3263 * Add new template 'opensearch' to implement basic opensearch feeds of search
3268 * URL hashing previously depended on sizeof(long) so databases weren't totally
3269 portable between platforms. This is now fixed, but to do so we've had to
3270 break compatibility with databases built on platforms with 64 bit longs
3271 with URLs > 228 bytes.
3273 * Removed useless "DUPE_duplicate" option.
3275 * Added support for indexing Perl "pod" documentation using pod2text.
3277 * Replaced -l/--no-recurse with -l/--depth-limit which takes an argument
3278 allowing recursion to be restriction to any depth, not just 0 or infinity!
3280 * Extend -M/--mime-type to allow an existing mapping to be removed by omitting
3283 * Fixed code so that we get lstat() prototype on Linux systems where we have
3288 * Improved handling of extra blank lines in dump file.
3290 * Strip multiple \r characters from end of line.
3292 * Complain if a dump file doesn't appear to have been = escaped correctly.
3294 * Flush database after each input file to ensure all changes from a file
3299 * docs/omegascript.txt: Clarify $field description slightly.
3301 * docs/cgiparams.txt,docs/omegascript.txt: Fixed 3 references to OmXxxx classes.
3303 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Added a single document covering all aspects of term
3306 * docs/omegascript.txt: Moved $collapsed into correct place alphabetically!
3308 * docs/cgiparams.txt,docs/overview.txt: Improved description of how B filters
3309 are handled when building the query.
3311 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Note that actions are applied in the specified order.
3313 Omega 0.8.5 (2004-12-23):
3315 * README,INSTALL: Proper installation instructions.
3317 * omega: If an exception is thrown, make sure that the HTTP headers
3318 get written so that we don't cause "500 Internal Server Error".
3319 This problem was introduced by the change to allow a user specified
3320 Content-Type in 0.8.0. Partly addresses bug#60.
3322 * scriptindex: Fixed "Unknown Exception" when trying to "unhtml" text which
3323 contains "</body>" (bug#61). This bug was introduced in 0.8.4.
3325 * omindex/scriptindex: <h1> - <h6> and </h1> - </h6> now leave a space in the
3326 dumped HTML. This bug was introduced in 0.8.4 - before that any tag left
3327 a space in the dumped HTML.
3329 * omindex: Only try to delete removed documents in "replace duplicates" mode
3330 (which is the default).
3332 * omindex: Change behaviour of crawler such that it doesn't follow symbolic
3333 links any more. The new "--follow" command line option turns following of
3336 * dbi2omega: Add a comment to the start of the file detailing what
3339 Omega 0.8.4 (2004-12-08):
3341 * omindex,scriptindex: Improved HTML to text conversion - now we strip
3342 leading and trailing whitespace and convert all other consecutive groups of
3343 whitespace to a single space. Also the parser now knows that some tags
3344 should be regarded as word breaks and some shouldn't (previously all tags
3345 were treated as word breaks).
3347 * omindex: Removed bogus extra line from code which was meant to
3348 truncate samples, titles, etc at a word boundary, but has never actually
3351 * omindex: Added hooks for indexing the following formats: OpenOffice (requires
3352 unzip), MS Word (requires antiword), Wordperfect (requires wpd2text), RTF
3355 * omindex: If a filename to be passed to a filter program has a leading "-",
3356 protect it from possible interpretation as an option by prepending "./".
3358 * omega: When there's only a boolean query we promote it to be the query.
3359 Tweaked so we use boolean weights in this case.
3361 * omega: Use Query::empty() instead of the now deprecated Query::is_empty().
3363 * omega,omindex,scriptindex: Use the new Database/WritableDatabase
3366 * templates/godmode: Finished off godmode template.
3368 * Compile everything as C++.
3370 * Check snprintf actually works - some older versions don't implement C90
3373 * XAPIAN_FLAGS already links with xapianqueryparser so remove
3374 -lxapianqueryparser from omega_LDADD as it was causing link errors on cygwin.
3376 Omega 0.8.3 (2004-09-20):
3378 * scriptindex: --version now actually reports the version. --help now exits
3379 with status 0 rather than status 1.
3381 * RPM packaging: Updated. The most notable change is that the RPM is now
3382 called xapian-omega because there's already an omega RPM (in Fedora Core at
3383 least) which is a game. Also htdig2omega and htdig2omega.script are now
3384 included in the RPM.
3386 * Install htdig2omega.script in ${prefix}/share/omega/ rather than
3389 Omega 0.8.2 (2004-09-13):
3391 * omega: $highlight now handles accented characters (bug#9).
3393 * omega: Use new checkatleast parameter to Enquire::get_mset to implement
3396 * omindex: When running with "replace duplicates" mode (the default), detect
3397 documents removed since the last indexing run and delete them from the
3400 * omindex: Use the new WritableDatabase::replace_document(term, doc) method.
3402 * scriptindex: Report index script file name and line number when
3403 reporting errors in it. Added warning for redundant actions,
3404 such as "truncate" as the last action in a rule.
3406 * templates/query: Always report if the database is not found - previously we
3407 only did so if there was a query.
3409 * templates/query: Fixed missing </center> tag which happened in certain cases.
3411 * docs/omegascript.txt: Added note about that $add{$hit,1} gives
3414 * Now includes htdig2omega and htdig2omega.script which allow you to crawl
3415 remote websites with ht://dig, then build a searchable index of them with
3418 * Link with -lxapianqueryparser, not -lomqueryparser.
3420 Omega 0.8.1 (2004-06-30):
3422 * omindex: Renamed hash() to hash_string() to avoid colliding with something
3425 * omega: Changed MORELIKE to pick up to 40 terms, rather than up to 6 (feedback
3426 on the mailing list suggests this gives much better results).
3428 * scriptindex: Added explicit catch for std::bad_alloc.
3430 Omega 0.8.0 (2004-04-19):
3432 * scriptindex: Change default to *not* overwriting the database (use
3433 --overwrite if you really want to do this); -u is now accepted but ignored.
3435 * scriptindex: Use getopt for option parsing.
3437 * omindex: Added --overwrite option which forces an existing database to be
3438 deleted before indexing begins.
3440 * templates/xml: Correct spelling of `relavence' to `relevance'. NB: if you're
3441 parsing the XML output, you'll need to fix this spelling in your parser!
3443 * templates/xml: Now set HTTP header: "Content-Type: application/html".
3445 * templates/xml: Remove unused OmegaScript code:
3446 `$set{topterms,$or{$ne{$msize,0},$query}}'.
3448 * indextext.cc,omindex.cc,scriptindex.cc: Updated to use add_term() instead of
3451 * omega: Added $httpheader Omegascript to allow arbitrary HTTP headers and
3452 alternative Content-Type headers to be specified.
3454 * omega: If the probabilistic query was bad, don't try to run the match.
3456 * omega: Don't crash if there's a date filter but no probabilistic query.
3458 * omindex/scriptindex: Raw terms with a multicharacter prefix are now indexed
3459 with a : inserted (e.g. as XFOO:Rterm). This matches what the query parser
3462 * omindex/scriptindex: Don't create R terms for terms which start with a digit.
3464 * omindex: Use O_STREAMING and/or posix_fadvise() when reading files to be
3465 indexed (if available). This helps to keep the Xapian database in cache,
3466 and should greatly improve indexing throughput.
3468 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Make more explicit that boolean produces a *single*
3471 * docs/cgiparams.txt: Note that START and END should be in the format YYYYMMDD.
3473 For NEWS entries for Omega versions prior to 0.8.0, see the xapian-core NEWS