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3 Omega 1.5.0 (2024-0?-??):
7 * Add click logging and analysis to generate training data for the xapian-letor
8 module. Patch from Vivek Pal.
10 * Remove htdig2omega scripts. The last htdig release was in 2004 so these
11 scripts no longer seem at all useful.
17 * Our XML and HTML parser now treats XML (and XHTML) more correctly rather
18 thank treating everything like HTML. In particular for XML and XHTML we now
19 parse tag names and attribute names case sensitively, and disable special
20 handling for htdig and similar "ignore this bit" comments, and also disable
21 special handling inside <script> tags.
23 * We now parse XML/HTML attributes lazily. We often don't look at them so
24 just do the minimal parsing up front (skip balanced pairs of `"` and `'`
25 while scanning for the tag's closing `>`), and only parse the attribute
26 data for the requested attribute - in practice we're rarely asked for more
27 than one attribute for a particular tag so this will usually mean less work
28 since we can just stop once we've found the attribute, and we save the work
29 on building up and tearing down the structure to store the parsed attributes
32 * Remove undocumented feature which preserved some HTML formatting in the
33 generated sample, encoded using different whitespace characters. This
34 feature was added in 1.3.2, but never documented (its not even mentioned in
35 the NEWS file), only applied to documents in HTML or processed via HTML, and
36 nothing actually uses this formatting information. It can result in CR
37 characters in the document data, which can be confusing when looking at an
38 Omega database with xapian-delve. I think the original intent was that the
39 sample generating/selecting code might use this information, but in hindsight
40 I'm not sure that it's very useful there even.
42 * Convert HTML checkboxes to Unicode checkbox characters in the sample.
44 * Use C++17 std::string_view to avoid some copying of data during indexing.
49 + Support piping input to filter commands on stdin, which is supported by
50 most of the external filters we support out of the box. Piping input
51 means we can avoid having to open the input file an extra time (omindex
52 needs to open the input file so it can calculate a checksum of the contents
53 for duplicate detection, and also may need to use libmagic to find the
54 file's MIME Content-Type).
56 + Remove deprecated omindex --preserve-nonduplicates which was replaced by
59 + Add support for extracting text using a library. The code which calls
60 each library is run in a worker sub-process so that bugs in the library
61 can't crash the indexer. So far we have workers for the following
62 libraries and formats:
64 - libe-book: fb2, fb2.zip, lrf, tcr, pdb and jar
65 - libetonyek: Apple iWork (keynote, pages, numbers)
66 - Gmime: MIME Email and Usenet articles
67 - Tesseract: extract text from image files using OCR
68 - libarchive: OpenDocument format, Microsoft XML formats (docx, xlsx, pptx, xps)
69 - libabw: Abiword formats
70 - libcdr: CorelDRAW formats
71 - libextractor: extract meta-data from audio and video files
72 - libreofficekit: Formats which LibreOffice supports
73 - libgepub: EPUB ebooks (#780)
74 The framework and workers were implemented by Bruno Baruffaldi, Parth
75 Kapadia and Olly Betts.
77 + Store created time in a value slot.
79 + Delay relatively expensive libmagic checks and the creation of the
80 Xapian::Document object until after we've checked if the document is
81 already indexed or already in our failed list.
82 Fixes #743. Patch from Bruno Baruffaldi.
84 + Don't index date terms by default. Using values for date filtering has
85 been supported for more than 10 years (since 1.0.0) and has many advantages
86 - continuing to add all the terms as well is pointless overhead for the
87 majority of users at this point. The omindex --date-terms option can be
88 used if you still want these terms (this option is supported since 1.4.22
89 for forward compatibility).
91 + Atom feed parsing: type="xhtml" is now understood.
93 + rfc822tohtml: Warn if "Date:" header parsing fails.
97 + Add unxml action to strip out XML tags.
99 + Adjust scriptindex deletion handling rules. Previously scriptindex would
100 delete a document if it only had input fields which only match a line in
101 the index script containing the "unique" action but this is problematic if
102 you want to process the same input field in two different ways using
103 commands which modify the current text - for example, `hash unique=Q
104 boolean=Q` and `split=/ boolean=XP` can't be combined into a single line of
105 actions with the same effect as each on a separate line.
107 Now the check is based on whether there are any input fields which don't
108 match a line in the index script containing the "unique" action, and the
109 example above works when written as two lines.
113 * Support new QueryParser options: flag_fuzzy flag_wildcard_glob
114 flag_wildcard_multi flag_wildcard_single flag_word_breaks
116 * New $random and $srandom OmegaScript commands. Patch from Tanmay Sachan.
118 * New $hash{} OmegaScript command which calculates a hash for an input string.
120 * The weighting scheme specified by the `weighting` CGI parameter is now parsed
121 using the new C++ `Xapian::Weight::create()` API.
123 * $snippet now supports additional optional arguments to allow specifying the
124 flags, and strings for bra, ket and gap.
126 * $log{} now returns an error message. This is upwardly incompatible in cases
127 where $log fails, but means it's now possible to report logging errors, and
128 one can wrap the `$log{...}` in `$if{` and `}` to ignore errors which also
129 works with older versions.
131 * $filesize{} with an empty input previously gave ``0`` but now gives an
134 * Remove deprecated $set{spelling,true}.
136 * Note $set{weighting,trad} as deprecated in omega docs.
138 * Add $set{intra_query_op,OR} to allow combining multiple parsed query strings
139 with OR instead of AND.
141 * Add $jsonobject2 which is is a variant of $jsonobject which takes separate
142 lists of keys and values.
144 * $filters now uses a new encoding which is more compact in most cases,
145 especially when there are a lot of filter terms with repeated prefixes.
146 The xFILTERS parameter is still checked against the $filters output which
147 1.4.x would have given, but it's no longer checked against $filters output
148 from 1.2.x. This means really old links to later pages of search results
149 will likely show the first page of results, but the final 1.2.x release was
150 in 2016 so this shouldn't be a problem. Fixes #737.
152 * Add error handling for CGI parameters. Patch from Vaibhav Kansagara.
156 * Remove unused images for showing the relevance score which don't appear to
157 have been used since 2007 except in commented out lines of the query
158 template. The active version in the template which draws these with CSS
159 seems a better approach.
163 * Add omindextest to provide test coverage for omindex's handling of
164 file formats. Patch from Bruno Baruffaldi.
166 * omegatest: Add feature tests for $snippet.
170 * We now require a C++17 compiler to build Xapian. This means if you're using
171 GCC you'll need at least GCC 7.0. Compilers which haven't been updated to
172 support C++17 are no longer supported (e.g. HP's aCC and Sun's C++ compiler).
174 * Use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, which replaces the need to specify the same
175 directory via both AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR and ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS. It was added in
176 automake 1.13, so that's now the minimum required version (was 1.12.2).
178 * Simplify probe for posix_fadvise(). We've been using the simpler probe in
179 xapian-core since 1.3.4 with no reports of issues.
185 * We no longer provide RPM spec files. In the early days of Xapian it was
186 perhaps useful to provide them so that people could build their own RPM
187 packages, but now all mainstream distros seem to provide packages, and
188 doubtless maintain their own packaging separately rather than just taking
193 * Allow using UBSan's unsigned-overflow check
194 In C and C++ unsigned overflow has defined behaviour (unlike signed
195 overflow) but in many cases it happening is not intended and indicates
197 UBSan supports an unsigned-overflow check (at least the clang version
198 does - currently the GCC version doesn't seem to) so I've annotated the
199 few places in the code where we deliberately rely on unsigned overflow
200 (and eliminated a few cases where we can easily not rely on it) and
201 added this check to the clang-sanitisers job.
203 Omega 1.4.26 (2024-07-18):
209 + Make robust to the indexer process being run with stdin or stdout closed.
213 * Support "bm25+" and "pl2+" in "$set{weighting,...}".
215 * Deprecate "lm" in "$set{weighting,...}". This was meant to implement the
216 "Language Model" Weighting scheme, but we've discovered the implementation
217 was incorrect and fixing it requires ABI-incompatible changes in xapian-core.
218 For 1.4.x we need to leave it in place so as not to break existing code, but
219 we recommended avoiding using it. It will be removed in the next release
220 series and replaced with new separate classes implementing Language Model
221 weighting with each smoothing.
223 * Add "prob" as new preferred name for probabilistic query expansion in
224 "$set{expansion,...}", with the previous "trad" still being accepted for now.
228 * Report result of probe to determine compiler support for -Werror or
231 * If pkg-config is available, use it to probe for libmagic.
233 * configure: Probe for closefrom(). Patch from Qiu Yingbo in
234 https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/323
238 * configure: Fix clang detection which wasn't working when configure determined
239 a -std=X option was needed to get C++11 support. The obvious symptom was
240 that --enable-werror wouldn't add -Werror.
242 * configure: NetBSD automatically pulls in library dependencies, so set
243 link_all_deplibs_CXX=no there.
245 * Define __WIN32__/__WIN64__ like we do for xapian-core. Spotted by Baran Demir.
247 * Avoid using sprintf() if snprintf() is available, even in cases where the
248 output size is bounded to avoid deprecation warnings on macOS. For 1.4.x
249 we still fall back to sprintf() to avoid a point release breaking support
250 for any platform still lacking snprintf().
252 * Use `override` for subclassing functors. This is good practice as it gives a
253 clear compile error if we have to change the signature of an virtual method
254 on such a functor. See #830.
256 * Fix building with MSVC - it seems to support AR=lib we need to use AM_PROG_AR
257 which probes for AR's command line interface.
259 Omega 1.4.25 (2024-03-08):
263 * omegatest.pl: Correct program name in error message.
267 * configure: DragonflyBSD automatically pulls in library dependencies, so set
268 link_all_deplibs_CXX=no there.
270 * configure: Avoid compiler warning during GCC version check when compiler
271 needs an option to enable C++11 support (same fix as applied to xapian-core
274 Omega 1.4.24 (2023-11-06):
278 * Document $filesize error handling.
284 + Implement piped input to filters for __WIN32__. Previously it looks like
285 the filter was run but the input wasn't connected to its stdin so it would
286 probably block indefinitely.
288 + Fix corner case in shell emulation - we no longer set environment variables
289 which start with a digit.
291 This issue was spotted from reading the code - in practice this isn't a
292 case that's likely to be encountered, and the previous behaviour doesn't
293 appear to have any security consequences even if a user was somehow tricked
294 into specifying an extraction command that did this.
298 + Check if we can actually support %z in parsedate action. Previously we
299 assumed we could if struct tm had a tm_gmtoff member, but that's only a
300 necessary condition and not sufficient, e.g. on Cygwin we have tm_gmtoff
301 but strptime() doesn't currently understand %z.
303 + If we were expecting an action but didn't get an identifier this triggered
304 an infinitely repeating error:
306 Unknown index action ''
308 Now we instead give a single error:
310 Expected index action, found '...'
312 where '...' shows the sequence of non-whitespace characters encountered.
316 * Run tests under eatmydata if available.
318 * Turn off MSYS2 argument conversion for tests as it breaks omegatest, and we
319 shouldn't need this conversion there.
321 * omegatest: Rewrite in Perl as we were hitting non-portable quoting issues
322 with the shell implementation, and really it had grown too large to make
323 sense as a shell script anyway.
327 * Add --enable-werror configure option.
329 * configure: Only auto-enable -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 if it works without
330 additional libraries and remove the hard-coded block against using it
331 on mingw. Mingw-w64 v11.0.0 eliminated the requirement to link with -lssp
332 so we now auto-enable -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 there.
336 * Fix to build on Cygwin.
338 * Rename our bswap32 helper function to avoid clash with system-provided
339 function on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
341 Omega 1.4.23 (2023-07-07):
345 * Improve documentation for OmegaScript numerical and logical operators. Patch
346 from Vaibhav Kansagara.
348 * Improve documentation for DATEVALUE, xFILTERS and $filters.
354 + Handle XPS files with multiple FixedDocument parts better. Previously we
355 only extracted text from the first FixedDocument part.
357 + Prefer latter subparts of multipart/alternative which is what RFC2046 (and
358 earlier RFCs which that obsoletes) say, but previously we used the first
359 subpart that we could get text from.
361 + Prefer latter subparts of multipart/alternative when indexing Outlook
364 + Fix obscure bug in --mimetype option. We keep track of the length of the
365 longest extension we have a mapping for, but this was being updated using
366 the length of the MIME type rather than the length of the extension.
367 Theoretically this could have led to us effectively ignoring a --mimetype
368 option, but in the real world the MIME type will probably always be longer
369 so this just results in us testing long extensions unnecessarily.
373 * Ignore DATEVALUE CGI parameter if START.n, etc is specified on the same
374 slot. We explicitly document not to do this, but if that advice is ignored
375 it's more helpful to at least preserve the property that we only have
376 one date range per value slot.
378 * Add flag_ngrams as a preferred new alias for flag_cjk_ngram. In the next
379 release series this feature has been expanded to cover many more languages
380 so the "cjk" in the name has become inaccurate as it stands for
381 "Chinese, Japanese and Korean".
383 * Fix handling of Outlook .msg containing Unicode. Codepoints <= U+00FF appear
384 to have been handled correctly, but anything higher resulted in individual
385 bytes of the UTF-8 encoding being treated as separate characters.
387 Fixes https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/326, reported by uhuntu.
391 * Fix compatibility code for old libmagic versions. The code we were using
392 seems like it would never have worked. Nobody's reported this (it was
393 spotted while looking at the code) so we could just require libmagic >= 4.22,
394 but it's trivial to actually handle so we've fixed the fallback code.
396 * Remove lingering traces of IRIX support as it's been dead for many years.
398 Omega 1.4.22 (2023-02-02):
402 * Improve term prefix documentation.
408 + Add --date-terms and --no-date-terms options.
410 + Extract page/sheet count for OpenDocument text documents and spreadsheets.
412 + Extract created date and keywords for MS XML formats.
416 + Fix handling of an unterminated final line in input file.
420 * Add OmegaScript commands to report value slot bounds.
422 * Add OmegaScript $sortableunserialise{} command.
424 Omega 1.4.21 (2022-09-22):
428 * Consistently say "macOS" not "Mac OS X", "OS X", etc.
434 + Add support for gzip-compressed SVG files (.svgz).
436 + Handle <title> in SVG. Previously only <dc:title> inside <metadata> was
437 considered. If both are present, <title> now takes precedence.
441 * omegatest: Add skip-for-32-bit-time_t mechanism and use it to conditionally
442 enable some testcases which fail on platforms with 32-bit time_t.
446 * Update to use AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX which is a replacement for
447 AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX_11 (which we were using) which also supports newer C++
448 standards versions which will be useful. For C++11 the only difference seems
449 to be that the macro now checks for attribute support - we use C++11
450 attributes so that seems a good thing.
452 Omega 1.4.20 (2022-07-04):
458 + OpenDocument: Previously we only inserted an implicit space before each
459 paragraph. Now we insert them both before and after each paragraph and
460 heading, and before forced each line-break and tab.
462 + Add extension mapping for .awt (Abiword templates).
464 + Index metadata from XPS files.
466 + -G and -C short options were documented in --help but not previously
467 actually handled. Reported by David Bremner.
469 + Show --max-size required argument in --help output.
471 + Remove lingering handling for database backends without slot bounds since
472 all backends have been required to support these since 1.4.11.
476 + Process an incomplete final line from a dump file. Previously if the final
477 line lacked a newline scriptindex would quietly ignore it (unless it was
480 + The `unique` action now takes an optional `missing` parameter to specify
481 what to do if a record doesn't trigger the unique action or triggers it
482 with an empty value. The default is now to issue a warning and create a
483 new document (the same as before, except that there was only previously a
484 warning for the empty value case). In Omega 1.5.0 the default will change
485 to an error as that seems a better default, but is less compatible with
486 potential existing use.
488 + Explicitly allow multiple blank lines in input files. Previously such
489 extra blank lines were treated as empty records and in many cases these
490 got quietly skipped, but e.g. with the new UNIQUE checks this could result
491 in a warning or error.
493 + If we hit an error while parsing the index script we used to exit right
494 away, but now we finish parsing the index script since it's more helpful to
495 report all the errors in an index script rather than the user having to
496 fix them one by one. This requires us to sensibly recover after each index
497 script parse error - if you find a case where this recovery triggers
498 further bogus errors please report it and we'll try to improve the
501 + In four cases while handling input data (two cases of bad hex data fed
502 to `hextobin`, an input data line without a `=`, and `load` failing to
503 load the specified file) we'd emit a diagnostic that was labelled as an
504 "error" but really it was handled as a warning as we kept reading input
505 and the "error" didn't affect the exit status. It doesn't really make
506 sense to continue in any of these cases so we now exit with non-zero status
509 + A parameter in the index script which should be an integer but isn't, or
510 should be positive but isn't now gives an error rather than a warning since
511 an error seems more helpful.
513 + All diagnostics issued while parsing the index script now include column
516 + Avoid forcibly flushing the output stream after every message.
520 * Improve test coverage for scriptindex.
524 * Require PCRE2 instead of PCRE. The original PCRE is now EOL and unmaintained
525 (last release was June 2021). In omega it's potentially used to process
526 input from the internet, so security is a real concern hence we're switching
529 Omega 1.4.19 (2021-12-31):
533 * configure: Add missing AC_ARG_VAR for all programs so that they are
534 documented in --help output, and so that autoconf knows they are "precious"
535 and preserves them if configure is rerun even when they're specified via an
536 environment variable.
538 * Add usage examples for $jsonobject.
540 * Fix path to omega in quickstart document. Fixes #813, reported by Jim Lynch.
542 * Update for the IRC channel move from freenode to libera.chat.
546 * Fix handling of UTF-16 BOMs in XML and HTML - we had the sense of the
547 endianness indicated by the BOM the wrong way round.
549 * Avoid making an extra temporary copy of HTML/XML data which has a UTF16 BOM.
551 * We now ignore an end of line immediately after a PHP close tag to match what
556 + Fix handling of formatted xlsx dates in certain cases.
560 + Add new scriptindex whitespace removal actions `ltrim`, `rtrim`, `squash`,
563 + Improve `truncate` action - if a word ends exactly on the requested length
564 we now leave it in place rather than removing it.
566 + Report the location of previous `unique` action in the error given when
567 `unique` is used more than once.
571 * Clamp START and END with packed timestamps. The 4-byte unsigned packed
572 time_t format can't represent dates before 1970 or after Sun 07 Feb 2106
573 06:28:15 UTC so clamp dates before or after these - previously they would
576 * The JSON produced by $jsonobject no longer contains newlines, which makes it
577 usable as a single line serialisation format without post-processing.
579 * Add $base64 OmegaScript command.
581 * omega: Add flag_no_positions to wrap new
582 Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_NO_POSITIONS.
586 * Fix topterms template to not trigger early matching. We were checking $msize
587 before including the `query` template, but doing so would trigger the query
588 to be run, which means that settings early in the `query` template which
589 should affect the result (such as $setmap{prefix,...}) were being ignored
590 when the `topterms` template was used. Partly addresses #815, reported by
593 * Add field support to opensearch and xml templates. These templates now also
594 search title, topic and filename by default and support `title:`, `author:`
595 and `topic:` in the query string (both like the template `query` already
596 does). Fixes remaining issue in #815, reported by Gennadiy.
600 * Expand omegatest. All scriptindex actions now have test coverage.
604 * Replace uses of obsolete autoconf macros, fixing warnings if configure is
605 regenerated with a recent release of autoconf.
609 * Don't automatically use _FORTIFY_SOURCE on mingw-w64. Recent mingw-w64
610 versions require -lssp to be linked when _FORTIFY_SOURCE is enabled, so just
611 skip the automatic enabling. Users who want to enable it can specify it
614 Fixes #808, reported by xpbxf4.
616 * Automatically enable GCC warnings -Wduplicated-cond and -Wduplicated-branches
617 if using a GCC version new enough to support them. The usefulness of
618 -Wduplicated-cond was highlighted by dcb in #816.
620 * Fix GCC -Wshadow warning.
622 * Use clock_gettime() and nanosleep() under modern mingw as these allow higher
623 precision than what we previously used.
625 Omega 1.4.18 (2021-01-14):
631 + Add default MIME mapping for application/rtf. IANA have registrations for
632 text/rtf and (more recently) application/rtf (it seems because newer
633 versions of the RTF format can contain 8-bit data) so we now recognise
634 application/rtf by default and handle it the same way as text/rtf.
636 Current libmagic seems to always return text/rtf (no matches for
637 application/rtf in magic.mgc) and we continue to map extension rtf to
638 text/rtf, so this change is mainly future-proofing against libmagic future
641 + Add support for indexing OpenXPS, which is effectively the same as XPS
642 internally in ways we care about, but it uses a different mimetype and a
643 different filename extension.
647 * Explicitly use OR for MORELIKE queries.
649 Since 1.3.0 the default value of DEFAULTOP has been AND, which typically
650 makes MORELIKE queries much less useful since they'll only match documents
651 containing all the terms from the query expansion. We now explicitly insert
652 " OR " between the terms if DEFAULTOP hasn't been set to OR, which makes them
653 work much more like they did in 1.2.x.
655 * Make $stoplist and $unstem consider all query strings by always passing the
656 new Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_ACCUMULATE flag.
658 * Add $foreach command which works like $map, but just concatenates the
659 evaluated results rather than adding tabs to turn them into an OmegaScript
662 * Extend $include{} to allow handling failure to open the specified file via an
663 optional second argument which if specified will be evaluated and returned
664 instead. Patch from Gaurav Arora.
666 * Support multiple MORELIKE parameters - we now form an RSet from all the
667 specified documents and use that to generate the query to run (previously
668 only one of multiple MORELIKE parameters was used).
670 Omega 1.4.17 (2020-08-21):
674 * Document comment format supported by scriptindex index scripts. We've
675 supported comments on a line by themselves and introduced with a # since
676 scriptindex was first added back in 2002, but it seems have never actually
677 been documented before now.
681 * Check for SERVER_PROTOCOL=INCLUDED before anything which might throw an
682 exception so that if it is set we suppress the Content-Type: when reporting
683 such exceptions. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
685 * Report get_description() for Xapian::Error exceptions instead of get_msg().
686 This means we now report the exception's type, context (useful for network
687 errors), and errno information.
689 * Avoid leaking MyStopper object. The object essentially has the lifespan of
690 omega itself, but becomes unreachable when the QueryParser object is
691 destroyed. To make it easier to use leak-checking tools, hand ownership of
692 this object to the QueryParser object.
696 * omegatest: Tell leak sanitizer not to report leaks for allocations which
697 aren't explicitly released on exit - the OS will reclaim all memory from the
698 process at this point and explicitly releasing everything just takes time for
699 no real benefit. We will still see leaks of objects which become unreachable
702 Omega 1.4.16 (2020-06-08):
706 * Fix handling of XML empty tag syntax when there's a quoted parameter right
707 before the closing `/>`. This caused `<title xml:lang="en-US"/>` to treat
708 the body text as the document title. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
710 * omindex: Fix killing of filter child process if the parent process receives a
711 signal. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
715 * Reject $setrelevant without an argument list. This has never been documented
716 as allowed, and previously crashed with a segfault. Fixes #802, reported by
719 * If there's an error opening the databases we now close any we managed to open
720 successfully before the error so that things like $dbsize can't end up
721 reporting values for a subset of the specified databases.
725 * Use our own autoconf cache variable namespace (xo_cv_ prefix instead of
726 ac_cv_) to avoid colliding with standard autoconf macro use if config.site or
727 a shared config.cache is used. The former case caused a build failure for
728 the OpenBSD port with 1.4.15, reported by Lucas R.
730 Omega 1.4.15 (2020-02-24):
734 * Update documentation about how to add a new format to omindex. Patch from
739 * Check for a BOM on HTML files, which for HTML5 should determine the encoding.
743 * Allow $if{COND} without any actions which is useful as a way to evaluate
744 something but ignore the result if you just want the side effects. Indeed
745 we were already recommending to use it if you want to ignore the return value
746 of $log. Fixes bug introduced in 1.4.14, reported by tuftedocelot.
748 * Add OmegaScript support for $jsonbool{COND} for encoding a boolean value for
749 use in JSON. This is equivalent to $if{COND,true,false} but more readable.
751 * Add OmegaScript support for $jsonobject{} which allows producing a JSON
752 object from an OmegaScript map.
754 * Allow specifying a format to $jsonarray{} so it is no longer restricted to
755 producing an array of strings.
757 * Add $keys{MAP} OmegaScript command which gives a sorted list of the keys from
762 * Simplify probes for snprintf. The broken snprintf in libbsd in Linux libc4
763 is from ~25 years ago so way too ancient to matter now, and all callers
764 already handle the pre-ISO semantics of returning -1 for an undersize buffer
765 so we don't need to run a test program to probe for this at configure time,
766 which is more cross-compile friendly.
768 * Avoid deprecation warning on recent Linux. We were including sys/sysctl.h if
769 it existed, which it does on Linux but we don't actually use it there.
770 Including it now warns that it is deprecated, so skip including it under
771 Linux. Reported on IRC by kumaran.
773 Omega 1.4.14 (2019-11-23):
777 * Improve omindex --help docs for --duplicates.
781 * Add built-in support for iso-8859-15 so we can handle it without iconv.
782 This charset is a variant of iso-8859-1 with 8 characters changed, most
783 notably including the euro currency symbol. It's the most commonly seen
784 charset we didn't have built-in support for.
788 * Fix error handling in $lookup. We now check for errors from cdb_init()
789 and cdb_get(). We've never checked for errors from cdb_init(), while
790 for cdb_get() this bug was introduced by a warning fix in 1.2.20.
792 Omega 1.4.13 (2019-10-14):
796 * Document that $log will start to return an error message in 1.5.0, and that
797 one can wrap it using a $if with no action now to be future-proof.
801 * Optimise converting us-ascii to UTF-8 to do nothing, like we already do when
802 converting UTF-8 to UTF-8.
806 + Add new 'gap' action which provides a way to leave a gap in the term
807 positions between fields to prevent phrases and positional operators from
808 matching across fields.
812 * Future-proof use of $log against changes in 1.5.0.
814 Omega 1.4.12 (2019-07-23):
818 * Improve docs for OmegaScript $hitlist{}.
820 * Fix RST formatting errors in omega docs.
822 * Clarify use of Q prefix for unique ID terms - it was described as "reserved",
823 but the use of "Q" is really just a convention (and in fact omindex uses "U"
826 * Clarify scriptindex's weight action takes parameter >= 0.
828 * Correct typo in OmegaScript $add parameter documentation.
834 + Fix typo in mimetypes used for Apple iWork documents ("apply" instead of
835 "apple") which meant that these documents weren't actually being indexed.
836 Patch from Bruno Baruffaldi.
838 + Pipe input to ps2pdf as this accepts input on stdin. Possibility pointed
843 + If parsedate action's format includes %z adjust for the timezone if
844 possible (this requires the non-POSIX tm_gmtoff member of struct tm)
845 and flag an error for other platforms.
847 + If parsedate action's format include %Z flag an error as that doesn't
848 seem to be usefully supported by strptime() anywhere.
850 + Fix parsedate action to treat formats without a timezone as being UTC
851 instead of localtime.
853 + Add date=unixutc. The existing date=unix works in localtime which is
854 unhelpful if you want to use it on the output of parsedate since that's in
855 UTC; date=unixutc is just like date=unix except it always works in UTC.
857 + The date action now emits a warning for invalid values. The documentation
858 used to say "invalid values are ignored at present", but it's more helpful
859 to flag bad data than quietly ignore it.
861 + We now check the date action's parameter at script parse time and unknown
862 values result in an error and nothing being indexed. Previously an unknown
863 format uselessly resulted in the terms D, M and Y literally being added to
866 + The split action now supports a new "prefixes" split style. This gives all
867 the prefixes from the split, so split=/,prefixes on a file path gives all
872 * Remove documented limitation of $subdb and $subid - the implementation
873 assumed that each omega database name corresponded to a single Xapian
874 database, and if a database name referred to a stub database file expanding
875 to multiple Xapian databases then they would misbehave. Such cases are now
876 handled properly as well.
878 * Extend $addfilter to support adding negated filters via a new optional second
879 argument which specifies the type of filter to add.
881 * Stop $sort from needlessly ensuring the match has run.
883 * Handle corner case of nested $hitlist gracefully instead of potentially
884 entering an infinite loop.
888 * omegatest: Avoid setting TZ globally during tests as that hides bugs where
889 behaviour depends on the local timezone when it shouldn't.
891 * omegatest: Support testing when built using LeakSanitizer by suppressing
892 leak reports for cached compiled pcre regular expressions. These aren't
893 released when the program exits but aren't memory leaks.
897 * Remove outdated deprecation warning suppression which was there to support
898 building from git in the run up to 1.3.2 - a development version which is
899 nearly 5 years ago now.
903 * Fix problems with fallback strptime() implementation which was being included
904 in the wrong binary, and was lacking a required const_cast on the return
907 * Rework setenv() compatibility handling. Now that Solaris 9 is dead we can
908 assume setenv() is provided by Unix-like platforms (POSIX requires it). For
909 other platforms, provide a compatibility implementation of setenv() so the
910 compatibility code is encapsulated in one place rather than replicated at
913 Omega 1.4.11 (2019-03-02):
919 + outlookmsg2html: Handle Subject, Date, and From headers.
923 * In $div and $mod we were converting a non-zero denominator from string to int
924 twice for no good reason.
928 * omegatest: Fix testcase which was failing if the local timezone was behind
929 UTC. This testcase was added in 1.4.10.
931 * omegatest: Tweak to not fail when $time not supported - it seems that the
932 OS time functions we use report an error on GNU Hurd for unknown reasons.
936 * Sync up probes for OS time functions in omega's configure with those in
937 xapian-core which may solve $time not being supported on GNU Hurd.
941 * Add missing includes of <cerrno>. Fixes #776, reported by Matthieu Gautier.
943 * Stop using htonl()/ntohl() in a non-network context which should improve
944 portability to platforms without a POSIX-like socket API.
946 Omega 1.4.10 (2019-02-12):
950 * Use https for URLs where supported.
956 + Index .apxl and .kth files as Apple Keynote. The .apxl extension is used
957 for the XML files inside .key bundles/directories which hold the text
958 content of the presentation, and by handling them we can index .key
959 directories more usefully. It seems they are also sometimes found by
960 themselves. Keynote themes have a .kth extension, and key2text can also
963 + Pipe input to pdftotext, pdfinto and dpkg. These tools all support piping
964 an input file on stdin, which can be a little more efficient when we
965 already have the file open (e.g. to determine its type using libmagic, or
966 to calculate its checksum).
968 + An empty string for the start directory is now flagged as an error.
969 Previously `/` was used instead, which is unlikely to be what is wanted
970 (and `/` can be explicitly specified if that really is what is wanted).
972 + Fix emulation of stderr redirection when the indexer's stderr has been
973 closed. We try to avoid using the shell when running external filters, and
974 emulate 2>/dev/null in commands, but if the indexer's stderr was closed
975 this emulation was buggy and would make give the filter a closed stderr
976 instead of one redirected to /dev/null.
978 + When emulating redirection to /dev/null, we now open /dev/null once and
979 dup that fd each time which is a little more efficient and simplifies the
984 + date=unix is now a no-op for empty input - previously it would unhelpfully
985 add boolean date terms for 1970-01-01.
987 + Warn for empty filename in LOAD action. Previously this gave a slightly
988 confusing error: "Couldn't load file '': No such file or directory"
990 + Unknown command-line options now cause scriptindex to give a non-zero exit
995 * omegatest: Add testcase for SPAN.n on different slots.
997 * omegatest: Update expected QueryParser output for the xapian-core change to
998 produce flatter Query trees.
1002 * Use AM_ICONV to detect iconv() which should handle non-system install of GNU
1003 libiconv properly. Fixes #775, reported by Ryan Schmidt.
1007 * Provide fall-back strptime() implementation for platforms which don't provide
1008 it, using the C++11 std::get_time() function. We use strptime() directly
1009 where it's available as some older C++11 compilers seem to lack
1010 std::get_time() (GCC 4.8 for example). This is used by the parsedate action,
1011 which was added in 1.4.6.
1013 Omega 1.4.9 (2018-11-02):
1019 + Try harder to avoid opening a file being indexed more than once by
1020 reusing the file descriptor in more cases.
1022 + Hint to the OS not to cache output from external filters which require
1023 using a temporary file.
1027 + If the LOAD action successfully opens a file but hits a read error the
1028 error message now reports the file name correctly. Previously it would
1029 report the partial file contents read so far instead of the file name.
1033 * We no longer call posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE under Linux,
1034 since it's still not implemented there. We also now only call
1035 posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED right before we close the file
1036 descriptor under Linux.
1038 Omega 1.4.8 (2018-10-25):
1042 * Assorted minor documentation improvements.
1048 + Improve date handling in .eml files. We now handle a "Date:" header
1049 without the day of the week, which is allowed by RFC822 and RFC2822
1050 (though seems rare in practice). If the date can't be parsed, we now
1051 just omit the date information rather than failing to process the file.
1053 + Add support for indexing Apple iWork documents (Keynote (.key), Numbers
1054 (.numbers) and Pages (.pages)) using libetonyek. Currently only the file
1055 variants are handled since omindex doesn't currently support indexing a
1056 directory as a document.
1058 + Index Visio files using vsd2xhtml.
1060 + Extend --filter to support filters which produce SVG as output.
1062 + Handle SVG embedded in XML with svg: namespace prefix.
1064 + Add --read-filters option to read a list of filters from a file, each line
1065 of which is a rule as passed to --filter. Based on a patch from Gaurav
1068 + Add new --mime-type-match option which allows specifying a MIME
1069 Content-Type for a given shell filename pattern pattern (with the special
1070 Content-Type values "ignore" and "skip" supported, as for --mime-type).
1072 + Adjust --mime-type to allow ':' in the extension. A valid MIME
1073 Content-Type can't contain a colon, so if the argument to --mime-type
1074 contains more than one colon it makes more sense to split at the *last*
1075 colon (we used to split at the first), as an extension could conceivably
1076 contain a colon. Mostly this change is for consistency with the new
1077 --mime-type-match option, where the leafname pattern could reasonably
1080 + Remove failed entries for ignored files. If a file is mapped to
1081 pseudo-mimetype "ignore" then remove any existing failure record for it so
1082 that ignored files so we don't potentially end up with a lot of cruft
1083 failure records for files we are no longer trying to index.
1085 + If a file fails to index due to failing to allocate enough memory we now
1086 try to flag it as failed to index so it will be skipped by default on
1087 future runs. This should help to avoid indexing getting stuck on
1090 + Add a "pages" field with the number of pages in the document where we
1091 know how to determine this (currently only for PDF files for which pdfinfo
1092 reports this information).
1094 + Handle initially empty database exactly the same was as when --overwrite
1095 is specified. This probably has no user-visible consequences, but it's
1096 cleaner for the handling to be exactly the same.
1100 + Improve scriptindex diagnostic messages. All diagnostics are now labelled
1101 as "error", "warning" or "note" as appropriate, and we now consistently
1102 report "FILE:LINE:" (and also "COLUMN:" in most cases) to make it clearer
1103 where the problem lies.
1105 + Add new "split" action which splits the text on a specified delimiter and
1106 executes the following actions for each piece. Based on a patch by Gaurav
1109 + Missing whitespace after the closing " on an action argument is now
1110 flagged as an error. Previously scriptindex would attempt to parse
1111 the following characters as the next action.
1113 + Support C-like escapes for quoted parameter values. Notably this means it
1114 is now possible to include `"` in quoted parameter values.
1118 + Value-based date range filters can now be specified via CGI parameters
1119 START.N, END.N and/or SPAN.N where N is a value slot number, allowing
1120 multiple concurrent filters on different slots to be specified.
1122 + Support YYYY and YYYYMM limits in term-based date ranges. Previously
1123 value-based date ranges supported these as limits, but term-based date
1124 ranges gave an error.
1126 + Add stem_strategy option and deprecate existing stem_all option in favour
1127 of this new more versatile option.
1129 + Support "natural" $sort option via new flag "#" which sorts embedded
1130 natural numbers in numerical order.
1132 + Support numeric $sort option via new flag "n", similar to GNU sort -n.
1134 + Rewrite field parsing to be more efficient, and store fields in an
1135 unordered_map for faster lookup.
1139 * htmlparsetest: Test whitespace collapsing.
1143 * omegatest: Avoid "set -". The autoconf manual notes that POSIX no longer
1144 requires this, and that with traditional shells it resets -v and -x which
1145 makes debugging harder.
1147 * omegatest: Fix shell printf quoting issues which were a latent bug on macOS.
1149 * Drop special handling for Compaq C++. We never actually achieved a working
1150 build using it, and I can find no evidence that this compiler still exists,
1151 let alone that it was updated for C++11 which we now require.
1153 Omega 1.4.7 (2018-07-19):
1157 * New OmegaScript $unique command. The existing $uniq only removes adjacent
1158 entries (like the Unix uniq command) so to fully remove duplicates you need a
1159 sorted input. Sometimes it is desirable to remove duplicates from an
1160 unsorted list without changing the order of the entries which are left, so
1161 add $unique to do that. If the list is sorted already, then $uniq is more
1164 * Fix $map to cleanly reject a single argument.
1168 * templates/query: Merge multiple entries in the term frequency information,
1169 which came from searching several prefixes by default. Reported by Alistair
1170 Buxton on #xapian-discuss.
1172 * When multiple words with the same stem are in the query string we now fully
1173 eliminate duplicates when showing term frequency information.
1175 Omega 1.4.6 (2018-07-02):
1179 * Fix generate_sample() (used by OmegaScript $truncate and omindex) to return
1180 an empty sample instead of throwing an exception when the requested sample
1181 size is less than the size of the truncation indicator string. Patch from
1182 Addy. Fixes https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/754 reported by Gaurav Arora.
1186 * Use terminology "value slot number" instead of "value number".
1188 * Stop talking about "probabilistic terms" and "probabilistic queries" - we've
1189 supported other families of weighting schemes since 1.3.2.
1193 * Check for the HTML5 doctype or legacy doctype declaration and use default
1194 charset UTF-8 if either is present. Previously we always used ISO-8859-1,
1195 which is correct for older HTML versions, but not for HTML5.
1199 + When running commands without going through the shell, emulate shell exit
1200 codes 127 (for command not found) and 126 (for other cases where we fail to
1201 run the command). This means the "missing filter" handling should now work
1202 properly for such commands. Noted by Gaurav Arora.
1204 + Index POD files despite minor formatting errors. We now pass
1205 --errors=stderr to pod2text so that minor formatting errors don't prevent
1206 us from indexing a file. (It may seem that --errors=none is a better
1207 option, but for podlators < 4.11 that results in an ERRATA section in the
1208 generated text version which we then end up indexing; 4.11 fixed that but
1209 we can't assume that's in use). Reported by Gaurav Arora.
1213 + Avoid some unnecessary copying of Action objects by making use of C++11
1216 + Consistently send errors to stderr - some were sent to stdout.
1217 Patch from Gaurav Arora.
1219 + Add new "hextobin" action. Based on a patch from Gaurav Arora.
1221 + Warn about non-integer arg to hash.
1223 + Fix hash action without an argument, which was failing with an assertion.
1224 Based on a patch by Gaurav Arora: https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/189
1226 + Reject 'hash' with argument < 6. The hashing truncates and then adds a
1227 6 character hash of the removed part, so can't produce a result shorter
1228 than 6 characters. Patch from Gaurav Arora.
1230 + Look for alphanumerics when parsing index actions. None of the current
1231 index actions contain digits, but we give more helpful error messages this
1234 + Deprecate allowing spaces around = in scripts. This was never documented
1235 as supported, and leads to a missing argument quietly swallowing the next
1236 action rather than using an empty value or giving an error. Reported by
1237 Gaurav Arora in https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/182
1239 + In boolean and unique actions, add a colon between prefix and term when
1240 the term starts with a colon. This means the mapping is reversible, and
1241 matches what omega actually does in this case when it tries to reverse the
1242 mapping. Thanks to Andy Chilton for pointing out this corner case.
1244 + Add parsedate and valuepacked actions. Together these assist adding date
1245 values for sorting and date range filtering. Based on a patch from Gaurav
1248 + Use DB_RETRY_LOCK to wait if the database is already in use rather than
1249 sleeping for a second and retrying. On most platforms this means we make a
1250 blocking request for the lock, and even on platforms where that's not
1251 supported, we now sleep and retry inside libxapian, and without having to
1252 throw and catch an exception each time.
1256 * $freq: Speed up some cases by avoiding throwing and catching an exception
1257 when we know the MSet has no term frequency information.
1259 * $sort: New OmegaScript command which does a string sort on an OmegaScript
1260 list, with u (unique) and r (reverse) options.
1262 * $cond: New OmegaScript conditional multi-way conditional. Inspired by LISP's
1263 COND, this provides a neater way to write a cascade of $if checks.
1265 * $switch: New OmegaScript multi-way conditional which provides an even neater
1266 way to write a cascade of $if{$eq{X,VALUE1},$if{$eq{X,VALUE2},...}}.
1268 * $subdb and $subid: New commands which report the subdatabase name and the
1269 docid in that subdatabase.
1271 + $termprefix and $unprefix: New OmegaScript commands which expose the existing
1272 code inside omega for splitting up a term.
1274 * Use str() to convert time_t to string, which is simpler code and faster than
1279 * omegatest: Fix message when faketime is not installed - we were misreporting
1280 this case as "faketime not working".
1282 * omegatest: Add feature tests of $map.
1284 * Add testcases for XML charset. We already handle both default and specified
1285 charsets for XML, but we didn't have any testcases for it.
1289 * configure: Fix potentially confusing messages suggesting snprintf was added
1290 in C90 - it was actually standardised in C99.
1292 * Improve handling of multitarget rule stamp files. Clean them on "make
1293 maintainer-clean" and ship them so that --enable-maintainer-mode when
1294 building from a tarball doesn't needlessly rerun the multitarget rules.
1298 * Check for EAGAIN as well as EINTR from select(). The Linux select(2) man
1299 page says: "Portable programs may wish to check for EAGAIN and loop, just as
1300 with EINTR" and that seems to be necessary for Cygwin at least.
1304 * Use https for tarball URLs in .spec files. This provides protection against
1305 MITM attacks on people building packages using these spec files, and is also
1306 slightly more efficient as the http: URLs redirect to the https: versions
1309 Omega 1.4.5 (2017-10-16):
1313 * Direct users towards $set{flag_spelling_correction,true} rather than the
1314 deprecated $set{spelling,true} (which is slated for removal in 1.5.0).
1322 + Check file size before calling libmagic to get the mime type, since
1323 reading the file size is a much cheaper check and we can skip the
1324 libmagic test if the file is empty or larger than the specified
1325 maximum size. Patch from caiyulun.
1329 + Reject index scripts with multiple "unique" actions. We don't handle this
1330 case sensibly, and it doesn't seem like it really has a use, so better to
1331 give an error for people who do this inadvertently.
1335 * New $seterror command to set the error message. Implemented by Gaurav Arora.
1337 * Make $highlight more efficient. Patch from Vivek Pal.
1341 * query: Use $prettyurl for the URL shown at the end of each match (previously
1342 we only used it on the URL shown as a fallback when the document has no
1343 title). Split off from changes by Vivek Pal in
1344 https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/161
1348 * omegatest: Tell faketime to freeze the clock - previously the clock ran on
1349 from the specified fake time, and on a slow and/or heavily loaded machine a
1350 test taking more than a second might fail due to this.
1352 * Start adding feature tests for scriptindex (so far, checking that specifying
1353 multiple 'unique' actions results in an error).
1355 Omega 1.4.4 (2017-04-19):
1361 + 1.4.3 added a new --sample option, but contrary to the documentation
1362 the default behaviour was to take the sample from the meta description
1363 (which was the hard-wired behaviour in 1.4.2 and earlier). The default
1364 has now been changed to take the sample from the body.
1366 + Index .shtm, .xhtml and .xhtm as HTML by default - .shtm is another
1367 extension used for server-parsed HTML (in addition to the more common
1368 .shtml), and .xhtm and .xhtml are XHTML.
1370 + Fix fallback lookup for extension containing upper case. User mappings
1371 worked, but built-in extension to MIME type mappings were effectively being
1372 ignored (because the result of the function call was not being checked).
1373 Bug introduced in 1.3.4.
1375 + Fix term-based date ranges, broken by changes in 1.4.2. Found and
1376 diagnosed by Gaurav Arora.
1378 + Handle date range with start after end better - with term-based ranges,
1379 this used to generate a bogus filter, but now just generates Dlatest.
1381 + Use Y-term when range starts/ends at year start/end. Previously we used 12
1382 M-terms for these cases.
1384 + Use full leap-year check when constructing term-based date ranges -
1385 previous code was good until 2100, but even then it would only result
1386 in an extra term being included for a non-existent February 29th in
1391 * New OmegaScript command $cgiparams which returns a list of the parameter
1394 * Handle tab in a CGI parameter name in the same way as space. Mostly this is
1395 a way to avoid having tabs in CGI parameter names - they aren't useful, but
1396 if they could have tabs in we can't put CGI parameter names in a list.
1400 * query: Fix highlighting of matching terms. We were using both $snippet and
1401 $highlight, which results in double highlighting and HTML escaping, most
1402 noticeable by literal <strong> and </strong> appearing around matching terms
1403 in the rendered HTML snippet. Reported by Mark Thomas on xapian-discuss.
1407 * If gen-mimemap failed after creating mimemap.h, the rule wouldn't get rerun.
1409 Omega 1.4.3 (2017-01-25):
1415 + Add support for indexing vCard files if Perl and its Text::vCard module
1418 + Recognise application/x-rpm as alternative type since libmagic reports this
1419 rather than application/x-redhat-package-manager.
1421 + Use official MIME type application/vnd.debian.binary-package for debian
1422 packages. We used to map .deb and .udeb to application/x-debian-package,
1423 but in 2014 (after we added that support for .deb) an official type was
1424 registered with IANA. We now map extensions .deb and .udeb to the official
1425 type, but the unofficial type is still recognised (older versions of
1426 libmagic probably report it, and users may be mapping to it).
1428 + Handle PHP as MIME type text/x-php. The main difference this makes is that
1429 PHP files which don't have extension '.php' (e.g. .phtml, .phps, .php5,
1430 .ph4, etc) get identified by libmagic as text/x-php and will now be indexed.
1431 It also means that the user can now more easily configure different filters
1434 + Don't use meta description as sample by default. Now we have dynamic
1435 snippets (via $snippet), the body text is a better default. Also generated
1436 HTML sometimes has unhelpful content in the meta description. To get the
1437 previous behaviour, use the new omindex command line option:
1438 --sample=description
1440 Omega 1.4.2 (2016-12-26):
1444 * Replace auto-generated list of the supported MIME types with an
1445 auto-generated table showing the extensions that are mapped to each MIME type
1446 by default. Partly addresses #569, reported by catkin.
1450 * omindex: Add support for indexing markdown files (extension .md or .markdown,
1451 mime-type text/markdown, using "markdown" to convert to HTML).
1455 * Add support for "make installcheck" to run tests against installed version.
1459 * configure: Fail with clear error with xapian-core < 1.4.0.
1463 * Fix GCC -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning.
1465 * Add missing <ctime> for time_t.
1467 * Avoid snprintf for formatting fixed-width integers - it results in warnings
1468 about possible output truncation with GCC7 (which aren't actually possible
1469 due to limited input range) and it's a bit heavyweight for this job anyway.
1471 Omega 1.4.1 (2016-10-21):
1475 * Document bug in how $filters encodes DOCIDORDER=A.
1477 * Suggest DOCIDORDER=X for DONT_CARE.
1479 * Correct mentions of C++ API method MSet::get_snippet() to MSet::snippet().
1481 * Fix typo in Omega 1.4.0 NEWS entry. Patch from James Aylett.
1485 * omindex: Also index leafname with _ and & replaced by spaces. Literal spaces
1486 are often avoided in filenames, and "hello_world.txt" ought to be searchable
1487 for via "hello" and "world". Partly addresses #618, reported by Julien
1492 * Add support for sorting by more than one value - e.g. SORT=+1,-2
1494 * Add $msizelower and $msizeupper which provide access to the lower and upper
1495 bounds on the number of matches.
1497 * Add support for $set{weighting,coord}.
1499 * Add weightingpurefilter option. Normally a query consisting only of filter
1500 terms won't have relevance weights calculated. This new option allows you to
1501 specify a weighting scheme to use for such queries, with the same values
1502 supported as for the existing weighting option. For example,
1503 $set{weightingpurefilter,coord} will weight such queries by how many filter
1504 terms match each document.
1506 * $filters now includes DATEVALUE, which means we'll force the first page when
1507 reloading or changing page starting from existing URLs upon upgrade to 1.4.1,
1508 but the exact same existing URL could be for a search without the date filter
1509 where we want to force the first page, so there's an inherent ambiguity
1510 there. Forcing first page in this case seems the least problematic
1511 side-effect. Omission noted by Gaurav Arora.
1515 * Add feature test for boolprefix and prefix maps.
1517 * Add more feature tests for $filters.
1521 * GCC 4.7 is now enforced as the minimum version.
1523 * Drop unused configure check for symbol visibility
1525 * Drop compiler options that are no longer useful:
1526 + -fshow-column is the default in all GCC versions we now support
1527 (checked as GCC 4.6).
1528 + -Wno-long-long is no longer necessary now that we require C++11 where
1529 "long long" is a standard type.
1533 * Fix build on platforms which don't provide timegm(), such as Cygwin.
1534 Reported on xapian-discuss by John Bankert.
1536 Omega 1.4.0 (2016-06-24):
1540 * Clarify $allterms and $terms documentation. Make it clearer how they differ,
1541 and document that $allterms without a parameter list gives all terms indexing
1542 the current hit. Noted by Andy Chilton.
1544 Omega 1.3.7 (2016-06-01):
1548 * Make named entity look-up (e.g. é -> 233) use the same keyword-lookup
1549 table approach we already use for HTML tags and built-in MIME content-types,
1550 rather than a std::map, which makes it faster while using less memory.
1552 Omega 1.3.6 (2016-05-09):
1556 * Fix overview.rst processing in VPATH build. Our workaround for lack of an
1557 include path in docutils was only handling the first include in the file.
1561 * Implement $match command for omegascript. Patch from Richhiey Thomas.
1565 * Lower case all HTML tags, attributes and values; explicitly close <option>
1566 tags. Patches from Vivek Pal and Nirmal Singhania.
1568 * Migrate Omega Templates to HTML5. Patch from Nirmal Sighania.
1570 * templates/query: Remove stray double quote from generated URL for spelling
1571 suggestion when THRESHOLD is set. Patch from Nirmal Singhania.
1573 * templates/opensearch: Change response feeds to support OpenSearch 1.1.
1574 Patch from Nirmal Singhania.
1578 * Update omegatest - the order of subqueries has changed in some cases, due
1579 to the "grouping" changes in the C++ API.
1583 * Drop workaround for old git master before 1.3.2
1585 Omega 1.3.5 (2016-04-01):
1587 This release includes all changes from 1.2.23 which are relevant.
1591 * Add optional prefix argument to $terms.
1593 * $snippet now uses MSet::snippet() instead of the Snipper class.
1595 * Add $contains{STRING1,STRING2}. Contributed by Ayush Gupta.
1597 * Add support for negated boolean filter terms, specified by CGI parameter "N".
1599 * Support a direction prefix on SORT: '+' for ascending, '-' for descending.
1600 SORTREVERSE set to non-0 now flips the direction. Fixes #697, reported by
1605 * Need to AC_SUBST probed value of ZLIB_LIBS. Noted by Paul Wise.
1609 * omegatest; Test faketime actually works, and if it doesn't work skip
1610 testcases which use it. On OS X 10.11, faketime from homebrew doesn't seem
1611 to work, probably due to the new "System Integrity Protection". Fixes part
1612 of #707, reported by James Aylett.
1614 Omega 1.3.4 (2016-01-01):
1616 This release includes all changes from 1.2.22 which are relevant.
1620 * The lists of recognised MIME types and of ignored extensions are now
1621 generated along with the corresponding source code from a single master list.
1622 Partly addresses #569, reported by Charles Atkinson.
1624 * Note when $json and $jsonarray were added.
1630 + Avoid using the shell to run most external commands as it's unnecessary
1631 overhead. For the built-in filters, the only cases which now use a shell
1632 are where we run two unzip commands. For user-specified commands, a simple
1633 and slightly conservative test is used, which should avoid a shell in most
1634 common cases where it isn't needed. Notably, environment variables set
1635 before the command are handled.
1637 + Track files which couldn't be indexed in the user metadata and skip them by
1638 default on subsequent runs to avoid the costs of repeatedly running a
1639 filter on a file it can't handle. Run omindex with --retry-failed to retry
1642 + Overhaul the "per-site" terms:
1643 - 'H' prefix is hostname as before, except that if the term would be > 240
1644 bytes (unlikely but possible) the end is hashed is the same way 'U'
1646 - 'P' terms are now added for every directory level, not just the start
1648 - A new 'J' prefix term is added with the start URL (less any trailing
1649 '/'), which means all files indexed from a particular "site" are now
1650 indexed by one term. See #376.
1652 + Add 'skip' pseudo-mimetype which extensions can be mapped to, and they will
1653 then be reported and skipped (to complement the existing 'ignore'
1654 pseudo-mimetype which causes files with the specified extension to be
1657 + Treat a command of 'true' specially as meaning make the text extraction a
1658 no-op (as actually running /bin/true effectively would). This provides a
1659 way to index some file types by only meta-data. Fixes #519, reported by
1662 + Add support for wildcard mimetypes */* and *. Combined with filter command
1663 ``true`` for indexing by meta-data only, you can specify a fall back case
1664 of indexing by meta-data only using ``--filter '*:true'``. From a
1665 suggestion by Brian Burton on xapian-discuss.
1667 + Index message/rfc822 and message/news. These are individually saved email
1668 messages and news articles.
1670 + Index archived web page formats MAFF and MHTML.
1672 + Handle .xla, yet another XL extension.
1674 + Handle metadata in LibreOffice HTML export (dcterms.subject,
1675 dcterms.description, dcterms.creator and dcterms.contributor).
1677 + Use zlib's gzopen() instead of invoking "gzip -dc" for compressed Abiword
1682 * Add options argument to $transform.
1684 * Cache compiled regexps used in $transform.
1686 * Add $ord OmegaScript command which returns the Unicode codepoint for the
1687 first character of a UTF-8 string.
1689 * Add $chr OmegaScript command which returns the UTF-8 string for given Unicode
1692 * Add $csv OmegaScript command which escapes a string for use as a field in a
1693 CSV file ("always quote" mode inspired by patch from Gaurav Arora.)
1695 * New $filters encoding which avoids collisions. We also compare CGI parameter
1696 xFILTERS to what $filters would have returned in previous releases, so that
1697 on upgrades old format serialised filters are handled correctly.
1699 * Fix $jsonarray not to prepend ']' to the first array element.
1701 * Skip weighting scheme setup for a pure date range query - it won't be
1702 weighted anyway, so we can avoid having to parse weighting scheme parameters,
1705 * Use value ranges when date range filtering by value. Should be more
1706 efficient than a MatchDecider, and will automatically take advantage of any
1707 future value range optimisations in xapian-core.
1709 * Add default_db and default_template config options. These allow the default
1710 template and default database name to be set via the config file, rather than
1711 being stuck with the respective defaults of "default" and "query". Fixes
1712 #310, reported by Marco Hennigs.
1714 * Add support for non-exclusive filters. Fixes #234, reported by Thomas
1719 * Add start of testsuite for omega CGI.
1723 * configure script now defaults to looking for xapian-config-1.3. This is now
1724 automatically done for development series (odd middle component of the
1725 version number), but not for stable series (even middle component). Fixes
1726 #695, reported by Jorge C. Leitão
1728 * Don't pointlessly link omega binary with libmagic (as we have since 1.3.1).
1732 * Fix "make check" compilation failure on platforms without timegm().
1734 Omega 1.3.3 (2015-06-01):
1736 This release includes all changes from 1.2.20-1.2.21 which are relevant.
1740 * INSTALL: IRIX is past EOL so drop information about IRIX make.
1746 + Add support for %f in command passed to --filter to allow specifying
1747 commands where the input file is not the final argument. Fixed #570,
1748 reported by Charles Atkinson.
1750 + Allow --filter to handle commands which produce output in a temporary file
1751 rather than on stdout.
1753 + Allow --filter to specify the character set of the output the filter
1756 + Handle application/vnd.ms-excel, text/x-perl and application/x-dvi via
1757 default --filter settings instead of hardcoded cases (now possible thanks
1758 to the new abilities that --filter has).
1760 + Add support for specifying a MIME subtype of '*' in --filter arguments.
1762 + Add -track-ctime option to allow omindex to pick up changes to file
1763 ownership and permissions.
1765 + Index terms from the leafname with an 'F' prefix, rather than treating them
1766 as more body text. (Fixes #633, reported by Emmanuel Garette)
1770 * Fix handling of multiple P.<prefix> fields - previously only the first seen
1771 was used. These fields are also now taken into account when deciding if the
1772 query has changed. $query now returns an OmegaScript list with one entry for
1773 each CGI parameter passed.
1777 * templates/query: Fix setting setting of prefix map for P - in 1.3.2, this
1778 would failed to also search in the subject. Now it also searches in the
1783 * configure: Fix typo in message: 'libmagic-devl' -> 'libmagic-devel'
1787 * Require a compiler with good C++11 support, like xapian-core now does.
1789 * Now we require C++11, just include <cstdint> for uint32_t.
1791 * Link omindex-list with our (GNU) getopt for platforms which don't use GNU libc.
1792 Thanks to James Aylett
1794 * Add timegm.cc to scriptindex_SOURCES to fix build on platforms which don't
1797 * Suppress bogus uninitialised variable warning with -Os under GCC 4.7.2.
1801 Omega 1.3.2 (2014-11-24):
1803 This release includes all changes from 1.2.16-1.2.19 which are relevant.
1807 * docs/overview.rst: Document built-in list of stopwords.
1809 * docs/termprefixes.rst: Update for renaming of 'brass' backend to 'glass'.
1815 + The starting URL wasn't previously URL encoded. In 1.2.18, a minimally
1816 intrusive fix was implemented. In 1.3.2, we now encode the starting URL
1817 as we do for the rest of the filename.
1819 + Don't assume .doc is application/msword but let libmagic decide, since .doc
1820 files may actually be RTF, and sometimes people use .doc for plain-text
1823 + Add support for indexing 'topic' and 'created date' meta-data for
1824 OpenDocument format and HTML.
1826 + Index "topic" for PDF documents.
1828 + Commit changes and exit, rather than skipping the current file on most
1829 unexpected errors reading directories or initialising libmagic - otherwise
1830 we can end up deleting a lot of database entries on errors like EHOSTDOWN
1831 when indexing network mounts.
1833 + Add --opendir-sleep=SECS option to allow working around problems with
1834 indexing files on Microsoft DFS shares.
1836 + If we get ENOTDIR trying to index a file, skip it quietly (unless in
1837 verbose mode) as we already do if we get ENOENT, since ENOTDIR is what we
1838 get if the file and the directory it was in got removed between us getting
1839 the filename and trying to open it.
1841 + Handle ENOENT, ENOTDIR and EACCES from readdir().
1843 + If we've already opened the file (as we often will have if using a modern
1844 libmagic with magic_descriptor() available), then use fstat() on that fd
1845 rather than stat()/lstat() on the pathname.
1847 + Pass error message string and errno value in ReadError exceptions.
1849 + Report strerror(errno) if we can't read a file.
1851 + Filtering via text/html now handles HTML documents which specify a charset.
1853 + Add support for indexing Microsoft Publisher files using pub2xhtml.
1855 + Restrict the length of what we consider to be an extension, currently to 7
1856 characters or whatever the longest extension in the mime_map is if it is
1859 + Avoid '//' in temporary filenames (cosmetic only).
1861 * omindex-list: New tool to list URLs of all the documents in a database (or
1862 list of databases) indexed by omindex.
1866 * Allow setting query expansion scheme to "bo1".
1868 * Make the $json and $jsonarray force the text to be valid UTF-8, since
1869 otherwise the output isn't valid JSON.
1871 * Check parameters to $set{weighting,bm25 ...} and $set{weighting,trad ...}
1872 converted OK. Based on patch from Aarsh Shah.
1874 * Add support to $set{weighting,...} for bb2, dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2, inl2, lm,
1875 pl2 when we're built against a xapian-core which is new enough to have these
1878 * Add $snippet to generate a snippet of text tailored to the search.
1882 * configure: Enable GCC's -Woverloaded-virtual warning.
1886 * Ship common/safewinsock2.h, needed under mingw.
1888 Omega 1.3.1 (2013-05-03):
1890 This release includes all changes from 1.2.10-1.2.15 which are relevant.
1894 * INSTALL,configure: Provide hints as to what package to install for magic.h.
1898 * The HTML parser now explicitly handles <APPLET>, <OBJECT> and <TR>.
1900 * Use a generated compact and efficient table to convert HTML tag names
1901 to enum codes - this is both faster and smaller than the approach we were
1902 using, with the benefit that the table is auto-generated.
1904 * Always use our built-in conversion code for the character sets it can handle
1905 (previously we'd use iconv if available; now we only use iconv for other
1906 character sets). This gives us more consistent results, and in particular
1907 means we now handle BOMs better (at least when using GNU iconv).
1909 * A lot of data labelled as "iso-8859-1" is actually "windows-1252". The two
1910 only differ in characters which are control characters in iso-8859-1, so
1911 assume the latter when we see the former.
1915 + Extend --filter to handle commands which produce HTML on stdout.
1917 + Don't report an error if a file is deleted (or renamed) between us reading
1918 the directory entry for it and trying to read the file itself by default.
1919 In --verbose mode, the situation is still reported, but now with a
1922 + If omindex receives any of the signals SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT or SIGTERM,
1923 then kill any active external filter child process, then handle the signal
1924 as we did before. If setpgid() is available, put each external filter in
1925 its own process group and kill the whole process group when we get a
1928 + Use magic_descriptor() if the version of libmagic we're building against
1929 is new enough to have it. This eliminates an extra opening of a file
1930 being indexed in certain cases.
1932 + Use rst2html to handle .rst and .rest files.
1936 * Add new $json and $jsonarray OmegaScript commands to support producing JSON
1939 * Add $truncate command which truncates a string after a word.
1941 * Add support for $set{weighting,tfidf} to allow the new TfIdfWeight weighting
1946 * configure: Now looks for libmagic in MAGIC_PREFIX, to allow building with
1947 libmagic installed in a non-standard location.
1949 * Remove support for 'configure --enable-quiet', 'make QUIET=' and 'make
1950 QUIET=y' - automake now supports 'configure --enable-silent-rules', 'make
1951 V=1' and 'make V=0' which are broadly equivalent and more standard.
1955 * tmpdir.cc: Add safeunistd.h for rmdir, required by GCC 4.7 (reported by
1958 Omega 1.3.0 (2012-03-14):
1962 * Make libmagic a required dependency.
1966 * docs/termprefixes.html: Document how to map a user prefix to multiple term
1969 * docs/overview.html: Improve documentation of htdig_noindex.
1975 + Index title with an 'S' prefix rather than no prefix.
1977 + If the document with the highest existing docid before the run was updated,
1978 we were reporting it as "added", but now we correctly report it as
1981 + Catch and report std::exception explicitly, so failing to allocate memory
1982 is no longer reported as "Unknown exception".
1986 + Remove special error handling case noting that index=nopos was replaced
1987 with indexnopos - this was removed in 1.1.0 so there's been enough time to
1992 + DEFAULTOP now defaults to AND rather than OR, since that matches what pretty
1993 much every search engine does these days. Closes ticket#512.
1995 * Allow mapping a query string prefix to more than one term prefix (which
1996 xapian-core has supported since 1.0.4).
1998 * Add support for search inputs for multiple probabilistic prefixes, with
1999 support for per-prefix stemmers.
2001 * Drop legacy support for handling '.' separated terms in xP - that changed in
2002 Omega 0.9.7, more than 5 years ago now.
2004 * Remove support for OLDP CGI parameter which was superseded by xP
2005 approximately a decade ago, and isn't even documented!
2007 * Drop special handling for R-prefixed terms in $prettyterm - we stopped
2008 generating these in Xapian 1.0.
2014 + We now map unprefixed queries to include S-prefixed terms to match the
2015 change in omindex to prefixing terms from the title with S. You may want
2016 to make the same update to your own templates.
2018 + Set up prefixes for 'author:' and 'title:'.
2022 * xapian-omega.spec: We're ABI compatible within a release series so make
2023 dependency on xapian-core-libs >= rather than =.
2025 Omega 1.2.23 (2016-03-28):
2029 * Update links to Xapian website and trac to use https, which is now supported,
2030 thanks to James Aylett.
2034 * Fix HTML/XML entity decoding to be O(n) not O(n²) - processing HTML/XML with
2035 a lot of entities is now much faster.
2039 * Remove unused country code to name maps. These were intended as examples,
2040 but they aren't very useful as such, and really just bloat the templates
2043 Omega 1.2.22 (2015-12-29):
2047 * Stop maintaining ChangeLog files. They make merging patches harder, and stop
2048 'git cherry-pick' from working as it should. The git repo history should be
2049 sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
2051 * Clarify help text for omindex --mime-type option.
2053 * docs/omegascript.rst:
2055 + Fix documentation of $last to say it's the MSet index *one beyond* the end
2056 of the current page. Reported by Andrew Chilton.
2058 + Clarify that $split and $substr work in bytes. Previously we said
2059 "characters" which could be taken as meaning they work with UTF-8
2062 + Update documentation for $filters - it was missing these CGI parameters
2063 from the list of those serialised: COLLAPSE, DOCIDORDER, SORT, SORTREVERSE,
2066 + Explicitly note user can use $setmap to create their own maps.
2068 * docs/overview.rst:
2070 + SVG extraction is built-in too.
2072 + Expand paragraph about command `false`. Note the versions where explicit
2073 support was added, and that this will also work with any version on Unix,
2074 where `false` is a command.
2076 + Document `cdb_dir`.
2078 * docs/cgiparams.rst: Document behaviour if xDB is not set.
2080 * Change "characters" to "bytes" in a few places to clarify that we don't mean
2081 Unicode code points.
2087 + Add '--title-size' option.
2089 + Handle .oft the same way as .msg - it's some sort of template email, and
2090 has essentially the same format.
2094 * Make $querydescription ensure the match has been run, so that it includes
2097 * Avoid $allterms, $cgilist, $filterterms and $terms being O(n²) in the number
2098 of items in the returned list.
2100 * If xFILTERS is not set, don't force the first page as that's unhelpful if
2101 someone fails to set it in their template.
2103 * When environment variable SERVER_PROTOCOL is set to INCLUDED (as it is when
2104 we're being included in a page), we already suppress the HTTP headers, but
2105 now we suppress the blank line after the header too.
2107 * Support option flag_cjk_ngram if built against xapian-core >= 1.2.22.
2111 * Add test coverage for parsing of HTML entities.
2115 * Fix error reporting if PCRE isn't installed. Fixes #693, reported by lhz7370.
2119 * Avoid warning when building with glibc >= 2.21.
2121 * Don't provide our own implementation of sleep() under __WIN32__ if there
2122 already is one - mingw provides one, and in some situations it seems to clash
2123 with ours. Reported to xapian-discuss by John Alveris.
2125 * Stop trying to use O_STREAMING - the patch to implement it was never merged
2126 into the Linux kernel, and I can't find any evidence that other platforms
2127 implement it. The constant value O_STREAMING used now seems to be used for
2128 the part of O_SYNC which isn't covered by O_DSYNC, which seems likely to hurt
2129 performance if anything.
2131 Omega 1.2.21 (2015-05-20):
2135 * docs/overview.rst: Document 'E' prefixed boolean terms for filtering by
2136 extension (see #668, reported by bramvdh).
2138 * docs/encodings.rst: Add a document about character encoding, as suggested by
2139 James Aylett in #550.
2145 + outlookmsg2html: Fix handling of message/rfc822 subparts.
2149 * $prettyurl now decodes valid UTF-8 sequences, and some additional ASCII
2150 characters in the path part: []@!$&'()*+.;= (Fixes #550 and #644, reported by
2151 catkin and terencz.)
2153 * $prettyurl now leaves the query and fragment parts of the URL alone and won't
2154 decode an escaped "/" (omindex doesn't create URLs with any of these, so we
2155 only risk breaking other URLs which have them).
2157 * Drop compilation date and time from output when run from the command line -
2158 they prevent reproducible builds and the version number is sufficient
2163 * templates/query: When listing matching terms, don't make the commas italic.
2165 * templates/query: Eliminate blank line before <html>.
2167 * templates/xml: Add XML declaration.
2169 * templates/godmode: Specify charset utf-8 in the content-type.
2173 * Link test programs with libtool's '-no-install' or '-no-fast-install', like
2174 we already do in xapian-core, which means that libtool doesn't need to
2175 generate shell script wrappers for them on most platforms.
2179 * Add spaces between literal strings and macros which expand to literal strings
2180 for C++11 compatibility.
2182 * Remove 'register' as it's deprecated and clang spits out warnings because of
2183 that. Any modern compiler likely just ignores it as an optimisation hint
2186 Omega 1.2.20 (2015-03-04):
2190 * docs/cgiparams.rst: Improve wording of docs for SORT parameter.
2192 * docs/omegascript.rst: Update documentation references to DATE1, DATE2, and
2193 DAYSMINUS which were renamed in 0.6.x and the compatibility aliases removed
2200 + Ignore extensions .msi and .msp, which are Microsoft installer files, but
2201 which libmagic sometimes incorrectly identifies as application/msword.
2203 + Interpret a command of "false" in "--filter" as meaning to ignore files
2204 with that MIME type.
2208 * Handle CGI parameter [=0 as [=1.
2212 * templates/xml: Update handling of DATE1, DATE2 and DAYSMINUS which were
2213 renamed in 0.6.x and the compatibility aliases removed in 1.0.0.
2217 * configure: Use pkg-config in preference to determine flags needed to
2218 compile and link with PCRE, as this will just work when cross-compiling
2219 (at least under MXE).
2221 * configure: Define MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API under mingw to get _putenv_s()
2222 declared in stdlib.h.
2224 * Enable automake option 'subdir-objects' to avoid warning from newer automake.
2228 * Avoid doing link tests with libmagic in configure as they fail on mingw due
2229 to not automatically picking up libraries which libmagic itself depends on.
2231 Omega 1.2.19 (2014-10-21):
2235 * docs/overview.rst: Note that pdftotext is part of poppler as well as xpdf.
2236 (Noted by Paul Wise)
2238 Omega 1.2.18 (2014-06-22):
2244 + Work around libmagic returning a MIME content-type of "Composite Document
2245 File V2 Document[...]" or "application/CDFV2-corrupt" by returning a more
2246 suitable filetype based on looking at the file's extension.
2248 + The starting URL wasn't previously URL encoded. In 1.3.2, this will be
2249 fixed by URL encoding it as we do for the rest of the path, for the 1.2
2250 branch we only URL encode it if it contains a character <= 31 or at least
2251 one of '#', '%', ':' or '?'. This avoids a one-off reindex of every
2252 document in the database in cases which work OK in practice.
2254 + When we skip a file because it exceeds the configured size limit, include
2255 that size limit in the message.
2259 * Add support for setting the query expansion scheme to use.
2263 * Don't compile in unixperm.cc - it isn't currently used, and it fails to build
2264 with mingw. (fixes #635, reported by Alexis Denis)
2266 * Fix warning when built with GCC 4.7.2 using -Os.
2268 * Removed unused inline function, fixing compiler warning.
2270 Omega 1.2.17 (2014-01-29):
2274 * docs/overview.html: Add Abiword as an example use of --filter, based on patch
2275 from Frank J Bruzzaniti (fixes#383).
2279 * Fix "no previous declaration" warning on platforms which don't have
2282 Omega 1.2.16 (2013-12-04):
2288 + Fix off-by-one when finding documents to delete which would sometimes cause
2289 omindex to fail to delete documents from the database when they weren't
2290 refound during an index update.
2292 + Decode dates in xlsx files.
2294 + Ignore extensions 'adm', 'cur', and 'ico' by default.
2296 + Group-readable files which are owner-readable but not world-readable should
2297 still get a "readable by owner" term added. Reported by Emmanuel Garette.
2301 * Compress source tarballs with xz instead of gzip.
2303 * configure: Sync compiler warning flag machinery against xapian-core. The
2304 changes are special handling for clang, passing -fshow-column where
2305 supported, and handling for new warning flags in GCC 4.6 and 4.7.
2307 Omega 1.2.15 (2013-04-16):
2311 * Don't pointlessly link utf8convert.o into the omega CGI.
2313 Omega 1.2.14 (2013-03-14):
2319 + Correct "max" -> "min" when reserving space for shared strings in .xlsx
2320 files. This just means we now reserve a more appropriate amount of space
2323 + Ignore .com files by default.
2325 Omega 1.2.13 (2013-01-09):
2331 + Extracting text using external filters now works for filenames containing a
2332 newline character - previously the newline got lost during escaping for the
2335 + Fix segfault when -F option without a ':' is passed.
2337 + Skip a file if we get a read error while calculating the MD5 checksum (used
2338 for duplicate detection) - previously we used a checksum of the file up to
2341 + Avoid rereading SVG and Atom files when we calculate their MD5 checksums.
2343 + Improvement --help output and man page, most notably:
2345 - Say explicitly that --sample-size accepts the same formats as --max-size.
2347 - Note default size limit on files to index is unlimited.
2349 + When generating a sample for a CSV file, limit the size we pre-allocate to
2350 the CSV file size if that's smaller than the requested sample size, in case
2351 the user sets that limit very high.
2355 * Fix to decode %-encoded character at the end of the query string.
2359 * INCLUDES is now deprecated in automake, so use AM_CPPFLAGS instead.
2361 Omega 1.2.12 (2012-06-27):
2363 No changes since 1.2.11 except to bump the version - this release was made to
2364 fix an incorrect library version information update in xapian-core 1.2.11.
2366 Omega 1.2.11 (2012-06-26):
2370 * Change HTML parser's handling of multiple <body> tags and of text outside of
2371 <body> to match the behaviour of modern web browsers. (ticket#599)
2375 + Add command line option to control the size of the document sample stored.
2376 Patch from Mihai Bivol.
2378 + Rework .xlsx parsing to substitute the shared strings into the positions
2379 they are used in, so that the sample actually matches what appears in the
2380 spreadsheet, and to index calculated cell contents.
2382 + Improve handling of headers and footers in OpenDocument documents.
2384 + pdftotext outputs a formfeed between each page, which messes up our "empty
2385 body" check, so trim any trailing formfeeds before this check.
2389 * Don't explicitly link indirect shared library dependencies on FreeBSD,
2390 OpenBSD, and Solaris.
2392 Omega 1.2.10 (2012-05-09):
2396 * Add support for CDATA to HTML/XML parser.
2400 + Add --max-size option, based on patch from ndaley in ticket#587.
2402 + Add support for atom feed files, patch from Mihai Bivol in ticket#595.
2404 + If the document with the highest existing docid before the run was updated,
2405 we were reporting it as "added", but now we correctly report it as
2406 "updated". (Backported from 1.3.0).
2408 + Catch and report std::exception explicitly, so failing to allocate memory
2409 is no longer reported as "Unknown exception". (Backported from 1.3.0).
2415 * Fix to build with GCC 4.7 by adding cast to rlim_t to fix error about C++11
2416 compatibility (reported by Gaurav Arora).
2418 Omega 1.2.9 (2012-03-08):
2422 * docs/overview.html:
2424 + Document that libmagic is used to determine the MIME type if the extension
2425 isn't known. Partly addresses ticket#569.
2427 + We now limit time as well as CPU and memory for external filters.
2431 * Our HTML parser now ignores sections bracketed by <!--UdmComment--> and
2432 <!--/UdmComment-->, like we already do for <!--htdig_noindex-->.
2434 * omindex: Add more extensions to the default ignore list: bin dat db fon jar
2435 lnk pyc pyd pyo sqlite sqlite3 sqlite-journal tmp ttf
2437 Omega 1.2.8 (2011-12-13):
2441 * scriptindex.cc: Add link to http://xapian.org/docs/omega/scriptindex.html to
2442 --help output (and so also to the man page which is generated from this).
2444 * omegascript.html: Add note to discourage use of percentage scores.
2450 + If we don't get any data from an external filter for 5 minutes, give up -
2451 it has probably ended up blocked indefinitely.
2453 + Improve --help output (and man page which is generated from it). Closes
2458 + If no rules are found in the index script, report an error and give up -
2459 this is inevitably the result of a mistake, and adding empty documents to
2460 the database isn't helpful.
2464 + Add new $prettyurl{} command which undoes RFC3986 URL escaping which
2465 doesn't affect semantics in practice. Partly addresses ticket#550.
2467 + Replace URL decoder with new implementation which handles various corner
2468 cases better. Fixes bug#578.
2470 + If CGI parameter P has trailing spaces, we now remove them all rather than
2475 * templates/query: HTML escape topterms.
2477 * templates/godmode: HTML escape the contents of document values.
2479 * templates/query: Don't show the percentage score in the default template.
2483 * Add new urlenctest unit test of URL encoding and decoding.
2487 * configure: Sync changes from xapian-core: Don't pass -Wshadow for GCC < 4.1;
2488 don't pass -Wstrict-null-sentinel for GCC 4.0.x; only enable symbol
2489 visibility on platforms where it is supported.
2493 * xapian-omega.spec: Package outlookmsg2html helper.
2495 Omega 1.2.7 (2011-08-10):
2499 * docs/termprefixes.html: Document how to map a user prefix to multiple term
2502 * docs/overview.html: Improve documentation of htdig_noindex.
2506 * Improve $version output from "Xapian - xapian-omega 1.2.7" to "xapian-omega
2511 * xapian-omega.spec: We're ABI compatible within a release series so make
2512 dependency on xapian-core-libs >= rather than =.
2514 Omega 1.2.6 (2011-06-12):
2518 * docs/omegascript.html: Correct the documentation of the colours used by
2521 * docs/overview.html: Add using unoconv as more complex example of using
2522 --filter (ticket#324).
2528 + Make search query input type=search.
2530 + Autofocus the search query input (using HTML autofocus attribute with
2531 Javascript fallback for older browsers). (ticket#544)
2535 * Fix a compiler warning.
2537 Omega 1.2.5 (2011-04-04):
2541 * Add index page which links to all the other documentation pages.
2543 * INSTALL: Copy new Multi-Arch section from xapian-core/INSTALL. Replace VPATH
2544 section with better equivalent from Xapian-core/INSTALL.
2546 * docs/omegascript.html: Minor improvements.
2550 * The HTML parser no longer uses an exception to signify it has finished in
2551 the normal case as exceptions are typically costly to handle. In tests,
2552 this made omindex ~0.23% faster when indexing a lot of HTML files.
2556 + Add --ignore-exclusions option, which will index HTML files despite meta
2557 robots tags, etc - omindex is often used in environments where such
2558 exclusions aren't relevant.
2560 + Fix to compile with older versions of libmagic which don't have
2561 MAGIC_MIME_TYPE (e.g. on Ubuntu hardy).
2563 + Tell xls2csv to separate fields with spaces rather than commas, and not to
2564 quote them. Fixes indexing of numeric fields, and means we don't need to
2565 use our CSV parser to get a sample.
2567 + Add whitespace between chunks of text extracted from Microsoft Office 2007
2568 formats to prevent words in adjacent chunks from being run together.
2570 + Encode reserved characters in URLs - links to files with names containing
2571 '#' and '?' now work.
2573 + Handle .xlr extension the same way as .xls (later Microsoft Works versions
2574 apparently produce such files which are really the same format).
2576 + Index filename extension with new standard prefix E.
2578 + Just report the mimetype as unknown instead of saying "unknown Office 2007
2581 + Ignore *.css and *.js by default too.
2583 + Messages reporting skipping files are now more consistent and always report
2586 + New --empty-docs option to allow documents we extract no body text from to
2587 be indexed (existing behaviour), skipped, or reported and then indexed.
2591 * Fix double Content-Type header in some error reporting situations (regression
2592 introduced in 1.2.4).
2594 * Update $url's URL encoding to follow RFC3986.
2596 * Allow QueryParser flags to be set from OmegaScript (ticket#418). The
2597 FLAG_SPELLING_CORRECTION flag can now be set using
2598 $opt{flag_spelling_correction,1} - the old $opt{spelling,true} way to
2599 enable this flag still works, but it now deprecated.
2603 * templates/emptydocs,templates/godmode,templates/opensearch,templates/query,
2604 templates/xml: Add missing escaping. Some of these instances may allow
2605 cross-site scripting, so upgrading your templates is recommended, especially
2606 if you have any sensitive cookies set on the domain Omega is running on.
2610 + Try $field{caption} (which is what omindex sets) before $field{title} when
2611 getting a value for the hit tag's title attribute - this is consistent with
2612 how the query template gets the title.
2614 + Add new 'type' attribute which gives $field{type}.
2616 + Add 'DBSize' attribute to <result> element.
2618 + Fix double escaping of matching terms. This is only likely to affect cases
2619 where a matching term contains '&'.
2621 + Remove support for undocumented HILITECLASS CGI variable. There's no
2622 evidence I can find using Google code search or web search that this has
2623 been used anywhere, and it's difficult to handle escaping it properly in
2624 the face of all the ways it could reasonably be used.
2628 * Fix to compile on Microsoft Windows (ticket#350).
2630 Omega 1.2.4 (2010-12-19):
2634 * Minor documentation improvements.
2638 * Some iconv implementations (such as that on Mac OS X) don't handle many of
2639 the commonly seen mis-punctuated charset names (e.g. UTF16, UTF_16). We now
2640 check for this if iconv fails, fix up the charset name, and retry.
2642 * The built-in character encoding converter now handles spaces in charset
2645 * Use O_NOATIME if available and either the file is owned by the current euid,
2646 or the current euid is 0 (i.e. we're running as root). This avoids updating
2647 the access time of files we index which saves time. Fixes ticket#222.
2649 * Report get_description() for Xapian exceptions, which provides additional
2650 information above get_msg().
2652 * Add boolean terms with add_boolean_term() so they get wdf of 0 and don't
2653 contribute to document length.
2657 + Escape wildcard patterns being passed to unzip - in the unlikely event that
2658 one of these matched files in or under the current directory, we might fail
2659 to extract all the files we wanted to.
2661 + Add explicit support for indexing CSV files (better samples than from
2662 using '-Mcsv:text/plain').
2664 + Add support for indexing .msg files from Microsoft Outlook (using the Perl
2665 module Email::Outlook::Message. (ticket#334)
2667 + Improve --help for --mime-type option.
2669 + Optionally use libmagic to detect MIME types for files for which we have no
2670 extension mapping, which allows us to handle files with a misleading
2671 extension, or no extension at all. (ticket#114)
2673 + Add new --filter option which allows the user to specify new filters
2674 provided they return UTF-8 text on stdout.
2676 + If a filter command isn't installed, previously we wouldn't try it again
2677 for the same file extension - now we won't try it again for the same
2680 + Index the leafname of the file (without any extension) as extra keywords.
2682 + Extract author from HTML, OpenDocument, and PDF files. Index it with an A
2683 prefix, and add it as a field.
2685 + Add support for indexing text and metadata from SVG files.
2687 + Extract metadata from Microsoft Office 2007 file formats.
2689 + Index text in headers and footers for .odt and .docx files.
2691 + Use the CSV parser to generate a nicer sample for files of type
2692 application/vnd.ms-excel.
2694 + Add support for indexing Debian and RPM package files (ticket#493).
2696 + Make the memory limit for filter processes the size of physical memory,
2697 which is a little less arbitrary than 7/8 of this value (ticket#424).
2699 + Under --duplicate=ignore, fix so that old documents which aren't seen get
2700 deleted, which wasn't implemented before (to suppress this deletion, pass
2703 + Rename the short option for --version from -v to -V for consistency with
2704 scriptindex and many other packages, and to free up -v as the short option
2705 for --verbose. For backward compatibility, "omindex -v" is handled
2706 specially and still reports the version.
2708 + Add --verbose option, and disable the less interesting output unless it is
2711 + Deprecate "--preserve-nonduplicates" in favour of new long option
2712 "--no-delete" which does the same thing, but has a clearer name.
2714 + The deletion of documents pass at the end of indexing is now more
2715 efficient. We track how many documents in the database we haven't seen so
2716 we can stop once we've found them all (a particularly big improvement if
2717 there are no documents to delete), and we now use a PostingIterator over
2718 all documents which avoids needing to catch an exception for every gap in
2719 the used document ids.
2721 + Quietly ignore files with mimetype set to "ignore". The initial list of
2722 extensions set to ignore is: .a .dll .dylib .exe .lib .o .obj .so
2724 + Index file owner and read permissions, to allow finding documents with a
2725 particular owner, and so searches can be restricted to documents a user is
2728 + Add file size as a document value, so you can sort on it and filter by it.
2732 + Fix file descriptor leak if the LOADFILE action is used on something which
2737 * Make sure we write out HTTP headers when reporting an error early on.
2739 * Extend $field to take an optional DOCID argument, rather than always using
2740 the context from $hitlist.
2742 * Add new $emptydocs command which returns a list of documents with doclength
2745 * Add support for size: range filtering. Currently the end points of the range
2746 have to be specified in bytes (e.g. size:102400..204800 for 100-200KB).
2750 * templates/emptydocs: New template which lists documents with doclength zero.
2754 * configure: Probe for any options needed to enable large file support.
2755 Handling files >= 2GB isn't especially useful, but more importantly this is
2756 needed to allow omindex to index files on filing systems with 64 bit inodes
2757 on some platforms (e.g. 32-bit Linux).
2759 * Use -no-undefined on platforms which need it to dynamically link such as
2760 cygwin (need to do this taken from ticket#282).
2764 * Fix to compile with Sun C++.
2766 Omega 1.2.3 (2010-08-24):
2770 * docs/termprefixes.html: Update "flint and quartz" to "flint and chert" as
2771 quartz is no longer supported. Give exact term length limit for flint and
2776 * xapian-omega.spec: Don't run autoreconf - it's no longer required.
2778 Omega 1.2.2 (2010-06-27):
2782 * Apply getopt portability fixes from xapian-core 1.2.0, fixing build failures
2783 on Mac OS X (and probably some other platforms with non-GNU getopt
2784 implementations). (ticket#469)
2786 Omega 1.2.1 (2010-06-22):
2788 This release includes all changes from 1.0.21 which are relevant.
2790 Omega 1.2.0 (2010-04-28):
2792 This release includes all changes from 1.0.20 which are relevant.
2796 * configure: Tell libtool not to link in deplibs on platforms where we know
2799 * configure: On Linux, extract the library search path from ldconfig which
2800 gives us the default entries reliably.
2802 Omega 1.1.5 (2010-04-15):
2804 This release includes all changes from 1.0.19 which are relevant.
2806 Omega 1.1.4 (2010-02-15):
2808 This release includes all changes from 1.0.18 which are relevant.
2812 * Use the optimised integer to string conversion routines from xapian-core.
2814 Omega 1.1.3 (2009-11-18):
2816 This release includes all changes from 1.0.15-1.0.17 which are relevant.
2820 * templates/query: If JavaScript is available, convert $field{modtime} to a
2821 string on the client-side so that the timezone is correct. If JavaScript
2822 isn't available, fall back to the existing behaviour of using UTC.
2827 * configure: Default to looking for xapian-config-1.1 unless XAPIAN_CONFIG is
2830 Omega 1.1.2 (2009-07-23):
2832 This release includes all changes from 1.0.14 which are relevant.
2838 + Handle the "macroenabled" versions of MS Office 2007 files too
2841 + Extract pptx notesSlides and comments, if present. (ticket#290).
2843 Omega 1.1.1 (2009-06-09):
2845 This release includes all changes from 1.0.13 which are relevant.
2851 + Check the last modification time of files before reindexing (ticket#342).
2853 + Add "--spelling" option to index spelling correction data.
2857 + Add new "spell" action for indexing spelling correction data (ticket#296).
2861 * Add $suggestion and $opt{spelling} to provide access to spelling correction
2864 * Add $opt{weighting} to allow the weighting scheme and parameters to be
2865 specified (ticket#298).
2867 * If SERVER_PROTOCOL in the environment is set to INCLUDED, then our output is
2868 being included in another page (e.g. using SSI) so suppress the output of any
2873 * templates/query: Offer any spelling correction QueryParser gives.
2877 * configure: Sync warning flags used with GCC with xapian-core apart from
2878 -Woverloaded-virtual which fires for MyHtmlParser::parse_html(). That
2879 probably should be tidied up at some point, but not right now.
2881 Omega 1.1.0 (2009-04-23):
2887 + Make deprecated "index=nopos" an error.
2891 * New OmegaScript command $transform{} which performs regular expression
2892 substitutions using the PCRE library (which is now required to build Omega).
2897 * The build system is now bootstrapped with newer versions of autoconf and
2898 libtool which should produce smaller files and speed up configure and
2901 Omega 1.0.23 (2011-01-14):
2907 + Escape wildcard patterns being passed to unzip - in the unlikely event that
2908 one of these matched files in or under the current directory, we might fail
2909 to extract all the files we wanted to when indexing document formats like
2910 OpenDocument which use a zip file container.
2912 + The parser for OpenDocument metadata wasn't initialising its "state" field.
2913 Often you'd be lucky and it would be initialised to zero, but this could
2914 have caused misparsing of metadata in some cases.
2916 * scriptindex: Fix file descriptor leak if the LOADFILE action is used on
2917 something that isn't a file.
2919 * If fstat() fails when trying to load a file, preserve the errno value from
2920 the fstat call to report to the user.
2924 * configure: Probe for any options needed to enable large file support.
2925 Handling files >= 2GB isn't especially useful, but more importantly this is
2926 needed to allow omindex to index files on filing systems with 64 bit inodes
2927 on some platforms (e.g. 32-bit Linux).
2929 * Add -no-undefined to AM_LDFLAGS on platforms which need it to dynamically
2930 link such as cygwin (need to do this taken from ticket#282).
2932 Omega 1.0.22 (2010-10-03):
2936 * Fix to compile with Sun C++.
2938 Omega 1.0.21 (2010-05-18):
2942 * Fix build failure in freemem.cc on Microsoft Windows.
2944 Omega 1.0.20 (2010-04-27):
2948 * Fix build failure on Mac OS X and possibly some other platforms (regression
2949 caused by fix for getopt-related warnings on Cygwin in 1.0.19).
2951 Omega 1.0.19 (2010-04-15):
2955 * Fix getopt-related warning on Cygwin.
2957 Omega 1.0.18 (2010-02-14):
2961 * Make the default charset "utf-8" not "UTF-8" as we lower case explicitly
2962 specified character sets to compare to see if we need to reparse. Previously
2963 XML documents which explicitly specified their character set as UTF-8 would
2964 cause needless restart or the parser.
2968 + Increase the wdf boost for the document title from 2 to 5, since 2 isn't
2973 + Don't abort with "Unknown Exception" if indexing is disallowed or we hit
2974 </body> for a document which had an overridden character set. Fixes
2977 Omega 1.0.17 (2009-11-18):
2983 + On Linux, change the memory limit on external filters to use _SC_PHYS_PAGES
2984 since _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES excludes pages used by the OS cache and so will
2985 often report a really low value. Fixes Debian bug#548987 and ticket#358.
2987 + Fix likely crash when reading output from external filter program if read()
2988 is interrupted by a signal.
2990 + Fix potential crash when indexing PostScript files (fixed by using delete[]
2991 (not delete) for array allocated by new[]).
2995 * utf8converttest: Charset "8859_1" isn't understood by Solaris libiconv, and
2996 isn't a standard charset name, so just test it when using our built-in
2997 converter and GNU libc.
3001 * Fix build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.
3003 * Also check for socketpair() in -lxnet if it isn't found without, which
3004 enables resource limits on external filter programs called by omindex on
3005 Solaris, and possibly some other platforms. Fixes ticket#412.
3007 Omega 1.0.16 (2009-09-10):
3009 * omega: Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability in reporting of exceptions
3012 Omega 1.0.15 (2009-08-26):
3016 * omegascript.vim: The list of OmegaScript commands in the vim mode was rather
3017 out of date, and a few commands were misclassified. Fix both problems and
3018 avoid future recurrences by automatically generating those lists from the
3019 command list in query.cc.
3023 * omegascript.html: Document that $date uses UTC. (ticket#314)
3027 * query: Link to "xapian.org" rather than "www.xapian.org".
3029 * inc/toptermsjs: Use double-quotes rather than single quotes for parameter
3030 values on the <script> tag.
3034 * omindex: Implement correct handling of paths when calling external filter
3035 programs on Microsoft Windows.
3037 Omega 1.0.14 (2009-07-21):
3041 * omindex: Make sure that output is flushed after every message, not just after
3046 * Avoid infinite loop in omindex and scriptindex when reading files under
3047 Cygwin with automatic end of line translation enabled. This same bug can
3048 also manifest on Unix platforms if the file is truncated by another process
3051 Omega 1.0.13 (2009-05-23):
3057 + If the filter program needed for a file format isn't installed, report this
3058 explicitly when skipping subsequent files with the extension instead of
3059 misleadingly reporting "Unknown extension".
3061 + Make -s actually work as a short-form for --stemmer (as documented by
3062 "omindex --help" and "man omindex").
3064 + Drop the copyright info from the output of --version as it's perennially
3065 out of date and we don't report it for any other Xapian programs.
3069 + Add new "valuenumeric" action to add a document value using
3070 Xapian::sortable_serialise() to allow numeric sorting (ticket#260).
3074 * configure: Enable more GCC warnings - "-Wstrict-null-sentinel" for 4.0+,
3075 "-Wlogical-op -Wmissing-declarations" for 4.3+.
3077 Omega 1.0.12 (2009-04-19):
3081 * $log now retries a partial write, or one interrupted by a system call.
3085 * configure: Fix iconv parameter type probe not to implicitly cast a string
3086 literal to char* - this a warning under GCC currently, but the user could
3087 pass -Werror explicitly in CXXFLAGS, and this could be promoted to an error
3088 in future GCC versions, and may already be so for some other compilers.
3090 * Overriding CXXFLAGS at make-time (e.g. "make CXXFLAGS=-Os") no longer
3091 overrides any flags required for building with Xapian.
3093 * We now actually use the compiler warning flags which configure detects.
3095 Omega 1.0.11 (2009-03-15):
3099 * cgiparams.html: Note the technique of using a stub database file to allow a
3100 default of searching over multiple databases.
3106 + Add support for indexing Microsoft Office 2007 formats and XPS files
3109 + Fix the extraction of metadata from OpenDocument formats.
3111 + Fix "-l" which would previously always cause a segmentation fault if used
3112 ("--depth-limit" wasn't affected).
3116 * configure: The output of g++ --version changed format (again) with GCC 4.3
3117 which meant configure got "g++" for the version. Instead use the (hopefully)
3118 more robust technique of using g++ -E to pull out __GNUC__ and
3121 * configure: Turn on _FORTIFY_SOURCE where available (as we do in xapian-core).
3125 * Fix to compile when RLIMIT_AS isn't available (as on NetBSD and OpenBSD).
3126 Instead use RLIMIT_VMEM or RLIMIT_DATA if either is available, else don't try
3127 to limit the memory the filter process can use.
3129 Omega 1.0.10 (2008-12-23):
3133 * This release now uses newer versions of the autotools (autoconf 2.62 ->
3134 2.63; automake 1.10.1 -> 1.10.2). The newer autoconf fixes a regression
3135 in autoconf 2.62 (and so Omega 1.0.7) with detecting the endian-ness of some
3138 Omega 1.0.9 (2008-10-31):
3142 * docs/overview.html: Document HTML parsing a bit, including robots
3143 meta and htdig_noindex.
3147 * omega: Catch std::exception and report what its what() method returns.
3149 * omega: Remove undocumented and non-functional support for numeric sorting
3150 via CGI parameter SORT=#<slot> (SORT=<slot> works as before).
3154 * configure: Sync warning flag handling changes from xapian-core to eliminate
3155 many warnings from GCC 4.3.
3157 Omega 1.0.8 (2008-09-04):
3161 * Fix a few typos and improve wording in a few places.
3167 + If the character encoding is specified using <meta http-equiv=...> in an
3168 HTML document then reparse the document if it isn't the encoding we're
3169 already using so that any preceding <title> is converted correctly
3172 + Convert text from meta tag parameters to UTF-8 (bug#293).
3174 + Handle <meta charset="..."> (new in HTML 5).
3176 + Fix bug in HTML tag parameter parsing which was probably just a small
3177 performance penalty in real world cases, but could perhaps result in
3178 parsing bogus extra parameters in carefully contrived situations.
3182 * Add missing <signal.h>, noted on FreeBSD by Henrik Brix Andersen.
3184 Omega 1.0.7 (2008-07-14):
3188 * omegascript.html,scriptindex.html: Fix empty titles.
3194 + When indexing text files, handle UCS-2 and UTF-16 text files with a
3195 byte-order mark (BOM), and ignore any UTF-8 "byte-order" mark.
3197 + The built-in conversion code (used when iconv isn't available) now handles
3198 UCS-2/UTF-16 with and without a BOM, and also the explicit BE and LE forms.
3202 * Overhaul the $highlight colour combinations since some were rather
3203 unreadable (Debian bug 484456).
3207 * configure: Synchronise code for working out warning flags used for builds
3208 with that used for xapian-core, which in particular handles different
3209 output formats from "gcc --version".
3213 * configure: Fix header checks to pre-include <sys/types.h> which Mac OS X
3214 needs for some other headers to work.
3216 * configure: Fix probing for iconv to work better when iconv isn't found
3217 (previously this only worked on Mac OS X with fink).
3219 * Fix compilation error on FreeBSD, introduced in 1.0.5.
3221 * In omega, cast size to unsigned before division to avoid a warning about
3226 * xapian-omega.spec: Remove "www." from xapian.org and oligarchy.co.uk URLs.
3228 Omega 1.0.6 (2008-03-17):
3232 * docs/omegascript.html: Improve formatting.
3238 + Add support for DjVu files.
3240 + If we get an error trying to read a directory entry, report it to the user
3241 rather than ignoring it.
3245 * New OmegaScript commands $addfilter, $lower, $upper.
3249 * Check "defined HAVE_SYSMP" rather than just "HAVE_SYSMP". This doesn't
3250 change behaviour, but fixes a compile warning on platforms other than Linux
3253 Omega 1.0.5 (2007-12-21):
3257 * Convert .txt docs to reStructedText which we process to produce HTML.
3259 * Add a note inviting suggestions for additional reliable filter programs.
3261 * overview.html: omindex hasn't generated "W"-prefix terms since 0.9.7, so
3262 remove the documentation saying it does.
3268 + If a file's extension isn't found in the mime_map and contains uppercase
3269 ASCII characters, check for the lower cased extension (so .PDF and .Pdf
3270 behave the same way as .pdf, unless you deliberately add different mappings
3273 + '-f' is documented by --help as a short option for '--follow', but wasn't
3274 previously actually recognised.
3276 + Limit filter programs to 7/8 of free physical memory on platforms where we
3277 know how to determine this statistic (currently at least Linux, FreeBSD,
3278 IRIX, HP-UX; probably Solaris and a few others too). This helps to prevent
3279 runaway filters from causing a denial of service (bug#111).
3281 + Avoid rereading uncompressed AbiWord documents in order to calculate their
3286 + Now inserts a ':' between prefix and term, using the same criteria which
3287 Xapian::QueryParser does.
3289 + The 'BOOLEAN' action now ignores an empty input rather than adding just the
3292 + The 'UNIQUE' action now issues a warning for empty input but otherwise
3297 * Add explicit includes of C headers needed to build with the latest snapshots
3300 Omega 1.0.4 (2007-10-30):
3304 * If an OmegaScript template specifies the same field name as both a boolean
3305 and a probabilistic term prefix then previous the boolean setting would
3306 be ignored (e.g. $setmap{prefix,foo,A}$setmap{boolprefix,foo,H}). Now this
3307 generates an error. If you set prefixes in your templates, you may wish to
3308 check them over before upgrading.
3310 Omega 1.0.3 (2007-09-28):
3314 * Distribution tarballs are now in the POSIX "ustar" format since it saves
3315 a few KB and we need to use it for xapian-core anyway.
3319 * Expand the output of 'mbox2omega --help' and refer the reader to it from
3320 docs/scriptindex.txt.
3326 + Add support for indexing AbiWord documents and TeX DVI files.
3328 + Impose a 5 minute CPU time limit on filter programs to prevent problems if
3329 a filter program goes into an infinite loop on a malformed input. Partly
3334 + Fix line number tracking in dump files.
3338 * Add $muldiv{A,B,C} which calculates int(A*B/C).
3340 * Fix bug in decimal fraction in $size for files >= 1M in size.
3346 + Set HTML charset to utf-8 since that's what databases now are by default.
3348 + Restyle to use CSS to draw a "score bar" instead of using images.
3350 + Rework the layout of each hit.
3352 + Add popup hints on mouse-over for various items.
3354 + Tidy up some HTML gremlins.
3356 Omega 1.0.2 (2007-07-05):
3360 * scriptindex.txt: Fix typo.
3366 + If --url isn't passed, default to "/", but print a warning noting that this
3367 default has been used (at least for now).
3369 + Report files that aren't indexed because their extensions aren't
3374 * Value of XAPIAN_CONFIG supplied to configure is now passed to distcheck,
3375 to ensure that it works with uninstalled copies of Xapian.
3379 * Fix test programs to build with a development snapshot of GCC 4.3.
3381 Omega 1.0.1 (2007-06-11):
3385 * overview.txt: As of 1.0.0, we no longer use pstotext for PostScript, but
3386 instead use ps2pdf followed by pdftotext (since this works for Unicode).
3388 * scriptindex.txt: Document that you can delete a document by supplying a new
3389 document which only contains the unique term.
3393 * Fix bug in HTML parser - if the text between two tags consisted entirely of
3394 whitespace it would just be ignored which could run words together if
3395 the tags didn't produce implicit whitespace. This bug dates back to at least
3398 * omindex: Under Linux (and probably some other platforms) struct dirent can
3399 tell us the type of a directory entry for some filing systems, so make use of
3400 this to avoid calling stat() (or lstat()) unnecessarily - when indexing
3401 /usr/share/doc on my Linux box, this saves about 14000 explicit calls to
3402 stat() (leaving about 7000).
3406 * Fix handling of query parsing errors (broken by changes in 1.0.0).
3410 * The required automake version has been lowered to 1.8.3, so RPMs can now be
3411 built on RHEL 4 and SLES 9.
3413 Omega 1.0.0 (2007-05-17):
3417 * Omega and the indexers now work in UTF-8. If iconv() is available, omindex
3418 will use it to convert documents from other formats, otherwise it has
3419 built-in support for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1; omindex knows how to run the
3420 various external filter programs to generate UTF-8 output; scriptindex
3421 assumes input is already in UTF-8.
3423 * Change the project name (used to name tarballs, and default installation
3424 paths) to "xapian-omega" since that's what the RPMs and Debian packages
3425 already use (there's a Rogue-like game called Omega).
3429 * docs/overview.txt: Document what each of the OmegaScript templates does.
3431 * docs/quickstart.txt: Assorted minor improvements.
3433 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Document new 'Z' prefix, and that the 'R' and 'W'
3434 prefixes are no longer used by Xapian.
3436 * docs/cgiparams.txt: FMT isn't limited to just `a-z' - the actual restriction
3437 is that it may not contain `..'.
3439 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Explicitly note that index=nopos is deprecated
3440 (scriptindex already emits a warning).
3442 * NEWS: Add note that Omega < 0.8.0 NEWS entries are in the xapian-core NEWS
3449 * Updated to use the new Xapian::TermGenerator class. This means that the
3450 indexing strategy has changed.
3452 * "--help" now reports the default stemming language (i.e. "english").
3454 * Implement new sample generating function which normalises all runs of
3455 whitespace to a single space, and fixes invalid UTF-8 in the sample.
3459 + We now index PostScript by converting to PDF with ps2pdf and then indexing
3460 that. This allows us to index PostScript files containing Unicode
3461 characters outside of ISO-8859-1, and also means we now get metadata from
3462 PostScript files. The downside is it is quite a bit slower.
3464 + Add support for indexing MS Works documents using wps2text (part of
3467 + Don't index empty files.
3471 + Fix optimisation of "load truncate=N" to actually work!
3473 + The "truncate" action knows not to chop off a multibyte UTF-8 character.
3475 + Update short option list for scriptindex to match documented usage (-h, -V
3476 and -s were not working).
3478 + Remove -q and -u options - they no longer do anything and are only accepted
3479 for compatibility with really old versions (0.6.1 and earlier for -q; 0.7.5
3480 and earlier for -u).
3484 * Add an alternative implementation of date range filtering which uses a
3485 MatchDecider. This allows everything that the existing implementation does,
3486 plus you can support sorting on a choice of dates (e.g. first published or
3487 last updated), and filtering works to a resolution of a minute rather than a
3488 day. Set CGI parameter DATEVALUE to enable this, and to specify the value to
3489 use. Since omindex now adds the last modified date as value 0, this will
3492 * Enhance $substr{} to accept a negative length (meaning to count back from the
3495 * New CGI parameters to allow finer control of sorting and ranking - SORTAFTER
3498 * The sorting options are now encoded in $filters so Omega can automatically
3499 reset to page 1 if they are changed.
3501 * Add new OmegaScript $weight command which returns the raw document weight -
3502 mostly useful for debugging purposes.
3504 * $topterms{} now generates unstemmed terms.
3506 * $prettyterm{TERM} has been updated to fit with changes to the term generation
3509 * Add 'you' and 'your' as stopwords.
3511 * $filesize{SIZE} enhanced to return a decimal point for K, M, and G (e.g.
3512 "2.1K" and "4.0M" rather than "2K" and "4M"); $filesize{0} is now "0 bytes";
3513 $filesize{1} is now "1 byte"; $filesize{SIZE} where SIZE is negative is now
3516 * Remove $freqs as it has been deprecated for ages.
3518 * Remove support for xB, xDATE1, xDATE2, xDAYSMINUS, and xDEFAULTOP which were
3519 deprecated in favour of xFILTER in 0.7.5 (over 3 years ago).
3521 * Remove deprecated aliases for CGI parameters (deprecated in 0.6.3 or 0.6.5,
3522 more than 3.5 years ago): RAW_SEARCH (now RAWSEARCH), DATE1 (now START),
3523 DATE2 (now END), DAYSMINUS (now SPAN but with slightly different semantics),
3524 and MIN_HITS (now MINHITS).
3526 * Remove "bias_weight" and "bias_halflife" CGI parameters since they rely on
3527 Enquire::set_bias() which has been removed.
3531 * The 'query' template no longer uses $topterms by default.
3533 * New 'topterms' template provides a query template with $topterms support.
3535 * Template fragments which aren't intended for direct use have been moved to
3536 an "inc" subdirectory.
3540 * md5test: Add tests for MD5 code.
3544 * `./configure --enable-quiet' already allows you to specify at configure time
3545 to pass `--quiet' to libtool. Now you can override this at make-time by
3546 using `make QUIET=' (to turn off `--quiet') or `make QUIET=y' (to turn on
3549 * configure: Disable probes for f77, gcj, and rc completely by preventing
3550 the probe code from even appearing in configure - this reduces the size of
3551 configure by 29% and should speed it up significantly.
3555 * Fixed to build with GCC 4.3 snapshot.
3557 * We now make use of the safe*.h portability headers from xapian-core.
3559 * Ensure that the result of snprintf is zero terminated since MSVC's snprintf
3560 is broken (by design it seems).
3562 * configure: xapian-config --cxxflags now includes -ptused for SGI's C++
3563 compiler, so we don't need to probe for it here.
3565 * configure: Perform a link test for posix_fadvise to fix misdetection on
3568 Omega 0.9.10 (2007-03-04):
3572 * docs/omegascript.txt: Rewrite introductory paragraph. Note that
3573 whitespace is significant, and add explicit warning to $setmap.
3575 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Expand section on boolean prefixes, showing
3576 how to generate them using scriptindex, and how to allow them to be
3577 selected in an HTML form.
3581 * omindex: Generate correct MD5 checksums on big-endian platforms.
3585 * Fix $substr{} with negative start to actually work.
3587 * Fix $substr{} to never cause a C++ exception.
3591 * omega.spec.in: Remove "." from the end of the Summary.
3593 Omega 0.9.9 (2006-11-09):
3597 * Ship our custom INSTALL file rather than the generic one from autoconf which
3598 we've accidentally been shipping instead since 0.9.5.
3602 * scriptindex: The "date" action no longer modifies the value it operates on
3603 (it was never meant to!)
3607 * Report an error if $setmap is called with an even number of parameters.
3608 An incorrect example in the documentation used to suggest this, so it's
3609 particularly useful to catch this case.
3613 * RPMs: Prevent binaries getting an rpath for /usr/lib64 on FC6.
3615 Omega 0.9.8 (2006-11-02):
3619 * $substr where the start is negative and longer than the string (e.g.
3620 $substr{abcd,-5,1}) wasn't working as intended.
3624 * configure: Tell AC_CHECK_HEADERS to suppress its backward compatibility mode,
3625 so it only checks headers with the compiler. This speeds up configure a
3626 little, and is what we do elsewhere.
3628 * configure: Warning flags for GCC weren't actually getting used. Fix this to
3629 work and use the same warning flags for GCC and Intel C++ as xapian-core does.
3630 Fix all the warnings this uncovered!
3632 * omega,omindex,scriptindex: Remove some old unused code.
3636 * Ensure that we always pass an unsigned char value to isupper(), toupper(),
3637 etc as they are undefined on other values (glibc makes them work for signed
3638 char values too, but this is an extension).
3640 * configure: Pass magic options to SGI's C++ compiler to allow linking of
3643 * configure: IRIX doesn't allow stdint.h to be included from C++ so we need
3644 a smarter configure test than AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
3646 * Fix warnings from SGI's C++ compiler.
3648 Omega 0.9.7 (2006-10-10):
3652 * omegascript.txt: Note that (by design) an omegascript template can't
3653 contain an infinite loop.
3655 * termprefixes.txt: "$setmap{title,S}" should be "$setmap{prefix,title,S}".
3657 * Use the default paths to the database directories and the omega CGI binary in
3660 * README: Update reference to "CVS" to say "SVN".
3664 * Don't get confused by "a<b" in Javascript in a <script> tag. Fixes bug#91.
3666 * Support htdig's "ignore this bit" comments.
3668 * Don't generate terms with more than 3 trailing symbols ('-', '+', or '#').
3672 + Add the file last modified time as value #0.
3674 + Generate an MD5 checksum of each file indexed and store it in value #1
3675 to allow duplicates to be collapsed.
3677 + Store the file's last modified time in the document data as "modtime" so it
3678 shows up in search results (and tweak the query template so the display of
3679 this information looks nicer). Don't add "modtime" field if the timestamp
3682 + Run pdfinfo once and pull out the fields we want using string operations,
3683 instead of running it twice filtered through sed.
3685 + Parse the XML from OpenDocument and OpenOffice using new subclasses of
3686 HtmlParser. Only extract meta.xml once.
3688 + Add "size" field to document data.
3690 + Run xls2csv on MS Excel files, run catppt on MS Powerpoint files, and also
3691 index MS Word templates (.dot) the same way as .doc files.
3693 + Don't generate 'W' terms since omega doesn't use them.
3695 + If a filter program isn't installed, then don't try it again for the same
3696 extension (not perfect but an improvement - previously we indexed an empty
3699 + If popen() fails, treat it as a read error.
3703 + Add new "load" action to allow the contents of an external file to be
3706 + Fix check for whether a record has content in the case where the same field
3707 is processed more than once.
3711 * Add $pack and $unpack OmegaScript commands to allow big endian binary values
3712 to be encoded and decoded (for use with omindex's lastmod in value #1).
3714 * omega.conf: Fix code which reads omega.conf to be line based as documented
3715 rather than the wacky whitespace based scheme that was actually implemented.
3716 Also we now allow "#" comments and blank lines in omega.conf.
3718 * Fix $highlight{} to work with capitalised words (it used to work but
3719 regressed in 0.8.2).
3721 * Use '\t' to separate terms in xP since filter terms might contain '.'. Fixes
3726 * Add htmlparsetest which tests the MyHtmlParser class.
3730 * Makefile.am: Make use of the dist_ prefix to avoid having to list files in
3731 EXTRA_DIST as well as in *_SCRIPTS, *_DATA, and man_MANS.
3733 * Makefile.am: Prefer $(sysconfdir) to @sysconfdir@ since the former can be
3734 overridden on the "make" command line.
3738 * xapian-config will now switch Sun's C++ compiler into ANSI C++ compliant
3739 mode, so remove all the special case bits of code added for just this one
3742 * omindex: Fix escaping of filenames to cast characters to "unsigned char" so
3743 that isalnum() works correctly everywhere. Not a security hole as dangerous
3744 characters were still being escaped.
3746 * Call pclose() not fclose() on a FILE* obtained from popen(). This bug could
3747 cause us to run out of file descriptors on some platforms.
3749 * configure: Check for strftime.
3753 * omega.spec.in: Include documentation in the RPM package.
3755 Omega 0.9.6 (2006-05-15):
3759 * docs/omegascript.txt: Clarified description of $now.
3763 * scriptindex: Fix "index" and "indexnopos" without a prefix to set the weight
3764 correctly (bug introduced in 0.9.5).
3768 * Added new OmegaScript commands $filterterms and $substr.
3772 * configure: Update snprintf detection to match xapian-core.
3774 * Fix MSVC warnings.
3778 * omega.spec.in: Create and package /var/lib/omega/cdb and /var/log/omega.
3780 Omega 0.9.5 (2006-04-08):
3784 * README: Add pointer to documentation.
3786 * Added man pages for omindex and scriptindex, generated using help2man.
3792 + If we fail to open the index script, die with an error (previously we
3793 acted as if an empty file was specified).
3795 + Warn about a useless "weight" action, even if it's followed by another
3796 non-useless action (e.g. "field") - previously we only warned if it
3797 was last or followed only by other useless actions.
3799 + Warn if "unique=<prefix>" is used without a corresponding
3800 "boolean=<prefix>" on the same line.
3802 + Warn that "index=nopos" is deprecated and should be replaced by
3805 + Add explanatory text "(note that actions are executed from left to right)"
3806 when reporting useless actions.
3808 + Added new "hash" command to allow hashed terms to be generated from long
3809 URLs like omindex does.
3811 * htdig2omega.script,mbox2omega.script: Make use of the new scriptindex "hash"
3814 * dbi2omega: Check DBIDRIVER environmental variable to allow a driver other
3815 than mysql to be specified without modifying the script.
3819 * Fix $opt[fieldnames] handling. Previously it would try to kick in if you
3820 didn't set fieldnames but set any alphabetically later option! The symptom
3821 was that $field{} would stop working (bug#72).
3825 * omindex,omega: Tweaks for MSVC compilation.
3827 Omega 0.9.4 (2006-02-21):
3831 * COPYING: Updated FSF address.
3833 Omega 0.9.3 (2006-02-16):
3837 * overview.txt: The U prefix (URL term) was grouped with the date searching
3838 prefixes, but it makes more sense to group it with the prefixes relating to
3839 parts of the URL (H for hostname, P for path, etc).
3841 * overview.txt: Add pointer to documentation of the supported query syntax.
3843 * omegascript.txt: Improve descriptions of $cgi, $collapsed, $value, $version.
3845 * termprefixes.txt: Fix typo.
3849 * omindex: add --preserve-nonduplicates / -p option to not delete any documents
3850 that aren't updated, in replace duplicates mode (so that multiple runs of
3851 omindex on different subsites don't stomp on each other).
3853 * omindex,scriptindex: Add "--stemmer" option to omindex and scriptindex
3854 to allow the stemming language to be set. Fixes bug#11.
3856 * omindex,scriptindex: More consistent --help and --version output.
3858 * omindex: Add support for OpenDocument format mimetypes and extensions out of
3859 the box. Previously you could index them but had to pass a "-m" option for
3860 each OpenDocument filename extension you wanted to handle.
3862 * scriptindex: The "-q" option no longer actually controls anything. Just
3863 ignore it for backwards compatibility (and don't document it in --help).
3867 * If executing an OmegaScript command causes a Xapian exception to be thrown,
3868 catch it and copy the error message into error_msg (which is read by the
3869 $error command). This allows such errors to reported in a nicer way.
3871 * Added "SORTREVERSE" CGI parameter which allows the sort order to be reversed
3872 when sorting on a value. Removed "SORTBANDS" CGI parameter since it no
3873 longer does anything.
3875 * Added $find{LIST,STRING} to return the subscript of the first occurrence of
3876 string STRING in list LIST.
3878 * Added $lookup{CDBFILE,KEY} OmegaScript command to perform a lookup in a CDB
3881 * Added new feature which allows you to avoid storing fieldnames in every
3882 document. Instead you just store the field values, one per line, and add
3883 something like "$set{fieldnames,$split{caption sample url}}" to the
3884 OmegaScript template to specify the fieldnames to use. This can save a lot
3885 of disk space for a large database.
3887 * Add new "$split{}" OmegaScript command which splits a string to give an
3890 * Fix $url{} to escape "+" to "%2b". Also fix encoding of top-bit-set
3891 characters on platforms where char is signed by default.
3893 * Speed up $highlight{} - only compare terms which are the same length.
3895 * Reduce memory usage if a lot of documents are marked as relevant.
3899 * query: Make the page title shorter so there's more chance it will fit on icon
3902 * opensearch: Add missing escaping.
3904 * godmode: If a non-existent docid is specified, report the error and prompt
3905 the user to enter another docid. Fixes bug#60.
3909 * omega: Fix printf type mismatch on 64 bit platforms.
3911 * omega: Cast time_t to unsigned long to avoid problems on 64bit platforms.
3913 * Use snprintf where available.
3915 * Write top-bit set characters using \xXX notation to avoid warnings from
3916 Intel's C++ compiler.
3918 Omega 0.9.2 (2005-07-15):
3920 * omega: Changed $highlight so if OPEN and CLOSE aren't specified, they default
3921 to highlighting each word from the query with a different background colour
3922 like gmane does (previous default was to use '<strong>' and '</strong>').
3924 * omega: Call QueryParser::set_database() as this is now used to decide what to
3925 do for terms like "C#".
3927 * omega: Added the ability to set boolean prefixes for the QueryParser by
3928 setting a "boolprefix" map in the omegascript template.
3930 * omega: Added $length{} and $stoplist{} commands to OmegaScript.
3932 * scriptindex: Fix infinite loop if there's no newline at the end of a dumpfile.
3934 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Explain how to use termprefixes with scriptindex and
3935 omega, since that's what most people will want to know.
3937 * docs/omegascript.txt: Use standard "S" prefix for title in example for
3938 $setmap, rather than "XT".
3940 Omega 0.9.1 (2005-06-06):
3942 * Releases are now created using libtool 1.5.18 and automake 1.9.5.
3944 * Updated RPM packaging.
3946 Omega 0.9.0 (2005-05-13):
3948 * Updated for 0.9.0 API changes.
3950 * omindex/scriptindex: Generate terms like "c#".
3952 * Added mbox2omega script which allows a mail folder to be indexed using
3953 scriptindex. Mostly it's an example as there's no mechanism included to show
3954 the full original message.
3958 * The configuration file is now looked for differently - you can now set
3959 the environmental variable OMEGA_CONFIG_FILE. See docs/overview.txt for
3962 * $highlight can now highlight terms like "C#".
3964 * Add new template 'opensearch' to implement basic opensearch feeds of search
3969 * URL hashing previously depended on sizeof(long) so databases weren't totally
3970 portable between platforms. This is now fixed, but to do so we've had to
3971 break compatibility with databases built on platforms with 64 bit longs
3972 with URLs > 228 bytes.
3974 * Removed useless "DUPE_duplicate" option.
3976 * Added support for indexing Perl "pod" documentation using pod2text.
3978 * Replaced -l/--no-recurse with -l/--depth-limit which takes an argument
3979 allowing recursion to be restriction to any depth, not just 0 or infinity!
3981 * Extend -M/--mime-type to allow an existing mapping to be removed by omitting
3984 * Fixed code so that we get lstat() prototype on Linux systems where we have
3989 * Improved handling of extra blank lines in dump file.
3991 * Strip multiple \r characters from end of line.
3993 * Complain if a dump file doesn't appear to have been = escaped correctly.
3995 * Flush database after each input file to ensure all changes from a file
4000 * docs/omegascript.txt: Clarify $field description slightly.
4002 * docs/cgiparams.txt,docs/omegascript.txt: Fixed 3 references to OmXxxx classes.
4004 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Added a single document covering all aspects of term
4007 * docs/omegascript.txt: Moved $collapsed into correct place alphabetically!
4009 * docs/cgiparams.txt,docs/overview.txt: Improved description of how B filters
4010 are handled when building the query.
4012 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Note that actions are applied in the specified order.
4014 Omega 0.8.5 (2004-12-23):
4016 * README,INSTALL: Proper installation instructions.
4018 * omega: If an exception is thrown, make sure that the HTTP headers
4019 get written so that we don't cause "500 Internal Server Error".
4020 This problem was introduced by the change to allow a user specified
4021 Content-Type in 0.8.0. Partly addresses bug#60.
4023 * scriptindex: Fixed "Unknown Exception" when trying to "unhtml" text which
4024 contains "</body>" (bug#61). This bug was introduced in 0.8.4.
4026 * omindex/scriptindex: <h1> - <h6> and </h1> - </h6> now leave a space in the
4027 dumped HTML. This bug was introduced in 0.8.4 - before that any tag left
4028 a space in the dumped HTML.
4030 * omindex: Only try to delete removed documents in "replace duplicates" mode
4031 (which is the default).
4033 * omindex: Change behaviour of crawler such that it doesn't follow symbolic
4034 links any more. The new "--follow" command line option turns following of
4037 * dbi2omega: Add a comment to the start of the file detailing what
4040 Omega 0.8.4 (2004-12-08):
4042 * omindex,scriptindex: Improved HTML to text conversion - now we strip
4043 leading and trailing whitespace and convert all other consecutive groups of
4044 whitespace to a single space. Also the parser now knows that some tags
4045 should be regarded as word breaks and some shouldn't (previously all tags
4046 were treated as word breaks).
4048 * omindex: Removed bogus extra line from code which was meant to
4049 truncate samples, titles, etc at a word boundary, but has never actually
4052 * omindex: Added hooks for indexing the following formats: OpenOffice (requires
4053 unzip), MS Word (requires antiword), Wordperfect (requires wpd2text), RTF
4056 * omindex: If a filename to be passed to a filter program has a leading "-",
4057 protect it from possible interpretation as an option by prepending "./".
4059 * omega: When there's only a boolean query we promote it to be the query.
4060 Tweaked so we use boolean weights in this case.
4062 * omega: Use Query::empty() instead of the now deprecated Query::is_empty().
4064 * omega,omindex,scriptindex: Use the new Database/WritableDatabase
4067 * templates/godmode: Finished off godmode template.
4069 * Compile everything as C++.
4071 * Check snprintf actually works - some older versions don't implement C90
4074 * XAPIAN_FLAGS already links with xapianqueryparser so remove
4075 -lxapianqueryparser from omega_LDADD as it was causing link errors on cygwin.
4077 Omega 0.8.3 (2004-09-20):
4079 * scriptindex: --version now actually reports the version. --help now exits
4080 with status 0 rather than status 1.
4082 * RPM packaging: Updated. The most notable change is that the RPM is now
4083 called xapian-omega because there's already an omega RPM (in Fedora Core at
4084 least) which is a game. Also htdig2omega and htdig2omega.script are now
4085 included in the RPM.
4087 * Install htdig2omega.script in ${prefix}/share/omega/ rather than
4090 Omega 0.8.2 (2004-09-13):
4092 * omega: $highlight now handles accented characters (bug#9).
4094 * omega: Use new checkatleast parameter to Enquire::get_mset to implement
4097 * omindex: When running with "replace duplicates" mode (the default), detect
4098 documents removed since the last indexing run and delete them from the
4101 * omindex: Use the new WritableDatabase::replace_document(term, doc) method.
4103 * scriptindex: Report index script file name and line number when
4104 reporting errors in it. Added warning for redundant actions,
4105 such as "truncate" as the last action in a rule.
4107 * templates/query: Always report if the database is not found - previously we
4108 only did so if there was a query.
4110 * templates/query: Fixed missing </center> tag which happened in certain cases.
4112 * docs/omegascript.txt: Added note about that $add{$hit,1} gives
4115 * Now includes htdig2omega and htdig2omega.script which allow you to crawl
4116 remote websites with ht://dig, then build a searchable index of them with
4119 * Link with -lxapianqueryparser, not -lomqueryparser.
4121 Omega 0.8.1 (2004-06-30):
4123 * omindex: Renamed hash() to hash_string() to avoid colliding with something
4126 * omega: Changed MORELIKE to pick up to 40 terms, rather than up to 6 (feedback
4127 on the mailing list suggests this gives much better results).
4129 * scriptindex: Added explicit catch for std::bad_alloc.
4131 Omega 0.8.0 (2004-04-19):
4133 * scriptindex: Change default to *not* overwriting the database (use
4134 --overwrite if you really want to do this); -u is now accepted but ignored.
4136 * scriptindex: Use getopt for option parsing.
4138 * omindex: Added --overwrite option which forces an existing database to be
4139 deleted before indexing begins.
4141 * templates/xml: Correct spelling of `relavence' to `relevance'. NB: if you're
4142 parsing the XML output, you'll need to fix this spelling in your parser!
4144 * templates/xml: Now set HTTP header: "Content-Type: application/html".
4146 * templates/xml: Remove unused OmegaScript code:
4147 `$set{topterms,$or{$ne{$msize,0},$query}}'.
4149 * indextext.cc,omindex.cc,scriptindex.cc: Updated to use add_term() instead of
4152 * omega: Added $httpheader Omegascript to allow arbitrary HTTP headers and
4153 alternative Content-Type headers to be specified.
4155 * omega: If the probabilistic query was bad, don't try to run the match.
4157 * omega: Don't crash if there's a date filter but no probabilistic query.
4159 * omindex/scriptindex: Raw terms with a multicharacter prefix are now indexed
4160 with a : inserted (e.g. as XFOO:Rterm). This matches what the query parser
4163 * omindex/scriptindex: Don't create R terms for terms which start with a digit.
4165 * omindex: Use O_STREAMING and/or posix_fadvise() when reading files to be
4166 indexed (if available). This helps to keep the Xapian database in cache,
4167 and should greatly improve indexing throughput.
4169 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Make more explicit that boolean produces a *single*
4172 * docs/cgiparams.txt: Note that START and END should be in the format YYYYMMDD.
4174 For NEWS entries for Omega versions prior to 0.8.0, see the xapian-core NEWS