1 Omega 1.4.19 (2021-12-31):
5 * configure: Add missing AC_ARG_VAR for all programs so that they are
6 documented in --help output, and so that autoconf knows they are "precious"
7 and preserves them if configure is rerun even when they're specified via an
10 * Add usage examples for $jsonobject.
12 * Fix path to omega in quickstart document. Fixes #813, reported by Jim Lynch.
14 * Update for the IRC channel move from freenode to libera.chat.
18 * Fix handling of UTF-16 BOMs in XML and HTML - we had the sense of the
19 endianness indicated by the BOM the wrong way round.
21 * Avoid making an extra temporary copy of HTML/XML data which has a UTF16 BOM.
23 * We now ignore an end of line immediately after a PHP close tag to match what
28 + Fix handling of formatted xlsx dates in certain cases.
32 + Add new scriptindex whitespace removal actions `ltrim`, `rtrim`, `squash`,
35 + Improve `truncate` action - if a word ends exactly on the requested length
36 we now leave it in place rather than removing it.
38 + Report the location of previous `unique` action in the error given when
39 `unique` is used more than once.
43 * Clamp START and END with packed timestamps. The 4-byte unsigned packed
44 time_t format can't represent dates before 1970 or after Sun 07 Feb 2106
45 06:28:15 UTC so clamp dates before or after these - previously they would
48 * The JSON produced by $jsonobject no longer contains newlines, which makes it
49 usable as a single line serialisation format without post-processing.
51 * Add $base64 OmegaScript command.
53 * omega: Add flag_no_positions to wrap new
54 Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_NO_POSITIONS.
58 * Fix topterms template to not trigger early matching. We were checking $msize
59 before including the `query` template, but doing so would trigger the query
60 to be run, which means that settings early in the `query` template which
61 should affect the result (such as $setmap{prefix,...}) were being ignored
62 when the `topterms` template was used. Partly addresses #815, reported by
65 * Add field support to opensearch and xml templates. These templates now also
66 search title, topic and filename by default and support `title:`, `author:`
67 and `topic:` in the query string (both like the template `query` already
68 does). Fixes remaining issue in #815, reported by Gennadiy.
72 * Expand omegatest. All scriptindex actions now have test coverage.
76 * Replace uses of obsolete autoconf macros, fixing warnings if configure is
77 regenerated with a recent release of autoconf.
81 * Don't automatically use _FORTIFY_SOURCE on mingw-w64. Recent mingw-w64
82 versions require -lssp to be linked when _FORTIFY_SOURCE is enabled, so just
83 skip the automatic enabling. Users who want to enable it can specify it
86 Fixes #808, reported by xpbxf4.
88 * Automatically enable GCC warnings -Wduplicated-cond and -Wduplicated-branches
89 if using a GCC version new enough to support them. The usefulness of
90 -Wduplicated-cond was highlighted by dcb in #816.
92 * Fix GCC -Wshadow warning.
94 * Use clock_gettime() and nanosleep() under modern mingw as these allow higher
95 precision than what we previously used.
97 Omega 1.4.18 (2021-01-14):
103 + Add default MIME mapping for application/rtf. IANA have registrations for
104 text/rtf and (more recently) application/rtf (it seems because newer
105 versions of the RTF format can contain 8-bit data) so we now recognise
106 application/rtf by default and handle it the same way as text/rtf.
108 Current libmagic seems to always return text/rtf (no matches for
109 application/rtf in magic.mgc) and we continue to map extension rtf to
110 text/rtf, so this change is mainly future-proofing against libmagic future
113 + Add support for indexing OpenXPS, which is effectively the same as XPS
114 internally in ways we care about, but it uses a different mimetype and a
115 different filename extension.
119 * Explicitly use OR for MORELIKE queries.
121 Since 1.3.0 the default value of DEFAULTOP has been AND, which typically
122 makes MORELIKE queries much less useful since they'll only match documents
123 containing all the terms from the query expansion. We now explicitly insert
124 " OR " between the terms if DEFAULTOP hasn't been set to OR, which makes them
125 work much more like they did in 1.2.x.
127 * Make $stoplist and $unstem consider all query strings by always passing the
128 new Xapian::QueryParser::FLAG_ACCUMULATE flag.
130 * Add $foreach command which works like $map, but just concatenates the
131 evaluated results rather than adding tabs to turn them into an OmegaScript
134 * Extend $include{} to allow handling failure to open the specified file via an
135 optional second argument which if specified will be evaluated and returned
136 instead. Patch from Gaurav Arora.
138 * Support multiple MORELIKE parameters - we now form an RSet from all the
139 specified documents and use that to generate the query to run (previously
140 only one of multiple MORELIKE parameters was used).
142 Omega 1.4.17 (2020-08-21):
146 * Document comment format supported by scriptindex index scripts. We've
147 supported comments on a line by themselves and introduced with a # since
148 scriptindex was first added back in 2002, but it seems have never actually
149 been documented before now.
153 * Check for SERVER_PROTOCOL=INCLUDED before anything which might throw an
154 exception so that if it is set we suppress the Content-Type: when reporting
155 such exceptions. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
157 * Report get_description() for Xapian::Error exceptions instead of get_msg().
158 This means we now report the exception's type, context (useful for network
159 errors), and errno information.
161 * Avoid leaking MyStopper object. The object essentially has the lifespan of
162 omega itself, but becomes unreachable when the QueryParser object is
163 destroyed. To make it easier to use leak-checking tools, hand ownership of
164 this object to the QueryParser object.
168 * omegatest: Tell leak sanitizer not to report leaks for allocations which
169 aren't explicitly released on exit - the OS will reclaim all memory from the
170 process at this point and explicitly releasing everything just takes time for
171 no real benefit. We will still see leaks of objects which become unreachable
174 Omega 1.4.16 (2020-06-08):
178 * Fix handling of XML empty tag syntax when there's a quoted parameter right
179 before the closing `/>`. This caused `<title xml:lang="en-US"/>` to treat
180 the body text as the document title. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
182 * omindex: Fix killing of filter child process if the parent process receives a
183 signal. Spotted by Gaurav Arora.
187 * Reject $setrelevant without an argument list. This has never been documented
188 as allowed, and previously crashed with a segfault. Fixes #802, reported by
191 * If there's an error opening the databases we now close any we managed to open
192 successfully before the error so that things like $dbsize can't end up
193 reporting values for a subset of the specified databases.
197 * Use our own autoconf cache variable namespace (xo_cv_ prefix instead of
198 ac_cv_) to avoid colliding with standard autoconf macro use if config.site or
199 a shared config.cache is used. The former case caused a build failure for
200 the OpenBSD port with 1.4.15, reported by Lucas R.
202 Omega 1.4.15 (2020-02-24):
206 * Update documentation about how to add a new format to omindex. Patch from
211 * Check for a BOM on HTML files, which for HTML5 should determine the encoding.
215 * Allow $if{COND} without any actions which is useful as a way to evaluate
216 something but ignore the result if you just want the side effects. Indeed
217 we were already recommending to use it if you want to ignore the return value
218 of $log. Fixes bug introduced in 1.4.14, reported by tuftedocelot.
220 * Add OmegaScript support for $jsonbool{COND} for encoding a boolean value for
221 use in JSON. This is equivalent to $if{COND,true,false} but more readable.
223 * Add OmegaScript support for $jsonobject{} which allows producing a JSON
224 object from an OmegaScript map.
226 * Allow specifying a format to $jsonarray{} so it is no longer restricted to
227 producing an array of strings.
229 * Add $keys{MAP} OmegaScript command which gives a sorted list of the keys from
234 * Simplify probes for snprintf. The broken snprintf in libbsd in Linux libc4
235 is from ~25 years ago so way too ancient to matter now, and all callers
236 already handle the pre-ISO semantics of returning -1 for an undersize buffer
237 so we don't need to run a test program to probe for this at configure time,
238 which is more cross-compile friendly.
240 * Avoid deprecation warning on recent Linux. We were including sys/sysctl.h if
241 it existed, which it does on Linux but we don't actually use it there.
242 Including it now warns that it is deprecated, so skip including it under
243 Linux. Reported on IRC by kumaran.
245 Omega 1.4.14 (2019-11-23):
249 * Improve omindex --help docs for --duplicates.
253 * Add built-in support for iso-8859-15 so we can handle it without iconv.
254 This charset is a variant of iso-8859-1 with 8 characters changed, most
255 notably including the euro currency symbol. It's the most commonly seen
256 charset we didn't have built-in support for.
260 * Fix error handling in $lookup. We now check for errors from cdb_init()
261 and cdb_get(). We've never checked for errors from cdb_init(), while
262 for cdb_get() this bug was introduced by a warning fix in 1.2.20.
264 Omega 1.4.13 (2019-10-14):
268 * Document that $log will start to return an error message in 1.5.0, and that
269 one can wrap it using a $if with no action now to be future-proof.
273 * Optimise converting us-ascii to UTF-8 to do nothing, like we already do when
274 converting UTF-8 to UTF-8.
278 + Add new 'gap' action which provides a way to leave a gap in the term
279 positions between fields to prevent phrases and positional operators from
280 matching across fields.
284 * Future-proof use of $log against changes in 1.5.0.
286 Omega 1.4.12 (2019-07-23):
290 * Improve docs for OmegaScript $hitlist{}.
292 * Fix RST formatting errors in omega docs.
294 * Clarify use of Q prefix for unique ID terms - it was described as "reserved",
295 but the use of "Q" is really just a convention (and in fact omindex uses "U"
298 * Clarify scriptindex's weight action takes parameter >= 0.
300 * Correct typo in OmegaScript $add parameter documentation.
306 + Fix typo in mimetypes used for Apple iWork documents ("apply" instead of
307 "apple") which meant that these documents weren't actually being indexed.
308 Patch from Bruno Baruffaldi.
310 + Pipe input to ps2pdf as this accepts input on stdin. Possibility pointed
315 + If parsedate action's format includes %z adjust for the timezone if
316 possible (this requires the non-POSIX tm_gmtoff member of struct tm)
317 and flag an error for other platforms.
319 + If parsedate action's format include %Z flag an error as that doesn't
320 seem to be usefully supported by strptime() anywhere.
322 + Fix parsedate action to treat formats without a timezone as being UTC
323 instead of localtime.
325 + Add date=unixutc. The existing date=unix works in localtime which is
326 unhelpful if you want to use it on the output of parsedate since that's in
327 UTC; date=unixutc is just like date=unix except it always works in UTC.
329 + The date action now emits a warning for invalid values. The documentation
330 used to say "invalid values are ignored at present", but it's more helpful
331 to flag bad data than quietly ignore it.
333 + We now check the date action's parameter at script parse time and unknown
334 values result in an error and nothing being indexed. Previously an unknown
335 format uselessly resulted in the terms D, M and Y literally being added to
338 + The split action now supports a new "prefixes" split style. This gives all
339 the prefixes from the split, so split=/,prefixes on a file path gives all
344 * Remove documented limitation of $subdb and $subid - the implementation
345 assumed that each omega database name corresponded to a single Xapian
346 database, and if a database name referred to a stub database file expanding
347 to multiple Xapian databases then they would misbehave. Such cases are now
348 handled properly as well.
350 * Extend $addfilter to support adding negated filters via a new optional second
351 argument which specifies the type of filter to add.
353 * Stop $sort from needlessly ensuring the match has run.
355 * Handle corner case of nested $hitlist gracefully instead of potentially
356 entering an infinite loop.
360 * omegatest: Avoid setting TZ globally during tests as that hides bugs where
361 behaviour depends on the local timezone when it shouldn't.
363 * omegatest: Support testing when built using LeakSanitizer by suppressing
364 leak reports for cached compiled pcre regular expressions. These aren't
365 released when the program exits but aren't memory leaks.
369 * Remove outdated deprecation warning suppression which was there to support
370 building from git in the run up to 1.3.2 - a development version which is
371 nearly 5 years ago now.
375 * Fix problems with fallback strptime() implementation which was being included
376 in the wrong binary, and was lacking a required const_cast on the return
379 * Rework setenv() compatibility handling. Now that Solaris 9 is dead we can
380 assume setenv() is provided by Unix-like platforms (POSIX requires it). For
381 other platforms, provide a compatibility implementation of setenv() so the
382 compatibility code is encapsulated in one place rather than replicated at
385 Omega 1.4.11 (2019-03-02):
391 + outlookmsg2html: Handle Subject, Date, and From headers.
395 * In $div and $mod we were converting a non-zero denominator from string to int
396 twice for no good reason.
400 * omegatest: Fix testcase which was failing if the local timezone was behind
401 UTC. This testcase was added in 1.4.10.
403 * omegatest: Tweak to not fail when $time not supported - it seems that the
404 OS time functions we use report an error on GNU Hurd for unknown reasons.
408 * Sync up probes for OS time functions in omega's configure with those in
409 xapian-core which may solve $time not being supported on GNU Hurd.
413 * Add missing includes of <cerrno>. Fixes #776, reported by Matthieu Gautier.
415 * Stop using htonl()/ntohl() in a non-network context which should improve
416 portability to platforms without a POSIX-like socket API.
418 Omega 1.4.10 (2019-02-12):
422 * Use https for URLs where supported.
428 + Index .apxl and .kth files as Apple Keynote. The .apxl extension is used
429 for the XML files inside .key bundles/directories which hold the text
430 content of the presentation, and by handling them we can index .key
431 directories more usefully. It seems they are also sometimes found by
432 themselves. Keynote themes have a .kth extension, and key2text can also
435 + Pipe input to pdftotext, pdfinto and dpkg. These tools all support piping
436 an input file on stdin, which can be a little more efficient when we
437 already have the file open (e.g. to determine its type using libmagic, or
438 to calculate its checksum).
440 + An empty string for the start directory is now flagged as an error.
441 Previously `/` was used instead, which is unlikely to be what is wanted
442 (and `/` can be explicitly specified if that really is what is wanted).
444 + Fix emulation of stderr redirection when the indexer's stderr has been
445 closed. We try to avoid using the shell when running external filters, and
446 emulate 2>/dev/null in commands, but if the indexer's stderr was closed
447 this emulation was buggy and would make give the filter a closed stderr
448 instead of one redirected to /dev/null.
450 + When emulating redirection to /dev/null, we now open /dev/null once and
451 dup that fd each time which is a little more efficient and simplifies the
456 + date=unix is now a no-op for empty input - previously it would unhelpfully
457 add boolean date terms for 1970-01-01.
459 + Warn for empty filename in LOAD action. Previously this gave a slightly
460 confusing error: "Couldn't load file '': No such file or directory"
462 + Unknown command-line options now cause scriptindex to give a non-zero exit
467 * omegatest: Add testcase for SPAN.n on different slots.
469 * omegatest: Update expected QueryParser output for the xapian-core change to
470 produce flatter Query trees.
474 * Use AM_ICONV to detect iconv() which should handle non-system install of GNU
475 libiconv properly. Fixes #775, reported by Ryan Schmidt.
479 * Provide fall-back strptime() implementation for platforms which don't provide
480 it, using the C++11 std::get_time() function. We use strptime() directly
481 where it's available as some older C++11 compilers seem to lack
482 std::get_time() (GCC 4.8 for example). This is used by the parsedate action,
483 which was added in 1.4.6.
485 Omega 1.4.9 (2018-11-02):
491 + Try harder to avoid opening a file being indexed more than once by
492 reusing the file descriptor in more cases.
494 + Hint to the OS not to cache output from external filters which require
495 using a temporary file.
499 + If the LOAD action successfully opens a file but hits a read error the
500 error message now reports the file name correctly. Previously it would
501 report the partial file contents read so far instead of the file name.
505 * We no longer call posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE under Linux,
506 since it's still not implemented there. We also now only call
507 posix_fadvise() with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED right before we close the file
508 descriptor under Linux.
510 Omega 1.4.8 (2018-10-25):
514 * Assorted minor documentation improvements.
520 + Improve date handling in .eml files. We now handle a "Date:" header
521 without the day of the week, which is allowed by RFC822 and RFC2822
522 (though seems rare in practice). If the date can't be parsed, we now
523 just omit the date information rather than failing to process the file.
525 + Add support for indexing Apple iWork documents (Keynote (.key), Numbers
526 (.numbers) and Pages (.pages)) using libetonyek. Currently only the file
527 variants are handled since omindex doesn't currently support indexing a
528 directory as a document.
530 + Index Visio files using vsd2xhtml.
532 + Extend --filter to support filters which produce SVG as output.
534 + Handle SVG embedded in XML with svg: namespace prefix.
536 + Add --read-filters option to read a list of filters from a file, each line
537 of which is a rule as passed to --filter. Based on a patch from Gaurav
540 + Add new --mime-type-match option which allows specifying a MIME
541 Content-Type for a given shell filename pattern pattern (with the special
542 Content-Type values "ignore" and "skip" supported, as for --mime-type).
544 + Adjust --mime-type to allow ':' in the extension. A valid MIME
545 Content-Type can't contain a colon, so if the argument to --mime-type
546 contains more than one colon it makes more sense to split at the *last*
547 colon (we used to split at the first), as an extension could conceivably
548 contain a colon. Mostly this change is for consistency with the new
549 --mime-type-match option, where the leafname pattern could reasonably
552 + Remove failed entries for ignored files. If a file is mapped to
553 pseudo-mimetype "ignore" then remove any existing failure record for it so
554 that ignored files so we don't potentially end up with a lot of cruft
555 failure records for files we are no longer trying to index.
557 + If a file fails to index due to failing to allocate enough memory we now
558 try to flag it as failed to index so it will be skipped by default on
559 future runs. This should help to avoid indexing getting stuck on
562 + Add a "pages" field with the number of pages in the document where we
563 know how to determine this (currently only for PDF files for which pdfinfo
564 reports this information).
566 + Handle initially empty database exactly the same was as when --overwrite
567 is specified. This probably has no user-visible consequences, but it's
568 cleaner for the handling to be exactly the same.
572 + Improve scriptindex diagnostic messages. All diagnostics are now labelled
573 as "error", "warning" or "note" as appropriate, and we now consistently
574 report "FILE:LINE:" (and also "COLUMN:" in most cases) to make it clearer
575 where the problem lies.
577 + Add new "split" action which splits the text on a specified delimiter and
578 executes the following actions for each piece. Based on a patch by Gaurav
581 + Missing whitespace after the closing " on an action argument is now
582 flagged as an error. Previously scriptindex would attempt to parse
583 the following characters as the next action.
585 + Support C-like escapes for quoted parameter values. Notably this means it
586 is now possible to include `"` in quoted parameter values.
590 + Value-based date range filters can now be specified via CGI parameters
591 START.N, END.N and/or SPAN.N where N is a value slot number, allowing
592 multiple concurrent filters on different slots to be specified.
594 + Support YYYY and YYYYMM limits in term-based date ranges. Previously
595 value-based date ranges supported these as limits, but term-based date
596 ranges gave an error.
598 + Add stem_strategy option and deprecate existing stem_all option in favour
599 of this new more versatile option.
601 + Support "natural" $sort option via new flag "#" which sorts embedded
602 natural numbers in numerical order.
604 + Support numeric $sort option via new flag "n", similar to GNU sort -n.
606 + Rewrite field parsing to be more efficient, and store fields in an
607 unordered_map for faster lookup.
611 * htmlparsetest: Test whitespace collapsing.
615 * omegatest: Avoid "set -". The autoconf manual notes that POSIX no longer
616 requires this, and that with traditional shells it resets -v and -x which
617 makes debugging harder.
619 * omegatest: Fix shell printf quoting issues which were a latent bug on macOS.
621 * Drop special handling for Compaq C++. We never actually achieved a working
622 build using it, and I can find no evidence that this compiler still exists,
623 let alone that it was updated for C++11 which we now require.
625 Omega 1.4.7 (2018-07-19):
629 * New OmegaScript $unique command. The existing $uniq only removes adjacent
630 entries (like the Unix uniq command) so to fully remove duplicates you need a
631 sorted input. Sometimes it is desirable to remove duplicates from an
632 unsorted list without changing the order of the entries which are left, so
633 add $unique to do that. If the list is sorted already, then $uniq is more
636 * Fix $map to cleanly reject a single argument.
640 * templates/query: Merge multiple entries in the term frequency information,
641 which came from searching several prefixes by default. Reported by Alistair
642 Buxton on #xapian-discuss.
644 * When multiple words with the same stem are in the query string we now fully
645 eliminate duplicates when showing term frequency information.
647 Omega 1.4.6 (2018-07-02):
651 * Fix generate_sample() (used by OmegaScript $truncate and omindex) to return
652 an empty sample instead of throwing an exception when the requested sample
653 size is less than the size of the truncation indicator string. Patch from
654 Addy. Fixes https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/754 reported by Gaurav Arora.
658 * Use terminology "value slot number" instead of "value number".
660 * Stop talking about "probabilistic terms" and "probabilistic queries" - we've
661 supported other families of weighting schemes since 1.3.2.
665 * Check for the HTML5 doctype or legacy doctype declaration and use default
666 charset UTF-8 if either is present. Previously we always used ISO-8859-1,
667 which is correct for older HTML versions, but not for HTML5.
671 + When running commands without going through the shell, emulate shell exit
672 codes 127 (for command not found) and 126 (for other cases where we fail to
673 run the command). This means the "missing filter" handling should now work
674 properly for such commands. Noted by Gaurav Arora.
676 + Index POD files despite minor formatting errors. We now pass
677 --errors=stderr to pod2text so that minor formatting errors don't prevent
678 us from indexing a file. (It may seem that --errors=none is a better
679 option, but for podlators < 4.11 that results in an ERRATA section in the
680 generated text version which we then end up indexing; 4.11 fixed that but
681 we can't assume that's in use). Reported by Gaurav Arora.
685 + Avoid some unnecessary copying of Action objects by making use of C++11
688 + Consistently send errors to stderr - some were sent to stdout.
689 Patch from Gaurav Arora.
691 + Add new "hextobin" action. Based on a patch from Gaurav Arora.
693 + Warn about non-integer arg to hash.
695 + Fix hash action without an argument, which was failing with an assertion.
696 Based on a patch by Gaurav Arora: https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/189
698 + Reject 'hash' with argument < 6. The hashing truncates and then adds a
699 6 character hash of the removed part, so can't produce a result shorter
700 than 6 characters. Patch from Gaurav Arora.
702 + Look for alphanumerics when parsing index actions. None of the current
703 index actions contain digits, but we give more helpful error messages this
706 + Deprecate allowing spaces around = in scripts. This was never documented
707 as supported, and leads to a missing argument quietly swallowing the next
708 action rather than using an empty value or giving an error. Reported by
709 Gaurav Arora in https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/182
711 + In boolean and unique actions, add a colon between prefix and term when
712 the term starts with a colon. This means the mapping is reversible, and
713 matches what omega actually does in this case when it tries to reverse the
714 mapping. Thanks to Andy Chilton for pointing out this corner case.
716 + Add parsedate and valuepacked actions. Together these assist adding date
717 values for sorting and date range filtering. Based on a patch from Gaurav
720 + Use DB_RETRY_LOCK to wait if the database is already in use rather than
721 sleeping for a second and retrying. On most platforms this means we make a
722 blocking request for the lock, and even on platforms where that's not
723 supported, we now sleep and retry inside libxapian, and without having to
724 throw and catch an exception each time.
728 * $freq: Speed up some cases by avoiding throwing and catching an exception
729 when we know the MSet has no term frequency information.
731 * $sort: New OmegaScript command which does a string sort on an OmegaScript
732 list, with u (unique) and r (reverse) options.
734 * $cond: New OmegaScript conditional multi-way conditional. Inspired by LISP's
735 COND, this provides a neater way to write a cascade of $if checks.
737 * $switch: New OmegaScript multi-way conditional which provides an even neater
738 way to write a cascade of $if{$eq{X,VALUE1},$if{$eq{X,VALUE2},...}}.
740 * $subdb and $subid: New commands which report the subdatabase name and the
741 docid in that subdatabase.
743 + $termprefix and $unprefix: New OmegaScript commands which expose the existing
744 code inside omega for splitting up a term.
746 * Use str() to convert time_t to string, which is simpler code and faster than
751 * omegatest: Fix message when faketime is not installed - we were misreporting
752 this case as "faketime not working".
754 * omegatest: Add feature tests of $map.
756 * Add testcases for XML charset. We already handle both default and specified
757 charsets for XML, but we didn't have any testcases for it.
761 * configure: Fix potentially confusing messages suggesting snprintf was added
762 in C90 - it was actually standardised in C99.
764 * Improve handling of multitarget rule stamp files. Clean them on "make
765 maintainer-clean" and ship them so that --enable-maintainer-mode when
766 building from a tarball doesn't needlessly rerun the multitarget rules.
770 * Check for EAGAIN as well as EINTR from select(). The Linux select(2) man
771 page says: "Portable programs may wish to check for EAGAIN and loop, just as
772 with EINTR" and that seems to be necessary for Cygwin at least.
776 * Use https for tarball URLs in .spec files. This provides protection against
777 MITM attacks on people building packages using these spec files, and is also
778 slightly more efficient as the http: URLs redirect to the https: versions
781 Omega 1.4.5 (2017-10-16):
785 * Direct users towards $set{flag_spelling_correction,true} rather than the
786 deprecated $set{spelling,true} (which is slated for removal in 1.5.0).
794 + Check file size before calling libmagic to get the mime type, since
795 reading the file size is a much cheaper check and we can skip the
796 libmagic test if the file is empty or larger than the specified
797 maximum size. Patch from caiyulun.
801 + Reject index scripts with multiple "unique" actions. We don't handle this
802 case sensibly, and it doesn't seem like it really has a use, so better to
803 give an error for people who do this inadvertently.
807 * New $seterror command to set the error message. Implemented by Gaurav Arora.
809 * Make $highlight more efficient. Patch from Vivek Pal.
813 * query: Use $prettyurl for the URL shown at the end of each match (previously
814 we only used it on the URL shown as a fallback when the document has no
815 title). Split off from changes by Vivek Pal in
816 https://github.com/xapian/xapian/pull/161
820 * omegatest: Tell faketime to freeze the clock - previously the clock ran on
821 from the specified fake time, and on a slow and/or heavily loaded machine a
822 test taking more than a second might fail due to this.
824 * Start adding feature tests for scriptindex (so far, checking that specifying
825 multiple 'unique' actions results in an error).
827 Omega 1.4.4 (2017-04-19):
833 + 1.4.3 added a new --sample option, but contrary to the documentation
834 the default behaviour was to take the sample from the meta description
835 (which was the hard-wired behaviour in 1.4.2 and earlier). The default
836 has now been changed to take the sample from the body.
838 + Index .shtm, .xhtml and .xhtm as HTML by default - .shtm is another
839 extension used for server-parsed HTML (in addition to the more common
840 .shtml), and .xhtm and .xhtml are XHTML.
842 + Fix fallback lookup for extension containing upper case. User mappings
843 worked, but built-in extension to MIME type mappings were effectively being
844 ignored (because the result of the function call was not being checked).
845 Bug introduced in 1.3.4.
847 + Fix term-based date ranges, broken by changes in 1.4.2. Found and
848 diagnosed by Gaurav Arora.
850 + Handle date range with start after end better - with term-based ranges,
851 this used to generate a bogus filter, but now just generates Dlatest.
853 + Use Y-term when range starts/ends at year start/end. Previously we used 12
854 M-terms for these cases.
856 + Use full leap-year check when constructing term-based date ranges -
857 previous code was good until 2100, but even then it would only result
858 in an extra term being included for a non-existent February 29th in
863 * New OmegaScript command $cgiparams which returns a list of the parameter
866 * Handle tab in a CGI parameter name in the same way as space. Mostly this is
867 a way to avoid having tabs in CGI parameter names - they aren't useful, but
868 if they could have tabs in we can't put CGI parameter names in a list.
872 * query: Fix highlighting of matching terms. We were using both $snippet and
873 $highlight, which results in double highlighting and HTML escaping, most
874 noticeable by literal <strong> and </strong> appearing around matching terms
875 in the rendered HTML snippet. Reported by Mark Thomas on xapian-discuss.
879 * If gen-mimemap failed after creating mimemap.h, the rule wouldn't get rerun.
881 Omega 1.4.3 (2017-01-25):
887 + Add support for indexing vCard files if Perl and its Text::vCard module
890 + Recognise application/x-rpm as alternative type since libmagic reports this
891 rather than application/x-redhat-package-manager.
893 + Use official MIME type application/vnd.debian.binary-package for debian
894 packages. We used to map .deb and .udeb to application/x-debian-package,
895 but in 2014 (after we added that support for .deb) an official type was
896 registered with IANA. We now map extensions .deb and .udeb to the official
897 type, but the unofficial type is still recognised (older versions of
898 libmagic probably report it, and users may be mapping to it).
900 + Handle PHP as MIME type text/x-php. The main difference this makes is that
901 PHP files which don't have extension '.php' (e.g. .phtml, .phps, .php5,
902 .ph4, etc) get identified by libmagic as text/x-php and will now be indexed.
903 It also means that the user can now more easily configure different filters
906 + Don't use meta description as sample by default. Now we have dynamic
907 snippets (via $snippet), the body text is a better default. Also generated
908 HTML sometimes has unhelpful content in the meta description. To get the
909 previous behaviour, use the new omindex command line option:
912 Omega 1.4.2 (2016-12-26):
916 * Replace auto-generated list of the supported MIME types with an
917 auto-generated table showing the extensions that are mapped to each MIME type
918 by default. Partly addresses #569, reported by catkin.
922 * omindex: Add support for indexing markdown files (extension .md or .markdown,
923 mime-type text/markdown, using "markdown" to convert to HTML).
927 * Add support for "make installcheck" to run tests against installed version.
931 * configure: Fail with clear error with xapian-core < 1.4.0.
935 * Fix GCC -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning.
937 * Add missing <ctime> for time_t.
939 * Avoid snprintf_for formatting fixed-width integers - it results in warnings
940 about possible output truncation with GCC7 (which aren't actually possible
941 due to limited input range) and it's a bit heavyweight for this job anyway.
943 Omega 1.4.1 (2016-10-21):
947 * Document bug in how $filters encodes DOCIDORDER=A.
949 * Suggest DOCIDORDER=X for DONT_CARE.
951 * Correct mentions of C++ API method MSet::get_snippet() to MSet::snippet().
953 * Fix typo in Omega 1.4.0 NEWS entry. Patch from James Aylett.
957 * omindex: Also index leafname with _ and & replaced by spaces. Literal spaces
958 are often avoided in filenames, and "hello_world.txt" ought to be searchable
959 for via "hello" and "world". Partly addresses #618, reported by Julien
964 * Add support for sorting by more than one value - e.g. SORT=+1,-2
966 * Add $msizelower and $msizeupper which provide access to the lower and upper
967 bounds on the number of matches.
969 * Add support for $set{weighting,coord}.
971 * Add weightingpurefilter option. Normally a query consisting only of filter
972 terms won't have relevance weights calculated. This new option allows you to
973 specify a weighting scheme to use for such queries, with the same values
974 supported as for the existing weighting option. For example,
975 $set{weightingpurefilter,coord} will weight such queries by how many filter
976 terms match each document.
978 * $filters now includes DATEVALUE, which means we'll force the first page when
979 reloading or changing page starting from existing URLs upon upgrade to 1.4.1,
980 but the exact same existing URL could be for a search without the date filter
981 where we want to force the first page, so there's an inherent ambiguity
982 there. Forcing first page in this case seems the least problematic
983 side-effect. Omission noted by Gaurav Arora.
987 * Add feature test for boolprefix and prefix maps.
989 * Add more feature tests for $filters.
993 * GCC 4.7 is now enforced as the minimum version.
995 * Drop unused configure check for symbol visibility
997 * Drop compiler options that are no longer useful:
998 + -fshow-column is the default in all GCC versions we now support
999 (checked as GCC 4.6).
1000 + -Wno-long-long is no longer necessary now that we require C++11 where
1001 "long long" is a standard type.
1005 * Fix build on platforms which don't provide timegm(), such as Cygwin.
1006 Reported on xapian-discuss by John Bankert.
1008 Omega 1.4.0 (2016-06-24):
1012 * Clarify $allterms and $terms documentation. Make it clearer how they differ,
1013 and document that $allterms without a parameter list gives all terms indexing
1014 the current hit. Noted by Andy Chilton.
1016 Omega 1.3.7 (2016-06-01):
1020 * Make named entity look-up (e.g. é -> 233) use the same keyword-lookup
1021 table approach we already use for HTML tags and built-in MIME content-types,
1022 rather than a std::map, which makes it faster while using less memory.
1024 Omega 1.3.6 (2016-05-09):
1028 * Fix overview.rst processing in VPATH build. Our workaround for lack of an
1029 include path in docutils was only handling the first include in the file.
1033 * Implement $match command for omegascript. Patch from Richhiey Thomas.
1037 * Lower case all HTML tags, attributes and values; explicitly close <option>
1038 tags. Patches from Vivek Pal and Nirmal Singhania.
1040 * Migrate Omega Templates to HTML5. Patch from Nirmal Sighania.
1042 * templates/query: Remove stray double quote from generated URL for spelling
1043 suggestion when THRESHOLD is set. Patch from Nirmal Singhania.
1045 * templates/opensearch: Change response feeds to support OpenSearch 1.1.
1046 Patch from Nirmal Singhania.
1050 * Update omegatest - the order of subqueries has changed in some cases, due
1051 to the "grouping" changes in the C++ API.
1055 * Drop workaround for old git master before 1.3.2
1057 Omega 1.3.5 (2016-04-01):
1059 This release includes all changes from 1.2.23 which are relevant.
1063 * Add optional prefix argument to $terms.
1065 * $snippet now uses MSet::snippet() instead of the Snipper class.
1067 * Add $contains{STRING1,STRING2}. Contributed by Ayush Gupta.
1069 * Add support for negated boolean filter terms, specified by CGI parameter "N".
1071 * Support a direction prefix on SORT: '+' for ascending, '-' for descending.
1072 SORTREVERSE set to non-0 now flips the direction. Fixes #697, reported by
1077 * Need to AC_SUBST probed value of ZLIB_LIBS. Noted by Paul Wise.
1081 * omegatest; Test faketime actually works, and if it doesn't work skip
1082 testcases which use it. On OS X 10.11, faketime from homebrew doesn't seem
1083 to work, probably due to the new "System Integrity Protection". Fixes part
1084 of #707, reported by James Aylett.
1086 Omega 1.3.4 (2016-01-01):
1088 This release includes all changes from 1.2.22 which are relevant.
1092 * The lists of recognised MIME types and of ignored extensions are now
1093 generated along with the corresponding source code from a single master list.
1094 Partly addresses #569, reported by Charles Atkinson.
1096 * Note when $json and $jsonarray were added.
1102 + Avoid using the shell to run most external commands as it's unnecessary
1103 overhead. For the built-in filters, the only cases which now use a shell
1104 are where we run two unzip commands. For user-specified commands, a simple
1105 and slightly conservative test is used, which should avoid a shell in most
1106 common cases where it isn't needed. Notably, environment variables set
1107 before the command are handled.
1109 + Track files which couldn't be indexed in the user metadata and skip them by
1110 default on subsequent runs to avoid the costs of repeatedly running a
1111 filter on a file it can't handle. Run omindex with --retry-failed to retry
1114 + Overhaul the "per-site" terms:
1115 - 'H' prefix is hostname as before, except that if the term would be > 240
1116 bytes (unlikely but possible) the end is hashed is the same way 'U'
1118 - 'P' terms are now added for every directory level, not just the start
1120 - A new 'J' prefix term is added with the start URL (less any trailing
1121 '/'), which means all files indexed from a particular "site" are now
1122 indexed by one term. See #376.
1124 + Add 'skip' pseudo-mimetype which extensions can be mapped to, and they will
1125 then be reported and skipped (to complement the existing 'ignore'
1126 pseudo-mimetype which causes files with the specified extension to be
1129 + Treat a command of 'true' specially as meaning make the text extraction a
1130 no-op (as actually running /bin/true effectively would). This provides a
1131 way to index some file types by only meta-data. Fixes #519, reported by
1134 + Add support for wildcard mimetypes */* and *. Combined with filter command
1135 ``true`` for indexing by meta-data only, you can specify a fall back case
1136 of indexing by meta-data only using ``--filter '*:true'``. From a
1137 suggestion by Brian Burton on xapian-discuss.
1139 + Index message/rfc822 and message/news. These are individually saved email
1140 messages and news articles.
1142 + Index archived web page formats MAFF and MHTML.
1144 + Handle .xla, yet another XL extension.
1146 + Handle metadata in LibreOffice HTML export (dcterms.subject,
1147 dcterms.description, dcterms.creator and dcterms.contributor).
1149 + Use zlib's gzopen() instead of invoking "gzip -dc" for compressed Abiword
1154 * Add options argument to $transform.
1156 * Cache compiled regexps used in $transform.
1158 * Add $ord OmegaScript command which returns the Unicode codepoint for the
1159 first character of a UTF-8 string.
1161 * Add $chr OmegaScript command which returns the UTF-8 string for given Unicode
1164 * Add $csv OmegaScript command which escapes a string for use as a field in a
1165 CSV file ("always quote" mode inspired by patch from Gaurav Arora.)
1167 * New $filters encoding which avoids collisions. We also compare CGI parameter
1168 xFILTERS to what $filters would have returned in previous releases, so that
1169 on upgrades old format serialised filters are handled correctly.
1171 * Fix $jsonarray not to prepend ']' to the first array element.
1173 * Skip weighting scheme setup for a pure date range query - it won't be
1174 weighted anyway, so we can avoid having to parse weighting scheme parameters,
1177 * Use value ranges when date range filtering by value. Should be more
1178 efficient than a MatchDecider, and will automatically take advantage of any
1179 future value range optimisations in xapian-core.
1181 * Add default_db and default_template config options. These allow the default
1182 template and default database name to be set via the config file, rather than
1183 being stuck with the respective defaults of "default" and "query". Fixes
1184 #310, reported by Marco Hennigs.
1186 * Add support for non-exclusive filters. Fixes #234, reported by Thomas
1191 * Add start of testsuite for omega CGI.
1195 * configure script now defaults to looking for xapian-config-1.3. This is now
1196 automatically done for development series (odd middle component of the
1197 version number), but not for stable series (even middle component). Fixes
1198 #695, reported by Jorge C. Leitão
1200 * Don't pointlessly link omega binary with libmagic (as we have since 1.3.1).
1204 * Fix "make check" compilation failure on platforms without timegm().
1206 Omega 1.3.3 (2015-06-01):
1208 This release includes all changes from 1.2.20-1.2.21 which are relevant.
1212 * INSTALL: IRIX is past EOL so drop information about IRIX make.
1218 + Add support for %f in command passed to --filter to allow specifying
1219 commands where the input file is not the final argument. Fixed #570,
1220 reported by Charles Atkinson.
1222 + Allow --filter to handle commands which produce output in a temporary file
1223 rather than on stdout.
1225 + Allow --filter to specify the character set of the output the filter
1228 + Handle application/vnd.ms-excel, text/x-perl and application/x-dvi via
1229 default --filter settings instead of hardcoded cases (now possible thanks
1230 to the new abilities that --filter has).
1232 + Add support for specifying a MIME subtype of '*' in --filter arguments.
1234 + Add -track-ctime option to allow omindex to pick up changes to file
1235 ownership and permissions.
1237 + Index terms from the leafname with an 'F' prefix, rather than treating them
1238 as more body text. (Fixes #633, reported by Emmanuel Garette)
1242 * Fix handling of multiple P.<prefix> fields - previously only the first seen
1243 was used. These fields are also now taken into account when deciding if the
1244 query has changed. $query now returns an OmegaScript list with one entry for
1245 each CGI parameter passed.
1249 * templates/query: Fix setting setting of prefix map for P - in 1.3.2, this
1250 would failed to also search in the subject. Now it also searches in the
1255 * configure: Fix typo in message: 'libmagic-devl' -> 'libmagic-devel'
1259 * Require a compiler with good C++11 support, like xapian-core now does.
1261 * Now we require C++11, just include <cstdint> for uint32_t.
1263 * Link omindex-list with our (GNU) getopt for platforms which don't use GNU libc.
1264 Thanks to James Aylett
1266 * Add timegm.cc to scriptindex_SOURCES to fix build on platforms which don't
1269 * Suppress bogus uninitialised variable warning with -Os under GCC 4.7.2.
1273 Omega 1.3.2 (2014-11-24):
1275 This release includes all changes from 1.2.16-1.2.19 which are relevant.
1279 * docs/overview.rst: Document built-in list of stopwords.
1281 * docs/termprefixes.rst: Update for renaming of 'brass' backend to 'glass'.
1287 + The starting URL wasn't previously URL encoded. In 1.2.18, a minimally
1288 intrusive fix was implemented. In 1.3.2, we now encode the starting URL
1289 as we do for the rest of the filename.
1291 + Don't assume .doc is application/msword but let libmagic decide, since .doc
1292 files may actually be RTF, and sometimes people use .doc for plain-text
1295 + Add support for indexing 'topic' and 'created date' meta-data for
1296 OpenDocument format and HTML.
1298 + Index "topic" for PDF documents.
1300 + Commit changes and exit, rather than skipping the current file on most
1301 unexpected errors reading directories or initialising libmagic - otherwise
1302 we can end up deleting a lot of database entries on errors like EHOSTDOWN
1303 when indexing network mounts.
1305 + Add --opendir-sleep=SECS option to allow working around problems with
1306 indexing files on Microsoft DFS shares.
1308 + If we get ENOTDIR trying to index a file, skip it quietly (unless in
1309 verbose mode) as we already do if we get ENOENT, since ENOTDIR is what we
1310 get if the file and the directory it was in got removed between us getting
1311 the filename and trying to open it.
1313 + Handle ENOENT, ENOTDIR and EACCES from readdir().
1315 + If we've already opened the file (as we often will have if using a modern
1316 libmagic with magic_descriptor() available), then use fstat() on that fd
1317 rather than stat()/lstat() on the pathname.
1319 + Pass error message string and errno value in ReadError exceptions.
1321 + Report strerror(errno) if we can't read a file.
1323 + Filtering via text/html now handles HTML documents which specify a charset.
1325 + Add support for indexing Microsoft Publisher files using pub2xhtml.
1327 + Restrict the length of what we consider to be an extension, currently to 7
1328 characters or whatever the longest extension in the mime_map is if it is
1331 + Avoid '//' in temporary filenames (cosmetic only).
1333 * omindex-list: New tool to list URLs of all the documents in a database (or
1334 list of databases) indexed by omindex.
1338 * Allow setting query expansion scheme to "bo1".
1340 * Make the $json and $jsonarray force the text to be valid UTF-8, since
1341 otherwise the output isn't valid JSON.
1343 * Check parameters to $set{weighting,bm25 ...} and $set{weighting,trad ...}
1344 converted OK. Based on patch from Aarsh Shah.
1346 * Add support to $set{weighting,...} for bb2, dlh, dph, ifb2, ineb2, inl2, lm,
1347 pl2 when we're built against a xapian-core which is new enough to have these
1350 * Add $snippet to generate a snippet of text tailored to the search.
1354 * configure: Enable GCC's -Woverloaded-virtual warning.
1358 * Ship common/safewinsock2.h, needed under mingw.
1360 Omega 1.3.1 (2013-05-03):
1362 This release includes all changes from 1.2.10-1.2.15 which are relevant.
1366 * INSTALL,configure: Provide hints as to what package to install for magic.h.
1370 * The HTML parser now explicitly handles <APPLET>, <OBJECT> and <TR>.
1372 * Use a generated compact and efficient table to convert HTML tag names
1373 to enum codes - this is both faster and smaller than the approach we were
1374 using, with the benefit that the table is auto-generated.
1376 * Always use our built-in conversion code for the character sets it can handle
1377 (previously we'd use iconv if available; now we only use iconv for other
1378 character sets). This gives us more consistent results, and in particular
1379 means we now handle BOMs better (at least when using GNU iconv).
1381 * A lot of data labelled as "iso-8859-1" is actually "windows-1252". The two
1382 only differ in characters which are control characters in iso-8859-1, so
1383 assume the latter when we see the former.
1387 + Extend --filter to handle commands which produce HTML on stdout.
1389 + Don't report an error if a file is deleted (or renamed) between us reading
1390 the directory entry for it and trying to read the file itself by default.
1391 In --verbose mode, the situation is still reported, but now with a
1394 + If omindex receives any of the signals SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT or SIGTERM,
1395 then kill any active external filter child process, then handle the signal
1396 as we did before. If setpgid() is available, put each external filter in
1397 its own process group and kill the whole process group when we get a
1400 + Use magic_descriptor() if the version of libmagic we're building against
1401 is new enough to have it. This eliminates an extra opening of a file
1402 being indexed in certain cases.
1404 + Use rst2html to handle .rst and .rest files.
1408 * Add new $json and $jsonarray OmegaScript commands to support producing JSON
1411 * Add $truncate command which truncates a string after a word.
1413 * Add support for $set{weighting,tfidf} to allow the new TfIdfWeight weighting
1418 * configure: Now looks for libmagic in MAGIC_PREFIX, to allow building with
1419 libmagic installed in a non-standard location.
1421 * Remove support for 'configure --enable-quiet', 'make QUIET=' and 'make
1422 QUIET=y' - automake now supports 'configure --enable-silent-rules', 'make
1423 V=1' and 'make V=0' which are broadly equivalent and more standard.
1427 * tmpdir.cc: Add safeunistd.h for rmdir, required by GCC 4.7 (reported by
1430 Omega 1.3.0 (2012-03-14):
1434 * Make libmagic a required dependency.
1438 * docs/termprefixes.html: Document how to map a user prefix to multiple term
1441 * docs/overview.html: Improve documentation of htdig_noindex.
1447 + Index title with an 'S' prefix rather than no prefix.
1449 + If the document with the highest existing docid before the run was updated,
1450 we were reporting it as "added", but now we correctly report it as
1453 + Catch and report std::exception explicitly, so failing to allocate memory
1454 is no longer reported as "Unknown exception".
1458 + Remove special error handling case noting that index=nopos was replaced
1459 with indexnopos - this was removed in 1.1.0 so there's been enough time to
1464 + DEFAULTOP now defaults to AND rather than OR, since that matches what pretty
1465 much every search engine does these days. Closes ticket#512.
1467 * Allow mapping a query string prefix to more than one term prefix (which
1468 xapian-core has supported since 1.0.4).
1470 * Add support for search inputs for multiple probabilistic prefixes, with
1471 support for per-prefix stemmers.
1473 * Drop legacy support for handling '.' separated terms in xP - that changed in
1474 Omega 0.9.7, more than 5 years ago now.
1476 * Remove support for OLDP CGI parameter which was superseded by xP
1477 approximately a decade ago, and isn't even documented!
1479 * Drop special handling for R-prefixed terms in $prettyterm - we stopped
1480 generating these in Xapian 1.0.
1486 + We now map unprefixed queries to include S-prefixed terms to match the
1487 change in omindex to prefixing terms from the title with S. You may want
1488 to make the same update to your own templates.
1490 + Set up prefixes for 'author:' and 'title:'.
1494 * xapian-omega.spec: We're ABI compatible within a release series so make
1495 dependency on xapian-core-libs >= rather than =.
1497 Omega 1.2.23 (2016-03-28):
1501 * Update links to Xapian website and trac to use https, which is now supported,
1502 thanks to James Aylett.
1506 * Fix HTML/XML entity decoding to be O(n) not O(n²) - processing HTML/XML with
1507 a lot of entities is now much faster.
1511 * Remove unused country code to name maps. These were intended as examples,
1512 but they aren't very useful as such, and really just bloat the templates
1515 Omega 1.2.22 (2015-12-29):
1519 * Stop maintaining ChangeLog files. They make merging patches harder, and stop
1520 'git cherry-pick' from working as it should. The git repo history should be
1521 sufficient for complying with GPLv2 2(a).
1523 * Clarify help text for omindex --mime-type option.
1525 * docs/omegascript.rst:
1527 + Fix documentation of $last to say it's the MSet index *one beyond* the end
1528 of the current page. Reported by Andrew Chilton.
1530 + Clarify that $split and $substr work in bytes. Previously we said
1531 "characters" which could be taken as meaning they work with UTF-8
1534 + Update documentation for $filters - it was missing these CGI parameters
1535 from the list of those serialised: COLLAPSE, DOCIDORDER, SORT, SORTREVERSE,
1538 + Explicitly note user can use $setmap to create their own maps.
1540 * docs/overview.rst:
1542 + SVG extraction is built-in too.
1544 + Expand paragraph about command `false`. Note the versions where explicit
1545 support was added, and that this will also work with any version on Unix,
1546 where `false` is a command.
1548 + Document `cdb_dir`.
1550 * docs/cgiparams.rst: Document behaviour if xDB is not set.
1552 * Change "characters" to "bytes" in a few places to clarify that we don't mean
1553 Unicode code points.
1559 + Add '--title-size' option.
1561 + Handle .oft the same way as .msg - it's some sort of template email, and
1562 has essentially the same format.
1566 * Make $querydescription ensure the match has been run, so that it includes
1569 * Avoid $allterms, $cgilist, $filterterms and $terms being O(n²) in the number
1570 of items in the returned list.
1572 * If xFILTERS is not set, don't force the first page as that's unhelpful if
1573 someone fails to set it in their template.
1575 * When environment variable SERVER_PROTOCOL is set to INCLUDED (as it is when
1576 we're being included in a page), we already suppress the HTTP headers, but
1577 now we suppress the blank line after the header too.
1579 * Support option flag_cjk_ngram if built against xapian-core >= 1.2.22.
1583 * Add test coverage for parsing of HTML entities.
1587 * Fix error reporting if PCRE isn't installed. Fixes #693, reported by lhz7370.
1591 * Avoid warning when building with glibc >= 2.21.
1593 * Don't provide our own implementation of sleep() under __WIN32__ if there
1594 already is one - mingw provides one, and in some situations it seems to clash
1595 with ours. Reported to xapian-discuss by John Alveris.
1597 * Stop trying to use O_STREAMING - the patch to implement it was never merged
1598 into the Linux kernel, and I can't find any evidence that other platforms
1599 implement it. The constant value O_STREAMING used now seems to be used for
1600 the part of O_SYNC which isn't covered by O_DSYNC, which seems likely to hurt
1601 performance if anything.
1603 Omega 1.2.21 (2015-05-20):
1607 * docs/overview.rst: Document 'E' prefixed boolean terms for filtering by
1608 extension (see #668, reported by bramvdh).
1610 * docs/encodings.rst: Add a document about character encoding, as suggested by
1611 James Aylett in #550.
1617 + outlookmsg2html: Fix handling of message/rfc822 subparts.
1621 * $prettyurl now decodes valid UTF-8 sequences, and some additional ASCII
1622 characters in the path part: []@!$&'()*+.;= (Fixes #550 and #644, reported by
1623 catkin and terencz.)
1625 * $prettyurl now leaves the query and fragment parts of the URL alone and won't
1626 decode an escaped "/" (omindex doesn't create URLs with any of these, so we
1627 only risk breaking other URLs which have them).
1629 * Drop compilation date and time from output when run from the command line -
1630 they prevent reproducible builds and the version number is sufficient
1635 * templates/query: When listing matching terms, don't make the commas italic.
1637 * templates/query: Eliminate blank line before <html>.
1639 * templates/xml: Add XML declaration.
1641 * templates/godmode: Specify charset utf-8 in the content-type.
1645 * Link test programs with libtool's '-no-install' or '-no-fast-install', like
1646 we already do in xapian-core, which means that libtool doesn't need to
1647 generate shell script wrappers for them on most platforms.
1651 * Add spaces between literal strings and macros which expand to literal strings
1652 for C++11 compatibility.
1654 * Remove 'register' as it's deprecated and clang spits out warnings because of
1655 that. Any modern compiler likely just ignores it as an optimisation hint
1658 Omega 1.2.20 (2015-03-04):
1662 * docs/cgiparams.rst: Improve wording of docs for SORT parameter.
1664 * docs/omegascript.rst: Update documentation references to DATE1, DATE2, and
1665 DAYSMINUS which were renamed in 0.6.x and the compatibility aliases removed
1672 + Ignore extensions .msi and .msp, which are Microsoft installer files, but
1673 which libmagic sometimes incorrectly identifies as application/msword.
1675 + Interpret a command of "false" in "--filter" as meaning to ignore files
1676 with that MIME type.
1680 * Handle CGI parameter [=0 as [=1.
1684 * templates/xml: Update handling of DATE1, DATE2 and DAYSMINUS which were
1685 renamed in 0.6.x and the compatibility aliases removed in 1.0.0.
1689 * configure: Use pkg-config in preference to determine flags needed to
1690 compile and link with PCRE, as this will just work when cross-compiling
1691 (at least under MXE).
1693 * configure: Define MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API under mingw to get _putenv_s()
1694 declared in stdlib.h.
1696 * Enable automake option 'subdir-objects' to avoid warning from newer automake.
1700 * Avoid doing link tests with libmagic in configure as they fail on mingw due
1701 to not automatically picking up libraries which libmagic itself depends on.
1703 Omega 1.2.19 (2014-10-21):
1707 * docs/overview.rst: Note that pdftotext is part of poppler as well as xpdf.
1708 (Noted by Paul Wise)
1710 Omega 1.2.18 (2014-06-22):
1716 + Work around libmagic returning a MIME content-type of "Composite Document
1717 File V2 Document[...]" or "application/CDFV2-corrupt" by returning a more
1718 suitable filetype based on looking at the file's extension.
1720 + The starting URL wasn't previously URL encoded. In 1.3.2, this will be
1721 fixed by URL encoding it as we do for the rest of the path, for the 1.2
1722 branch we only URL encode it if it contains a character <= 31 or at least
1723 one of '#', '%', ':' or '?'. This avoids a one-off reindex of every
1724 document in the database in cases which work OK in practice.
1726 + When we skip a file because it exceeds the configured size limit, include
1727 that size limit in the message.
1731 * Add support for setting the query expansion scheme to use.
1735 * Don't compile in unixperm.cc - it isn't currently used, and it fails to build
1736 with mingw. (fixes #635, reported by Alexis Denis)
1738 * Fix warning when built with GCC 4.7.2 using -Os.
1740 * Removed unused inline function, fixing compiler warning.
1742 Omega 1.2.17 (2014-01-29):
1746 * docs/overview.html: Add Abiword as an example use of --filter, based on patch
1747 from Frank J Bruzzaniti (fixes#383).
1751 * Fix "no previous declaration" warning on platforms which don't have
1754 Omega 1.2.16 (2013-12-04):
1760 + Fix off-by-one when finding documents to delete which would sometimes cause
1761 omindex to fail to delete documents from the database when they weren't
1762 refound during an index update.
1764 + Decode dates in xlsx files.
1766 + Ignore extensions 'adm', 'cur', and 'ico' by default.
1768 + Group-readable files which are owner-readable but not world-readable should
1769 still get a "readable by owner" term added. Reported by Emmanuel Garette.
1773 * Compress source tarballs with xz instead of gzip.
1775 * configure: Sync compiler warning flag machinery against xapian-core. The
1776 changes are special handling for clang, passing -fshow-column where
1777 supported, and handling for new warning flags in GCC 4.6 and 4.7.
1779 Omega 1.2.15 (2013-04-16):
1783 * Don't pointlessly link utf8convert.o into the omega CGI.
1785 Omega 1.2.14 (2013-03-14):
1791 + Correct "max" -> "min" when reserving space for shared strings in .xlsx
1792 files. This just means we now reserve a more appropriate amount of space
1795 + Ignore .com files by default.
1797 Omega 1.2.13 (2013-01-09):
1803 + Extracting text using external filters now works for filenames containing a
1804 newline character - previously the newline got lost during escaping for the
1807 + Fix segfault when -F option without a ':' is passed.
1809 + Skip a file if we get a read error while calculating the MD5 checksum (used
1810 for duplicate detection) - previously we used a checksum of the file up to
1813 + Avoid rereading SVG and Atom files when we calculate their MD5 checksums.
1815 + Improvement --help output and man page, most notably:
1817 - Say explicitly that --sample-size accepts the same formats as --max-size.
1819 - Note default size limit on files to index is unlimited.
1821 + When generating a sample for a CSV file, limit the size we pre-allocate to
1822 the CSV file size if that's smaller than the requested sample size, in case
1823 the user sets that limit very high.
1827 * Fix to decode %-encoded character at the end of the query string.
1831 * INCLUDES is now deprecated in automake, so use AM_CPPFLAGS instead.
1833 Omega 1.2.12 (2012-06-27):
1835 No changes since 1.2.11 except to bump the version - this release was made to
1836 fix an incorrect library version information update in xapian-core 1.2.11.
1838 Omega 1.2.11 (2012-06-26):
1842 * Change HTML parser's handling of multiple <body> tags and of text outside of
1843 <body> to match the behaviour of modern web browsers. (ticket#599)
1847 + Add command line option to control the size of the document sample stored.
1848 Patch from Mihai Bivol.
1850 + Rework .xlsx parsing to substitute the shared strings into the positions
1851 they are used in, so that the sample actually matches what appears in the
1852 spreadsheet, and to index calculated cell contents.
1854 + Improve handling of headers and footers in OpenDocument documents.
1856 + pdftotext outputs a formfeed between each page, which messes up our "empty
1857 body" check, so trim any trailing formfeeds before this check.
1861 * Don't explicitly link indirect shared library dependencies on FreeBSD,
1862 OpenBSD, and Solaris.
1864 Omega 1.2.10 (2012-05-09):
1868 * Add support for CDATA to HTML/XML parser.
1872 + Add --max-size option, based on patch from ndaley in ticket#587.
1874 + Add support for atom feed files, patch from Mihai Bivol in ticket#595.
1876 + If the document with the highest existing docid before the run was updated,
1877 we were reporting it as "added", but now we correctly report it as
1878 "updated". (Backported from 1.3.0).
1880 + Catch and report std::exception explicitly, so failing to allocate memory
1881 is no longer reported as "Unknown exception". (Backported from 1.3.0).
1887 * Fix to build with GCC 4.7 by adding cast to rlim_t to fix error about C++11
1888 compatibility (reported by Gaurav Arora).
1890 Omega 1.2.9 (2012-03-08):
1894 * docs/overview.html:
1896 + Document that libmagic is used to determine the MIME type if the extension
1897 isn't known. Partly addresses ticket#569.
1899 + We now limit time as well as CPU and memory for external filters.
1903 * Our HTML parser now ignores sections bracketed by <!--UdmComment--> and
1904 <!--/UdmComment-->, like we already do for <!--htdig_noindex-->.
1906 * omindex: Add more extensions to the default ignore list: bin dat db fon jar
1907 lnk pyc pyd pyo sqlite sqlite3 sqlite-journal tmp ttf
1909 Omega 1.2.8 (2011-12-13):
1913 * scriptindex.cc: Add link to http://xapian.org/docs/omega/scriptindex.html to
1914 --help output (and so also to the man page which is generated from this).
1916 * omegascript.html: Add note to discourage use of percentage scores.
1922 + If we don't get any data from an external filter for 5 minutes, give up -
1923 it has probably ended up blocked indefinitely.
1925 + Improve --help output (and man page which is generated from it). Closes
1930 + If no rules are found in the index script, report an error and give up -
1931 this is inevitably the result of a mistake, and adding empty documents to
1932 the database isn't helpful.
1936 + Add new $prettyurl{} command which undoes RFC3986 URL escaping which
1937 doesn't affect semantics in practice. Partly addresses ticket#550.
1939 + Replace URL decoder with new implementation which handles various corner
1940 cases better. Fixes bug#578.
1942 + If CGI parameter P has trailing spaces, we now remove them all rather than
1947 * templates/query: HTML escape topterms.
1949 * templates/godmode: HTML escape the contents of document values.
1951 * templates/query: Don't show the percentage score in the default template.
1955 * Add new urlenctest unit test of URL encoding and decoding.
1959 * configure: Sync changes from xapian-core: Don't pass -Wshadow for GCC < 4.1;
1960 don't pass -Wstrict-null-sentinel for GCC 4.0.x; only enable symbol
1961 visibility on platforms where it is supported.
1965 * xapian-omega.spec: Package outlookmsg2html helper.
1967 Omega 1.2.7 (2011-08-10):
1971 * docs/termprefixes.html: Document how to map a user prefix to multiple term
1974 * docs/overview.html: Improve documentation of htdig_noindex.
1978 * Improve $version output from "Xapian - xapian-omega 1.2.7" to "xapian-omega
1983 * xapian-omega.spec: We're ABI compatible within a release series so make
1984 dependency on xapian-core-libs >= rather than =.
1986 Omega 1.2.6 (2011-06-12):
1990 * docs/omegascript.html: Correct the documentation of the colours used by
1993 * docs/overview.html: Add using unoconv as more complex example of using
1994 --filter (ticket#324).
2000 + Make search query input type=search.
2002 + Autofocus the search query input (using HTML autofocus attribute with
2003 Javascript fallback for older browsers). (ticket#544)
2007 * Fix a compiler warning.
2009 Omega 1.2.5 (2011-04-04):
2013 * Add index page which links to all the other documentation pages.
2015 * INSTALL: Copy new Multi-Arch section from xapian-core/INSTALL. Replace VPATH
2016 section with better equivalent from Xapian-core/INSTALL.
2018 * docs/omegascript.html: Minor improvements.
2022 * The HTML parser no longer uses an exception to signify it has finished in
2023 the normal case as exceptions are typically costly to handle. In tests,
2024 this made omindex ~0.23% faster when indexing a lot of HTML files.
2028 + Add --ignore-exclusions option, which will index HTML files despite meta
2029 robots tags, etc - omindex is often used in environments where such
2030 exclusions aren't relevant.
2032 + Fix to compile with older versions of libmagic which don't have
2033 MAGIC_MIME_TYPE (e.g. on Ubuntu hardy).
2035 + Tell xls2csv to separate fields with spaces rather than commas, and not to
2036 quote them. Fixes indexing of numeric fields, and means we don't need to
2037 use our CSV parser to get a sample.
2039 + Add whitespace between chunks of text extracted from Microsoft Office 2007
2040 formats to prevent words in adjacent chunks from being run together.
2042 + Encode reserved characters in URLs - links to files with names containing
2043 '#' and '?' now work.
2045 + Handle .xlr extension the same way as .xls (later Microsoft Works versions
2046 apparently produce such files which are really the same format).
2048 + Index filename extension with new standard prefix E.
2050 + Just report the mimetype as unknown instead of saying "unknown Office 2007
2053 + Ignore *.css and *.js by default too.
2055 + Messages reporting skipping files are now more consistent and always report
2058 + New --empty-docs option to allow documents we extract no body text from to
2059 be indexed (existing behaviour), skipped, or reported and then indexed.
2063 * Fix double Content-Type header in some error reporting situations (regression
2064 introduced in 1.2.4).
2066 * Update $url's URL encoding to follow RFC3986.
2068 * Allow QueryParser flags to be set from OmegaScript (ticket#418). The
2069 FLAG_SPELLING_CORRECTION flag can now be set using
2070 $opt{flag_spelling_correction,1} - the old $opt{spelling,true} way to
2071 enable this flag still works, but it now deprecated.
2075 * templates/emptydocs,templates/godmode,templates/opensearch,templates/query,
2076 templates/xml: Add missing escaping. Some of these instances may allow
2077 cross-site scripting, so upgrading your templates is recommended, especially
2078 if you have any sensitive cookies set on the domain Omega is running on.
2082 + Try $field{caption} (which is what omindex sets) before $field{title} when
2083 getting a value for the hit tag's title attribute - this is consistent with
2084 how the query template gets the title.
2086 + Add new 'type' attribute which gives $field{type}.
2088 + Add 'DBSize' attribute to <result> element.
2090 + Fix double escaping of matching terms. This is only likely to affect cases
2091 where a matching term contains '&'.
2093 + Remove support for undocumented HILITECLASS CGI variable. There's no
2094 evidence I can find using Google code search or web search that this has
2095 been used anywhere, and it's difficult to handle escaping it properly in
2096 the face of all the ways it could reasonably be used.
2100 * Fix to compile on Microsoft Windows (ticket#350).
2102 Omega 1.2.4 (2010-12-19):
2106 * Minor documentation improvements.
2110 * Some iconv implementations (such as that on Mac OS X) don't handle many of
2111 the commonly seen mis-punctuated charset names (e.g. UTF16, UTF_16). We now
2112 check for this if iconv fails, fix up the charset name, and retry.
2114 * The built-in character encoding converter now handles spaces in charset
2117 * Use O_NOATIME if available and either the file is owned by the current euid,
2118 or the current euid is 0 (i.e. we're running as root). This avoids updating
2119 the access time of files we index which saves time. Fixes ticket#222.
2121 * Report get_description() for Xapian exceptions, which provides additional
2122 information above get_msg().
2124 * Add boolean terms with add_boolean_term() so they get wdf of 0 and don't
2125 contribute to document length.
2129 + Escape wildcard patterns being passed to unzip - in the unlikely event that
2130 one of these matched files in or under the current directory, we might fail
2131 to extract all the files we wanted to.
2133 + Add explicit support for indexing CSV files (better samples than from
2134 using '-Mcsv:text/plain').
2136 + Add support for indexing .msg files from Microsoft Outlook (using the Perl
2137 module Email::Outlook::Message. (ticket#334)
2139 + Improve --help for --mime-type option.
2141 + Optionally use libmagic to detect MIME types for files for which we have no
2142 extension mapping, which allows us to handle files with a misleading
2143 extension, or no extension at all. (ticket#114)
2145 + Add new --filter option which allows the user to specify new filters
2146 provided they return UTF-8 text on stdout.
2148 + If a filter command isn't installed, previously we wouldn't try it again
2149 for the same file extension - now we won't try it again for the same
2152 + Index the leafname of the file (without any extension) as extra keywords.
2154 + Extract author from HTML, OpenDocument, and PDF files. Index it with an A
2155 prefix, and add it as a field.
2157 + Add support for indexing text and metadata from SVG files.
2159 + Extract metadata from Microsoft Office 2007 file formats.
2161 + Index text in headers and footers for .odt and .docx files.
2163 + Use the CSV parser to generate a nicer sample for files of type
2164 application/vnd.ms-excel.
2166 + Add support for indexing Debian and RPM package files (ticket#493).
2168 + Make the memory limit for filter processes the size of physical memory,
2169 which is a little less arbitrary than 7/8 of this value (ticket#424).
2171 + Under --duplicate=ignore, fix so that old documents which aren't seen get
2172 deleted, which wasn't implemented before (to suppress this deletion, pass
2175 + Rename the short option for --version from -v to -V for consistency with
2176 scriptindex and many other packages, and to free up -v as the short option
2177 for --verbose. For backward compatibility, "omindex -v" is handled
2178 specially and still reports the version.
2180 + Add --verbose option, and disable the less interesting output unless it is
2183 + Deprecate "--preserve-nonduplicates" in favour of new long option
2184 "--no-delete" which does the same thing, but has a clearer name.
2186 + The deletion of documents pass at the end of indexing is now more
2187 efficient. We track how many documents in the database we haven't seen so
2188 we can stop once we've found them all (a particularly big improvement if
2189 there are no documents to delete), and we now use a PostingIterator over
2190 all documents which avoids needing to catch an exception for every gap in
2191 the used document ids.
2193 + Quietly ignore files with mimetype set to "ignore". The initial list of
2194 extensions set to ignore is: .a .dll .dylib .exe .lib .o .obj .so
2196 + Index file owner and read permissions, to allow finding documents with a
2197 particular owner, and so searches can be restricted to documents a user is
2200 + Add file size as a document value, so you can sort on it and filter by it.
2204 + Fix file descriptor leak if the LOADFILE action is used on something which
2209 * Make sure we write out HTTP headers when reporting an error early on.
2211 * Extend $field to take an optional DOCID argument, rather than always using
2212 the context from $hitlist.
2214 * Add new $emptydocs command which returns a list of documents with doclength
2217 * Add support for size: range filtering. Currently the end points of the range
2218 have to be specified in bytes (e.g. size:102400..204800 for 100-200KB).
2222 * templates/emptydocs: New template which lists documents with doclength zero.
2226 * configure: Probe for any options needed to enable large file support.
2227 Handling files >= 2GB isn't especially useful, but more importantly this is
2228 needed to allow omindex to index files on filing systems with 64 bit inodes
2229 on some platforms (e.g. 32-bit Linux).
2231 * Use -no-undefined on platforms which need it to dynamically link such as
2232 cygwin (need to do this taken from ticket#282).
2236 * Fix to compile with Sun C++.
2238 Omega 1.2.3 (2010-08-24):
2242 * docs/termprefixes.html: Update "flint and quartz" to "flint and chert" as
2243 quartz is no longer supported. Give exact term length limit for flint and
2248 * xapian-omega.spec: Don't run autoreconf - it's no longer required.
2250 Omega 1.2.2 (2010-06-27):
2254 * Apply getopt portability fixes from xapian-core 1.2.0, fixing build failures
2255 on Mac OS X (and probably some other platforms with non-GNU getopt
2256 implementations). (ticket#469)
2258 Omega 1.2.1 (2010-06-22):
2260 This release includes all changes from 1.0.21 which are relevant.
2262 Omega 1.2.0 (2010-04-28):
2264 This release includes all changes from 1.0.20 which are relevant.
2268 * configure: Tell libtool not to link in deplibs on platforms where we know
2271 * configure: On Linux, extract the library search path from ldconfig which
2272 gives us the default entries reliably.
2274 Omega 1.1.5 (2010-04-15):
2276 This release includes all changes from 1.0.19 which are relevant.
2278 Omega 1.1.4 (2010-02-15):
2280 This release includes all changes from 1.0.18 which are relevant.
2284 * Use the optimised integer to string conversion routines from xapian-core.
2286 Omega 1.1.3 (2009-11-18):
2288 This release includes all changes from 1.0.15-1.0.17 which are relevant.
2292 * templates/query: If JavaScript is available, convert $field{modtime} to a
2293 string on the client-side so that the timezone is correct. If JavaScript
2294 isn't available, fall back to the existing behaviour of using UTC.
2299 * configure: Default to looking for xapian-config-1.1 unless XAPIAN_CONFIG is
2302 Omega 1.1.2 (2009-07-23):
2304 This release includes all changes from 1.0.14 which are relevant.
2310 + Handle the "macroenabled" versions of MS Office 2007 files too
2313 + Extract pptx notesSlides and comments, if present. (ticket#290).
2315 Omega 1.1.1 (2009-06-09):
2317 This release includes all changes from 1.0.13 which are relevant.
2323 + Check the last modification time of files before reindexing (ticket#342).
2325 + Add "--spelling" option to index spelling correction data.
2329 + Add new "spell" action for indexing spelling correction data (ticket#296).
2333 * Add $suggestion and $opt{spelling} to provide access to spelling correction
2336 * Add $opt{weighting} to allow the weighting scheme and parameters to be
2337 specified (ticket#298).
2339 * If SERVER_PROTOCOL in the environment is set to INCLUDED, then our output is
2340 being included in another page (e.g. using SSI) so suppress the output of any
2345 * templates/query: Offer any spelling correction QueryParser gives.
2349 * configure: Sync warning flags used with GCC with xapian-core apart from
2350 -Woverloaded-virtual which fires for MyHtmlParser::parse_html(). That
2351 probably should be tidied up at some point, but not right now.
2353 Omega 1.1.0 (2009-04-23):
2359 + Make deprecated "index=nopos" an error.
2363 * New OmegaScript command $transform{} which performs regular expression
2364 substitutions using the PCRE library (which is now required to build Omega).
2369 * The build system is now bootstrapped with newer versions of autoconf and
2370 libtool which should produce smaller files and speed up configure and
2373 Omega 1.0.23 (2011-01-14):
2379 + Escape wildcard patterns being passed to unzip - in the unlikely event that
2380 one of these matched files in or under the current directory, we might fail
2381 to extract all the files we wanted to when indexing document formats like
2382 OpenDocument which use a zip file container.
2384 + The parser for OpenDocument metadata wasn't initialising its "state" field.
2385 Often you'd be lucky and it would be initialised to zero, but this could
2386 have caused misparsing of metadata in some cases.
2388 * scriptindex: Fix file descriptor leak if the LOADFILE action is used on
2389 something that isn't a file.
2391 * If fstat() fails when trying to load a file, preserve the errno value from
2392 the fstat call to report to the user.
2396 * configure: Probe for any options needed to enable large file support.
2397 Handling files >= 2GB isn't especially useful, but more importantly this is
2398 needed to allow omindex to index files on filing systems with 64 bit inodes
2399 on some platforms (e.g. 32-bit Linux).
2401 * Add -no-undefined to AM_LDFLAGS on platforms which need it to dynamically
2402 link such as cygwin (need to do this taken from ticket#282).
2404 Omega 1.0.22 (2010-10-03):
2408 * Fix to compile with Sun C++.
2410 Omega 1.0.21 (2010-05-18):
2414 * Fix build failure in freemem.cc on Microsoft Windows.
2416 Omega 1.0.20 (2010-04-27):
2420 * Fix build failure on Mac OS X and possibly some other platforms (regression
2421 caused by fix for getopt-related warnings on Cygwin in 1.0.19).
2423 Omega 1.0.19 (2010-04-15):
2427 * Fix getopt-related warning on Cygwin.
2429 Omega 1.0.18 (2010-02-14):
2433 * Make the default charset "utf-8" not "UTF-8" as we lower case explicitly
2434 specified character sets to compare to see if we need to reparse. Previously
2435 XML documents which explicitly specified their character set as UTF-8 would
2436 cause needless restart or the parser.
2440 + Increase the wdf boost for the document title from 2 to 5, since 2 isn't
2445 + Don't abort with "Unknown Exception" if indexing is disallowed or we hit
2446 </body> for a document which had an overridden character set. Fixes
2449 Omega 1.0.17 (2009-11-18):
2455 + On Linux, change the memory limit on external filters to use _SC_PHYS_PAGES
2456 since _SC_AVPHYS_PAGES excludes pages used by the OS cache and so will
2457 often report a really low value. Fixes Debian bug#548987 and ticket#358.
2459 + Fix likely crash when reading output from external filter program if read()
2460 is interrupted by a signal.
2462 + Fix potential crash when indexing PostScript files (fixed by using delete[]
2463 (not delete) for array allocated by new[]).
2467 * utf8converttest: Charset "8859_1" isn't understood by Solaris libiconv, and
2468 isn't a standard charset name, so just test it when using our built-in
2469 converter and GNU libc.
2473 * Fix build failure on Mac OS X 10.6.
2475 * Also check for socketpair() in -lxnet if it isn't found without, which
2476 enables resource limits on external filter programs called by omindex on
2477 Solaris, and possibly some other platforms. Fixes ticket#412.
2479 Omega 1.0.16 (2009-09-10):
2481 * omega: Fix cross-site scripting vulnerability in reporting of exceptions
2484 Omega 1.0.15 (2009-08-26):
2488 * omegascript.vim: The list of OmegaScript commands in the vim mode was rather
2489 out of date, and a few commands were misclassified. Fix both problems and
2490 avoid future recurrences by automatically generating those lists from the
2491 command list in query.cc.
2495 * omegascript.html: Document that $date uses UTC. (ticket#314)
2499 * query: Link to "xapian.org" rather than "www.xapian.org".
2501 * inc/toptermsjs: Use double-quotes rather than single quotes for parameter
2502 values on the <script> tag.
2506 * omindex: Implement correct handling of paths when calling external filter
2507 programs on Microsoft Windows.
2509 Omega 1.0.14 (2009-07-21):
2513 * omindex: Make sure that output is flushed after every message, not just after
2518 * Avoid infinite loop in omindex and scriptindex when reading files under
2519 Cygwin with automatic end of line translation enabled. This same bug can
2520 also manifest on Unix platforms if the file is truncated by another process
2523 Omega 1.0.13 (2009-05-23):
2529 + If the filter program needed for a file format isn't installed, report this
2530 explicitly when skipping subsequent files with the extension instead of
2531 misleadingly reporting "Unknown extension".
2533 + Make -s actually work as a short-form for --stemmer (as documented by
2534 "omindex --help" and "man omindex").
2536 + Drop the copyright info from the output of --version as it's perennially
2537 out of date and we don't report it for any other Xapian programs.
2541 + Add new "valuenumeric" action to add a document value using
2542 Xapian::sortable_serialise() to allow numeric sorting (ticket#260).
2546 * configure: Enable more GCC warnings - "-Wstrict-null-sentinel" for 4.0+,
2547 "-Wlogical-op -Wmissing-declarations" for 4.3+.
2549 Omega 1.0.12 (2009-04-19):
2553 * $log now retries a partial write, or one interrupted by a system call.
2557 * configure: Fix iconv parameter type probe not to implicitly cast a string
2558 literal to char* - this a warning under GCC currently, but the user could
2559 pass -Werror explicitly in CXXFLAGS, and this could be promoted to an error
2560 in future GCC versions, and may already be so for some other compilers.
2562 * Overriding CXXFLAGS at make-time (e.g. "make CXXFLAGS=-Os") no longer
2563 overrides any flags required for building with Xapian.
2565 * We now actually use the compiler warning flags which configure detects.
2567 Omega 1.0.11 (2009-03-15):
2571 * cgiparams.html: Note the technique of using a stub database file to allow a
2572 default of searching over multiple databases.
2578 + Add support for indexing Microsoft Office 2007 formats and XPS files
2581 + Fix the extraction of metadata from OpenDocument formats.
2583 + Fix "-l" which would previously always cause a segmentation fault if used
2584 ("--depth-limit" wasn't affected).
2588 * configure: The output of g++ --version changed format (again) with GCC 4.3
2589 which meant configure got "g++" for the version. Instead use the (hopefully)
2590 more robust technique of using g++ -E to pull out __GNUC__ and
2593 * configure: Turn on _FORTIFY_SOURCE where available (as we do in xapian-core).
2597 * Fix to compile when RLIMIT_AS isn't available (as on NetBSD and OpenBSD).
2598 Instead use RLIMIT_VMEM or RLIMIT_DATA if either is available, else don't try
2599 to limit the memory the filter process can use.
2601 Omega 1.0.10 (2008-12-23):
2605 * This release now uses newer versions of the autotools (autoconf 2.62 ->
2606 2.63; automake 1.10.1 -> 1.10.2). The newer autoconf fixes a regression
2607 in autoconf 2.62 (and so Omega 1.0.7) with detecting the endian-ness of some
2610 Omega 1.0.9 (2008-10-31):
2614 * docs/overview.html: Document HTML parsing a bit, including robots
2615 meta and htdig_noindex.
2619 * omega: Catch std::exception and report what its what() method returns.
2621 * omega: Remove undocumented and non-functional support for numeric sorting
2622 via CGI parameter SORT=#<slot> (SORT=<slot> works as before).
2626 * configure: Sync warning flag handling changes from xapian-core to eliminate
2627 many warnings from GCC 4.3.
2629 Omega 1.0.8 (2008-09-04):
2633 * Fix a few typos and improve wording in a few places.
2639 + If the character encoding is specified using <meta http-equiv=...> in an
2640 HTML document then reparse the document if it isn't the encoding we're
2641 already using so that any preceding <title> is converted correctly
2644 + Convert text from meta tag parameters to UTF-8 (bug#293).
2646 + Handle <meta charset="..."> (new in HTML 5).
2648 + Fix bug in HTML tag parameter parsing which was probably just a small
2649 performance penalty in real world cases, but could perhaps result in
2650 parsing bogus extra parameters in carefully contrived situations.
2654 * Add missing <signal.h>, noted on FreeBSD by Henrik Brix Andersen.
2656 Omega 1.0.7 (2008-07-14):
2660 * omegascript.html,scriptindex.html: Fix empty titles.
2666 + When indexing text files, handle UCS-2 and UTF-16 text files with a
2667 byte-order mark (BOM), and ignore any UTF-8 "byte-order" mark.
2669 + The built-in conversion code (used when iconv isn't available) now handles
2670 UCS-2/UTF-16 with and without a BOM, and also the explicit BE and LE forms.
2674 * Overhaul the $highlight colour combinations since some were rather
2675 unreadable (Debian bug 484456).
2679 * configure: Synchronise code for working out warning flags used for builds
2680 with that used for xapian-core, which in particular handles different
2681 output formats from "gcc --version".
2685 * configure: Fix header checks to pre-include <sys/types.h> which Mac OS X
2686 needs for some other headers to work.
2688 * configure: Fix probing for iconv to work better when iconv isn't found
2689 (previously this only worked on Mac OS X with fink).
2691 * Fix compilation error on FreeBSD, introduced in 1.0.5.
2693 * In omega, cast size to unsigned before division to avoid a warning about
2698 * xapian-omega.spec: Remove "www." from xapian.org and oligarchy.co.uk URLs.
2700 Omega 1.0.6 (2008-03-17):
2704 * docs/omegascript.html: Improve formatting.
2710 + Add support for DjVu files.
2712 + If we get an error trying to read a directory entry, report it to the user
2713 rather than ignoring it.
2717 * New OmegaScript commands $addfilter, $lower, $upper.
2721 * Check "defined HAVE_SYSMP" rather than just "HAVE_SYSMP". This doesn't
2722 change behaviour, but fixes a compile warning on platforms other than Linux
2725 Omega 1.0.5 (2007-12-21):
2729 * Convert .txt docs to reStructedText which we process to produce HTML.
2731 * Add a note inviting suggestions for additional reliable filter programs.
2733 * overview.html: omindex hasn't generated "W"-prefix terms since 0.9.7, so
2734 remove the documentation saying it does.
2740 + If a file's extension isn't found in the mime_map and contains uppercase
2741 ASCII characters, check for the lower cased extension (so .PDF and .Pdf
2742 behave the same way as .pdf, unless you deliberately add different mappings
2745 + '-f' is documented by --help as a short option for '--follow', but wasn't
2746 previously actually recognised.
2748 + Limit filter programs to 7/8 of free physical memory on platforms where we
2749 know how to determine this statistic (currently at least Linux, FreeBSD,
2750 IRIX, HP-UX; probably Solaris and a few others too). This helps to prevent
2751 runaway filters from causing a denial of service (bug#111).
2753 + Avoid rereading uncompressed AbiWord documents in order to calculate their
2758 + Now inserts a ':' between prefix and term, using the same criteria which
2759 Xapian::QueryParser does.
2761 + The 'BOOLEAN' action now ignores an empty input rather than adding just the
2764 + The 'UNIQUE' action now issues a warning for empty input but otherwise
2769 * Add explicit includes of C headers needed to build with the latest snapshots
2772 Omega 1.0.4 (2007-10-30):
2776 * If an OmegaScript template specifies the same field name as both a boolean
2777 and a probabilistic term prefix then previous the boolean setting would
2778 be ignored (e.g. $setmap{prefix,foo,A}$setmap{boolprefix,foo,H}). Now this
2779 generates an error. If you set prefixes in your templates, you may wish to
2780 check them over before upgrading.
2782 Omega 1.0.3 (2007-09-28):
2786 * Distribution tarballs are now in the POSIX "ustar" format since it saves
2787 a few KB and we need to use it for xapian-core anyway.
2791 * Expand the output of 'mbox2omega --help' and refer the reader to it from
2792 docs/scriptindex.txt.
2798 + Add support for indexing AbiWord documents and TeX DVI files.
2800 + Impose a 5 minute CPU time limit on filter programs to prevent problems if
2801 a filter program goes into an infinite loop on a malformed input. Partly
2806 + Fix line number tracking in dump files.
2810 * Add $muldiv{A,B,C} which calculates int(A*B/C).
2812 * Fix bug in decimal fraction in $size for files >= 1M in size.
2818 + Set HTML charset to utf-8 since that's what databases now are by default.
2820 + Restyle to use CSS to draw a "score bar" instead of using images.
2822 + Rework the layout of each hit.
2824 + Add popup hints on mouse-over for various items.
2826 + Tidy up some HTML gremlins.
2828 Omega 1.0.2 (2007-07-05):
2832 * scriptindex.txt: Fix typo.
2838 + If --url isn't passed, default to "/", but print a warning noting that this
2839 default has been used (at least for now).
2841 + Report files that aren't indexed because their extensions aren't
2846 * Value of XAPIAN_CONFIG supplied to configure is now passed to distcheck,
2847 to ensure that it works with uninstalled copies of Xapian.
2851 * Fix test programs to build with a development snapshot of GCC 4.3.
2853 Omega 1.0.1 (2007-06-11):
2857 * overview.txt: As of 1.0.0, we no longer use pstotext for PostScript, but
2858 instead use ps2pdf followed by pdftotext (since this works for Unicode).
2860 * scriptindex.txt: Document that you can delete a document by supplying a new
2861 document which only contains the unique term.
2865 * Fix bug in HTML parser - if the text between two tags consisted entirely of
2866 whitespace it would just be ignored which could run words together if
2867 the tags didn't produce implicit whitespace. This bug dates back to at least
2870 * omindex: Under Linux (and probably some other platforms) struct dirent can
2871 tell us the type of a directory entry for some filing systems, so make use of
2872 this to avoid calling stat() (or lstat()) unnecessarily - when indexing
2873 /usr/share/doc on my Linux box, this saves about 14000 explicit calls to
2874 stat() (leaving about 7000).
2878 * Fix handling of query parsing errors (broken by changes in 1.0.0).
2882 * The required automake version has been lowered to 1.8.3, so RPMs can now be
2883 built on RHEL 4 and SLES 9.
2885 Omega 1.0.0 (2007-05-17):
2889 * Omega and the indexers now work in UTF-8. If iconv() is available, omindex
2890 will use it to convert documents from other formats, otherwise it has
2891 built-in support for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1; omindex knows how to run the
2892 various external filter programs to generate UTF-8 output; scriptindex
2893 assumes input is already in UTF-8.
2895 * Change the project name (used to name tarballs, and default installation
2896 paths) to "xapian-omega" since that's what the RPMs and Debian packages
2897 already use (there's a Rogue-like game called Omega).
2901 * docs/overview.txt: Document what each of the OmegaScript templates does.
2903 * docs/quickstart.txt: Assorted minor improvements.
2905 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Document new 'Z' prefix, and that the 'R' and 'W'
2906 prefixes are no longer used by Xapian.
2908 * docs/cgiparams.txt: FMT isn't limited to just `a-z' - the actual restriction
2909 is that it may not contain `..'.
2911 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Explicitly note that index=nopos is deprecated
2912 (scriptindex already emits a warning).
2914 * NEWS: Add note that Omega < 0.8.0 NEWS entries are in the xapian-core NEWS
2921 * Updated to use the new Xapian::TermGenerator class. This means that the
2922 indexing strategy has changed.
2924 * "--help" now reports the default stemming language (i.e. "english").
2926 * Implement new sample generating function which normalises all runs of
2927 whitespace to a single space, and fixes invalid UTF-8 in the sample.
2931 + We now index PostScript by converting to PDF with ps2pdf and then indexing
2932 that. This allows us to index PostScript files containing Unicode
2933 characters outside of ISO-8859-1, and also means we now get metadata from
2934 PostScript files. The downside is it is quite a bit slower.
2936 + Add support for indexing MS Works documents using wps2text (part of
2939 + Don't index empty files.
2943 + Fix optimisation of "load truncate=N" to actually work!
2945 + The "truncate" action knows not to chop off a multibyte UTF-8 character.
2947 + Update short option list for scriptindex to match documented usage (-h, -V
2948 and -s were not working).
2950 + Remove -q and -u options - they no longer do anything and are only accepted
2951 for compatibility with really old versions (0.6.1 and earlier for -q; 0.7.5
2952 and earlier for -u).
2956 * Add an alternative implementation of date range filtering which uses a
2957 MatchDecider. This allows everything that the existing implementation does,
2958 plus you can support sorting on a choice of dates (e.g. first published or
2959 last updated), and filtering works to a resolution of a minute rather than a
2960 day. Set CGI parameter DATEVALUE to enable this, and to specify the value to
2961 use. Since omindex now adds the last modified date as value 0, this will
2964 * Enhance $substr{} to accept a negative length (meaning to count back from the
2967 * New CGI parameters to allow finer control of sorting and ranking - SORTAFTER
2970 * The sorting options are now encoded in $filters so Omega can automatically
2971 reset to page 1 if they are changed.
2973 * Add new OmegaScript $weight command which returns the raw document weight -
2974 mostly useful for debugging purposes.
2976 * $topterms{} now generates unstemmed terms.
2978 * $prettyterm{TERM} has been updated to fit with changes to the term generation
2981 * Add 'you' and 'your' as stopwords.
2983 * $filesize{SIZE} enhanced to return a decimal point for K, M, and G (e.g.
2984 "2.1K" and "4.0M" rather than "2K" and "4M"); $filesize{0} is now "0 bytes";
2985 $filesize{1} is now "1 byte"; $filesize{SIZE} where SIZE is negative is now
2988 * Remove $freqs as it has been deprecated for ages.
2990 * Remove support for xB, xDATE1, xDATE2, xDAYSMINUS, and xDEFAULTOP which were
2991 deprecated in favour of xFILTER in 0.7.5 (over 3 years ago).
2993 * Remove deprecated aliases for CGI parameters (deprecated in 0.6.3 or 0.6.5,
2994 more than 3.5 years ago): RAW_SEARCH (now RAWSEARCH), DATE1 (now START),
2995 DATE2 (now END), DAYSMINUS (now SPAN but with slightly different semantics),
2996 and MIN_HITS (now MINHITS).
2998 * Remove "bias_weight" and "bias_halflife" CGI parameters since they rely on
2999 Enquire::set_bias() which has been removed.
3003 * The 'query' template no longer uses $topterms by default.
3005 * New 'topterms' template provides a query template with $topterms support.
3007 * Template fragments which aren't intended for direct use have been moved to
3008 an "inc" subdirectory.
3012 * md5test: Add tests for MD5 code.
3016 * `./configure --enable-quiet' already allows you to specify at configure time
3017 to pass `--quiet' to libtool. Now you can override this at make-time by
3018 using `make QUIET=' (to turn off `--quiet') or `make QUIET=y' (to turn on
3021 * configure: Disable probes for f77, gcj, and rc completely by preventing
3022 the probe code from even appearing in configure - this reduces the size of
3023 configure by 29% and should speed it up significantly.
3027 * Fixed to build with GCC 4.3 snapshot.
3029 * We now make use of the safe*.h portability headers from xapian-core.
3031 * Ensure that the result of snprintf is zero terminated since MSVC's snprintf
3032 is broken (by design it seems).
3034 * configure: xapian-config --cxxflags now includes -ptused for SGI's C++
3035 compiler, so we don't need to probe for it here.
3037 * configure: Perform a link test for posix_fadvise to fix misdetection on
3040 Omega 0.9.10 (2007-03-04):
3044 * docs/omegascript.txt: Rewrite introductory paragraph. Note that
3045 whitespace is significant, and add explicit warning to $setmap.
3047 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Expand section on boolean prefixes, showing
3048 how to generate them using scriptindex, and how to allow them to be
3049 selected in an HTML form.
3053 * omindex: Generate correct MD5 checksums on big-endian platforms.
3057 * Fix $substr{} with negative start to actually work.
3059 * Fix $substr{} to never cause a C++ exception.
3063 * omega.spec.in: Remove "." from the end of the Summary.
3065 Omega 0.9.9 (2006-11-09):
3069 * Ship our custom INSTALL file rather than the generic one from autoconf which
3070 we've accidentally been shipping instead since 0.9.5.
3074 * scriptindex: The "date" action no longer modifies the value it operates on
3075 (it was never meant to!)
3079 * Report an error if $setmap is called with an even number of parameters.
3080 An incorrect example in the documentation used to suggest this, so it's
3081 particularly useful to catch this case.
3085 * RPMs: Prevent binaries getting an rpath for /usr/lib64 on FC6.
3087 Omega 0.9.8 (2006-11-02):
3091 * $substr where the start is negative and longer than the string (e.g.
3092 $substr{abcd,-5,1}) wasn't working as intended.
3096 * configure: Tell AC_CHECK_HEADERS to suppress its backward compatibility mode,
3097 so it only checks headers with the compiler. This speeds up configure a
3098 little, and is what we do elsewhere.
3100 * configure: Warning flags for GCC weren't actually getting used. Fix this to
3101 work and use the same warning flags for GCC and Intel C++ as xapian-core does.
3102 Fix all the warnings this uncovered!
3104 * omega,omindex,scriptindex: Remove some old unused code.
3108 * Ensure that we always pass an unsigned char value to isupper(), toupper(),
3109 etc as they are undefined on other values (glibc makes them work for signed
3110 char values too, but this is an extension).
3112 * configure: Pass magic options to SGI's C++ compiler to allow linking of
3115 * configure: IRIX doesn't allow stdint.h to be included from C++ so we need
3116 a smarter configure test than AC_CHECK_HEADERS.
3118 * Fix warnings from SGI's C++ compiler.
3120 Omega 0.9.7 (2006-10-10):
3124 * omegascript.txt: Note that (by design) an omegascript template can't
3125 contain an infinite loop.
3127 * termprefixes.txt: "$setmap{title,S}" should be "$setmap{prefix,title,S}".
3129 * Use the default paths to the database directories and the omega CGI binary in
3132 * README: Update reference to "CVS" to say "SVN".
3136 * Don't get confused by "a<b" in Javascript in a <script> tag. Fixes bug#91.
3138 * Support htdig's "ignore this bit" comments.
3140 * Don't generate terms with more than 3 trailing symbols ('-', '+', or '#').
3144 + Add the file last modified time as value #0.
3146 + Generate an MD5 checksum of each file indexed and store it in value #1
3147 to allow duplicates to be collapsed.
3149 + Store the file's last modified time in the document data as "modtime" so it
3150 shows up in search results (and tweak the query template so the display of
3151 this information looks nicer). Don't add "modtime" field if the timestamp
3154 + Run pdfinfo once and pull out the fields we want using string operations,
3155 instead of running it twice filtered through sed.
3157 + Parse the XML from OpenDocument and OpenOffice using new subclasses of
3158 HtmlParser. Only extract meta.xml once.
3160 + Add "size" field to document data.
3162 + Run xls2csv on MS Excel files, run catppt on MS Powerpoint files, and also
3163 index MS Word templates (.dot) the same way as .doc files.
3165 + Don't generate 'W' terms since omega doesn't use them.
3167 + If a filter program isn't installed, then don't try it again for the same
3168 extension (not perfect but an improvement - previously we indexed an empty
3171 + If popen() fails, treat it as a read error.
3175 + Add new "load" action to allow the contents of an external file to be
3178 + Fix check for whether a record has content in the case where the same field
3179 is processed more than once.
3183 * Add $pack and $unpack OmegaScript commands to allow big endian binary values
3184 to be encoded and decoded (for use with omindex's lastmod in value #1).
3186 * omega.conf: Fix code which reads omega.conf to be line based as documented
3187 rather than the wacky whitespace based scheme that was actually implemented.
3188 Also we now allow "#" comments and blank lines in omega.conf.
3190 * Fix $highlight{} to work with capitalised words (it used to work but
3191 regressed in 0.8.2).
3193 * Use '\t' to separate terms in xP since filter terms might contain '.'. Fixes
3198 * Add htmlparsetest which tests the MyHtmlParser class.
3202 * Makefile.am: Make use of the dist_ prefix to avoid having to list files in
3203 EXTRA_DIST as well as in *_SCRIPTS, *_DATA, and man_MANS.
3205 * Makefile.am: Prefer $(sysconfdir) to @sysconfdir@ since the former can be
3206 overridden on the "make" command line.
3210 * xapian-config will now switch Sun's C++ compiler into ANSI C++ compliant
3211 mode, so remove all the special case bits of code added for just this one
3214 * omindex: Fix escaping of filenames to cast characters to "unsigned char" so
3215 that isalnum() works correctly everywhere. Not a security hole as dangerous
3216 characters were still being escaped.
3218 * Call pclose() not fclose() on a FILE* obtained from popen(). This bug could
3219 cause us to run out of file descriptors on some platforms.
3221 * configure: Check for strftime.
3225 * omega.spec.in: Include documentation in the RPM package.
3227 Omega 0.9.6 (2006-05-15):
3231 * docs/omegascript.txt: Clarified description of $now.
3235 * scriptindex: Fix "index" and "indexnopos" without a prefix to set the weight
3236 correctly (bug introduced in 0.9.5).
3240 * Added new OmegaScript commands $filterterms and $substr.
3244 * configure: Update snprintf detection to match xapian-core.
3246 * Fix MSVC warnings.
3250 * omega.spec.in: Create and package /var/lib/omega/cdb and /var/log/omega.
3252 Omega 0.9.5 (2006-04-08):
3256 * README: Add pointer to documentation.
3258 * Added man pages for omindex and scriptindex, generated using help2man.
3264 + If we fail to open the index script, die with an error (previously we
3265 acted as if an empty file was specified).
3267 + Warn about a useless "weight" action, even if it's followed by another
3268 non-useless action (e.g. "field") - previously we only warned if it
3269 was last or followed only by other useless actions.
3271 + Warn if "unique=<prefix>" is used without a corresponding
3272 "boolean=<prefix>" on the same line.
3274 + Warn that "index=nopos" is deprecated and should be replaced by
3277 + Add explanatory text "(note that actions are executed from left to right)"
3278 when reporting useless actions.
3280 + Added new "hash" command to allow hashed terms to be generated from long
3281 URLs like omindex does.
3283 * htdig2omega.script,mbox2omega.script: Make use of the new scriptindex "hash"
3286 * dbi2omega: Check DBIDRIVER environmental variable to allow a driver other
3287 than mysql to be specified without modifying the script.
3291 * Fix $opt[fieldnames] handling. Previously it would try to kick in if you
3292 didn't set fieldnames but set any alphabetically later option! The symptom
3293 was that $field{} would stop working (bug#72).
3297 * omindex,omega: Tweaks for MSVC compilation.
3299 Omega 0.9.4 (2006-02-21):
3303 * COPYING: Updated FSF address.
3305 Omega 0.9.3 (2006-02-16):
3309 * overview.txt: The U prefix (URL term) was grouped with the date searching
3310 prefixes, but it makes more sense to group it with the prefixes relating to
3311 parts of the URL (H for hostname, P for path, etc).
3313 * overview.txt: Add pointer to documentation of the supported query syntax.
3315 * omegascript.txt: Improve descriptions of $cgi, $collapsed, $value, $version.
3317 * termprefixes.txt: Fix typo.
3321 * omindex: add --preserve-nonduplicates / -p option to not delete any documents
3322 that aren't updated, in replace duplicates mode (so that multiple runs of
3323 omindex on different subsites don't stomp on each other).
3325 * omindex,scriptindex: Add "--stemmer" option to omindex and scriptindex
3326 to allow the stemming language to be set. Fixes bug#11.
3328 * omindex,scriptindex: More consistent --help and --version output.
3330 * omindex: Add support for OpenDocument format mimetypes and extensions out of
3331 the box. Previously you could index them but had to pass a "-m" option for
3332 each OpenDocument filename extension you wanted to handle.
3334 * scriptindex: The "-q" option no longer actually controls anything. Just
3335 ignore it for backwards compatibility (and don't document it in --help).
3339 * If executing an OmegaScript command causes a Xapian exception to be thrown,
3340 catch it and copy the error message into error_msg (which is read by the
3341 $error command). This allows such errors to reported in a nicer way.
3343 * Added "SORTREVERSE" CGI parameter which allows the sort order to be reversed
3344 when sorting on a value. Removed "SORTBANDS" CGI parameter since it no
3345 longer does anything.
3347 * Added $find{LIST,STRING} to return the subscript of the first occurrence of
3348 string STRING in list LIST.
3350 * Added $lookup{CDBFILE,KEY} OmegaScript command to perform a lookup in a CDB
3353 * Added new feature which allows you to avoid storing fieldnames in every
3354 document. Instead you just store the field values, one per line, and add
3355 something like "$set{fieldnames,$split{caption sample url}}" to the
3356 OmegaScript template to specify the fieldnames to use. This can save a lot
3357 of disk space for a large database.
3359 * Add new "$split{}" OmegaScript command which splits a string to give an
3362 * Fix $url{} to escape "+" to "%2b". Also fix encoding of top-bit-set
3363 characters on platforms where char is signed by default.
3365 * Speed up $highlight{} - only compare terms which are the same length.
3367 * Reduce memory usage if a lot of documents are marked as relevant.
3371 * query: Make the page title shorter so there's more chance it will fit on icon
3374 * opensearch: Add missing escaping.
3376 * godmode: If a non-existent docid is specified, report the error and prompt
3377 the user to enter another docid. Fixes bug#60.
3381 * omega: Fix printf type mismatch on 64 bit platforms.
3383 * omega: Cast time_t to unsigned long to avoid problems on 64bit platforms.
3385 * Use snprintf where available.
3387 * Write top-bit set characters using \xXX notation to avoid warnings from
3388 Intel's C++ compiler.
3390 Omega 0.9.2 (2005-07-15):
3392 * omega: Changed $highlight so if OPEN and CLOSE aren't specified, they default
3393 to highlighting each word from the query with a different background colour
3394 like gmane does (previous default was to use '<strong>' and '</strong>').
3396 * omega: Call QueryParser::set_database() as this is now used to decide what to
3397 do for terms like "C#".
3399 * omega: Added the ability to set boolean prefixes for the QueryParser by
3400 setting a "boolprefix" map in the omegascript template.
3402 * omega: Added $length{} and $stoplist{} commands to OmegaScript.
3404 * scriptindex: Fix infinite loop if there's no newline at the end of a dumpfile.
3406 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Explain how to use termprefixes with scriptindex and
3407 omega, since that's what most people will want to know.
3409 * docs/omegascript.txt: Use standard "S" prefix for title in example for
3410 $setmap, rather than "XT".
3412 Omega 0.9.1 (2005-06-06):
3414 * Releases are now created using libtool 1.5.18 and automake 1.9.5.
3416 * Updated RPM packaging.
3418 Omega 0.9.0 (2005-05-13):
3420 * Updated for 0.9.0 API changes.
3422 * omindex/scriptindex: Generate terms like "c#".
3424 * Added mbox2omega script which allows a mail folder to be indexed using
3425 scriptindex. Mostly it's an example as there's no mechanism included to show
3426 the full original message.
3430 * The configuration file is now looked for differently - you can now set
3431 the environmental variable OMEGA_CONFIG_FILE. See docs/overview.txt for
3434 * $highlight can now highlight terms like "C#".
3436 * Add new template 'opensearch' to implement basic opensearch feeds of search
3441 * URL hashing previously depended on sizeof(long) so databases weren't totally
3442 portable between platforms. This is now fixed, but to do so we've had to
3443 break compatibility with databases built on platforms with 64 bit longs
3444 with URLs > 228 bytes.
3446 * Removed useless "DUPE_duplicate" option.
3448 * Added support for indexing Perl "pod" documentation using pod2text.
3450 * Replaced -l/--no-recurse with -l/--depth-limit which takes an argument
3451 allowing recursion to be restriction to any depth, not just 0 or infinity!
3453 * Extend -M/--mime-type to allow an existing mapping to be removed by omitting
3456 * Fixed code so that we get lstat() prototype on Linux systems where we have
3461 * Improved handling of extra blank lines in dump file.
3463 * Strip multiple \r characters from end of line.
3465 * Complain if a dump file doesn't appear to have been = escaped correctly.
3467 * Flush database after each input file to ensure all changes from a file
3472 * docs/omegascript.txt: Clarify $field description slightly.
3474 * docs/cgiparams.txt,docs/omegascript.txt: Fixed 3 references to OmXxxx classes.
3476 * docs/termprefixes.txt: Added a single document covering all aspects of term
3479 * docs/omegascript.txt: Moved $collapsed into correct place alphabetically!
3481 * docs/cgiparams.txt,docs/overview.txt: Improved description of how B filters
3482 are handled when building the query.
3484 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Note that actions are applied in the specified order.
3486 Omega 0.8.5 (2004-12-23):
3488 * README,INSTALL: Proper installation instructions.
3490 * omega: If an exception is thrown, make sure that the HTTP headers
3491 get written so that we don't cause "500 Internal Server Error".
3492 This problem was introduced by the change to allow a user specified
3493 Content-Type in 0.8.0. Partly addresses bug#60.
3495 * scriptindex: Fixed "Unknown Exception" when trying to "unhtml" text which
3496 contains "</body>" (bug#61). This bug was introduced in 0.8.4.
3498 * omindex/scriptindex: <h1> - <h6> and </h1> - </h6> now leave a space in the
3499 dumped HTML. This bug was introduced in 0.8.4 - before that any tag left
3500 a space in the dumped HTML.
3502 * omindex: Only try to delete removed documents in "replace duplicates" mode
3503 (which is the default).
3505 * omindex: Change behaviour of crawler such that it doesn't follow symbolic
3506 links any more. The new "--follow" command line option turns following of
3509 * dbi2omega: Add a comment to the start of the file detailing what
3512 Omega 0.8.4 (2004-12-08):
3514 * omindex,scriptindex: Improved HTML to text conversion - now we strip
3515 leading and trailing whitespace and convert all other consecutive groups of
3516 whitespace to a single space. Also the parser now knows that some tags
3517 should be regarded as word breaks and some shouldn't (previously all tags
3518 were treated as word breaks).
3520 * omindex: Removed bogus extra line from code which was meant to
3521 truncate samples, titles, etc at a word boundary, but has never actually
3524 * omindex: Added hooks for indexing the following formats: OpenOffice (requires
3525 unzip), MS Word (requires antiword), Wordperfect (requires wpd2text), RTF
3528 * omindex: If a filename to be passed to a filter program has a leading "-",
3529 protect it from possible interpretation as an option by prepending "./".
3531 * omega: When there's only a boolean query we promote it to be the query.
3532 Tweaked so we use boolean weights in this case.
3534 * omega: Use Query::empty() instead of the now deprecated Query::is_empty().
3536 * omega,omindex,scriptindex: Use the new Database/WritableDatabase
3539 * templates/godmode: Finished off godmode template.
3541 * Compile everything as C++.
3543 * Check snprintf actually works - some older versions don't implement C90
3546 * XAPIAN_FLAGS already links with xapianqueryparser so remove
3547 -lxapianqueryparser from omega_LDADD as it was causing link errors on cygwin.
3549 Omega 0.8.3 (2004-09-20):
3551 * scriptindex: --version now actually reports the version. --help now exits
3552 with status 0 rather than status 1.
3554 * RPM packaging: Updated. The most notable change is that the RPM is now
3555 called xapian-omega because there's already an omega RPM (in Fedora Core at
3556 least) which is a game. Also htdig2omega and htdig2omega.script are now
3557 included in the RPM.
3559 * Install htdig2omega.script in ${prefix}/share/omega/ rather than
3562 Omega 0.8.2 (2004-09-13):
3564 * omega: $highlight now handles accented characters (bug#9).
3566 * omega: Use new checkatleast parameter to Enquire::get_mset to implement
3569 * omindex: When running with "replace duplicates" mode (the default), detect
3570 documents removed since the last indexing run and delete them from the
3573 * omindex: Use the new WritableDatabase::replace_document(term, doc) method.
3575 * scriptindex: Report index script file name and line number when
3576 reporting errors in it. Added warning for redundant actions,
3577 such as "truncate" as the last action in a rule.
3579 * templates/query: Always report if the database is not found - previously we
3580 only did so if there was a query.
3582 * templates/query: Fixed missing </center> tag which happened in certain cases.
3584 * docs/omegascript.txt: Added note about that $add{$hit,1} gives
3587 * Now includes htdig2omega and htdig2omega.script which allow you to crawl
3588 remote websites with ht://dig, then build a searchable index of them with
3591 * Link with -lxapianqueryparser, not -lomqueryparser.
3593 Omega 0.8.1 (2004-06-30):
3595 * omindex: Renamed hash() to hash_string() to avoid colliding with something
3598 * omega: Changed MORELIKE to pick up to 40 terms, rather than up to 6 (feedback
3599 on the mailing list suggests this gives much better results).
3601 * scriptindex: Added explicit catch for std::bad_alloc.
3603 Omega 0.8.0 (2004-04-19):
3605 * scriptindex: Change default to *not* overwriting the database (use
3606 --overwrite if you really want to do this); -u is now accepted but ignored.
3608 * scriptindex: Use getopt for option parsing.
3610 * omindex: Added --overwrite option which forces an existing database to be
3611 deleted before indexing begins.
3613 * templates/xml: Correct spelling of `relavence' to `relevance'. NB: if you're
3614 parsing the XML output, you'll need to fix this spelling in your parser!
3616 * templates/xml: Now set HTTP header: "Content-Type: application/html".
3618 * templates/xml: Remove unused OmegaScript code:
3619 `$set{topterms,$or{$ne{$msize,0},$query}}'.
3621 * indextext.cc,omindex.cc,scriptindex.cc: Updated to use add_term() instead of
3624 * omega: Added $httpheader Omegascript to allow arbitrary HTTP headers and
3625 alternative Content-Type headers to be specified.
3627 * omega: If the probabilistic query was bad, don't try to run the match.
3629 * omega: Don't crash if there's a date filter but no probabilistic query.
3631 * omindex/scriptindex: Raw terms with a multicharacter prefix are now indexed
3632 with a : inserted (e.g. as XFOO:Rterm). This matches what the query parser
3635 * omindex/scriptindex: Don't create R terms for terms which start with a digit.
3637 * omindex: Use O_STREAMING and/or posix_fadvise() when reading files to be
3638 indexed (if available). This helps to keep the Xapian database in cache,
3639 and should greatly improve indexing throughput.
3641 * docs/scriptindex.txt: Make more explicit that boolean produces a *single*
3644 * docs/cgiparams.txt: Note that START and END should be in the format YYYYMMDD.
3646 For NEWS entries for Omega versions prior to 0.8.0, see the xapian-core NEWS