Hi, The Upgrade (to 3.2.x) Doc lists "Phrase searching method" among features "that have not been implemented yet". Is this still true as of 3.2.0b3? Geoff Hutchison wrote: > > I am quite happy to announce, at long last, the release of ht://Dig > version 3.2.0b3. This third beta release of 3.2 offers several > long-awaited features and should fix all bugs in previous 3.2 > releases. As a beta release, it still has only received limited > testing. However, as the final release of 3.2.0 nears, we hope that > you consider giving it a try to provide feedback. > > Reports of bugs and performance problems are quite welcome. Please > try to provide as much information as possible regarding OS, > configuration, hardware used, etc. Feedback should be sent to the > htdig-dev mailing list at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To download 3.2.0b3, see <http://www.htdig.org/files/where.html> > For the upgrade guide, see <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/upgrade.html> > For the Release notes, see <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/RELEASE.html> > For the ChangeLog, see <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/ChangeLog> > > Thanks to the many people who contributed to this release in the form > of code, feedback and bug reports! > > -- > -Geoff Hutchison > Williams Students Online > http://wso.williams.edu/ > > Release notes for htdig-3.2.0b3 22-Feb-2001 > > This version is still marked beta because it has still only received > limited testing and there are still revisions pending for the 3.2 > releases. However, it adds more functionality and should address all > serious bugs in the 3.2.0b2 release. As with 3.2.0b1 and 3.2.0b2, if > you are upgrading from a previous version, you should read the > upgrade guide first. > > Please note if you are updating from a prior release (3.1 or 3.2), the > htmerge program has changed syntax as noted below. You will probably > want to change your behavior to call htpurge instead of htmerge after > htdig as noted below. > * Fixed several non-exploitable bugs in handling external parsers or > transport agents. > * Fix bug where changes in the robots.txt would be ignored. If a URL > was indexed and later the robots.txt changed to forbid it, the URL > would be checked anyway. > * Fixed scoring bugs introduced in 3.2.0b2. > * Fixed a non-exploitable security issue where content-type headers > were passed incorrectly to external parsers or converters. > * Fixed bugs in the accents fuzzy algorithm, cutting down on the > size of the accent database. > * Fixed a bug where duplicate documents would be generated when > merging a database with itself. > * Fixed a bug in the new regex handling for indexing limits where > large patterns could fail and would be silently ignored. > * Fixed minor bugs with the HTTP/1.1 implementation. > * Fix a bug where an extra config= portion of a URL would be output > when using collections. > * Fixed a bug with content-type declarations in external parsers > with combined content-type; charset declarations. > * Fixed a bug in the config parser that did not correctly handle > relative config include statements. > * Fixed a bug in htfuzzy which would append to an existing synonyms > database rather than creating it anew. > * Fixed problems with the configure script ignoring --enable-bigfile > flags. > * Fixed problems with retrieval order--this could potentially foul > things up when limiting indexing by hopcount. > * Fixed some problems with the HTML in the included sample files. > * Make the -l flag to htdig obsolete--this is now the default > behavior -- the program will intercept many signals and write a > log file for a restart. > * Updated database format from the mifluz/htword project. > * Changed syntax of htmerge. The program now only merges > databases. The htpurge program will "clean up" databases after > running htdig. The included "rundig" script reflects this. > * htload now properly loads ASCII word databases. > * Enhanced build_select_lists attribute. > * Added support for controlling the number of Page buttons in > htsearch with maximum_page_buttons. > * Added the METADESCRIPTION htsearch template variable for > displaying the <META> description field in output along with the > normal description, instead of using the use_meta_description > attribute. > * Added support for permanent URL rewriting with the > url_rewrite_rules attribute. (As opposed to the > url_part_aliases attribute which can provide a different URL > to htsearch and htdig.) > * Added support for restricting a search to match only documents > between two dates as specified in the search form as well as > the template variables STARTYEAR, STARTMONTH, STARTDAY, > ENDYEAR, ENDMONTH, ENDDAY. > * Added support for limiting duplicates based on MD5 signatures with > the new attributes check_unique_md5, check_unique_date, > md5_db. > * The documentation has been revised to include a block: portion to > note if attributes can be included in URL or Server blocks. See > the configuration documentation for more information. > * More attributes are set on a per-server or per-URL basis. > * New support for nttp:// protocol. > * Added support for auto-generating directory listings for file:// > URLs. > * Set the default compilation to enable tests that can be run with > "make check" > * Greatly improved htnotify program with one message per e-mail > address and support for message templates using the new attributes > htnotify_webmaster, htnotify_replyto, > htnotify_prefix_file, htnotify_suffix_file. > * There are the usual variety of other fixes and > changes. See the ChangeLog for more details. > * Once again, a huge thank you to everyone who > contributed bug reports, fixes and patches! > > _______________________________________________ > htdig-announce mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-announce -- Erik Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> webmaster, GemStone Systems, a Brokat Company (503) 533-3670 http://www.gemstone.com _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
