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!
> 
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