Sphinx 2017
Suddenly, here goes an overdue status update. Short version: Sphinx still goes on in 2017. (And I myself, ie. Andrew, ie. that weird guy who created Sphinx, am still quite alive, in case anyone’s...
View ArticleFirst indexing run with 4.0
One of the mysterious internal Sphinx 3.0 4.0 milestones that I mentioned earlier was, in fact, a first super-tiny but working index that got built using the new indexer. Today, I hit another little...
View ArticleSphinx 3.0.1 released
Suddenly, enters the current state of Sphinx 3, tagged 3.0.1. Get Sphinx 3.0.1 here. Production ready (and deployed), with document storage, attribute indexes, lifted index size limits, JSON key...
View ArticleSphinx 3.0.2 released
A new year, a new build! Slightly behind the initial schedule, but here goes Sphinx 3.0.2, with a few bugfixes, somewhat optimized RT inserts, and last but not least FreeBSD builds. This is mostly a...
View ArticleSphinx 3.0.3 released
Time for a bugfix spring update. Enters Sphinx 3.0.3, somewhat faster (upto 2x compared to 3.0.2) and more stable. Read on for a little more, or just update now, it will be worth it. Just a couple tiny...
View ArticleSphinx 3.1.1 released
And Sphinx updates again. Enters Sphinx 3.1.1, not hugely different from 3.0.x series on one hand, but on the other one, with a few new features and (beware!) enough breaking legacy SphinxAPI changes...
View ArticleSphinx meetup in Moscow on Feb 28
Just wanted to post a quick note that our colleagues from SuperJob.ru will be hosting a Sphinx meetup in their Moscow, Russia office in 3 weeks from now, on February 28. As usual the attendance is free...
View ArticleSphinx 3.3.1 released
We have just made Sphinx 3.3.1 available, with a few more updates from 3.2 posted back in January. Two most notable new features specific to 3.3 are UDF call batching and multi-threaded index loading,...
View ArticleSphinx 3.5.1 released
We are starting 2023 off by making Sphinx 3.5.1 available, with about 30 new features compared to 3.4.1 released mid-2021 (it has been a little while), and almost a hundred changes and fixes. We voted...
View ArticleSphinx 3.7.1 released
Today we’re releasing Sphinx 3.7.1, and having skipped a post about Sphinx 3.6.1 back in October 2023, let me highlight the top features from both 3.6 and 3.7 releases. Since 3.5, we added: vector...
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