API:
* Document: Fix get_docid() to return the docid for the sub-database (as it
is explicitly documented to) for Document objects passed to functors like
KeyMaker during the match. (fixes#636, reported by Jeff Rand).
* Document: Don't store the termname in OmDocumentTerm - we were only using it
in get_description() output and an exception message. Speeds up indexing
etext.txt using simpleindex by 0.4%, and should reduce memory usage a bit
too. (Change inspired by comments from Vishesh Handa on xapian-devel).
* Database: Iterating the values in a particular slot is now a bit more
efficient for inmemory and remote backends (but still slow compared to
flint, chert and brass).
testsuite:
* apitest: Expand crashrecovery1 to check that the expected base files exist
and ones which shouldn't exist don't.
* queryparsertest: Fix testcase for empty wildcard followed by negation to
enable FLAG_LOVEHATE so the negation is actually parsed. Fortunately the
fixed testcase passes.
matcher:
* OP_SYNONYM: avoid fetching the doclength if the weighting scheme doesn't
need it and the calculated wdf for the synonym is <= doclength_lower_bound
for the current subdatabase. (fixes#360)
build system:
* Releases are now bootstrapped with libtool 2.4.2 instead of 2.4, and with
config.guess and config.sub updated to the latest versions.
documentation:
* Add an example of initializing SimpleStopper using a file listing stopwords.
(Patch from Assem Chelli)
* Improve the descriptions of the stem_strategy values in the API docs.
(Reported by "oilap" on #xapian)
* docs/sorting.rst: Fix incorrect parameter types in Xapian::Weight
subclass example.
* docs/glossary.rst: Add definition of "collection frequency".
* HACKING:
+ makeindex is now in Debian package texlive-binaries.
+ Replace a link to the outdated autotools "goat book" with a link to the
"Portable Shell" chapter of the autoconf manual.
* include/xapian/base.h: Remove very out of date comments talking about atomic
assignment and locking - since 0.5.0 we've adopted a "user locks" policy.
(Reported by Jean-Francois Dockes)
examples:
* delve:
+ Add -A <prefix> option to list all terms with a particular prefix.
+ Send errors to stderr not stdout.
+ If -v is specified more than once, show even more info in some cases.
(NEWS file claimed this was backported in 1.2.15, but it actually wasn't).
* quest:
+ Add --default-op option.
+ Add --weight option to allow the weighting scheme to be specified.
portability:
* Explicitly '#include <algorithm>' for std::max(), fixing build with VS2013.
(Fixes#641, reported by "boomboo").
* Fix testcase blocksize1 not to try to delete an open database, which isn't
possible under Windows. (Fixes#643, reported by Chris Olds)
* docs/quickstart.rst: Split --cxxflags and --libs for portability (noted by
"Hurricane Tong" on xapian-devel).
* Fix warnings with clang 5.0.
debug code:
* Add assertions that weighting scheme upper bounds aren't exceeded.
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