From: David Balmain Date: 2007-02-25T20:46:57+09:00 Subject: [ANN] Ferret 0.11.0-rc1 Hey folks, Sorry for cross posting like this but this is an important announcement for all Ferret users. ** Description ** Firstly for those who don't know, Ferret is a full-text search library which makes adding search to your application a breeze. It's much faster than MySQL full-text search as well most other search libraries out there. It allows you to do Boolean (+ruby + rails -jewelry) and phrase queries ("the quick brown fox") as well as some more unusual queries like fuzzy queries (misspelling~ matches mispeling or misspellng), wildcard queries (Aus?ral*), range queries (date:<=20050601) and a lot more. Ferret also now offers query result highlighting and excerpting. ** Announcement ** I've just released Ferret 0.11.0 which is the first release candidate for Ferret 1.0. This release has no new features to the API but it does fix some very major bugs. Ferret now uses lock-less commits which fixes a problem a lot of people where having with file not found exceptions. I've also fixed a number of bugs which were causing segfaults (hopefully all of them) so Ferret is now a lot more stable. ========== !! IMPORTANT !! ========== Some of these fixes mean that the current version of Ferret is not backwards compatible. If you install the latest version you will need to rebuild your index from scratch. Having said that, I do recommend that everyone upgrade. The new version should be *MUCH* more stable. ** Try It ** $ sudo gem install ferret -- Dave Balmain http://www.davebalmain.com/