How would you update the old software to new.... Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: [aseek-users] ASPSeek 1.2.5 has just been released > We are happy to announce most long-awaited release of ASPSeek > since 0.9.9. Delay in releasing 1.2.5 was caused by several > consecutive reasons, including desire to finish man pages, > my illness and british group Depeche Mode visit to Russia :) > This release adds some nifty features, as well as bugfixes. > > NEW FEATURES: > > * UtfStorage parameter has been implemented, see etc/aspseek.conf-dist and > etc/searchd.conf-dist for details > > This is a new storage mode, or, strictly speaking, an option > to UNICODE storage mode. In this mode, called UTFStorage, the > wordurl[1].word contents is not in plain 2-byte unicode, but > in UFT-8 charset. > > >From www.utf8.org: > > > UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number > > of 1 to 6 octets, where the number of octets depends on the > > integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an > > efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use US-ASCII > > characters because it represents each character in the range > > U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet. > > So, if most of the words indexed are from ASCII, you will have > twice smaller database size, smaller memory consumption by the > ASPSeek and increase in indexing/searching speed. > > If you want to switch to UFT, a converter from "old" unicode > to utf (index -b) can be used. > > * Added man pages: aspseek(7), aspseek.conf(5), s.cgi(1), s.htm(5), searchd(1), > searchd.conf(5) and removed some files from doc/ subdirectory > > For new users, this will be the most visible change. Now ASPSeek have a full set > of man pages, everything is written and checked carefully. You can see > these pages in many different formats (HTML, txt, PostScript, PDF) at > http://www.aspseek.org/manual.html. The only page missing in index(1), > hope it will be ready for the next release; if anybody got the time > to help finishing it, please contact me. > > * Significantly reduced memory required for multibyte dictionaries in both > "searchd" and "index" > > If you use multibyte dictionaries (like one for chinese provided in tarball), > you will notice that in 1.2.5 it requires much less memory than before due to > changing of its internal representation. > > * Added -R switch to "searchd" for auto-restarting in case of SEGV > > Now you can run searchd -DR and have nonstop searchd. Well, it will > rarely crash, but then auto-restart will occur. > > * Added MaxDocsAtOnce parameter (see etc/aspseek.conf-dist for details) > > Old index behaviour in case of indexing multiple sites was retrieve one > document from site, then switch to another site. This is not very optimal > in case you have very many different sites to index, because word, href > and dns caches are believed to suffer more in this case.So, option > MaxDocsAtOnce was added to aspseek.conf, and it should improve the speed > of indexing if you have many many sites. > > * Added field "urlword.origin" to crc index in case fast clones are enabled > > This was a mistake that the field was not included in the index; so, new version > should do clone lookup a little faster > > * Added $$ processing to templates code > * Added ASPSEEK_TEMPLATE environment variable processing to "s.cgi" > * Removed OnlineGeo parameter from aspseek.conf (as it does not work) > * Rewrote aspseek-mysql-postinstall to be more verbose > * Changed calls to bzero() to memset() for better portability > * Added langmap file for German language > > Thanks goes to Andre Pfeiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for langmap file contributed. > > BUGS FIXED: > > * Fixed rare memleak in searchd > * Fixed searchd coredump under FreeBSD > * Fixed loading of oracle8 driver > * Fixed searchd codedumps caused by searching some phrases or word lists > * Fixed searchd coredumps caused by very high value of "np" parameter > * Fixed default HTTPS port number > * Minor fix when HTTPS support is not compiled in > * Fixed several bugs related to robots.txt processing > * Added non-absolute URL support and whitespace stripping to redirect handling > in "index" > * Added whitespace stripping from HREF > * Redirect URI is not lowercased now > > Last 6 items from the above list was submitted by Matt Sullivan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This is a bunch of fixes, so I have removed > Matt's name from THANKS file and added him to AUTHORS, under > "Major Contributors". Thanks for your work, Matt, and hope to see > more patches from you! > > Also I would like to say thanks to John Capo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who > found one ASPSeek problem on FreeBSD, and posted a solution. > Chances of ASPSeek working on FreeBSD is much higher now, when > we fixed some small but nasty bugs in searchd. > > Download sources from www.aspseek.org. Binary packages will be > available in the next few days. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 7551596 Phone +7 903 6722750 > Reality always seems harsher in the early morning. > --
