Awesome!!!
On 9/24/06, David Balmain
<dbalmain.ml-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
>
> Hey folks,
>
> ** 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 0.10.7. It is still in beta but we are
> getting closer and closer to a 1.0 release. The main changes in this
> release are better handling of fields by the QueryParser. You can now
> give the QueryParser a list of fields that are tokenized so that only
> those fields will be analyzed in the QueryParser. This means that you
> can search untokenized fields for terms with spaces in them. For
> example:
>
> results = index.search(''title:Shawshank\ Redemption'')
>
> If :title is an untokenized field, this query will be parsed as a
> single TermQuery. Previously the search would have failed.
>
> I''ve also changed the StandardTokenizer behaviour so that it will
> handle email addresses that start with numbers. This also means that
> 200km will be parsed as a single term instead of seperate terms.
> Whether this is a good thing or not is a matter of taste. You can
> easily use a filter to split these terms up if you need to.
>
> There are a lot of other bug fixes as well so Ferret should be a
> little more stable.
>
> Happy Ferreting,
> Dave
>
> >
>
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