search_api 7.x-1.0-beta9

The Beta 9 release contains several bug fixes as well as new features. Among the new features are read-only indexes, a "More like this" feature, support for spellchecking, a stopwords processor and better integration of excerpts.

(Note: The Search API currently has only little access control functionality built in. Users should take care that only appropriate items and fields are indexed, and displayed to the user. See #955088: Provide (additional) access functionality.)

The complete list of changes since Beta 8:

API changes:

• #1089758 by becw, drunken monkey: Updated Views field handlers to utilize new features.
• #1150260 by drunken monkey: Added a way to let processors and data alterations decide on which indexes they can run.
• #1138992 by becw, drunken monkey: Added read-only indexes.

Others:

• #1179990 by j0rd: Fixed facet blocks don't correctly respect the "unlimited" setting.
• #1138650 by klausi, Amitaibu, drunken monkey: Fixed PHP strict warnings.
• #1111852 by miiimooo, drunken monkey: Added a 'More like this' feature.
• #1171360 by jbguerraz, drunken monkey: Added possibility to restrict the options to display in an exposed options filter.
• #1161676 by awolfey, drunken monkey: Added Stopwords processor.
• #1166514 by drunken monkey: Fixed parseKeys() to handle incomplete quoting.
• #1161966 by JoeMcGuire: Added Search API Spellcheck support for Pages.
• #1118416 by drunken monkey: Added option to index entities instantly after they are saved.
• #1153298 by JoeMcGuire, drunken monkey: Added option getter and setter to Views query handler.
• #1147466 by awolfey: Added excerpt Views field.
• #1152432 by morningtime: Fixed strict warnings in render() functions.
• #1144400 by drunken monkey: Fixed use of entity_exportable_schema_fields() in hook_schema().
• #1141206 by drunken monkey: Fixed "quantity" variable for Search page pager.
• #1117074 by drunken monkey: Fixed handling of overlong tokens by DB backend.
• #1124548 by drunken monkey: Fixed syntax error in search_api.admin.inc.
• #1134296 by klausi: Fixed check for NULL in SearchApiDbService->convert().
• #1123604 by drunken monkey, fago: Added generalized "aggregation" data alteration.
• #1129226 by drunken monkey: Fixed incorrect handling of facets deactivated for some search IDs.
• #1086492 by drunken monkey: Fixed inadequate warnings when using the "Facets block" display with wrong base table.
• #1109308 by drunken monkey: Added option to choose between display of field or facet name in "Current search" block.
• #1120850 by drunken monkey, fangel: Fixed type of related entities in nested lists.