Change Log

1 May 2008 - SearchBlox v5 BUILD 2

  • [bugfix] - Change in FileServlet to serve files correctly for File System collections

26 April 2008 - SearchBlox v5 BUILD 1

  • [feature] - User configurable caching of search results
  • [feature] - Http compression of search results output
  • [change] - Upgrade to Lucene 2.3.1
  • [change] - Search performance optimizations
  • [change] - Support for deployment in Weblogic 10

30 August 2007 - SearchBlox v4.1 BUILD 1

  • [feature] - Support for clustered search results
  • [feature] - Browser-based editor to customize the look & feel of search results
  • [change] - Application startup performance improvements
  • [bugfix] - Support for foreign characters for collection names
  • [bugfix] - Handle document last modified date correctly in HTTP and File System crawlers

19 May 2007 - SearchBlox v4.0 BUILD 3

  • [bugfix] - Handle null dates in Feed Scanner
  • [bugfix] - Correct locale setting in Report Engine
  • [bugfix] - Avoid locks with Report Engine

18 April 2007 - SearchBlox v4.0 BUILD 2

  • [feature] Date Range search
  • [bugfix] Handling of ampersands in RootURLs

5 March 2007 - SearchBlox v4.0 BUILD 1

  • [feature] Replication of indexes between multiple instances of the SearchBlox
  • [feature] Hit highlighting of search terms in HTML and PDF documents
  • [change] Redesigned AJAX-based SearchBlox Admin Console
  • [change] API Optimize command saves the collection as well
  • [bugfix] HTTP/Feed/FilesSystem Scanners handle '+' in URLs for Allow and Disallow paths
  • [bugfix] Correctly close the SpellChecker after use
  • [bugfix] Support for all Namespaces in HTML Parser

16 September 2006 - SearchBlox v3.3 BUILD 2

  • [bugfix] HTTP Crawler Delay

2 September 2006 - SearchBlox v3.3 BUILD 1

  • [change] Upgrade to Lucene Search API 2.0
  • [feature] Upload license key using SearchBlox Admin Console
  • [feature] Automatic Accent Removal for Latin-1 languages

10 July 2006 - SearchBlox v3.2 BUILD 8

  • [feature] Optimize function in REST-API
  • [bugfix] File Descriptors issue in Weblogic
  • [bugfix] Unescape HTML entities in RSS
29 May 2006 - SearchBlox v3.2 BUILD 5
  • [bugfix] Delete temporary PDF files correctly when parsing fails
  • [bugfix] Correct handling of FileSystem search results with spaces in filenames
24 April 2006 - SearchBlox v3.2 BUILD 4
  • [feature] Support for SearchBlox CFML Custom Tag
10 April 2006 - SearchBlox v3.2 BUILD 3
  • [bugfix] Fielded search using language field
  • [change] Search filter excluded from spelling suggestions
  • [change] SearchBlox Server for Unix/Linux packaged with JDK 1.4
  • [change] SearchBlox Server for Mac OS X packaged as .dmg file
8 March 2006 - SearchBlox v3.2 BUILD 2
  • [feature] Support for 7 Indic languages - Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu
27 February 2006 - SearchBlox v3.2 BUILD 1
  • [feature] Support for removing duplicate documents during indexing
  • [feature] Search results customization using CSS
  • [feature] SearchBlox Server for Windows can now be run as a Windows Service
  • [feature] SearchBlox Server for Linux/Unix introduced
  • [change] Improved HTTP Crawler design for improved performance
  • [change] Timeouts for HTTP Crawler connections
  • [bugfix] Form based authentication
  • [bugfix] Proxy server support
14 January 2006 - SearchBlox v3.1 BUILD 2
  • [change] Upgrade to latest version of PDFBox
  • [bugfix] Parsing of XHTML content
6 December 2005 - SearchBlox v3.1 BUILD 1
  • [feature] Support for JDK 1.5
  • [feature] REST-API to index custom content
  • [feature] Spelling suggestions
  • [feature] Support for selective indexing of sections of HTML pages
  • [feature] Built-in file serving of documents in File System Collections without URL mapping
  • [change] Reporting period extended to 3 months
5 September 2005 - SearchBlox v3.0 BUILD 9
  • [change] Improved detection of content encoding in File System Crawler
  • [bugfix] Handling of Session IDs in URLs in HTTP Crawler
7 July 2005 - SearchBlox v3.0 BUILD 3
  • [feature] Indexing of RSS and Atom Web Feeds
  • [feature] Automatic generation of "Browsable Categories"
  • [change] Improved HTTP crawler
26 May 2005 - SearchBlox v2.3 BUILD 1
  • [change] New version of PDFParser
  • [bugfix] URL field term tokenization
  • [bugfix] File System Crawler settings reloading
14 April 2005 - SearchBlox v2.2 BUILD 1
  • [feature] Support for 12 new languages
  • [feature] Proxy Server support
  • [feature] Support to disable stemming
  • [bugfix] Manual deletion of individual documents
7 March 2005 - SearchBlox v2.1 BUILD 3
  • [change] Increase number of collections to 250
  • [bugfix] Robots.txt handling - bug fixed
28 January 2005 - SearchBlox v2.1 BUILD 2
  • [bugfix] Oracle Application Server Deployment
26 January 2005 - SearchBlox v2.1 BUILD 1
  • [feature] Support for Disk-based index
  • [feature] Indexer Debug mode
  • [feature] Preset Filter - preset search query that will automatically be added to the enduser search query
  • [bugfix] PDFParser - Fixed infinite looping with certain documents
  • [bugfix] File System crawler handles file permissions correctly
  • [change] RootURLs and Directory Paths can now support more than 5 entries
  • [change] Performance improvements to indexing operations
20 December 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 30
  • [change] Memory Usage Optimizations
15 December 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 29
  • [change] New version of PDFBox
  • [bugfix] Parsing PDF documents with BASIC HTTP Authentication
  • [bugfix] refresh after reaching licensed document limit
  • [feature] support for using collection names as query parameter
  • [change] faster application shutdown
8 December 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 28
  • [change] Add new sample XSL stylesheets
  • [change] new Russian Analyzer
29 October 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 25
  • [change] Security updates to web.xml
  • [change] New license key format
26 October 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 22
  • [bugfix] Nonzero relevance scores
  • [bugfix] Resolve SearchBlox shutdown issues in Tomcat
  • [bugfix] Fix Highlighting bug
  • [feature] Support for multiple XSL in FREE Edition
  • [change] Upgrade to dom4j 1.5
  • [change] XSL value in all query strings
  • [change] Extract subject for description field
16 October 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 16
  • [feature] Advanced Search
  • [change] Increase Max collections to 50
  • [bugfix] Fix bug in URL space encoding
  • [bugfix] Fix bug in parsing <body> content
02 October 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 16
  • [change] Upgrade to Lucene 1.4.2
  • [feature] Keyword in Context Display
29 September 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 8
  • [bugfix] Fix bug in parsing od document dates
  • [feature] Keyword in Context Display
  • [feature] Add support for variable number of search results per page
8 September 2004 - SearchBlox v2.0 BUILD 5
  • [change] New EULA
  • [change] License Agreement startup screen
3 August 2004 - SearchBlox v1.3 BUILD 19
  • [change] Upgrade to Lucene 1.4.1
  • [change] Improved FileSystem Crawler
4 July 2004 - SearchBlox v1.3 BUILD 16
  • [bugfix] CJK highlighting
  • [bugfix] Fix form encoding bug
  • [feature] Add CustomSearch page
  • [feature] Support for <IFRAME>
20 June 2004 - SearchBlox v1.3 BUILD 14
  • [bugfix] Fix PDF parser bug
  • [bugfix] Correct file paths to support Oracle Application Server
  • [feature] Add support for Greek
  • [feature] Remove jsessionid from URLs
3 June 2004 - SearchBlox v1.3 BUILD 9
  • [bugfix] Crawler support for redirect URLs
26 May 2004 - SearchBlox v1.3 BUILD 8
  • [bugfix] Stopping of scheduled operations
  • [bugfix] Handling of relative paths by HTTP Crawler
17 May 2004 - SearchBlox v1.3 BUILD 6
  • [feature] HTTPS Support - Sun & IBM JVMs
  • [feature] Form Based Authentication
15 April 2004 - SearchBlox v1.2 BUILD 6
  • [bugfix] Fix issues with Schedulers
27 February 2004 - SearchBlox v1.2 BUILD 5
  • [bugfix] URL Encoding problem
17 February 2004 - SearchBlox v1.2 BUILD 4
  • [feature] PowerPoint format support
  • [feature] Russian and Polish Language Support
  • [feature] Support for HTML frames
  • [feature] Tag Balancer for HTML Parser
  • [change] All formats supported in SearchBlox FREE Edition
  • [change] Lucene Upgrade to 1.3 Final
17 November 2003 - SearchBlox v1.1 BUILD 1
  • [feature] CJK Languages Support
  • [change] New Word Document Parser
  • [feature] Charset Detection for HTML Pages
  • [change] Charset support for Crawlers
  • [change] Lucene Upgrade to 1.3RC2
29 October 2003 - SearchBlox v1.0 BUILD 8
  • [change] Changes to logging configuration to support JBoss
  • [change] Default pagesize changed to 10
22 October 2003 - SearchBlox v1.0 BUILD 6
  • [change] Quartz upgrade to version 1.2.3
  • [change] Regular Expressions Handling using JRegex v1.2_01