Version 0.9.7-rc1, 26 oct 2006

added alpha index merging code
added an option to decrease max_matches per-query
added an option to specify IP address for searchd to listen on
added support for unlimited amount of configured sources and indexes
added support for group-by queries
added support for /2 range modifier in charset_table
added support for arbitrary amount of document attributes
added logging filter count and index name
added --with-debug option to configure to compile in debug mode
added -DNDEBUG when compiling in default mode
improved search time (added doclist size hints, in-memory wordlist cache, and used VLB coding everywhere)
improved (refactored) SQL driver code (adding new drivers should be very easy now)
improved exceprts generation
fixed issue with empty sources and ranged queries
fixed querying purely remote distributed indexes
fixed suffix length check in English stemmer in some cases
fixed UTF-8 decoder for codes over U+20000 (for CJK)
fixed UTF-8 encoder for 3-byte sequences (for CJK)
fixed overshort (less than min_word_len) words prepended to next field
fixed source connection order (indexer does not connect to all sources at once now)
fixed line numbering in config parser
fixed some issues with index rotation