Version 0.9.8.1, 30 oct 2008

added configure script to libsphinxclient
changed proximity/quorum operator syntax to require whitespace after length
fixed potential head process crash on SIGPIPE during “maxed out” message
fixed handling of incomplete remote replies (caused over-degraded distributed results, in rare cases)
fixed sending of big remote requests (caused distributed requests to fail, in rare cases)
fixed FD_SET() overflow (caused searchd to crash on startup, in rare cases)
fixed MVA vs distributed indexes (caused loss of 1st MVA value in result set)
fixed tokenizing of exceptions terminated by specials (eg. “GPS AT&T” in extended mode)
fixed buffer overrun in stemmer on overlong tokens occasionally emitted by proximity/quorum operator parser (caused crashes on certain proximity/quorum queries)
fixed wordcount ranker (could be dropping hits)
fixed --merge feature (numerous different fixes, caused broken indexes)
fixed --merge-dst-range performance
fixed prefix/infix generation for stopwords
fixed ignore_chars vs specials
fixed misplaced F_SETLKW check (caused certain build types, eg. RPM build on FC8, to fail)
fixed dictionary-defined charsets support in spelldump, added \x-style wordchars support
fixed Java API to properly send long strings (over 64K; eg. long document bodies for excerpts)
fixed Python API to accept offset/limit of 'long' type
fixed default ID range (that filtered out all 64-bit values) in Java and Python APIs