We’re happy to release Sphinx 1.10-beta, with a new major version number
that means, as promised, real-time indexes support.
In addition to RT indexes, it also brings preforked and threaded modes,
string attributes, full SphinxQL support (with access to all searchd functions),
advanced features such as hitless and blended indexing, optimized index
format, and a lot more. A complete list
of [...]

My talk on Sphinx has been accepted for MySQL User Conference 2010,
so we’re hitting the conference again! The talk is called
Sphinx: Full-text Search in 2010
and I will be covering all the shiny new features that we’ve been
so busy adding lately. The talk is scheduled on Wednesday, April 14th
and we’ll also try to arrange a BOF [...]

I have been frequently put to shame for Sphinx release schedule
and version numbering. Indeed, taking into the account the typical amount
of features and fixes per snapshot, most if not all of so-called snapshots
in 0.9.8 branch could likely qualify for a separate release, receive
their very own minor version tags, etc.
We are going to work on that. [...]

Today’s Downloads star
is Sphinx 0.9.8.1. This is a bugfix release, and every commit received especially
careful review, so upgrades from 0.9.8 should be smooth. Most of the issues were
actually pretty subtle and only occurred under (combinations of) special, and rather
rare, circumstances. Except for the index merge feature, where several major bugs
were reported in about a month [...]

All the new features just have been finally documented, all the internal tests pass,
so here goes another major step towards version 1.0 (or maybe 1.10 right away? or even 3.23?).
Meet a beta version of Sphinx 0.9.9, introducing 34 new features; a handful of improvements and
fixes worth a mention in the changelog; and numerous minor changes [...]

To my constant amusement, it’s not only Sphinx code but also the website that needs some work every now and then, so here’s the update.
I’ve added FAQ section. It’s not big yet (only 8 questions covered), and the answers are typically terse, but a start is a start.
Presentations section has a couple new talks. [...]

Starting today we’re offering a new and shiny Sphinx service. Namely,
support packages.
We’ve been funding all the development from our
consulting services
for about 2 years now. However as the consulting is charged by the hour,
using it on the support and fixes seemingly resulted in a conflict of interest,
as from the customers’ point of view it kind [...]

MySQL Conference 2009 is due in less than a month now, I am attending again,
and this means a number of Sphinx-related events in the US:

Joe Devon arranged a Los Angeles
MySQL UG meetup on April, 17th and I will be giving a short talk on Sphinx there.
We’ll be showing Sphinx at DotOrg
booth at MySQL Conference 2009 [...]

Sphinx 0.9.9 branch is officially feature-frozen and
we are making 0.9.9-rc2 available. As those who’ve been following 0.9.x
releases should be accustomed to, despite a modest rc1 to rc2 tag change
it adds about 30 new features once again. (Wonder if we’ll be able to
break the spell in 1.x and be less greedy about the version increments.)
The [...]

I was initially going to call this quick entry “All the small things”
but then talked myself into keeping it informative anyway. Then again
they seem small to me, but might be huge for someone else, eh?
First, we now have a public Subversion repository. It’s a read-only
mirror hosted at Google Code, the project name is [...]