Version 1.3 06-Jul-2000 of Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine
Release Notes: Many new features and bugfixes, including DoS handling, late binding, regexp URL exclusions and inclusions, regexp stop word dictionaries, much faster fully-threaded indexing, self ping, improved search thread pooling, HTML error handling, etc.
Other releases
Release Notes: This version has two dozen big bugfixes, a dozen new features including much better memory managemement, file:// support, and more. It is also the first joined release with PerlTools.
Release Notes: The Weight and WeakWords options were added to asearch.cnf. The --enableswap option was added. NTLM authorization can now be used in the Windows version. A command line option was added to apply existing regular expressions to exclude items from written indexes. The following options were added to global.cnf: Ssi, RampupSearchThreads, MaxSearchThreads, MaxSearchQueueSize, MaxSearchThreadIdle, MaxIndexThreads and RampupIndexThreads.
Release Notes: New features and major bugfixes include custom Metas, If-Modified-Since client-to-Alkaline, keep-alive client-to-Alkaline, ReplaceLocal for faster local indexing, show entire database, ErrorFooter, Realm, improved online management, improved file security, numeric meta search, ParseContent, SearchPartialLeft, multiple services on NT, NoTextDescription, RequestHeader, better daemon support, and a Nagle implementation.
Release Notes: Numerous bugfixes have been made; this release targets mostly stability issues. It includes compiled and extended versions of NdxScan, UrtList, and MrtgStats, and you can now use MRTG to get search engine statistics from the perf counters' XML.
Release Notes: Alkaline is now run as a native Windows NT service. It has a totally new admin section using JavaScript and XML, more regexp rules, improved parallel indexing and md5 handling, numerous bug fixes, and better DoS handling. The equiv.struct-like configuration files are gone.
