# groonga - An open-source fulltext search engine and column store.

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## Release 2.0.7 - 2012/09/29

### Improvements

- [doc] Added more descriptions about `--query_flags`.
- [doc][httpd] Added sample configuration for gzip compression.
- [httpd][rpm][centos] Added groonga-httpd init script.
- [rpm] Added logrotate config files.
- Supported creating database during install process.
- [httpd] Supported `groonga_database_auto_create` directive.
- Supported score respected merge by set operation. [GitHub#31]
- [httpd] Supported `load` command by POST.
- Added error check for creating temporary result set. [GitHub#33]
- Added GQTP server package.
- Added `max()` function.
- Added `min()` function.

### Fixes

- Fixed to set domain to vector elements to `load` command. [GitHub#30]
- [httpd] Fixed missing NULL initialization. [Reported by @Kiske]
- [httpd] Fixed missing size about `content_type_len`.
- [rpm][fedora] Fixed to use `--bind-address` in `groonga.service`.
- Fixed crash by invalid argument filter. [GitHub#32]
- Fixed a bug that Time -> Time cast breaks value.
- Fixed a bug that Time -> Float cast breaks value.

### Thanks

- @Kiske

## Release 2.0.6 - 2012/08/29

### Improvements

- [deb][rpm] Added `groonga-server-common` meta package. [#1451]
- Supported `--query_flags` option to `select` command.
- Supported PCRE auto detection for groonga-httpd.
- [doc] Added information about Twitter and Facebook.
- Improved to show error message from MeCab on `mecab_new2()` failure.
- [doc] Added details about groonga for server use.
- Improved to log details about `vm.overcommit_memory`.
- Supported custom selector definition.
- Supported `--working-directory` option for groonga.
- Supported `dump` command for groonga-httpd.
- Improved to show not found target name for `clearlock` command.
- Improved error messages about `get` command implemented by table plugin.
- [rpm][centos] Supported MeCab 0.994. [#1455] [Suggested by IWAI, Masaharu]
- Supported changing default logger's max level before `grn_init()`.
- Added `all_records()` function which copies all record IDs to the result table.
- Supported '-WORD' in `--query` of the select command.

### Fixes

- [doc] Fixed the execution examples. [#1428] [Reported by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [deb] Fixed not to force groonga user/group by init script for groonga-httpd.
- [rpm][fedora] Fixed missing stop parameter for groonga-httpd service.
- Fixed a bug that the last 1 byte for cache key is ignored by `select` command.
- Fixed detection of the number of arguments in the complex function call.
- Fixed to suppress a warning by Clang.
- Fixed backward incompatibility about missing `add` command related error by executing `clearlock` command.
- [windows] Fixed database open failure which is related to binary data. [Reported by @yito]

### Thanks

- IWAI, Masaharu
- @yito

## Release 2.0.5 - 2012/07/29

### Improvements

- Supported calculating the value of distance with "rect" or "rectangle" argument in southern hemisphere. [#1418] [#1419] [#1420] [#1421]
- [doc] Added some literals description in script syntax.
- Supported other directory build for groonga-suggest and groonga-httpd.
- Supported ";" as a query parameter separator. [#1406] [Suggested by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [doc] Added descriptions about script syntax.
- Supported near search by `'column *N "word1 word2 ..."'` in script syntax. [#1423]
- [doc] Added a description about limitation of suffix search.
- Supported near search for `_key` pseudo column. [GitHub#19]
- [doc] Added basic ECMAScript related syntaxes.
- [doc] Updated a description about geo_distance.
- [rpm][fedora] Supported Fedora 17.
- [rpm][fedora] Dropped Fedora 16 support.
- Supported logical not `"!"` operator. [GitHub#22]
- [httpd] Supported per location groonga database.
- Improved to return error messages while load command is processing.
- Improved to exit load command when an uncontinuable error occurred.
- Improved to stop load command for invalid --columns value.
- Supported to open locked database. [GitHub#21]

### Fixes

- Fixed a build problem about groonga-httpd on Mac OS X. [Reported by SHIMADA Koji]
- Fixed not to use installed groonga's header files for groonga-httpd.
- Fixed a build problem about groonga on Mac OS X Lion.
- [doc] Fixed a description of table_remove command.
- Fixed infinite loop problem for not implemented operator without index. [GitHub#20]
- Fixed a wrong error code which causes memory leaks.
- Fixed a wrong error code which collapse ja columns.
- [admin] Fixed to escape error message.
- Fixed to ignore unloadable objects which causes database incompatible. [#1429] [Reported by IWAI, Masaharu]

### Thanks

- SHIMADA Koji
- IWAI, Masaharu

## Release 2.0.4 - 2012/06/29

### Improvements

- Supported only KyTea 0.4.2.
- Dropped KyTea 0.4.1 or ealier support.
- [experimental] Supported nginx based groonga HTTP interface.
- Supported calculating the value of distance with "rect" or "rectangle" argument in northern hemisphere. [#1386] [#1387] [#1388] [#1389]
- [doc] Added a document about Travis CI integration.
- [doc] Added descriptions about full text search and phrase search. See Full text search condition and Phrase search condition about detail.
- [doc] Added descriptions about comparison conditions. See Conditional expression about detail.
- [doc] Added examples for Query syntax.
- [doc] Added descriptions about Combined expression.
- [doc] Added descriptions about Prefix search condition and Suffix search condition.
- Supported suffix search by index.
- [doc] Added a document about grn_expr.
- [munin] Supported JSON library installed by RubyGems [GitHub#17] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [doc] Updated the description of how to specify a value as Time in tutorial. [#1405] [Reported by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [rpm] Removed groonga-tokenizer-mecab dependency from groonga package. [GitHub#18] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]

### Fixes

- Fixed a problem that display of command prompt changes to not intended state by using batch mode on Mac OS X. [Reported by @soundkitchen]
- Fixed not to terminate after an invalid command in client mode. [#1305]
- Fixed a problem that '=R' is treated as 'OR' in `--query` syntax. [#1393]

### Thanks

- @soundkitchen
- IWAI, Masaharu

## Release 2.0.3 - 2012/05/29

### Improvements

- [doc] Added about release procedure.
- Removed restriction that the max number of opened files is 4096.
- [experimental] Added table plugin.
- [doc] Added more descriptions about select command.
- [doc] Made execution example copy & paste friendly.
- [windows] Supported build with Visual Studio 2010 Express and CMake. See Windows about details.
- [doc][solaris] Added a document about building on Solaris. See Oracle Solaris about details.
- [doc][yum] Updated epel-release package version. [Reported by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [doc][cenos6] Disabled Repoforge for Munin for CentOS 6. [Reported by IWAI, Masaharu]
- Started distributing source archive in zip format.
- [munin] groonga_dist Munin plugin supported an object that has separated files.
- Started using Travis CI.
- [yum] Changed RPM package name that provides yum repository from groonga-repository to groonga-release to follow RPM package name convension such as centos-release and fedora-release.

### Fixes

- [doc] Fixed a command to update yum repository. [Suggested by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [deb] Fixed a bug that log_repoen command in logrotate uses wrong protocol.
- Fixed broken ERROR tag in XML response. [#1363] [GitHub#13] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]
- Fixed a bug that grn_ctx isn't fully cleared by grn_ctx_fin().
- Fixed a bug that `&!` set operation doesn't work with grouped expression. [#1372]
- Fixed a bug that a record key registered via index source isn't normalized.

### Thanks

- IWAI, Masaharu

## Release 2.0.2 - 2012/04/29

Caution

The package sign key is changed since this release. Import the new package sign key before updating groogna packages.

Debian/Ubuntu:

    % sudo apt-get update
    % sudo apt-get -y --allow-unauthenticated install groonga-keyring

CentOS/Fedora:

    % sudo yum makecache
    % sudo yum install --nogpgcheck -y groonga-repository

### Improvements

- [pkg-config] Removed needless MessagePack dependency.
- [rpm][fedora] Supported libedit. [#1325] [Suggested by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [rpm] Supported zlib and LZO. [#1324] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [groonga] Improved daemoinzed timing. Groonga server daemonizes after socket is listened. It means that groonga server is ready when groonga server is daemonized. [#1326]
- [admin] Supported suggest in groonga administration page.
- [dump] Ignored MeCab tokenizer load error.
- Supported CMake.
- [load] Supported error report when a column value can't be set.
- Supported similar search. `select --filter "column *S 'TEXT'"` is the similar search syntax. [#1342]
- [apt][yum] Changed package sign key.
- Supported Ubuntu Precise Pangolin.
- [apt] Added a new groonga-keyring deb package for the groonga's package sign key.

### Fixes

- [deb][rpm] Used `--bind-address` option instead of deprecated `--address` option. [#1320] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [deb] Renamed groonga-server package's configuration file to /etc/default/groonga-server from /etc/default/groonga.
- [rpm][fedora] Fixed upgrade condition in %post server. [GitHub#11] [Patch by Daiki Ueno]
- [rpm] Removed needless change logs. [#1328] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [deb][rpm] Added missing curl dependency. [GitHub#12] [Patch by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [rpm] Removed needleess ruby package dependency from groonga package. [#1330] [Suggested by IWAI, Masaharu]
- [deb] Added missing default values to groonga-server's configuration file.
- Fixed a crash bug that is caused when searching with updaging very large inverted index. [#1329]
- Fixed a bug that strings are compared as characters instead of byte string. [#1340] [Reported by Shinya Kawaji]

### Thanks

- IWAI, Masaharu
- Daiki Ueno
- Shinya Kawaji

## Release 2.0.1 - 2012/03/29

### Improvements

- Supported build in other directory. [#1298] [Reported by Kazuhiko]
- [solaris] Supported build on Solaris 11. [Reported by Kazuhiko]
- [test] Supported functional test.
- [test] Required `--with-ruby19` configure option for testing by Ruby.
- [dump] Supported records dump for a table that has default tokenizer.
- [suggest] Added `similar_search` option.
- [groonga] Removed deprecated options, `-a`, `--address` and `--admin-html-path`.
- Added more return value checks. [GitHub#9] [Reported by Markus Elfring]
- [dat] Supported term extract operation.
- Added logos .
- Updated HTML design.
- Renamed `grntest` to `groonga-benchmark`.
- Supported `autogen.sh` on CentOS 5.
- [linux] Added `vm.overcommit_memory` kernel parameter value check. [#1289]
- `grn_snip` uses `grn_obj` mechanism. [#1054]

### Fixes

- Fixed a bug that uninstall task doesn't uninstall installed Ruby scripts. [#1299] [Reported by Kazuhiko]
- Added a missing Gemfile. [#1302] [Reported by Kazuhiko]
- Fixed a bug that some indexed records aren't found. The feature is only used by mroonga. [#1303]
- [groonga] Appended missing `-id` to `--server-id` option name.
- Fixed a bug that latin1 normalization may access unexpected memory.

### Thanks

- Kazuhiko
- Markus Elfring

## Release 2.0.0 - 2012/02/29

### Improvements

- [dat] Added 0 length key check.
- [windows] Added missing GCC related DLLs. [groonga-dev,00686] [Reported by Suzuki]
- [php] Supported PHP 5.4. [Patch by Daiki Ueno]
- Updated FSF address. [Suggested by Daiki Ueno]
- [fedora] Supported systemd. [Patch by Daiki Ueno]
- [rpm][debian] Changed the default protocol to HTTP from gqtp.
- [rpm][centos] Supported status command.
- Removed needless `:` from log message.
- Removed deprecated grn_query. [#1247]
- Reduced needless grn_ctx_at() calls on creating table.
- [pat] Supported cache.
- [tokenizer] Improved tokenizer API.
- Accepted `@` as a valid name character.
- [tokenizer] Added a tokenizer based on KyTea.
- Supported offline index construction.
- [tokenizer] Supported MeCab 0.993. [groonga-dev,00703] [Reported by Masaharu YOSHIOKA]
- [windows] Supported MessagePack.

### Fixes

- [pat] Fixed a bug that the last node can't be found. [#1258]
- [doc] Fixed links in Japanese page. [Reported by @naoina]
- [doc] Fixed wrong the default value. [Reported by @naoina]
- Fixed a typo. [Reported by Kazuhiko]
- [http] Fixed a bug that `load` command error isn't cleared. [Reported by @wareohji]

### Thanks

- Suzuki
- Daiki Ueno
- @naoina
- Kazuhiko
- Masaharu YOSHIOKA
- @wareohji

## Release 1.3.0 - 2012/01/29

### Improvements

- Supported dynamic DB key table change by GRN_DB_KEY=pat or GRN_DB_KEY=dat environment variable value.
- Added `--with-default-db-key` configure option that specifies the default DB key table.
- Supported "" value for geo point data types. It's interpreted as "0x0".
- Added column name to cast error message.
- Inhibit file information for stdin on load error.
- Enabled write-strings warnings and suppress those warnings. [Suggested by montywi]
- Marked MessagePack output format as supported. [#1215]
- Added `const` to `void *` of `*_set_value()`.
- Enabled warning flags on C and C++.
- Supported `--with-libevent` without value configure option.
- `grn_table_get()` supported grn_db. [#1242]
- [rpm] Removed needless groogna-munin-plugins dependency from groonga-server. [#1251] [Suggested by Masaharu IWAI]
- [rpm] Removed needless groogna-doc dependency from groonga. [#1251] [Suggested by Masaharu IWAI]
- [dat] Supported repair by `grn_dat_repair()`.
- `grn_table_at()` supported grn_db.
- [suggest] Removed unstable mark.
- [suggest][complete] Supported normalized value search in prefix-search.
- Added experimental offline index build. It's disabled by default for now. You can enable it by USE_OFFLINE_INDEXER=yes environment variable.
- Added internal API `grn_obj_path_by_id()` for mroonga.
- [suggest][httpd] Passed unknown parameters to groonga.
- [output][xml] Added a newline before `</RESULT>` for readability.
- [doc][output] Added documentation about output format type.
- Added `table_rename`. [#1234]
- Added `column_rename`. [#1234]

### Thanks

- montywi
- Masaharu IWAI

## The old releases

- Release 1.2.9 - 2011/12/29
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- Release 1.2.8 - 2011/11/29
  - Improvements
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- Release 1.2.7 - 2011/10/29
  - Improvements
  - Fixes
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- Release 1.2.6 - 2011/09/29
  - Improvements
  - Fixes
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- Release 1.2.5 - 2011/08/29
  - Improvements
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- Release 1.2.4 - 2011/07/29
  - Improvements
  - Fixes
  - Thanks
- Release 1.2.3 - 2011/06/29
  - Improvements
  - Fixes
  - Thanks
- Release 1.2.2 - 2011/05/29
  - Improvements
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- 1.2.1リリース - 2011/04/29
  - 改良
  - 修正
  - 感謝
- 1.2.0リリース - 2011/03/29
  - 改良
  - 修正
  - 実験的
  - 感謝
- バージョン1.1.xのお知らせ
  - 1.1.0リリース - 2011/02/09
- バージョン1.0.xのお知らせ
  - 1.0.8リリース - 2011/02/02
  - 1.0.7リリース - 2011/01/29
  - 1.0.6リリース - 2010/12/31
  - 1.0.5リリース - 2010/12/29
  - 1.0.4リリース - 2010/11/29
  - 1.0.3リリース - 2010/10/29
  - 1.0.2リリース - 2010/09/09
  - 1.0.1リリース - 2010/09/06
  - 1.0.0リリース - 2010/08/29
- バージョン0.xのお知らせ
  - 0.7.7リリース - 2010/08/25
  - 0.7.6リリース - 2010/08/19
- News in Senna period
  - Senna -> groonga - 2009/01/14
  - 2006/04/05
  - 2006/03/03
  - 2006/01/16
  - 2006/01/12
  - 2005/12/22
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