2017 Week 37 (Mid September)

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Summary of changes from September 8, 2017 to September 15, 2017.

• These changes were promoted to stable.

General

[] The new fulltext search engine (the "Ferret" engine) introduced in 2017 Week 35 is no longer a prototype, and has replaced MySQL fulltext search. Upgrading to this new engine will require a search index rebuild, which may take some time. You will be prompted with a setup warning after upgrading. See T12974 for discussion.

Security

• No notes in this period.

Migrations

"Duration" is the duration for this install, and may not be representative.

Upgrading / Compatibility

• [] See note in "General" about major search engine changes. See T12974 for a list of compatibility breaks associated with the new engine and other upgrade guidance.

Search

These are some of the issues fixed by the "Ferret" fulltext engine:

• [] MySQL FULLTEXT indexes are (mostly) no longer used, and thus should no longer fail explosively.
• [] Searching for very short terms like "the", "a", and "v0.1" should now produce results.
• [] Fulltext searches in Maniphest no longer fail silently when the fulltext portion of the query matches more than 1,000 documents.
• [] Fulltext searches now find results when no single field contains all of the search terms, but all terms are present across several fields.
• [] Fulltext ranking should be somewhat improved.
• [] Fulltext search now supports field search, like title:platypus.
• [] Fulltext search now supports substring search, like ~latypu.

Minor

• Fixed an issue where newer versions of Mercurial complained about hg serve without an explicit -R.
• Fixed an issue with bad anchor links in the Diffusion table of contents.
• Added almanac.service.edit and almanac.device.edit Conduit API methods.
• Some popup notifications were accidentally hidden from view when we introduced the "No Notifications" setting. They are no longer invisible.
• [] Maniphest's legacy "Reports" interface no longer miscounts merges quite as dramatically.
• [] Mitigated an issue with extremely large patches when Phabricator is configured to attach patches to email.
• [] arc now complains explicitly about excessively long lint and unit test names (more than 255 characters).
• We now use HGPLAIN when testing Mercurial vesions, which should work better with non-English installs.

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