Thinking Sphinx changelog

Changelog History

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• v5.0.0 Changes

  July 20, 2020

  Major Features and Breaking Changes

  💎 Thinking Sphinx v5.0 has one significant change - explicit callbacks - plus drops support for old versions of Rails/Ruby/Sphinx, and adds a few other smaller improvements.

  Explicit Callbacks

  Previous versions of Thinking Sphinx automatically added callbacks to all ActiveRecord models, for the purpose of persisting changes back to Sphinx (whether that be inserts, updates, or deletions). And while the actual overhead for non-indexed models wasn't super slow, it's still far from ideal.

  So now, you need to add callbacks yourself, to just the models you're indexing.

  With SQL-backed models (defined using :with => :active_record), you'll very likely want to add one of the two following lines inside your model:

  class Article \< ApplicationRecord# If you're not using delta indices:ThinkingSphinx::Callbacks.append(self, :behaviours =\> [:sql])# If you \*are\* using delta indices:ThinkingSphinx::Callbacks.append(self, :behaviours =\> [:sql, :deltas])end
  

  If you're using real-time indices, you very likely already have callbacks defined in your models, but you can replace them with the new calls:

  class Article \< ApplicationRecord# Instead of this...after\_save ThinkingSphinx::RealTime.callback\_for(:article)# use this...ThinkingSphinx::Callbacks.append(self, :behaviours =\> [:real\_time])end
  

  For associated models which still fire real-time callbacks, you can use the :path option with the same call:

  class Comment \< ApplicationRecordbelongs\_to :articleThinkingSphinx::Callbacks.append self,:behaviours =\> [:real\_time],:path=\> [:article]end
  

  And if you're using a custom block with your old real-time callback, you can pass that same block to the new approach as well:

  class Article \< ApplicationRecordThinkingSphinx::Callbacks.append(self, :behaviours =\> [:real\_time]) do |instance| # returning an array of instances to index. You could add# custom logic here if you don't want indexing to happen# in some cases.endend
  

  💅 At this point in time, the older callback style for real-time indices will continue to work, but it's still recommended to update your code to the new style instead.

  On the off chance you are using SQL-backed indices and you have attribute_updates enabled in config/thinking_sphinx.yml, you'll want to specify that in your :behaviours option:

  ThinkingSphinx::Callbacks.append(self, :behaviours =\> [:sql, :updates])
  

  Sphinx 2.2.11 or newer is required

  🚀 Sphinx 2.1 is no longer supported - and ideally, it's best to upgrade any 2.2.x release to 2.2.11.

  Sphinx 3.x releases are supported, but there are known issues with indexing SQL-backed indices on a PostgreSQL database (real-time indices are fine though).

  As part of this change, Sphinx's docinfo setting is no longer configured, so the skip_docinfo setting in config/thinking_sphinx.yml can be removed.

  When it comes to Manticore as a drop-in replacement for Sphinx, we're testing against the latest 2.x and 3.x releases, which are currently 2.8.2 and 3.4.2 respectively.

  💎 Ruby 2.4 or newer is required

  🔖 Versions of Ruby less than 2.3 are no longer supported, sorry. We're currently testing against 2.4 through to 2.7.

  🚅 Rails 4.2 or newer is required

  🚀 It's been a long time coming, but Rails 3.2 (and 4.0 and 4.1) are no longer supported. The current supported versions are 4.2 through to 6.0 (and 6.1 will likely work as well, once it's released).

  Other changes to behaviour

  • ✂ Remove internal uses of send, replaced with public_send as that's available in all supported Ruby versions.
  • Custom index_set_class implementations can now expect the :instances option to be set alongside :classes, which is useful in cases to limit the indices returned if you're splitting index data for given classes/models into shards. (Introduced in PR #1171 after discussions with @lunaru in #1166.)
  • Deletion statements are simplified by avoiding the need to calculate document keys/offsets (@njakobsen via #1134).
  • Real-time data is deleted before replacing it, to avoid duplicate data when offsets change (@njakobsen via #1134).
  • Use reference_name as per custom index_set_class definitions. Previously, the class method was called on ThinkingSphinx::IndexSet even if a custom subclass was configured. (As per discussions with @kalsan in #1172.)
  • 0️⃣ Fields and attributes can be overriden - whichever's defined last with a given name is the definition that's used. This is an edge case, but useful if you want to override any of the default fields/indices. (Requested by @kalsan in #1172.)

  🐛 Bug fixes

  None.

• v4.4.1 Changes

  August 23, 2019

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  No breaking or major changes.

  🔄 Changes to behaviour

  • 🚚 Automatically remove app/indices from Zeitwerk's autoload paths in Rails 6.0 onwards (if using Zeitwerk as the autoloader).

• v4.4.0 Changes

  August 21, 2019

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  No breaking or major changes.

  🆕 New features

  • 🚅 Confirmed Rails 6.0 support.
  • ➕ Added ability to have custom real-time index processors (which handles all indices) and populators (which handles a particular index). These are available to get/set via ThinkingSphinx::RealTime.processor and ThinkingSphinx::RealTime.populator.

  🖨 The processor should accept call with two arguments: an array of index objects, and a block to invoke after each index is processed. Here is a simple example for parallel processing of indices:

  # Add the 'parallel' gem to your Gemfile.ThinkingSphinx::RealTime.processor = Proc.new do |indices, &block| Parallel.map(indices) do |index| puts "Populating index #{index.name}"ThinkingSphinx::RealTime.populator.populate index puts "Populated index #{index.name}" block.call endend
  

  And the populator should respond to populate, accepting a single argument which is the index object. Here is a simple example for parallel processing.

  # Add the 'parallel' gem to your Gemfile.class ParallelPopulatordef self.populate(index) new(index).call enddef initialize(index) @index = index enddef callParallel.each(index.scope.find\_in\_batches) do |instances| transcriber.copy \*instances true # Don't emit any large object because results are accumulatedendActiveRecord::Base.connection.reconnect! endprivateattr\_reader :indexdef [email protected] ||= ThinkingSphinx::RealTime::Transcriber.new index endendThinkingSphinx::RealTime.populator = ParallelPopulator
  

  🏗 Instead of building your own procs/classes from scratch, you may instead wish to subclass the default classes to tweak behaviour - or at the very least, both classes are useful as reference points for your own replacements:

  • ThinkingSphinx::RealTime::Processor
  • ThinkingSphinx::RealTime::Populator

  These changes were influenced by discussions in #1134 with @njakobsen about parallel processing of real-time indices.

  🔄 Changes to behaviour

  • 👌 Improve failure message when tables don't exist for models associated with Sphinx indices (Kiril Mitov in #1139).

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • 0️⃣ Injected has-many/habtm collection search calls as default extensions to associations in Rails 5+, as it's a more reliable approach in Rails 6.0.0.

• v4.3.2 Changes

  August 03, 2019

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  No breaking or behaviour changes.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • ⏪ Reverted loading change behaviour from v4.3.1 for Rails v5 (Eduardo J. in #1138).

• v4.3.1 Changes

  August 03, 2019

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  No breaking or behaviour changes.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • 🛠 Fixed loading of index files to work with Rails 6 and Zeitwerk (#1137).

• v4.3.0 Changes

  May 18, 2019

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  No breaking or major changes.

  🆕 New features

  • ⚙ Allow overriding of Sphinx's running state by setting skip_running_check to true/false in config/thinking_sphinx.yml for appropriate environments. This is useful when Sphinx commands are interacting with a remote Sphinx daemon. As per discussions in #1131.
  • Allow skipping of directory creation by setting skip_directory_creation to true/false in config/thinking_sphinx.yml for appropriate environments. As per discussions in #1131.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • 🔒 Use ActiveSupport's lock monitor where possible (Rails 5.1.5 onwards) to avoid database deadlocks. Essential investigation by Jonathan del Strother (#1132).
  • 👍 Allow facet searching on distributed indices (#1135).

• v4.2.0 Changes

  March 09, 2019

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  No breaking or major changes.

  🆕 New features

  • Allow changing the default encoding for MySQL database connections from utf8 to something else via the mysql_encoding setting in config/thinking_sphinx.yml. In the next significant release, the default will change to utf8mb4 (which is supported in MySQL 5.5.3 and newer).
  • ➕ Added Rails 6.0 and Manticore 2.8 to the test matrix.

  🔄 Changes to behaviour

  • ⚠ Use Arel's SQL literals for generated order clauses, to avoid warnings from Rails 6.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • 🛠 Fix usage of alternative primary keys in update and deletion callbacks and attribute access.
  • Ensure respond_to? takes Sphinx scopes into account (Jonathan del Strother in #1124).
  • ➕ Add :excerpts as a known option for search requests.
  • 🛠 Fix depolymorphed association join construction with Rails 6.0.0.beta2.
  • 🔧 Reset ThinkingSphinx::Configuration's cached values when Rails reloads, to avoid holding onto stale references to ActiveRecord models (#1125).
  • Don't join against associations in sql_query if they're only used by query-sourced properties (Hans de Graaff in #1127).

• v4.1.0 Changes

  December 28, 2018

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  🚀 No breaking or major changes, though Ruby 2.2 is now no longer officially supported - but this release will almost certainly still work on it.

  🆕 New features

  • The :sql search option can now accept per-model settings with model names as keys. e.g. ThinkingSphinx.search "foo", :sql => {'Article' => {:include => :user}} (Sergey Malykh in #1120).

  🔄 Changes to behaviour

  • ⬇️ Drop MRI 2.2 from the test matrix, and thus no longer officially supported (though the code will likely continue to work with 2.2 for a while).
  • ➕ Added MRI 2.6, Sphinx 3.1 and Manticore 2.7 to the test matrix.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • 0️⃣ Real-time indices now work with non-default integer primary keys (alongside UUIDs or other non-integer primary keys).

• v4.0.0 Changes

  April 10, 2018

  Major Features and Changes

  🚀 Thinking Sphinx v4.0 has been in development for a little while, and includes some significant changes (as befitting a major release):

  🔀 Merging Indices

  🔀 Merging indices is now supported via the new ts:merge rake task. This is useful when you're using delta indices as an alternative to running ts:index regularly to have new/changed records populated into the core indices. Merging should be reliably faster (and it avoids hitting your database to reprocess all the records).

  🔀 Running ts:index every now and then to catch any records changed/modified without callbacks is probably wise (perhaps once a day compared to more frequent ts:merge calls).

  ⚙ Run the daemon on a UNIX socket

  If you've got Sphinx and your Rails app all on a single machine, you may want to have the daemon (searchd) hosting connections via a UNIX socket instead of a TCP socket. Just set the socket value in each appropriate environment within config/thinking_sphinx.yml (and do not set mysql41 unless you want the daemon to also be available via that TCP port).

  production: socket: /var/tmp/production.sphinx
  

  👀 This feature is limited to MRI, as JRuby doesn't seem to have a way to connect to UNIX sockets for MySQL-protocol connections.

  👍 ActiveRecord 5.2 Support

  🚀 The new release of ActiveRecord/Rails is happily supported by this release.

  👍 Manticore Support

  🚀 The recent fork of Sphinx known as Manticore is supported, and can be used as a drop-in replacement for Sphinx. In particular, the v2.6.3 release is included in the test matrix.

  💥 Breaking Changes

  Sphinx 2.1.2 or newer is required

  👍 Sphinx 2.0 is no longer supported - make sure you're running at least 2.1.2, but 2.2.11 is recommended if possible.

  💎 Ruby 2.2 or newer is required

  🔖 Versions of Ruby less than 2.2 are no longer supported, sorry.

  ✂ Removed auto-typing of search filter values

  If you're filtering via human-entered values (say, via request parameters), then in the past you were allowed to send those string values straight through to Sphinx.

  👍 However, Sphinx now supports string filtering, so it's not possible to make assumptions about filter types. Thinking Sphinx v3.4.0 introduced automatic typing of these values, but this was an extra overhead which was far from ideal and was always flagged as temporary.

  So, please cast your filter values where appropriate:

  Model.search :with =\> {:foo\_id =\> params[:foo\_id]}# should become:Model.search :with =\> {:foo\_id =\> params[:foo\_id].to\_i}
  

  Minor features

  • If you want to remove the docinfo setting from the generated Sphinx configuration (to avoid warnings in Sphinx 2.2+), add skip_docinfo: true to each appropriate environment in config/thinking_sphinx.yml.
  • 👍 Sphinx 3.0 is now supported.
  • You can now use relative paths in config/thinking_sphinx.yml, but you must also add absolute_paths: true to each environment for them to be converted to absolute paths for the generated configuration.

  🔄 Changes to behaviour

  • The INDEX_FILTER environment variable is applied when running ts:index on SQL-backed indices.
  • 👉 Useful error messages are now displayed if processing real-time indices is attempted when the daemon isn't running.
  • 🔨 Rake task code has been refactored into separate command classes under the hood (which allows for flying-sphinx to override when appropriate).
  • Added frozen_string_literal: true pragma comments for safe frozen string literals.
  • Exceptions are logged when processing real-time indices without halting the processing.
  • ⚡️ Update polymorphic properties to support Rails 5.2.
  • 👍 Allow configuration of the index guard approach (e.g. ThinkingSphinx::Configuration.instance.guarding_strategy = ThinkingSphinx::Guard::None).
  • ⚠ Output a warning if guard files exist when calling ts:index.
  • ✂ Delete index guard files as part of ts:rebuild and ts:clear.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • Don't attempt to interpret indices for models that don't have a database table.
  • 🖐 Handle situations where no exit code is provided for Sphinx binary calls.

• v3.4.2 Changes

  September 29, 2017

  ⬆️ Upgrading

  🛠 No breaking or major changes, just three small fixes and a couple of minor changes.

  🔄 Changes to behaviour

  • 👍 Allow use of deletion callbacks for rollback events.
  • ✂ Remove extra deletion code in the Populator - it's also being done by the real-time rake interface.

  🐛 Bug fixes

  • Real-time callback syntax for namespaced models accepts a string (as was already documented).
  • 🛠 Fix up logged warnings (and avoiding overwriting the existing warn method).
  • ➕ Add missing search options to known values to avoid incorrect warnings.

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