We are pleased to announce the release of Manticore Search 2.8.1 GA.

Prebuilt packages available for Debian,Ubuntu, Red Hat/CentOS, Windows and OSX can be downloaded from here.

New features and improvements

Added SUBSTRING_INDEX() function that return a substring of a string before a specified number of delimiter occurs.

SENTENCE and PARAGRAPH support for percolate queries.

Systemd generator for Debian/Ubuntu.

Fixes

14 bug fixes are also included in the release, to highlight a few:

• 8af81011 fixed #161 reload of config settings for RT indexes

• f3c7848a fixed #160 empty mva outputs NULL instead of an empty string

• 266e0e7b fixed #140 output 8 digits on floats when 6 is not enough to be precise

• 0721696d fixed #109 no matches for prefixes due to wrong exact form check

For a full report please consult the Release note.