Search server update 2011-12-08

We’ve just updated our search server with the latest changes and bug fixes!

This update to the Search Server finally solves the search for artist “!!!” problem properly, should now be able to find just about any artist, release, etc that contain any crazy character combination. Also you can now search for number of releases in release groups and artists with unknown gender. The code base has now been updated to Lucene 3.4, which was the latest available when these changes were made (its at 3.5 now).

Thanks for your hard work on this Paul!

Bug

• [SEARCH-33] – Search needs to find a preposterously bad label name: !"@.*!%
• [SEARCH-51] – Searching for certain characters returns no results, even if they’re valid.
• [SEARCH-131] – When search for Unknown country it returns <country>UNKNOWN</country> it should return nothing
• [SEARCH-134] – Annotation search can’t filter by type for release groups

Improvement

• [SEARCH-93] – Update Search Index Code to Lucene 3.4
• [SEARCH-119] – Allow artist search for gender:unknown
• [SEARCH-124] – Allow searching release groups by # releases
• [SEARCH-128] – Make Search Server use mmap by default