Search server release: 2014-10-08

Paul Taylor has written a few fixes for the current search server, which we just deployed. Thanks for your hard work on this release, Paul!

Release Notes – MusicBrainz Search Server – Version 2014-10-08

Bug

• [SEARCH-258] – Search api returns zero results with unicode hyphen instead of dash in query
• [SEARCH-314] – Combining diacritics are not handled correctly
• [SEARCH-328] – Phrase search fails on Artist field if the artist credit is a multiple name credit and the join phrase within db contains no whitespace
• [SEARCH-373] – Searching places by tag doesn’t work
• [SEARCH-379] – JSON recording response embeds track artist credit inside an artist credit
• [SEARCH-383] – JSON return an array called ‘artist’ instead of ‘artists’
• [SEARCH-387] – Search Server Indexing Failure

Improvement

• [SEARCH-386] – Use bigrams to improve relevancy of CJK results