JXtended Finder 2.0 RC2 Released

The JXtended team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Finder 2.0 RC2, the latest stable release of our redesigned advanced search engine for Joomla.

Finder is a powerful search engine that gives you access to technology used by major search engines like Google™ and Yahoo!™. Finder 2.0 features a completely redesigned core engine for better search results, AJAX powered search suggestions based on the actual content of your site, an expanding selection of search plugins, and much more.

About the RC2 Release

The RC2 release includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Fixed an installation error when installing fresh with debugging enabled.
• Fixed set_time_limit() warnings.
• Fixed wasteful memory consumption during indexing.
• Fixed the uninstallation cleanup process.
• Fixed the allow_empty_query configuration option.
• Fixed conflict with JQuery class name.
• Fixed a database error when using an empty search query.
• Fixed plugin output interrupting indexer.
• Added a setting to control memory table token limit.
• Fixed missing language strings in the About screen.
• Removed the old changelog from the About screen.
• Fixed a problem with search filters not being applied to search module.
• Fixed a problem with selecting the active search filter nodes.
• Fixed a bug in the route helper.
• Fixed several issues with the search model mapping tokens.
• Fixed problems with plugins looking up menu item title before URL was set.

Package Contents

The Finder package includes the core search system, a search module, an administrator “status” module, and search plugins for Joomla Articles, Categories, Contacts, Sections, and Web links; JXtended Comments; and JXtended Labels. To see the full list of search plugins available for Finder in addition to what comes in the main package, check out the Finder RC2 downloads page.

Installation Notes

Finder 2.0 cannot be installed over an existing Finder 1.x installation. You must uninstall Finder 1.x on your site before installing the new package. Read more about how to install Finder.

Requirements

Finder 2.0 is the first JXtended extension to use the new JXtended Libraries 2.0. The Libraries will come bundled with the Finder package so there is no need to download any extra packages unless you need support for non-standard extensions.

Finder 2.0 also requires:

• PHP 5.2 or higher.
• MySQL 4.1 or higher.
• Expanded indexing support for files will require safe mode to be off and the popen() function to be callable for PHP.
• Non-Latin based languages require UTF-8 properties support for PCRE.

We also have a small PHP script to check your Web server for compatibility with Finder 2.0. Just download the package, extract the PHP file and upload it to your Joomla 1.5 site. It needs to be placed in the same directory as your configuration.php file and then called via your favorite Web browser by navigating to the URL of your Joomla site followed by “requirements.php”. For example, “http://jxtended.com/requirements.php”.

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