Releases: searx/searx
v1.1.0
It has been a while since we released a new version of searx. Thus, we have lots of new things to offer, like new engines, autocompleter, plugins, etc. We got numerous contributions from ~30 new developers, but also we got many PRs from our recurring contributors.
Thank you so much for you support! We couldn't have release so many awesome things without you!
Engines
New
- Wordnik.com by @plague-doctor in #2735
- Bandcamp by @return42 in #2763
- SJP - Słownik języka polskiego by @plague-doctor in #2736
- Wikimini by @CrocodileCroco in #2819
- Dogpile by @allendema in #2822
- PyPI XPATH engine by @jordemort in #2830
- ManKier by @jordemort in #2829
- Kaufland.de by @allendema in #2915
- ask.com by @allendema in #2898
- gpodder.net (JSON) by @allendema in #2885
- woxikon.de synonyme (xpath) by @allendema in #2883
- Petalsearch.com engine (xpath) by @allendema in #2897
- whaleslide.com by @allendema in #2861
- azlyrics.com by @allendema in #2955
- IMDB by @Guilvareux in #2980
- Prowlarr by @narcoticfresh in #3118
- Tineye reverse image search by @allendema in #3040
- Onesearch by @israelyago in #3065
- TVmaze by @liimee in #3246
- Emojipedia by @james-still in #3278
- Psychonautwiki by @dimethyltriptamine @kvch
Fixes
- Remove hubsbpot tracking URL params by @3nprob in #2723
- Fix URL to solidtorrent result page by @mikeri in #2786
- Update onion engines to v3 by @MarcAbonce in #2904
- Fix Seznam engine by @dudik in #2905
- Add pagination support for Library Genesis by @allendema in #2887
- Fix uppercase ip query by @nav1s in #2991
- Fix Libgen + Uncomment Ebay and Urbandictionary by @allendema in #2986
- Fixed Hoogle engine by @ilyakooo0 in #3146
- Fix Digg engine by @israelyago in #3150
- Don't lump all search suggestions together in Yahoo by @EricZhang456 in #3208
- Fix DDG safe search by @Niveshkrishna @kvch in #3247
- Fix Qwant: Remove extra q from URL by @0xhtml in #3091
Plugins
New
hostname_replace
plugin to rewrite result hostnames by @3nprob in #2724search_operators
plugin to filter search results using-
,site:
and-site:
by @DiamondDemon669 @kvch in #3311
Fixes
- Fix default_doi_resolver in preferences by @return42 in #2707
- Add DOI resolver from sci-hub and replace default DOI by @darkmagic13 in #2706
Other
Python updates
- Drop Python 3.6 support by @kvch in #3133
- Run tests under python 3.10 by @rooterkyberian in #3035
Docker
- Reduce redundant docker build steps by @3nprob in #2725
- Allow overriding Docker repository when building docker image by @3nprob in #2726
- Healthcheck endpoint by @ajgon in #2992
Themes
- Fix dark "expand" button from infobox by @MarcAbonce in #2702
- fix url_for(..., _external=True) in templates by @return42 in #2656
- [enh] oscar: image thumbnail layout by @dalf in #2675
- Improve text overflow of custom select by @0xhtml in #2985
- Products results: add possibility to show if a product is in stock or not by @narcoticfresh in #3120
- Configurable autofocus of search input (#1984) by @bencollerson in #3285
- archive.today option for results page by @bencollerson in #3308
- Fix keyboard hints for category tabs (#1187) by @bencollerson in #3276
Autocomplete
- Brave by @allendema in #3109
Other enhancements
- Allow overriding env vars
SEARX_SETTINGS_PATH
,UWSGI_SETTINGS_PATH
by @3nprob in #2717 - correct typo/grammatical mistake by @CicadaCinema in #2744
- Fix bug for 'FileNotFoundError' in 'standalone_searx.py' by @mikamp116 in #2764
- Fix grammar mistake in debug log output by @ypid in #2759
- Fix typo by @Zackptg5 in #2768
- Fix redirect when saving preferences by @return42 in #2760
- Replace Makefile boilerplate by shell scripts by @return42 in #2594
- Fix Qwant's fetch_languages function by @MarcAbonce in #2799
- Apply HTTPS where possible + fix small typo by @allendema in #2922
- Сhange in user-agent Firefox versions to latest by @scientia-ac-labore in #3008
- Use engine-type when looking up supported_languages from JSON files by @noctux in #3002
- Update about section of Invidious and Rumble + Change filtron error wording by @allendema in #2959
- Verify that Tor proxy works every time searx starts by @MarcAbonce in #3015
- Update settings_loader.get_user_settings_path() by @jecarr in #3056
- Fix wrong func call by @israelyago in #3058
- Improve ranking based on language by @0xhtml in #3053
Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0
1.0.0
Core:
- drop support for Python 3.5 ( #2459 )
- add support for Python 3.9 ( #2397 #2459 )
- update Python dependencies ( #2428 #2459 #2206 )
⚠️ pyopenssl is not longer required - automatic update of searx.data ( #2555 #2585 #2595 #2592 #2600 )
- update searx.data ( #2604 #2605 #2606 #2607 #2415 )
- add ability to send engine data to subsequent requests ( #2615 )
- add checker ( #2419 #2476 #2481 #2682 #2682 #2657 )
- by default allow only HTTPS, not HTTP ( #2641 #2659 )
- replace /translations.js with an embedded JSON ( #2660 )
- activate raise_for_error by default ( #2557 )
- don't dump traceback of SearxEngineResponseException on init ( #2635 )
Documentation:
- update nginx configuration ( #2618 )
- document workaround for using 2 languages simultaneously ( #2479 )
- improve admin-docs about result proxy (morty) configuration ( #2509 )
- fixed typo ( #2457 )
New settings.yml:
general.contact_url
: add link to contact instance maintainer to footer of each page ( #2391 14c7cc0 #2412 )brand
: move brand options from Makefile to settings.yml ( #2408 #2473 )
Themes:
- oscar: Hide links panel in mobile screens ( #2458 )
- oscar: upgrade dependencies ( #2346 #2673 #2662 )
- remove legacy, courgette and pix-art themes ( #2344 )
- add hyperlink to searx instances list in error message ( #2387 )
- preferences: a tooltip is shown when the mouse is over the engine names ( #2661 )
- Ignore double-quotes when highlighting query parts ( #2553 )
- update autocomplete ( #2593 )
New engines:
- ccengine ( #2533 )
- mediathekviewweb ( #2541 )
- solidtorrents ( #2626 )
- solr ( #2652 )
- rumble ( #2588 )
- wiby.me ( #2452 )
Fixed engines:
- apk_mirror ( #2556 #2642 )
- bing ( #2602 )
- duckduckgo ( #2560 #2559 )
- library genesis ( #2448 )
- ina ( 0ba71c3 )
- invidious ( #2451 )
- json_engine ( #2562 )
- google ( #2482 )
- google images ( #2482 )
- google play apps ( 88657fe )
- google play movies ( 50ba2b9 )
- google news ( #2483 #2498 )
- google scholar ( #2611 )
- google video ( #2482 )
- hoogle ( 6255b33 )
- naver ( #2542 )
- semantic schollar ( f596f57 f596f57 )
- startpage ( #2396 )
- seznam ( #2564 28286cf )
- wikipedia ( #2554 #2565 #2681 #2681 )
- yacy ( #2669 )
- yahoo news ( #2640 #2655 )
Updated engines:
- duckduckgo ( 5f450fd )
- geektimes ( 45f0e1a )
- lobste.rs ( 06b754a )
- soundcloud ( #2671 )
- peertube ( #2570 )
- recoll ( #2539 )
- yggtorrent ( #2573 )
Removed engines:
Bug fixes
- Fix empty colon in query from selecting Chinese ( #2454 )
- Get correct locale with country from browser ( #2531 )
Code refactoring / reduce the technical debt:
- refactor searx.search.SearchQuery and searx.search.EngineRef ( #2398 )
- dynamically set language_support variable ( #2499 )
- engines: add about variable ( #2460 )
- processors ( #2225 5c6a540 )
- remove Fabric file ( #2494 )
- use unittest from py3, remove unittest2 from py2 ( #2608 )
Github:
- add notice for the issue templates ( #2447 )
- every Sunday, call utils/fetch_*.py scripts and create a PR automatically ( #2500 728e096 )
- minor change: replace "travis" by "CI" ( #2528 )
Build scripts:
- update secret key check ( #2411 )
- fix makefile targets
books/{name}.*
andbooks/user.pdf
( #2420 #2530 ) - upload-pypi-test & linuxdoc has been released on PyPi ( #2456 )
- fix makefile target
gh-pages
: flatten history of branch gh.pages ( #2514 ) - optimize creation of the virtualenv & pyenvinstall targets ( #2421 )
- update pyenv pyenvinstall Make targets ( #2517 )
- makefile.python: remove duplicate pyenv-(un)install targets ( #2418 )
- [fix] make targets engines.languages and useragents.update ( #2643 )
- [fix] utils/serax.sh create_pyenv() - drop duplicate 'pip install .' ( #2621 )
Install scripts:
- drop Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) support ( #2619 )
- replace ubu1910 image by ubu2010 image ( #2435 )
- LXC switch to Fedora 33 / Fedora 31 reached its EOL #2634 ( #2634 )
- add package which to CentOS-7 boilerplate ( #2623 )
- use SEARX_SETTINGS_TEMPLATE from .config environment ( #2417 )
- determine path to makefile.lxc in a LXC ( #2399 )
- remove unused code ( #2401 #2497 )
- support git versions <v2.22 ( #2620 )
Announcement
We, the searx maintainer team, would like to say a huge thank you for everybody who had been involved in the development of searx or supported us in the past 7 years - making our first stable release available. Special thanks to NLNet for sponsoring multiple features of this release.
0.18.0
Core:
- drop Python 2 support ( #2137 #2244 )
- separate index and search routes ( #1681 ).
⚠️ add & remove your searx instance(s) from your browser. - add external_bang ( #2027 #2043 #2059 )
- add external plugins supports ( #2074 )
- add plugin converting strings into hash digests ( #1246 )
- new category: Onions ( #565 )
- allow searx query parts anywhere in the query ( aa3c18d 2aef38c )
- preferences: use base_url for prefix of sharing 'currenly saved preferences' (#1249 )
- upgrade to request 2.24.0, pyopenssl is optional ( #2199 )
- force admins to set secret_key if debug mode is disabled ( #2256 )
- standalone searx update ( #1591 )
- architecture clean up ( #2140 #2185 #2195 #2196 #2198 #2189 #2208 #2239 #2241 #2246 #2248 )
- record detail about engine error ( #2332 #2375 #2350 ). Add a new API endpoint:
/stats/errors
. - display if an engine does not support HTTPS requests ( #2373 )
- documentation & install script updates ( #2384 #2380 #2362 #2287 #2283 #2277 #2223 #2211 #2118 #2117 #2063 )
New settings.yml:
use_default_settings
: user settings can relied on the default settings ( #2291 #2362 #2349 )ui.results_on_new_tab: False
- for opening result links in a new tab ( #2167 )ui.advanced_search
- add preference for displaying advanced settings ( #2327 )server.method: "POST"
- Make default query submission method configurable ( #2130 )server.default_http_headers
- add default http headers ( #2295 )engines.*.proxies
- Using proxy only for specific engines ( #1827 #2319 ), see https://searx.github.io/searx/dev/engine_overview.html#settings-ymlenabled_plugins
- Enabled plugins ( a05c660 )preferences.lock
- Let admins lock user preferences ( #2270 )
Oscar theme:
- update infobox ( #2131 )
- Make infoboxes shorter by default.
- Hide the main image by default as well and set a maximum height even when expanded.
- Add a toggle at the bottom of the infobox to expand it or to shrink it again.
- Fix pointhi style
- query suggestion does not keep the language tag of the original query ( #1314 )
- fix the clear button ( #2306 )
Simple theme:
- Fix autocomplete ( #2205 )
New engines:
- ahmia, not_evil ( #565 )
- codeberg ( #2104 )
- command line engines: git grep, find, etc. ( #2128 #2250 )
- elasticsearch ( #2292 )
- metager ( #2139 )
- naver ( #1912 )
- opensemanticsearch ( #2271 )
- peertube ( #2109 )
- recoll (#2325)
- sepiasearch ( #2227 )
yggtorrent( #2099 #2375 )
Updated engines:
- digg ( #2285 )
- dbpedia ( #2352 )
- duckduckgo_definitions ( #2224 #2356 )
- duden ( #2359 )
- invidious ( #2116 )
- libgen ( #2360 )
- photon ( #2336 )
- soundclound ( #2365 )
- wikipedia ( #2178 #2363 #2354 )
- wikidata ( #2151 #2224 #2353 ) - faster response time
- yaCy ( #2255 ) - support HTTP digest authentication.
- youtube_noapi ( #2364 )
Fixed engines:
- 1x ( #2361 )
- answer 'random sha256' ( #2121 )
- bing image ( #1496 )
- duckduckgo ( #2254 )
- genius ( #2371 )
- google ( #2236 )
- google image ( #2115 )
- lobste.rs ( #2253 )
- piratebay ( #2133 )
- startpage ( #2385 )
- torrentz ( #2101 )
Removed engines:
Install scripts:
Docker image
- use Alpine 3.12 ( #1983 )
- uwsgi serves the static files directly. ( #1865 )
- fix k8s support ( #2099 )
- make docker produces clean tag version ( #2182 )
Bug fixes:
- searx.utils.HTMLTextExtractor: invalid HTML don't raise an Exception ( #2190 )
- Fix static URL ( da8b227 )
- Fix autocomplete ( #2127 )
- Fix opensearch.xml ( #2132 #2247 )
- Fix documentation build ( #2237 )
- Some fixes in the fetch languages script ( #2212 )
Special thanks to NLNet for sponsoring multiple features of this release.
v0.17.0
- New engines
- eTools
- Wikibooks
- Wikinews
- Wikiquote
- Wikisource
- Wiktionary
- Wikiversity
- Wikivoyage
- Rubygems
- Engine fixes (google, google images, startpage, gigablast, yacy)
- Private engines introduced - more details: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/blog/private-engines.html
- Greatly improved documentation - check it at https://asciimoo.github.io/searx
- Added autofocus to all search inputs
- CSP friendly oscar theme
- Added option to hide engine errors with
display_error_messages
engine option (true/false values, default is true) - Tons of accessibility fixes - see #350 for details
- More flexible branding options: configurable vcs/issue tracker links
- Added "disable all" & "allow all" options to preferences engine select
- Autocomplete keyboard navigation fixes
- Configurable category order
- Wrap long lines in infoboxes
- Added RSS subscribtion link
- Added routing directions to OSM results
- Added author and length attributes to youtube videos
- Fixed image stretch with mobile viewport in oscar theme
- Added translatable JS strings
- Better HTML annotations - engine names and endpoints are available as classes
- RTL text fixes in oscar theme
- Handle weights in accept-language HTTP headers
- Added answerer results to rss/csv output
- Added new autocomplete backends to settings.yml
- Updated opensearch.xml
- Fixed custom locale setting from settings.yml
- Translation updates
- Removed engines: faroo
Special thanks to NLNet for sponsoring multiple features of this release.
Special thanks to https://www.accessibility.nl/english for making accessibilty audit.
v0.16.0
- New engines
- Splash
- Apkmirror
- NPM search
- Invidious
- Seedpeer
- New languages
- Estonian
- Interlingua
- Lithuanian
- Tibetian
- Occitan
- Tamil
- Engine fixes (wolframalpha, google scholar, youtube, google images, seznam, google, soundcloud, google cloud, duden, btdigg, google play, bing images, flickr noapi, wikidata, dailymotion, google videos, arxiv, dictzone, fdroid, etymonline, bing, duckduckgo, startpage, voat, 1x, deviantart, digg, gigablast, mojeek, duckduckgo definitions, spotify, libgen, qwant, openstreetmap, wikipedia, ina, microsoft academic, scanr structures)
- Dependency updates
- Speed optimizations
- Initial support for offline engines
- Image format display
- Inline js scripts removed
- Infinite scroll plugin fix
- Simple theme bugfixes
- Docker image updates
- Bang expression fixes
- Result merging fixes
- New environment variable added: SEARX_BIND_ADDRESS
News
- @return42 joined the maintainer team
- This is the last release with Python2 support
Special thanks to NLNet for funding the developement of this release.
v0.15.0
-
New engines
- Acgsou (files, images, videos, music)
- Duden.de (general)
- Seznam (general)
- Mojeek (general)
-
New languages
- Catalan
- Welsh
- Basque
- Persian (Iran)
- Galician
- Dutch (Belgium)
- Telugu
- Vietnamese
-
New random answerers
- sha256
- uuidv4
-
New DOI resolsvers
- sci-hub.tw
-
Fix Vim mode on Firefox
-
Fix custom select in Oscar theme
-
Engine fixes (duckduckgo, google news, currency convert, gigablast, google scholar, wikidata image, etymonline, google videos, startpage, bing image)
-
Minor simple theme fixes
-
New Youtube icon in Oscar theme
-
Get DOI rewriters from settings.yml
-
Hide page buttons when infinite scrolling is enabled
-
Update user agent versions
-
Make Oscar style configurable
-
Make suspend times of errored engines configurable
v0.14.0
v0.13.1
v0.13.0
- New theme: simple
- New engines
- Google videos (video)
- Bing videos (video)
- Arxiv (science)
- OpenAIRE (science)
- Pubmed (science)
- Genius (music/lyrics)
- Display engine errors
- Faster startup
- Lots of engine fixes (google images, dictzone, duckduckgo, duckduckgo images, torrentz, faroo, digg, tokyotoshokan, nyaa.si, google news, gitlab, gigablast, geektimes.ru, habrahabr.ru, voat.co, base, json engine, currency convert, google)
- Shorter saved preferences URL
- Fix engine duplications in results
- Py3 compatibility fixes
- Translation updates
v0.12.0
- Python3 compatibility
- New engines
- 1337x.to (files, music, video)
- Semantic Scholar (science)
- Library Genesis (general)
- Framalibre (IT)
- Free Software Directory (IT)
- More compact result UI (oscar theme)
- Configurable static content and template path
- Spelling suggestions
- Multiple engine fixes (duckduckgo, bing, swisscows, yahoo news, bing news, twitter, bing images)
- Reduced static image size
- Docker updates
- Translation updates
Special thanks to NLNet for sponsoring multiple features of this release.