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v1.1.0

07 Aug 15:49
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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

Fixes

Plugins

New

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

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

Autocomplete

Other enhancements

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.1.0

1.0.0

27 Mar 19:38
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Core:

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:

Fixed engines:

Updated engines:

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}.* and books/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

14 Dec 20:02
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Core:

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-yml
  • enabled_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:

Updated engines:

Fixed engines:

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

09 Jul 15:40
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  • 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

30 Jan 12:56
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  • 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

06 Jan 21:34
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  • 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

18 Feb 23:24
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  • New theme: oscar-logicodev dark
  • New engines
    • AskSteem (general)
  • Autocompleter fix for py3
  • Engine fixes (pdbe, pubmed, gigablast, google, yacy, bing videos, microsoft academic)
  • "All" option is removed from languages
  • Minor UI changes
  • Translation updates

v0.13.1

23 Nov 17:00
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v0.13.0

21 Nov 18:35
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  • 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

04 Jun 11:21
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  • 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.