- 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.
- New engines
- Protein Data Bank Europe (science)
- Voat.co (general, social media)
- Online Etimology Dictionary (science)
- CCC tv (video, it)
- Searx (all categories - can rotate multiple other instances)
- Answerer functionality (see answerer section on /preferences)
- Local answerers
- Statistical functions
- Random value generator
- Result proxy support (with morty)
- Extended time range filter
- Improved search language support
- Multiple engine fixes (digbt, 500px, google news, ixquick, bing, kickass, google play movies, habrahabr, yandex)
- Minor UI improvements
- Suggestion support for JSON engine
- Result and query escaping fixes
- Configurable HTTP server version
- More robust search error handling
- Faster webapp initialization in debug mode
- Search module refactor
- Translation updates
- New engines
- Archive.is (general)
- INA (videos)
- Scanr (science)
- Google Scholar (science)
- Crossref (science)
- Openrepos (files)
- Microsoft Academic Search Engine (science)
- Hoogle (it)
- Diggbt (files)
- Dictzone (general - dictionary)
- Translated (general - translation)
- New Plugins
- Infinite scroll on results page
- DOAI rewrite
- Full theme redesign
- Display the number of results
- Filter searches by date range
- Instance config API endpoint
- Dependency version updates
- Socks proxy support for outgoing requests
- 404 page
@kvch joined the maintainer team
- New search category: science
- New engines
- Wolframalpha (science)
- Frinkiac (images)
- Arch Linux (it)
- BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (science)
- Dokuwiki (general)
- Nyaa.se (files, images, music, video)
- Reddit (general, images, news, social media)
- Torrentz.eu (files, music, video)
- Tokyo Toshokan (files, music, video)
- F-Droid (files)
- Erowid (general)
- Bitbucket (it)
- GitLab (it)
- Geektimes (it)
- Habrahabr (it)
- New plugins
- Open links in new tab
- Vim hotkeys for better navigation
- Wikipedia/Mediawiki engine improvements
- Configurable instance name
- Configurable connection pool size
- Fixed broken google engine
- Better docker image
- Images in standard results
- Fixed and refactored user settings (Warning: backward incompatibility - you have to reset your custom engine preferences)
- Suspending engines on errors
- Simplified development/deployment tooling
- Translation updates
- Multilingual autocompleter
- Qwant autocompleter backend
- More efficient result parsing
- Rewritten google engine to prevent app crashes
- Other engine fixes/tweaks
- Bing news
- Btdigg
- Gigablast
- Google images
- Startpage
New documentation page is available: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx
- New engines
- Blekko (image)
- Gigablast (general)
- Spotify (music)
- Swisscows (general, images)
- Qwant (general, images, news, social media)
- Plugin system
- New plugins
- HTTPS rewrite
- Search on cagetory select
- User information
- Tracker url part remover
- Multiple outgoing IP and HTTP/HTTPS proxy support
- New autocompleter: startpage
- New theme: pix-art
- Settings file structure change
- Fabfile, docker deployment
- Optional safesearch result filter
- Force HTTPS in engines if possible
- Disabled HTTP referrer on outgoing links
- Display cookie information
- Prettier search URLs
- Right-to-left text handling in themes
- Translation updates (New locales: Chinese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Romanian)
- pyopenssl
- ndg-httpsclient
- pyasn1
- pyasn1-modules
- certifi
@dalf joined the maintainer "team"
- New engines
- Digg
- Google Play Store
- Deezer
- Btdigg
- Mixcloud
- 1px
- Image proxy
- Search speed improvements
- Autocompletition of engines, shortcuts and supported languages
- Translation updates (New locales: Turkish, Russian)
- Default theme changed to oscar
- Settings option to disable engines by default
- UI code cleanup and restructure
- Engine tests
- Multiple engine bug fixes and tweaks
- Config option to set default interface locale
- Flexible result template handling
- Application logging and sophisticated engine exception tracebacks
- Kickass torrent size display (oscar theme)
- pygments - http://pygments.org/
- Changelog added
- New engines
- Flickr (api)
- Subtitleseeker
- photon
- 500px
- Searchcode
- Searchcode doc
- Kickass torrent
- Precise search request timeout handling
- Better favicon support
- Stricter config parsing
- Translation updates
- Multiple ui fixes
- Flickr (noapi) engine fix
- Pep8 fixes
Health status of searx instances and engines: http://stats.searx.oe5tpo.com (source: https://github.com/pointhi/searx_stats)