Search Improvements

XF2 Addons Search Improvements 2.17.4
A collection of improvements to XF's Enhanced Search and some for XenForo's default MySQL search

  • Adjust defaults for autocomplete boosts to better favor exact matches.
    • Affects non-default "Tag/Username auto-complete search field boosts" option
  • Improve handling of expired search links to return a 404 if any errors exist with the arguments as this stops google search indexer from complaining about the previous 400 error code
  • For XF2.3.4+, check "View server information" admin permission when viewing elasticsearch statistics
  • Fix when logging debugging for some search queries would throw unexpectedly
  • Enhanced specialized search with additional debug capabilities
  • Update specialized search to support SearchOrder type
  • Fix XF2.1 when using specialized search functionality (aka fix tag/user autocomplete with XF2.1)
  • Improve 3rd party support for specialized search index support
  • Search extensions API changes for better XF compatibility, required for Conversation Improvements/Essentials
    • XF2.3 compatibility fix for custom "SearchOrder" class
    • Simplify asSqlConstraint code (expected to always return an array)
    • AbstractConstraint::setMatchType needs to normalize to an int for MetadataConstraint::matchType
  • Update installer to verify ElasticSearch index does not require rebuilding when this add-on is installed/updated/rebuilt
  • Return 400 status code instead of 200 when the search query is wrong
  • Restore XF2.1 support
  • XF2.3 support
  • Fix "[E_DEPRECATED] Use of "parent" in callables is deprecated" on search
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