Free 3.3.1

Version 3.3.1 for the free Relevanssi is out now. It fixes a MySQL injection vulnerability, adds new features, removes the cache and improves the way excerpts and highlights work. Indexing should be faster as well.

• Improvements to excerpts: excerpts with phrases work much better now, and the excerpt creation logic has been improved: the excerpts are now better. The process takes a bit more time, though.
• Allowing HTML tags in excerpts could lead to those tags being left open. Relevanssi will now try to close open HTML tags in excerpts.
• Allowed tags were not controlled in comments. They are now.
• Highlighting in documents didn’t always work; it should be more reliable now.
• Non-integer values are removed from post__in and post__not_in before processing them.
• Query variables p and page_id are now supported.
• Relevanssi now understands date_query variables as well.
• The original post excerpt is stored in $post->original_excerpt.
• Taxonomy search works better with term id parameters (for example from wp_category_dropdown).
• Errors about $wpdb->prepare() missing an argument removed.
• New functions: relevanssi_the_title() and relevanssi_get_the_title() can be used to display highlighted titles in search results.
• The old title highlighting method has been disabled, because it caused highlights in wrong places. Now the highlighted title is stored in $post->highlighted_post_title, take it from there or use the Relevanssi title functions to display it.
• Polylang and WPML support was adjusted to perform better in edge cases.
• Indexing is faster, thanks to some improved code from Tom Novelli.
• MySQL injection attack vulnerability removed.
• The cache feature is now removed. Relevanssi should automatically drop the cache tables.
• New filter: relevanssi_indexing_data lets you modify the data before it’s indexed.