Premium 2.31 / Free 4.28

Relevanssi Premium 2.31 and free 4.28 have very short changelog lists but are still big updates. In a move that was long overdue, we have redesigned the Relevanssi settings pages. We have also consolidated all Relevanssi admin pages under one sidebar menu item. User search log and admin search used to be under Dashboard and Relevanssi settings under Settings. Now all are under Relevanssi. We believe this will make using Relevanssi easier.

The new settings pages reduce the number of tabs and group things in a more sensible way. We have also added lots of instructions and guidelines in the settings pages.

We have also taken the opportunity to remove some unnecessary settings.

• Keyword matching: It is no longer possible to set the keyword matching to “Partial words, if no whole word matches”. This was a confusing setting and in most cases, choosing either “Whole words” or “Partial words” is the correct choice. If you must use this setting, you can set the relevanssi_fuzzy option to sometimes.
• Category exclusion and restriction: The settings for overall category exclusion and restriction are removed from the search settings. These were blanket settings that were rarely necessary and often caused hard-to-solve problems if accidentally enabled. If you need to do category exclusion and restriction, it’s best to use taxonomy queries.

Other changes

• Built-in support for Document Library Pro above-documents search box. Relevanssi works well with Document Library Pro out of the box, but now also automatically takes over the search box that’s above document lists. Make sure you have the dlp_document post type indexed!
• Support for Slim SEO “Hide from search results” feature.

2.31.1 / 4.28.1

• There was an error that made it look like some searching settings were not saved, even though they were.

2.31.2 / 4.28.2

• Debugging mode had a vulnerability where dangerous things could happen if the debugging mode was enabled and a malicious actor made someone click a link they shouldn’t. This has been fixed. Always keep debugging mode disabled unless Relevanssi support asks you to enable it, and turn it off once the problem has been solved.
• Premium: Adjusting the number of excerpt snippets didn’t work.

2.31.3 / 4.28.3

• New feature: More debugging information on the admin search page.
• Minor fix: When Relevanssi does the automatic Did you mean? fallback search, the in-document highlighting now uses the corrected search term.
• Minor fix: The automatic Did you mean? fallback lost search query terms that were correct.
• Minor fix: Broken links in user search insights.
• Minor fix: Polylang searches with multiple language filters did not work for taxonomy terms.
• Minor fix: The search results breakdown can now include categories again.
• Compatibility: The broken Document Library Pro compatibility features were removed.

2.31.4 / 4.28.4

• Security: Fixes a XSS vulnerability based on indexing comments and showing comment content in excerpts.
• New feature: Did You Mean? suggestion block.
• Minor fix: Indexing document count updates didn’t work correctly.
• Premium: Minor fix: Better handling of redirect queries.
• Minor fix: Fixes problems with WPML get_term filter state.
• Premium: Minor fix: Related post setting display in Overview.
• Minor fix: No more complaints about missing post types in the index with just one post type selected.

2.31.5

• Security: Fixes a XSS vulnerability based on click tracking parameters.

2.31.6 / 4.28.5

• Security: Fixes an object injection vulnerability that happened in adding stopwords with Polylang. Exploiting this vulnerability requires editor-level access to the site.
• New feature: New filter hook relevanssi_term_balance_power lets you add a penalty for uneven search term distribution in documents.
• Premium: New feature: New filter hooks relevanssi_pinning_query_size and relevanssi_pinning_max_query_size allow adjusting pinning query sizes if long search queries go over server limits.
• Premium: Minor fix: Better handling of one-letter search terms in Did you mean? suggestions.
• Minor fix: Search results breakdowns now calculate term counts correctly.

2.31.7 / 4.28.6

• Security: Highlighting in comment text has been removed to prevent a XSS vulnerability. We will consider returning this feature in a more safe form later, but it’s also possible it will not return.
• Minor fix: Better handling of one-letter search terms in Did you mean? suggestions.

2.31.8

• Major fix: Adds the missing block editor sidebar Javascript files.

2.31.9

• Security: Admin search gave users access to draft posts from other users.
• Security: More effective block against meta query REGEXP blind oracle attack.
• New feature: New filter hook relevanssi_query_arg_allowlist controls the query arguments allowed in the admin search.

2.31.10

• Fixes fatal errors from specific meta_queries.