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SearchWP version 2.9 is now available to all active license holders! The biggest change with this release is a fully rebuilt settings UI (powered by Vue) that makes managing the settings of your engines that much more straightforward and powerful.

If you’re upgrading from a previous version please have a look at the notes outlining what’s new about the settings screen in version 2.9. There are some exciting updates that can potentially improve the performance of SearchWP for existing installations!

Here’s the full changelog for version 2.9:

• [New] Redesigned engine configuration interface!
• [New] Index is now further optimized as per engine settings
• [New] New filter searchwp_weight_max to customize a maximum weight
• [New] New filter searchwp_legacy_settings_ui to use legacy settings UI
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_apply_engines_rules to control whether engine rules are considered during indexing
• [New] New filter searchwp_indexer_additional_meta_exclusions to control whether default additional Custom Fields are excluded from indexing
• [New] New filter searchwp_supports_label_{post_type}_{support} to customize the label used for a post type native attribute
• [Improvement] Additional debug statements output when enabled
• [Improvement] Better formatting of HTML comment debug output
• [Fix] Less aggressive handling of pre_get_posts during searching
• [Fix] Fix an issue with sql_mode=only_full_group_by (default in MySQL 5.7)