XAIRA 1.25 RELEASE NOTES

Note: there was no released version 1.24 of Xaira, although there have been a number of candidate builds with that number over the last year.
The main feature of this release has been updating the source to support current versions of the support libraries. There are no new features.
This version is tagged xaira125 in svn.

BUGS FIXED

Several minor bugs reported in version 1.23 were fixed in candidate releases of 1.24. These are not listed here.

Since migration to SVN, the following bugs have been fixed: 
1. Fix client rebars, broken by migration to latest MFC.
2. Fix bug tokenising short strings (<25 chars)
3. Fix PHP getXairaServer() function
4. Grey corpus rules option in phrase query when there are no rules
5. Fix indexer crash on  very small corpora

DEPENDENCIES

This release must be built with the following versions of the support libraries:
- Xerces 3.0.1
- ICU 4.2.1
- Xalan 1.11. (Note that this is an overnight build rather than a released version: there is as yet no version of Xalan that works with Xerces 3.)
- PHP 5.2.8.

It has been compiled using 
- Visual Studio 2008.
- gcc 4.3.3 
Although these two compilers offer 64 bit facilities, there is no 64-bit support in this release of XAIRA. 64 bit support will be added in a future release.

The Windows version is supplied as an MSI which has been tested under XP, Vista, and Windows7.
The Unix version is currently a source only distribution.


