Changelog

v0.2.7 (2025-10-16)

Features

• add debug logging for prune search (3348e3f)
• revert back to using index as storage (7c0e372)
• add icon to OpenSearch Description XML (5cc6ab7)
• serve assets from root (60b8ef0)
• add favicon (43ad85a)

Fixes

• save metadata after import (fce18f9)
• incorrect javascript linking (e0bbccf)

v0.2.6 (2025-10-06)

Features

• restart instead of stopping service during generation switches (d94a199)
• use sd_notify for watchdog and status notification (49031e3)

Fixes

• incorrectly selecting too many entities to prune (eeac61c)
• avoid listener error on shutdown (6d79f11)
• CSS not allowed by subresource integrity (disable for now) (c4dc9b2)

v0.2.5 (2025-09-03)

Features

• also prune storage and index on SIGUSR1 (afc540f)
• improve logging of pruning process (dd9ca0b)
• improve logging of errors in source ID handler (7f75159)
• include search query in error messages (77a8dec)
• make manual fetch always update sources (ff56604)

Fixes

• abort pruning if too many entities selected (6ae7560)

v0.2.4 (2025-08-25)

Features

• storage: respect –replace flag (abef2e5)
• improve error logging during import (bc04964)

Fixes

• not re-indexing despite –reindex argument (5afd91c)

v0.2.3 (2025-08-25)

Features

• re- ingest/index on SIGUSR1/2 (832214d)
• listen for SIGHUP if running in a terminal (15a5b32)

Fixes

• always re-index if storage is (re-)created (12a29a5)
• invalid config generated by nixos module (0da8640)
• unable to set log level from nixos module (6d42ad1)
• add missing prefix to version link in footer (5c14549)

v0.2.2 (2025-08-21)

Features

• disable storm internal logging (180d4cf)
• make web search timeout configurable (8a1972a)

Fixes

• error setting up programs DB (3be8a83)
• enable graceful shutdown (ff3d5a3)

v0.2.1 (2025-08-13)

Features

• remove entities not present in current import (d6d0bf3)
• pretty-print schema metadata file (85276e9)
• store import timestamp on entities (35226fd)

Fixes

• storage error (f896b68)
• error when exporting from storage to index (131ccd3)

v0.2.0 (2025-08-13)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGE

• searchix-web requires serve argument

Features

• add check-config command (6196d25)
• split storage import and indexing (40d106a)
• store data separate from search index (520dcca)
• add offline flag to reindex (mostly for dev) (21e9e77)
• improve tracking and display of import runs (faf67ad)
• add –fetch action to populate data/sources (001c5b4)
• make downloaded filenames consistent (a49d405)
• store fetched files in data directory (bdb5a54)
• limit file operations using os.Root (1d518f4)
• switch from errors to fault (3dfbd8d)

Fixes

• update search index as part of update timer (a1bbe1c)
• styles broken after updates due to stale cache/hash mismatch (450ff2d)
• handle missing manpage URL map without aborting (a34ba86)
• set date of files copied from nix store (762d97b)
• don’t try to parse an empty last-modified header (cee1276)
• error saving metadata when re-indexing (3e92836)
• don’t log and exit on graceful shutdown timeout (1db432a)
• import package even with incorrect ‘homePage’ casing (4c66828)
• re-enable margin-top for headers in full page view (7b08d54)

v0.1.46 (2025-07-07)

Features

• enable advanced query string syntax (465a9a8)
• improve matching of multiple keywords (516f3e9)

v0.1.45 (2025-07-07)

Features

• add link to status page (35aa773)

Fixes

• set default values for custom sources (756d8f1)
• avoid panic when rendering combined data (1685f38)
• panic rendering corrupted data (a2b341d)

v0.1.44 (2025-06-25)

Fixes

• descriptions truncated by one character (e7d8aad)
• remove trailing full-stop from single-sentence descriptions (c102058)

v0.1.43 (2025-06-12)

Fixes

• first sentence of some descriptions cut off (f608afd)

v0.1.42 (2025-06-12)

Features

• link man pages like how NixOS does it (2f2d869)
• parse {man} in markdown documentation (813e5a2)
• parse {file} in markdown documentation (a4c441f)
• parse {var} in markdown documentation (d296272)
• parse {env} in markdown documentation (7ab69fb)
• parse {command} in markdown documentation (cb907ad)
• parse {option} in markdown documentation (0ba69e5)
• enable parsing of markdown fences (2d958a5)
• create option link parser (93b800b)

v0.1.41 (2025-06-09)

Features

• improve logging of import process (e0e35b1)
• enable automatic re-indexing on schema version changes (1d4eff7)

Fixes

• matching long prefixes in option names (regression) (d2bc9be)
• don’t quit after generating index for first time (7514e61)
• keep names_with_underscores as single tokens (87f2c60)

v0.1.40 (2025-05-29)

Fixes

• exact/prefix matches for package name/attr not shown (1f7e995)

v0.1.39 (2025-05-29)

Fixes

• match option name prefixes even when len > 25 (61f28d3)

v0.1.38 (2025-04-13)

Features

• improve display on smaller screens (8efd1e2)
• hide description table on smaller screens (1b8b6b5)

Fixes

• scroll header nav instead of wrapping words on tablets (8d11809)

v0.1.37 (2025-04-06)

Fixes

• package definition link regressed since v0.1.31 (0cceea8)
• missing base.css in package lib folder (2b50775)

v0.1.36 (2025-04-03)

Features

• prioritise whole-phrase matches (c6bc629)
• add flag to generate error page for web server (5127a98)

Fixes

• prioritise exact attribute matches above all (c2bbda8)
• erroneously running importer on every startup (e699eaa)

v0.1.35 (2025-04-02)

Features

• enable searching homepages field (0ceaf8e)
• improve logging of next import time (00b189d)
• make index batch size configurable (f38ccb5)
• list package platforms in detail view (f8f4f74)

Fixes

• importer timeout ignored in scheduler (75c2afd)

v0.1.34 (2025-03-24)

Features

• buffer fetched HTTP bodies (abf819d)
• re-index on startup if last run > 24 hours ago (6984d4d)

Fixes

• another typo in search markup (efaaf3f)
• typo in indexing status (fecc84f)
• nil pointer panic in importer (0fb48cf)

v0.1.33 (2025-03-24)

Fixes

• build failure due to outdated file reference (dd58d99)

v0.1.32 (2025-03-24)

Features

• improve handling of long option descriptions (4fa3ceb)
• widen body (1c56ff7)
• improve display of indexing times and durations (297a7a2)
• link directly to version changelog in footer (7d4ff28)
• js: allow opening details in new tab/window (03fa0eb)
• promote prefix/exact name/attr matches (1328df9)

Fixes

• missing content of last index run time (0dc2635)
• block single-character queries (0cd9a24)
• don’t attempt to load more than configured number of results (d39204e)

v0.1.31 (2025-03-22)

Features

• nixos-module: allow setting environment variables (e8fbdf3)
• nixos-module: allow setting environment variables (78fc3e6)
• demote NUR results in combined search (782b636)
• promote results with literal or prefix name matches (49a07fb)
• make list of source links dynamic (7247322)
• enable NUR package import (2705e97)
• wrap search form in semantic element (ff1e953)
• show last/next/current indexing run time (383ee78)
• shorten shutdown timeout in development (49e3004)
• Convert templ components to gomponents (896d844)

Fixes

• remove rendering from search timeout restriction (d4ec6e5)
• package programs displayed off-centre (de98780)
• footer spacing (c0c02ac)
• detach version from rest of footer text (6b342b8)
• wrong pagination links for combined results (9102aef)

v0.1.30 (2025-03-18)

Features

• show version number and link in footer (5762645)
• split compound words in names into n-grams (b650b99)

v0.1.29 (2025-03-17)

Fixes

• nil pointer deference in nixpkgs-channel fetcher (573e24b)
• build error (incomplete commit) (d5e1147)
• build error caused by incomplete commit (f775db9)

v0.1.28 (2025-03-12)

Fixes

• js error due to missing class on nav menu item (9af2747)

v0.1.27 (2025-03-11)

Fixes

• sources disabled by default in NixOS module (333bd2f)

v0.1.26 (2025-03-11)

Fixes

• nixos import fails with default settings (5cdcac9)

v0.1.25 (2025-03-11)

Features

• link to referenced projects (cb37af4)

Fixes

• panic when source order > number of sources (d99fb7b)

v0.1.24 (2025-03-11)

Fixes

• js: switching source after reset uses old query (12947e5)

v0.1.23 (2025-03-10)

Fixes

• remove duplicate link to source code (1fe30ce)

v0.1.22 (2025-03-10)

Features

• default to combined search on root path (05a32bd)

v0.1.21 (2025-03-06)

Features

• prioritise exact matches on programs/attr/name field (6c9a3a9)
• improve relevance with compound words (24e3fc9)

Fixes

• re-index refusing to delete data directory with programs.db (3ee8248)

v0.1.20 (2025-01-24)

Fixes

• build failure (bad rebase) (2d6315f)

v0.1.19 (2025-01-24)

Fixes

• import slowdown when querying programs database (1e50453)

v0.1.18 (2025-01-20)

Features

• allow HTTP request logging to be disabled (584d295)
• sentry: trace all transactions (19d8046)

v0.1.17 (2025-01-19)

Fixes

• sentry: report correct HTTP path in traces (eece88d)
• use importer configured timeout for sentry check-ins (b706b5a)

v0.1.16 (2025-01-15)

Features

• enable searching via program names for multi-program packages (7aea6aa)

Fixes

• dev: fix CSP not working in dev mode behind reverse proxy (b26ddba)

v0.1.15 (2025-01-05)

Features

• offer to show all results on one page (if < 10000) (9207642)

Fixes

• dev: overwrite previous asset hash on change (d289e54)

v0.1.14 (2025-01-02)

Features

• show scores in results table in dev mode (58643f3)

Fixes

• boost non-stemmed matches over stemmed matches (797c6e2)

v0.1.13 (2024-12-30)

Features

• increase results per page (e1787bf)
• de-rank packages on ‘all’ search (df5db96)

v0.1.12 (2024-12-04)

Fixes

• use UTC time for fetch/import timer (c92530b)
• enable using module in pure evaluation mode (ec4946e)
• enable using module in pure evaluation mode (174ad04)

v0.1.11 (2024-11-20)

Features

• apply stemming to search index terms (72d56a6)

v0.1.10 (2024-11-10)

Fixes

• search all missing expected results (8656f47)

v0.1.9 (2024-08-17)

Fixes

• don’t error when item not found (b427c26)
• tell browsers not to capitalise search input (faf4d0e)

v0.1.8 (2024-07-13)

Features

• enable combined search (6781684)
• more structured logging (94b21b2)

Fixes

• nil panics rendering last page of search results (b1fd710)
• panic rendering error pages (ee83dfd)
• opensearch searches not using input query (a5f58bc)
• extra data after error parsing query string (4423458)
• panic rendering search results (5a2d54d)
• panic on search error (f076b5b)

v0.1.7 (2024-06-29)

Features

• add message for users with javascript disabled (e500a10)

Fixes

• blank modal when using browser navigation (8ef4bc9)
• duplicated results tables via JS search (e0d86be)
• panic rendering results (dbeddce)
• incorrect formatting of options results headers (107d54a)

v0.1.6 (2024-06-19)

Features

• add low-memory mode (63599c7)
• enable configuration of flags as environment variables (a495a67)
• display results in a table, showing details on click (408aed0)
• add detail pages for packages/options (d40c0e1)
• use stale-while-revalidate instead of immutable asset paths (872ae5d)
• serve assets via immutable paths (896926a)
• make security headers stricter (b537694)
• enable sub-resource integrity for assets (4698a97)

Fixes

• create index metadata when index exists and meta doesn’t (e665146)
• moving through search history shows no results (66b2556)
• nil pointer exception when (re-)indexing (2c4a19a)

v0.1.5 (2024-05-29)

Features

• improve search relevance by boosting keyword matches (73185e4)
• support cleartext HTTP/2 (i.e. from a reverse proxy) (16b4337)

Fixes

• missing alternate forms of packages with the same name (838e178)
• incorrect (switched) behaviour of –update/–replace (97021f7)
• re-enable exit –update/–replace (a5e3c14)
• check for nil pointers in NewMux (2c1491d)

v0.1.4 (2024-05-23)

Features

• stream files directly from fetcher to importer (0dbfe37)
• add –update flag to force-update index and exit (9c790c1)
• config: use enums’ string representations to print defaults (a90419a)
• config: print durations and URLs with human values (0f55080)
• show default configuration with –print-default-config (60a1569)

Fixes

• abort import of source on batch processing errors (3053e41)
• web: fetch host from request, not header, where it’s expected (e69d785)
• nix: generate default baseURL from listen address and port (027db43)
• make fetcher check on creation that it supports Source.Importer (b77a24f)
• importer: abort import of current source in case of error (c821da1)
• nix cannot read date/time TOML values from default config (202317d)
• duplicate error logging on config parse error (6037d5c)

v0.1.3 (2024-05-17)

Features

• ui: enable resetting form by clicking current source link (6ea953b)
• render markdown in packages’ LongDescription (934a069)
• use attribute instead of name for packages (698881a)

v0.1.2 (2024-05-17)

Fixes

• css: pagination styles not applied (f10543d)

v0.1.1 (2024-05-17)

Fixes

• nix: missing version variable in build (8a1c2e8)

v0.1.0 (2024-05-17)

Features

• display more information about packages (8df293c)
• error on non-matching configuration entries (6488132)
• automatically add/remove sources to/from index (9f241bf)
• support searching packages (05e6197)
• index: enable storage of package data (42611df)
• improve accessibility and browser behaviour (054d2b3)
• exit after rebuilding index if --replace is specified (d6e117b)
• decode brotli-compressed files (b8da487)
• extract and store package set (e.g. nodePackages) (8b78a98)
• importer: process packages from nixpkgs package.json (51f774a)
• add caching header (except on error pages) (eb88ab1)
• monitor import jobs via sentry (fa97ca8)
• add browser search engines via opensearch description (5521173)
• print clickable URL on startup in dev mode (121ec2b)
• render HTML error pages (2d5ee7b)
• module: add default for Web.Environment (634534d)
• add DownloadOptions importer (fetches pre-built options.json) (df3b6bf)
• log on startup if index doesn’t exist (5f9c7ef)
• rely on system to show log times in production (37afa6c)
• allow adding extra HTML to the body via configuration (7077a37)
• enable using channel URLs if unable to resolve via NIX_PATH (fe79b45)
• nix module (fb25a97)
• clicking another source re-uses query (42bcd10)
• js: save and restore input state with history (b517b1e)
• version search index mapping schema and warn if outdated (76f18d6)
• dynamically link to sources (631c02a)
• format server listen address as URL (f42dfe7)
• enable index path to be configured (0986e86)
• importer: make timeout configurable via command-line (1db7c2a)
• importer: add –replace flag to overwrite existing index (778e1d7)
• allow configuration of log level (99d5507)
• enable setting config file path via command line (14c1dda)
• import sources from configuration in go code and index options (e062ca7)
• make configuration optional (967f6fd)
• improve search by using a custom tokeniser for option names (24b81a6)
• paginate search results (973345a)
• search multiple sources (212e5cf)
• search one set of options (c15b142)
• link to exact commits in NixOS/nixpkgs (8c13320)
• render markdown examples (c0fbf11)
• link to nixpkgs on github for declarations (71de547)
• auto-linkify URLs in markdown (0d65324)
• render markdown in option descriptions (2430f46)
• browser history management (87ec9ec)
• show metadata in grid (b682ed9)
• frontend search implementation (5b9e67f)
• create nixos options.json importer (1fb64b0)
• add basic input frontend (0945da8)
• add css (177c2de)
• watch and live reload in development (8411fb4)
• serve a very basic html template (7360307)

Fixes

• render errors as HTML given correct content-type (2edf3f0)
• missing last page of search results (f9b0340)
• store only data from current entity in index (3b877b3)
• nil pointer when updating all sources (041ebd2)
• don’t panic when re-indexing if fetcher did not update (43fe431)
• css: support browsers without css nesting (29f2099)
• logging: track whether headers are written properly (c5c9f72)
• rebuild index when –replace is specified (d558039)
• bad git conflict resolution (d65d80e)
• flake: remove overlay export (8e22448)
• importer: don’t create duplicate nested directories (a94632e)
• css: barely-visible text in dark mode (3fd832b)
• module: include nix in path (67e1a28)
• config: show read URL on parse failure (45432ae)
• module: allow setting sentry DSN (f700a32)
• don’t panic on TOML decode error (53c9fb2)
• linking to wrong declaration URLs (df77930)
• import: don’t remove index if there are errors (ef50bbf)
• js: make reload after error execute attempted search (84acac6)
• js error when no results found (628c2a8)
• missing menu on search pages (793c89a)
• no results for home-manager search (0eccb18)
• config: add default channel name for home-manager (3554d8a)
• missing menu on search page (42dd2f6)
• pointer type mismatch (8ab9adf)
• js: pushstate also on errors, so that the user can refresh (453ae85)
• js: null value error for pagination (83f6751)
• incorrect default/example values stored after processing (9f1a4aa)
• incorrect data shown for default and example option keys (5e008c2)
• panic on importing darwin options (9b24b80)
• use options exposed via user’s channel instead of ours (1fdd1f8)
• css: first grid row too tall (3c54a3f)