It has been a while since we released a new version of searx. Thus, we have lots of new things to offer, like new engines, autocompleter, plugins, etc. We got numerous contributions from ~30 new developers, but also we got many PRs from our recurring contributors.
SearXNG development has been started in the middle of 2021 as a fork of the
searx project. Since it beginning its a rolling release pulled from SearXNG's
master branch:
Thank you so much for you support! We couldn't have release so many awesome things without you!
- The CHANGELOG_ is replaced by the commit history of the master branch.
- Since merged PR-229_, the version number is based on the git commit
- drop Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) support ( #2619 )
- replace ubu1910 image by ubu2010 image ( #2435 )
- LXC switch to Fedora 33 / Fedora 31 reached its EOL #2634 ( #2634 )
- add package which to CentOS-7 boilerplate ( #2623 )
- use SEARX_SETTINGS_TEMPLATE from .config environment ( #2417 )
- determine path to makefile.lxc in a LXC ( #2399 )
- remove unused code ( #2401 #2497 )
- support git versions <v2.22 ( #2620 )
Announcement
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We, the searx maintainer team, would like to say a huge thank you for everybody who had been involved in the development of searx or supported us in the past 7 years - making our first stable release available. Special thanks to [NLNet](https://nlnet.nl) for sponsoring multiple features of this release.
0.18.0 2020.12.14
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Core
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- drop Python 2 support ( #2137 #2244 )
- separate index and search routes ( #1681 ). ⚠️ add & remove your searx instance(s) from your browser.