pagefind

Hey! This is a big one, so I thought we'd give a beta release a try. This release addresses a lot of long-standing issues and feature requests, alongside delivering an entirely new search UI.

Pagefind Component UI

This is the main reason for a beta release here. Writing a new ground-up UI system for Pagefind has been a big job, and I would love to get some more eyes on it before we send it...

Core Features & Improvements

• Added the "Include Characters" option to allow indexing of specific special characters.
  • See 📘 Indexing Special Characters.
• Reduced filesizes for the Pagefind WebAssembly modules.
• Added FreeBSD as a supported platform (PR #813 — thanks @nguthiru !)
• Fixed an issue where matches in co...

Core Features & Improvements

• Added --quiet and --silent flags when running the Pagefind CLI, which reduce the logging output to only warnings or only errors respectively.
• Stablized the Pagefind Rust library.
  • Thanks to @cdxker for leading this in #751 ❤️
  • This library interface has feature parity with the Node and Python indexing APIs...

Core Features & Improvements

• Added Python bindings for indexing sites with Pagefind. This has feature parity with the Node/npx binary wrapper for running Pagefind, as well as feature parity with the NodeJS Indexing API for Pagefind.
  • Enormous thanks to @SKalt for implementing this in #672 ❤️
  • For documentation, see [📘 Installation > Running via Python](https://pagefind.app/docs/insta...

Fixes & Tweaks

• Fixes an issue where internal anchor and weight tokens would leak when captured in meta or filter attributes.
• Improves segmentation for extended languages (PR #600 — thanks @hamano !).
• Improves Pagefind's processing of "index.html" URLs (PR #604 — thanks @dscho !).
• Fixes some instances of incorrect types in the Pagefind NodeJS API (PRs #642 & #655 — thanks @vanyauhal...