What's new in 2.5?

Features

• Dynamic Aggregations
• SSL support for a windows service
• Result Transformers
• Scripted Index Results
• Unbounded Results API
• New Functions for Scripted Patching API (creating new doc, debugging)
• More notifications in Changes API (replication conflicts, bulk inserts, index priorities)
• Spatial Enhancements
• NoTracking and NoCaching query customizations
• Excel integration - CSV endpoint
• MSI Installer
• Write Assurance
• Usage Northwind for sample data

Indexing

• Index locking
• Index priorities
• Index directly to memory
• Query optimizer can expand indexes

Improvements

• Better Aggressive Cache with notifications usage
• Better pre fetching algorithms for reducing IO
• More robust and better pefromance of SQL Replication
• DTC performance improvement
• Better adherence to the DTC protocol
• Will refresh the index writer every now and then, avoiding high memory costs for active indexes
• Faster error reporting by bulk inserts
• Removed db write lock and enabled completely concurrent writes

Studio

• Dynamic Reporting
• Consolidated Documents & Collections screen
• Easier settings management
• Streamlined the UI
• Validate replication information from the studio
• Can now look at a sample document while editing an index