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Yep, you read that right, this is an alpha release  It's been maintenance releases for some time now, but there's been a metric butt-load of work done recently, which warrants some preliminary releases.
The main feature is a new search engine. When I first added a search engine to Awasu, back in the Mesozoic Era, there was really only one choice, due to licensing issues. It was slow, had a tendency to crash, and while I did what I could to fix it up, I was never really happy with it  However, since then, SQLite has added full-text search to their database engine, which I've used in several other projects, and have never been anything other than very happy with it 
It's finally landed in Awasu, and the results are outstanding. It's blazing fast - I've seen speed-ups of up to 25x - and while I don't have any hard numbers for it, my Awasu just feels so much snappier 
 It also allows for matching search terms to be highlighted, something that was sorely missed in the old legacy search engine.
It looks especially good with search channels
TBH, I don't use search much myself, so it probably didn't get as much dog-fooding as other parts of Awasu, but I gave things a thorough work-out while testing the new features, and smoothed out some of the rough edges, so the workflow should be a lot better now.
Oh, and everything was 100% built by this meatbag... 
I timed the release cycle a bit better this time around  , and so on this Awasu Day 2025, I'm pleased to announce the release of Awasu 3.4.
This is a maintenance release, with performance improvements, and some new features, notably support for newer HTML tags and some additional HTTP server responses.
And as before, if you have a 3.x paid version of Awasu, this one's on the house
The first release candidate for the next version of Awasu is now available here.
This is a maintenance release, with a number of small features and enhancements. Reviewing the change list, I note that there were no bug fixes, which is kinda nice
As before, if you have a 3.x license, this one's on the house
Get it here!
This is a maintenance release, with mostly bug fixes and performance improvements, and since it's been a while since the last release, the support period for the paid versions has been extended. So, if you purchased (or renewed to) version 3.2, you'll be eligible for this version.
I'm off to the pub 
It's been a while since the last release, but the first release candidate for the next version of Awasu is available here.
This is a maintenance release, with mostly bug fixes and performance improvements, and since it's been a while since the last release, the support period for the paid versions has been extended. So, if you purchased (or renewed to) version 3.2, you'll be eligible for this version.
Another year, another Awasu Day, and it's with great pleasure I can release the latest and greatest in the long line of Awasu releases: Awasu v3.2.
This release is faster, slicker and just damn prettier than ever before, with numerous improvements, in particular, to the search engine.
Check it out, not least of all because there will be, yet again, no price increase , and if you purchased in the last 2 years, this release will be included as part of that i.e. completely free.
And once you're up and running, don't forget about one of the key features of Awasu, it's extensibility, with many free plugins here (e.g. skins, Office integration, geo-location and translation tools), as well as a bunch of paid ones e.g. monitoring:
Have fun with this one, and I'm definitely off to the pub...
One thing that was quietly introduced in the recent 3.2.rc1 release was support for running on Linux, under Wine. This is something that I've been looking at for quite a while already, and Awasu has run reasonably well like this, but I've finally bit the bullet and made some changes to the code to help with the process.
Most of the issues relate to the embedded browser. They seem to have included a version of Gecko, tricked out to look like Internet Explorer, which mostly works, but Awasu has some sophisticated interactions with its embedded browser, which may or may not work. All the issues I came across have been documented in the wiki, along with work-arounds and other notes.
I'm one of those people who have become increasingly disillusioned with the direction Windows has taken recently, and while I've used Linux on the server for many years, it's never been much fun on the desktop. However, Gnome on Fedora is not bad these days, and given that my recent foray into the iUniverse has left me scarred for life, it looks like Linux might it, and so this version of Awasu will be getting a lot more dog-fooding in the near future...
Awasu 3.2.rc1 has been released here. This is a release candidate for 3.2, so it comes as an installer, and all you need to do is run it and it will auto-magically upgrade your installation.
This release contains numerous optimizations and performance improvements to speed up all operations, and... nah, just kidding , all that work's been done already. This release contains a few bug fixes and UI tweaks, but there is one change of note: the Personal Edition now allows SSL feeds i.e. feeds that use the more secure https:// URL's (instead of http://).
There's been a big push over the past year or two to get people to use SSL, in particular with the major browsers slowly starting to flag web sites that don't use it as potentially insecure. SSL feeds had previously been available only in paid versions of Awasu, but can now be used even in the free Personal Edition, as well. It's a small thing, in the grand scheme of things, but it's our contribution to helping make the web a safer place
Have fun, and if all goes well, this will become the final 3.2 release.
Awasu 3.1.1 has been released here.
Lots of Awasu goodness in this release, with numerous changes to speed up the search engine, and also to optimize the shutdown process, which is much quicker and snappier now.
This release cycle will be shorter than the others, so get yourself set up with this one; the 3.2 release candidate is just around the corner...
Just a quick alpha release to tie up some loose ends from the rather extensive work done in the previous release. Nothing earth-shattering to report, just more of the Awasu goodness we all know and love , and the 3.1.1 beta will be hot on its heels in the new year...
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