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Latest updates

  • New Windows build: V8.0 build 1029 (12 Aug 2025)
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Version 8.0.1029 (12 Aug 2025)

  • Fixed issue with weekly report when date range is across two different years
  • Fixed main tabs not appearing in the main window initially
  • Fixed autocomplete not working for suggestions containing apostrophes
  • Removed 'win10 only' text from 'Scan Options > Enable OCR for image files' option

Version 8.0.1028 (18 Feb 2025)

  • Fixed issue where indexer did not determine correct filetype for some files when running multiple threads
  • Fixed 'Transferred a partial file' errors when uploading files on some machines

Version 8.0.1027 (15 Jan 2025)

  • Added OCR for PDFs in Spider Mode (previously only in offline mode)
  • Fixed OCR output not displaying in search results if retrieve meta/technical options were disabled
  • Fixed .eml files being skipped during indexing
  • Fixed some deprecated/warnings in php search script

Version 8.0.1026 (2 Oct 2024)

  • Fixed https:// links not working when generating search reports
  • Fixed OCR not working on machines without en-US language installed
  • Fixed OCR result not displaying non-ASCII text
  • Fixed EXIF warnings when used with UTF8 filenames
  • Fixed some .tmp files not being deleted while spidering
  • Changed to ignore URLs from commented out text

Version 8.0.1025 (17 Jul 2024)

  • Fixed title not being pulled from PDF metadata
  • Fixed slow indexing time of PDF files

Version 8.0.1024 (9 Jul 2024)

  • Fixed possible PHP warning when trying to access array offset
  • Fixed incorrectly formatted message box
  • Fixed 'Retrieve internal meta information' option not saving to config for PDF files
  • Added '%' sign as a possible join character

Version 8.0.1023 (9 Apr 2024)

  • Fixed issue where PDF and DJVU files with non-ascii names were not being processed properly
  • Fixed issue displaying Cryllic text when using Linux CGI option
  • Fixed issue with total bytes scanned, peak physical & virtual memory not going past 2GB

Version 8.0.1022 (17 Jan 2024)

  • Fixed possible crash when FTP upload fails
  • Fixed issue where some file types was missing date time information
  • Fixed issue where some file types were not being found when using data range search

Version 8.0.1021 (28 Nov 2023)

  • Fixed FTP upload issue when uploading a empty file

Version 8.0.1020 (26 Oct 2023)

  • Fixed some deprecated warnings when using the domain diversity option on newer PHP versions
  • Added check to detect UTF-8 text files without a BOM
  • Fixed possible looping when indexing a invalid MBOX file
  • Updated installer to include DisplayVersion for the uninstaller executable

Version 8.0.1019 (7 Feb 2023)

  • Fixed issue with looping URLs
  • Added support for .desc files for various video and archive files
  • Fixed issue with video .desc option not being saved
  • Add exception for Win32 CGI scripts to not use double slashes for file paths
  • Fixed searchwords logfile pathing for Windows CGI scripts
  • Fixed bug where uploading large index files would timeout but had finished uploading ok
  • Fixed bug where help links did not open to related topic in help file
  • Fixed Zoom Documentation link to open the .exe instead of the old .html files
  • Updated Italian translation

Version 8.0.1018 (1 Jul 2022)

  • Fixed some warnings/notices in the report.php file with newer PHP versions
  • Fixed a FTP bug when uploading huge files
  • Widened FTP folder/path edit box
  • Updated autocomplete dropdown to adjust to resized browser window

Version 8.0.1017 (8 Sep 2021)

  • Improved handling of XML indexing (extended max word length)
  • Fixed bug in PHP script when Domain Diversity is enabled, less number of results may appear on a search page.
  • Fixed corrupt index bug when indexing PST and MSG email archives with header information.
  • Fixed crash bug when indexing some corrupted DOC, PPT or XLS files.
  • Added thread information in debug index log.

Version 8.0.1016 (7 May 2021)

  • Fixed CGI bug with extra text appearing after highlighting
  • Fixed CGI bug with exact phrase searching in meta description
  • Fixed CGI crash bug with exact phrase searches
  • Updated exiftool build

Version 8.0.1015 (11 Jan 2021)

  • Fixed crash bug when exporting recommended links or synonyms.
  • Fixed bug with thumbnail URLs not being resolved correctly when thumbnail (or ZOOMIMAGE) URL is a relative path, and the Base URL is also a relative path.
  • Fixed bug with FTP upload menu shortcut

Version 8.0.1014 (16 Dec 2020)

  • Fixed bug with redirects causing duplicate URLs to be indexed.
  • Fixed bugs relating to the following error messages: 'Error: 7z.dll has not been initialized' and 'Error: Failed to load C:\Program Files\7z64.dll'
  • Fixed bug when 'Parse for links in JavaScript code' is enabled, causing ZOOMIMAGE meta tag to be ignored.

Version 8.0.1013 (16 Nov 2020)

  • Added indexing of headers and footers in DOCX files.
  • Fixed bug with 'Parse for links in JS' causing ZOOMIMAGE meta tags to be ignored.

Version 8.0.1012 (3 Aug 2020)

  • Fixed bug with redirect loop detection.
  • Fixed crash bug when importing synonyms, categories and recommended links.
  • Fixed crash bug when indexing smaler binary files in multiple threads.
  • Fixed index corruption bug when custom meta field (text type) is longer than 255 characters.
  • Fixed indexing speed when indexing video files.
  • Added support for indexing HEIC and HEIF files.
  • Fixed issues with indexing GPS information from image files.
  • Fixed PHP bug with recommended links when searching with wildcards.
  • Fixed PHP notice issues on PHP 7.4 ("Notice: Trying to access array offset on value of type null...")

Version 8.0.1011 (31 Mar 2020)

  • Added handling for relative path value for BASE tag (e.g. <base href="/" />)
  • Fixed bug with failed redirect on some IIS servers ("Invalid URL redirection to: ")
  • Fixed bug with "Skipping directory" messages for files in offline mode
  • Updated PDF indexing algorithm to exclude file from OCR if text layer is sufficient (to avoid excessive OCR swamping results)

Version 8.0.1010 (5 Mar 2020)

  • Fixed bug (PHP and ASP platforms only) when indexing custom meta field of text type with long entries and non-alphanumeric characters.
  • Fixed bugs with exiftool timeout and plugin temp files not being removed
  • Improved speed of large binary file string extraction
  • Fixed crash bug with indexing MP3 files and extracting from id3v2.3 meta information.
  • Fixed bugs with indexing ZIP file within ZIP file within ZIP file.
  • Fixed bugs with indexing emails.
  • Fixed 'invalid log' bug in reports.php script when handling long log entries.
  • Fixed non HTTPS info link in PHP, ASP and JS

Version 8.0.1009 (7 Jan 2020)

  • Added support for indexing Creation Date and Modified Date stored within PDF document properties.
  • Fixed PHP script deprecation warnings on PHP 7.4 (e.g. 'Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces...', 'get_magic_quotes_gpc', etc.)
  • Fixed bug with large indexes (over 2 million unique words)
  • Fixed bug with autocomplete feature failing to load searchwords log file over https:// URLs.
  • Fixed bug with indexing unrecognizable file types as plain text (causing too many unique words)
  • Fixed bug with indexing MBOX files twice when .MSF file encountered with multi-threaded indexing.

Version 8.0.1008 (22 Oct 2019)

  • Fixed bug with Console Mode not displaying log messages when calling ZoomIndexer.exe
  • Fixed bug with corrupted log messages in Console Mode
  • Changed handling of Apostrophe as word join character. It is now disallowed as prefix for words.

Version 8.0.1007 (18 Sep 2019)

  • Fixed bug with Status tab not updating during indexing.
  • Added handling for .dotm, .docm, .pptm, .xlsxm and other Macro enabled Office 2007 file extensions.

Version 8.0.1006 (6 Sep 2019)

  • Added 'Test' button for Cookie Authentication settings. This allows you to immediately test your login details and see the HTML response from the server.
  • Fixed bug with 'Could not recognize OOXML...' error when indexing XLSX files that do not contain any text (e.g. blank spreadsheets or containing only numbers)
  • Fixed bug with sporadic 'Could not open OOXML...' errors when indexing Office 2007 files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) in multi-threaded Offline indexing.
  • Fixed bug with search.cgi error 'Missing text in the settings.zdat file' when using Dutch language file.

Version 8.0.1005 (13 Aug 2019)

  • Improved indexing of filenames so that you can search for filetypes with wildcards such as *.jpg
  • Fixed extension count in Indexing Summary for container files
  • Fixed crash bug when using multiple threads, HTTP authentication and robots.txt
  • Fixed bug with HTML code appearing in search result context description for PDF files indexed in Spider Mode.
  • Fixed crash bug when copying Log to clipboard.

Version 8.0.1004 (24 Jun 2019)

  • Fixed bug with many incorrect categories matching for files.

Version 8.0.1003 (5 Jun 2019)

  • Fixed bug with categories with JavaScript platform option
  • Discontinued support for the ASP.NET platform option. More information here. Note that you can still index ASP.NET (.aspx) sites with Zoom.

Version 8.0.1002 (10 Apr 2019)

  • Fixed bug with file names not being indexed for PDF and other plugin processed file types.
  • Fixed bug with FTP uploading on servers not supporting tilde (~) home directories.
  • Fixed bug with not saving FTPS setting in ZCFG file.

Version 8.0.1001 (21 Mar 2019)

  • Fixed bug with Log not redrawing when indexing is paused and the window is resized.
  • Fixed bugs with FTP upload feature: failed to change permission on Windows servers not supporting tilde operator
  • Fixed bug with FTP cancel (previous build did not abort upload immediately and caused problems with subsequent uploads)
  • Fixed bug with FTP GUI responsiveness

Version 8.0.1000 (28 Feb 2019)

  • See major release notes under 'General'

Version 8.0 for Windows released! (28 Feb 2019)

The most refined and comprehensive search engine solution yet. Including many requested features such as:

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Index and search for text that appear in images and PDF documents (Win 10 only)
  • Multi-threaded Offline Indexing: Up to 3x faster offline indexing!
  • Broad numeric matching: Allow for better searching of currency values and part numbers (e.g. $12,300.99 will match 12300 and 12300.99)
  • Performance optimizations: Overall indexing speed and memory usage has been optimized, to index more pages and faster than previous versions.
  • New revamped FTP engine featuring SFTP and FTPS (SSL/TLS) support
  • http:// and https:// URL insensitivity: Better support for sites which switch between HTTP and HTTPS.
  • 64-bit indexer is now available in all editions and automatically installed depending on system.
  • Many other bug fixes and improvements.

Version 7.1 for Windows released! (12 Jan 2016)

This free upgrade from V7.0 has increased indexing capacity from 16 million base words to 200 million(!) base words.

We have optimized and refined Zoom V7 to index significantly more content (that's a 12x capacity increase!) and also index much faster than before (up to 5x performance gain).

Along with many bug fixes, improvements for language support and one of the most comprehensive file format support -- Zoom V7.1 is a culmination of over 13 years of continual commitment and development to creating a world-class search engine solution for web developers everywhere, from enthusiasts to professional developers to enterprise sites and Intranets.

Version 7.0 released! (30 April 2014)

Version 7 brings Zoom to a new level of platform flexibility and usage possibilities for all web developers -- from enthusiast web sites to enterprise scale operations.

The indexer is now available for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit), Linux, and Mac OS X. This means you can now manage and index your search engine from any of these platforms, opening up a world of possibilities when installed on the web server**

New search features introduced in V7 include:

  • Autocomplete search box: As you type in the search box, suggestions based on popular searches will appear to autocomplete the query ("Configure"->"Autocomplete")
  • Date range searching: You can now specify a date range at search time with a dropdown date selection box. ("Configure"->"Search Page"->"Enable Date Range searching")
  • No more "Max. unique words" limit: We've made some big changes in the engine to allow for dynamic allocation of memory for unique words. This is much more memory efficient for everybody, but most importantly, a big benefit for people who find it hard to determine the number of unique words needed for their site (previously requiring many attempts at indexing).
  • PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT (and all supported file formats) indexing now available for Free Edition!
  • Built-in plugin support: Plugins are no longer a separate download and are available with every edition.
  • Standard Edition discontinued: Please see new edition details. Users eligible for a free upgrade from V6 Standard Edition, will get a free upgrade to V7 Pro Edition.
  • Improved ASP.NET Server Control supporting postbacks and viewstates (download V7 ASP.NET Server Control here). Only needed if you are using the ASP.NET platform option.
  • Email file formats now supported (.PST, .MBOX, .DBX, .EML, .MSG). Useful for Intranet search engines.
  • URL indexing: Now indexing the URL (domain name) and the path (folder names) in the URL. ("Configure"->"Indexing options")
  • Search by site: Now supporting "site:" and "url:" search syntax, e.g. a search for "beagle site:mydogs.com" will search for all beagles on the mydogs.com domain only.
  • Domain diversity: Ensure the first 3 results come from different domains ("Configure"->"Search Page"). Useful for search engines indexing more than one site.
  • Scan files with unknown extensions: Analyzes files of unrecognizable file extensions to determine how to index them. Useful on "deep searching" external web sites.
  • OpenDocument support: Supports OpenOffice/KOffice/GoogleOffice, etc. files.
  • Media file support: Supports indexing meta data from AVI, WMV, MPG, RMV, FLV, MOV, QT, WAV files.
  • Page and folder skip list now has a case insensitive option as popularly requested
  • Plugin timeout allows you to force abort processing a file if the plugin takes too long to complete (usually due to a corrupt or problematic file)
  • Scan file with unknown extensions will analyse any unrecognized file extension and attempt to index it accordingly (e.g. can detect a JPEG that has been misnamed as a .bin, etc.)
  • Results can now be sorted by Relevancy, Date (newest first) and Date (oldest first) with a user configurable default
  • Index options for URL domain and URL path: Search for words that appear within the URL or folder name.
  • Can now be configured to index e-mail addresses (Word join rules: @ sign and dots)
  • Improved automatic cookie-based login: You can specify additional parameters (besides the login and password) to login to a form-based / cookie / session based login page. This allows you to login to most form based secured web sites.
  • New HTTP engine for Spider Mode crawling. Faster and uses less memory than previous HTTP engine.
  • SSL and HTTPS now supported in Spider Mode.
  • Integrated Windows Authentication (NTLM) supported
  • Improved spider crawling and indexing engine: Finds more links, crawls faster, uses less memory.
  • Improved performance in offline indexing: plugin supported file format indexing is much faster than before, particularly for larger files.
  • Improved spelling suggestions for words with more than 3 syllables.
  • Fixed many bugs

** The Linux release can be administered via a web interface, so when installed on a web server, you can manage and re-index your site remotely and on-demand, via the web. The Windows version can also be installed on an IIS server with necessary permissions and Remote Desktop access.


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