searx/searx v0.18.0

0.18.0

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Core:

• drop Python 2 support ( #2137 #2244 )
• separate index and search routes ( #1681 ). ⚠️ add & remove your searx instance(s) from your browser.
• add external_bang ( #2027 #2043 #2059 )
• add external plugins supports ( #2074 )
• add plugin converting strings into hash digests ( #1246 )
• new category: Onions ( #565 )
• allow searx query parts anywhere in the query ( aa3c18d 2aef38c )
• preferences: use base_url for prefix of sharing 'currenly saved preferences' (#1249 )
• upgrade to request 2.24.0, pyopenssl is optional ( #2199 )
• force admins to set secret_key if debug mode is disabled ( #2256 )
• standalone searx update ( #1591 )
• architecture clean up ( #2140 #2185 #2195 #2196 #2198 #2189 #2208 #2239 #2241 #2246 #2248 )
• record detail about engine error ( #2332 #2375 #2350 ). Add a new API endpoint: /stats/errors.
• display if an engine does not support HTTPS requests ( #2373 )
• documentation & install script updates ( #2384 #2380 #2362 #2287 #2283 #2277 #2223 #2211 #2118 #2117 #2063 )

New settings.yml:

• use_default_settings: user settings can relied on the default settings ( #2291 #2362 #2349 )
• ui.results_on_new_tab: False - for opening result links in a new tab ( #2167 )
• ui.advanced_search - add preference for displaying advanced settings ( #2327 )
• server.method: "POST" - Make default query submission method configurable ( #2130 )
• server.default_http_headers - add default http headers ( #2295 )
• engines.*.proxies - Using proxy only for specific engines ( #1827 #2319 ), see https://searx.github.io/searx/dev/engine_overview.html#settings-yml
• enabled_plugins - Enabled plugins ( a05c660 )
• preferences.lock - Let admins lock user preferences ( #2270 )

Oscar theme:

• update infobox ( #2131 )
  • Make infoboxes shorter by default.
  • Hide the main image by default as well and set a maximum height even when expanded.
  • Add a toggle at the bottom of the infobox to expand it or to shrink it again.
  • Fix pointhi style
• query suggestion does not keep the language tag of the original query ( #1314 )
• fix the clear button ( #2306 )

Simple theme:

• Fix autocomplete ( #2205 )

New engines:

• ahmia, not_evil ( #565 )
• codeberg ( #2104 )
• command line engines: git grep, find, etc. ( #2128 #2250 )
• elasticsearch ( #2292 )
• metager ( #2139 )
• naver ( #1912 )
• opensemanticsearch ( #2271 )
• peertube ( #2109 )
• recoll (#2325)
• sepiasearch ( #2227 )
• yggtorrent ( #2099 #2375 )

Updated engines:

• digg ( #2285 )
• dbpedia ( #2352 )
• duckduckgo_definitions ( #2224 #2356 )
• duden ( #2359 )
• invidious ( #2116 )
• libgen ( #2360 )
• photon ( #2336 )
• soundclound ( #2365 )
• wikipedia ( #2178 #2363 #2354 )
• wikidata ( #2151 #2224 #2353 ) - faster response time
• yaCy ( #2255 ) - support HTTP digest authentication.
• youtube_noapi ( #2364 )

Fixed engines:

• 1x ( #2361 )
• answer 'random sha256' ( #2121 )
• bing image ( #1496 )
• duckduckgo ( #2254 )
• genius ( #2371 )
• google ( #2236 )
• google image ( #2115 )
• lobste.rs ( #2253 )
• piratebay ( #2133 )
• startpage ( #2385 )
• torrentz ( #2101 )

Removed engines:

• filecrop ( #2352 )
• searchcode_doc ( #2372 )
• seedpeer ( #2366 )
• twitter ( #2372 )

Install scripts:

• add centos-7 to LXC images ( #2118 #2211 )

Docker image

• use Alpine 3.12 ( #1983 )
• uwsgi serves the static files directly. ( #1865 )
• fix k8s support ( #2099 )
• make docker produces clean tag version ( #2182 )

Bug fixes:

• searx.utils.HTMLTextExtractor: invalid HTML don't raise an Exception ( #2190 )
• Fix static URL ( da8b227 )
• Fix autocomplete ( #2127 )
• Fix opensearch.xml ( #2132 #2247 )
• Fix documentation build ( #2237 )
• Some fixes in the fetch languages script ( #2212 )

Special thanks to NLNet for sponsoring multiple features of this release.