Examine v4.0.0 is out on NuGet after sitting in beta since October 2023. The headline is native faceting, along with taxonomy indexes, deep paging, .NET 8/9/10 support and a lot of replicator work, and it's a drop-in replacement for v3 - which took a fair bit of testing with Umbraco HQ to get right. Here's what's new, what took so long, and what it means now that Umbraco's new search abstraction runs on it.…
I've been maintaining Examine for a very long time, and there's always a backlog of performance work I never get to. So I let GitHub Next's agentic workflows do it for me, on a schedule, and it turned into three shipped releases and some genuinely ridiculous hot-path improvements. Here's how it went, with real benchmark numbers.…
A new Examine version 3.3.0 has been released to address a long awaited bug fix for Umbraco websites that use the SyncedFileSystemDirectoryFactory which is the default setting for Umbraco CMS. The bug…
Using the Suggester API with ExamineX and Azure AI Search…
I recently realized that I don’t think Umbraco’s APIs on IPublishedContentQuery are documented so hopefully this post may inspire some docs to be written or at least guide some folks on some…