vBulletin 5.5.1 is now available for Download.

[Wayne Luke]

vBulletin 5.5.1 Changes and Updates vBulletin 5.5.1 is now available for testing by licensed download customers. Front End Changes Responsive Editor Toolbar The editor tool bar will automatically collapse...

[Wayne Luke]

vBulletin 5.5.1 Changes and Updates vBulletin 5.5.1 is now available for testing by licensed download customers. We do not recommend using pre-release versions of the software in a production environment...

[macromotion]

Problem
We converted from vB3 to vB5 about 10 days ago. Since the conversion, we have struggled to get the search working properly. If users search for "Z-Wave" (a common topic on our...

[macromotion]

Very good news! We had to revert to your default search (because Sphinx kept crashing on us) and it will be great to have this working finally. Do you have an ETA for the next version release?...

[Wayne Luke]

This issue will be resolved in the next version of vBulletin. Please see:

https://tracker.vbulletin.com/vbulle...sues/VBV-12167

If a word is hyphenated, it will be index...

[macromotion]

It what you're saying is true, then why can I search for Z-Wave ON THIS FORUM and get these results: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/sear...22z-wave%22%7D

Why does it work here and not on...

[Wayne Luke]

As I stated above "Z-WAVE" isn't a word. It is two word... Z and WAVE. WAVE will be indexed because it meets the minimum requirement of 4 characters. Z will not be indexed.

The...

[macromotion]

If you look at this page, you'll see many instances of "Z-Wave": https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/li...z-wave-homesee...

[macromotion]

Sphinx searches work for us but unfortunately, Sphinx breaks after several weeks and we get this when trying to access the forum:

A System Error has occured.
The software is experiencing...

[macromotion]

This was actually fixed yesterday (see post above) but we experienced a Sphinx search engine collapse (my term) near the end of the day. That basically shut down our forum. We got it going again last...

[glennrocksvb]

macromotion I tried "z-wave" including quotes and it returned results!

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[macromotion]

Yes, same with quotes or no quotes....

[glennrocksvb]

If you enclose the keyword within double quotes (e.g. "z-wave"), does it still return empty?

[macromotion]

Hi Glenn - thanks for posting back. I registered for your board and posted but still don't have permission to download the mod to try. I assume my posting is processed as a promotion through your board......

[glennrocksvb]

macromotion, as a temporary workaround while waiting for this issue to be fixed, you could replace the search with Google search with this free mod I created.

https://vbmods.rocks/forum/...