Version 1.3.1 of SWISH-E is now available for downloading at:

ftp://sunsite.berkeley.edu/pub/swish-e/

Key features include:

* the ability to specify META tags whose contents should be stored in the
index and returned in search results ("document properties")
* word stemming, which will will automatically match (English) words that
had the same word stem, so a search for "emotional" will match "emotion".
This converts plural forms into singular as well. This can be activated or
not in the configuration file.
* the HTTP and File System indexing systems were combined so one
executable can index both web sites and files. 
* for the HTTP indexing system, there is a new option of treating URL's as
case insensitive

Please see the release notes for more information at:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/release1.3.1.html

And also key portions of the manual:

Document Properties:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/Manual/documentproperties.html
Stemming: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/Manual/stemming.html
Configuration File example:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/Manual/config.user.html

Most of the features of this release were programmed by Mark Gaulin
<gaulin@globalspec.com>. Ron Klatchko, Yan Stettler, and Earl Fogel also
contributed to this release. As always, our thanks to the entire SWISH-E
community for their suggestions, patches, and code contributions.
Roy Tennant
Giulia Hill
SWISH-E Managers