v5.5.0

Upgrading

No breaking or major changes.

New Features

• ThinkingSphinx::Processor, a public interface to perform index-related operations on model instances or model name/id combinations. In collaboration with @akostadinov (#1215).

Changes to behaviour

• Confirmed support by testing against Ruby 3.1 and 3.2 by @jdelStrother (#1237).

Fixes

• Fix YAML loading, by @aepyornis (#1217).
• Further fixes for File.exist? instead of the deprecated File.exists?, by @funsim (#1221) and @graaf (1233).
• Treat unknown column errors as QueryErrors, so retrying the query occurs automatically.
• Fix MariaDB error handling.