It’s been a long while since Examine got some much needed attention and I’m pleased to say it is now happening. If you didn’t know already, we’ve moved the Umbraco Examine source in to the core of Umbraco. The underlying Examine (Examine.dll) core will remain on CodePlex but all the Umbraco bits and pieces which is found in UmbracoExamine.dll are in the Umbraco core from version 6.1+. This is great news because now we can all better support the implementation of Examine for Umbraco. More good news is that even versions prior to Umbraco 6.1 will have some bugs fixed (http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-1768) ! Niels Kuhnel has also jumped aboard the Examine train and is helping out a ton by adding his amazing ‘facet’ features which will probably make it into an Umbraco release around version 6.2 (maybe 6.1, but still need to do some review, etc… to make sure its 100% backwards compatible).

One other bit of cool news is that we’re adding an official Examine Management dashboard to Umbraco 6.1. In its present state it supports optimizing indexes, rebuilding indexes and searching them. I’ve created a quick video showing its features :)