Search version 0.3

Start date: 04 May 2018 ; release date:  14 May 2018 

Source code:  https://github.com/cul-it/arxiv-search/releases/tag/0.3

Bugfixes and usability improvements based on feedback from release 0.2.

arXiv's search interface is available here: https://arxiv.org/search

Features

• Retain sort order and page size preference.
• Use announcement date (descending) as default sort order.
• Add tooltips to category identifiers

Bugs

• Author name links from abs page/search results do not handle surname prepositions correctly.
• Wildcards don't work as expected in ACM, MSC classification fields.
• Order of initials are not always taken into account when searching by author name.
• Some edge-case queries still produce 500 errors.

Other

• More efficient reindexing.
• Better control over indexing rate.