Add more detail about secondary indexing in the 2.8 release notes Change-Id: I38a7a946d430e7a552178d235ef4ddf85dee8a87
diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.8.txt b/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.8.txt index 575bdce..94299e1 100644 --- a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.8.txt +++ b/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.8.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,29 @@ * Documentation is now built with Buck and link:http://asciidoctor.org[Asciidoctor]. +Indexing and Search +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Gerrit can be configured to use a +link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8/config-gerrit.html#index[ +secondary index] with Lucene or Solr. + +Existing search operations use the secondary index, when enabled, to increase +performance and reduce resource usage. + +The following additional search operations are possible when secondary indexing +is enabled: + +* New +link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8/user-search.html#comment[ +`comment` search operator]. + +* The link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.8/user-search.html#file[ +`file` operator] can be used to find changes on the specified file. + +* Regular expressions are allowed in `file` searches. + + Configuration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
