By drunken monkey on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Search API
Introduced in branch: 
8.x-1.x
Introduced in version: 
8.x-1.36
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/3485260
Description: 

While it was often implicitly assumed that item scores and boosts in the Search API are (as in other search frameworks/engines) always non-negative numbers, it was nowhere explicitly specified or checked.

Going forward, setting an item’s score or boost to a negative value will trigger a deprecation warning. In the 2.0.0 release this will be changed to a RuntimeException or Error.

Similarly, passing a non-numeric value (explicitly forbidden via the doc block already) will now also trigger a deprecation warning.

Impacts: 
Module developers