search_api 7.x-1.0-beta8

This release contains a few bug fixes as well some new features. The most prominent is #1012878: Add a way to index an entity directly, which eliminates (in most scenarios) stale-data issues when, e.g., taxonomy terms are renamed.

(Note: The Search API currently has only little access control functionality built in. Users should take care that only appropriate items and fields are indexed, and displayed to the user. See #955088: Provide (additional) access functionality.)

The complete list of changes since Beta 7:

API changes:

• #1012878 by drunken monkey: Added a way to index an entity directly.
• #1109130 by drunken monkey: Added better structure for Views field rendering.

Others:

• #1018384 by drunken monkey: Fixed Views field names to not contain colons.
• #1105704 by drunken monkey: Fixed exposed sorts always sort on 'top' sort.
• #1104056 by drunken monkey: Added "Current search" support for non-facet
  filters.
• #1103814 by drunken monkey: Fixed missing argument for extractFields().
• #1081084 by drunken monkey: Fixed notices in add_fulltext_field alteration.
• #1091074 by drunken monkey, ygerasimov: Added machine names to "related
  entities" list.
• #1066278 by ygerasimov, drunken monkey: Removed
  search_api_facets_by_block_status().
• #1081666 by danielnolde: Fixed PHP notices when property labels are missing.