Search Improvements by Xon 2.18.0

• Require StandardLib v1.23.0+
• php 8.4+ compatibility fixes
• Fix Ticket's reply-count range search criteria into search page didn't work
• Ensure injecting participants search for Tickets keeps working if the macro syntax is updated
• Compatibility update for upcoming Content Ratings v2.9.0+

• Improve XF Cloud support
• Fix sorting by a custom elasticsearch field didn't work as expected when using SearchOrder class (ie Report Improvements and sorting reports by comment count)

• XF2.3.8 compatibility fix
• Adjust Collect search DSL & debug statistics so Log & show on search results only displays to members by defaults and not guests.

• Adjust defaults for autocomplete boosts to better favor exact matches.
  • Affects non-default "Tag/Username auto-complete search field boosts" option

• Improve handling of expired search links to return a 404 if any errors exist with the arguments as this stops google search indexer from complaining about the previous 400 error code

• For XF2.3.4+, check "View server information" admin permission when viewing elasticsearch statistics

• Fix when logging debugging for some search queries would throw unexpectedly

• Improve 3rd party support for specialized search index support

• Add additional hookpoints for customizing "specialized search indexer" functionality
• On search results page, when searching a conversation(XF2.2)/direct message(XF2.3) display "with conversation/direct message"

• Search extensions API changes for better XF compatibility, required for Conversation Improvements/Essentials
  • XF2.3 compatibility fix for custom "SearchOrder" class
  • Simplify asSqlConstraint code (expected to always return an array)
  • AbstractConstraint::setMatchType needs to normalize to an int for MetadataConstraint::matchType