New release v1.0.12: Better multilingual search and CLI fixes

We are pleased to announce microfeed v1.0.12, which improves multilingual search, makes typing with Chinese and Japanese input methods smoother, and fixes several command-line issues.

This release also makes documentation screenshots easier to read, with full-screen previews and more illustrations in the GitHub Actions deployment guide.

Find words inside multilingual text

Searching for a word in Chinese or Japanese should work even when it appears in the middle of a sentence without spaces. Previously, search could recognize the beginning of a continuous sequence but miss words farther inside it.

Version 1.0.12 adds matching for two-character words and longer substrings. Searching for 中文 or 人工智能 now finds 我喜欢学习中文和人工智能, while 東京 finds 今日は東京で日本語を勉強します. The same approach supports Korean, Thai, Lao, Khmer, and Myanmar text.

You can combine English and Chinese terms with spaces to require both, or use quotes for a phrase. Public search covers published items and Pages, including their titles and bodies. Admin search continues to search item titles.

English and other word-based searches keep their existing prefix and typo matching. The new character matching searches literal text in its original language; it does not translate, search by pinyin, or convert between simplified and traditional Chinese.

Smoother Chinese and Japanese input

Search now waits while you compose text with an input method editor. Pressing Enter to confirm a candidate no longer selects a result or submits the search form while composition is active. Once composition finishes, live search resumes with the completed query.

Fixes for theme and CLI commands

The theme-kit and microfeed-theme commands now run correctly through npm-installed executable symlinks on macOS and Linux. This fixes the silent-exit issue described in the v1.0.10 release notes.

If you install the microfeed CLI globally, its help and recovery instructions now show the correct microfeed commands. Instructions for npm/npx and Yarn remain available for those installation methods.

Clearer documentation screenshots

Click an image in the documentation to open a full-screen preview with its caption, then close it with the close button or Escape. The GitHub Actions guide also includes more screenshots, and broken dashboard and Edit channel image links have been repaired.

Install or update microfeed

For an existing site, open a local AI coding agent that can run terminal commands and ask:

Update the microfeed site <site-url> to v1.0.12. Start by running
`npx @microfeed/cli@1.0.12 manage`, connect the existing site if needed,
deploy the update, and continue until `status` verifies the site.

You need Node.js 22.12 or newer and npm. Follow the AI agent update guide, or use the GitHub Actions or manual update instructions. For a new site, start with the installation guide.

The deployment process builds the additional search index for existing content and keeps it current afterward. This uses more D1 storage and write work, particularly for long multilingual posts, but requires no external search service.

Published packages

Both @microfeed/cli@1.0.12 and @microfeed/theme-kit@1.0.12 are available from npm.

Read the complete v1.0.12 release notes, or see the full changelog for every change.