Site Search — Release Notes (September 4, 2025)

Updated

SearchStax Site Search release notes for September 4, 2025 include Hosted Search version selection, /emselect parameter handling updates, and login and navigation performance improvements.

Highlights

  • Hosted Search Experience: choose a specific library version or keep automatic updates. Reduces upgrade risk and gives you control over when to take changes.
  • Performance: faster login and navigation.
  • Search API: updated /emselect parameter handling (last value wins). If you parse arrays from responseHeader.params, review your code.

Added

[Versioning] Hosted Search Version Selection

You can pin your Hosted Search page to an exact library version (for example, v4.3.2) instead of using the generic v3/v4 tags.

Impact

Stable behavior across releases. No unexpected UI or API changes from automatic updates.

Action

Optional. When you copy the Hosted Search page or set up Headless/UX JS, reference a specific version if you want stability. If you want the latest changes automatically, continue using v3/v4.

For example, to pin the Hosted Search Experience to a specific release, edit the script/link URLs to use a full semantic tag, like /studio/-js/v4.1.5. Using a major version alias, like v4, keeps automatic updates, while using an exact version number locks the experience to that release. 

Docs

Changed

  • Hosted page includes a small version notice at the top and a comment near the library includes to indicate the exact version in use. You can remove the notice in your own implementation.
    Hosted search page with version notice saying page is built with v4.1.5. Switch to v4 to automatically receive latest updates

[Breaking] Search API — /emselect Parameter Handling

To support profile-level customizations (rows, Result Fields, Faceting, Spellcheck), duplicate request parameters are now deduplicated and the last value wins. The value in responseHeader.params. is now a single string, not an array, when duplicates are present.

Example

The profile default is rows=10. The request uses rows=15. The array ["10","15"] becomes "15", and 15 results are displayed.

Impact

Integrations that expected arrays from responseHeader.params may break.

Action

Avoid sending duplicate params; update any parsing logic to handle a single value. This matches default Solr behavior.

Performance & Scalability

[Performance] Login and Navigation

Logging in and navigating between pages in the SearchStax Site Search UI is now faster.

Impact

Faster login and page load.

Action

None.

Rollout

  • Target date: Friday, September 5, 2025.
  • Scope: Hosted Search Experience (Legacy + Headless JS); Console (Plans/Entitlements); Search API (/emselect) parameter handling.

Known Issues

  • None expected for existing implementations. If you rely on automatic updates today, no action is required.
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