The next version of eve, 1.2.7, is nearly ready to be deployed to all sites. This update has some major changes/improvements to the way eve handles searches. Because of this, the upgrade process involves some fairly major data conversion and reindexing.

When we perform the upgrade, the conversion process may result in some slowness for your site. We will be performing the upgrades *overnight*, when most sites have very little traffic, but we just want to make sure you are aware that some slowness may occur while the upgrade is in progress.

After the upgrade is complete, we will then have to reindex your site, and while the re-indexing is happening, all search features will be completely unavailable. Search may be unavailable for up to 12-24 hours, depending on how long it takes to reindex the sites on a given server.

We will be setting a schedule for this upgrade beginning next week and you will receive an email from us once your particular server is scheduled.

This is definitely an unusual upgrade in that so much back end processing must occur, but we hope that the improvements that make search more reliable make it worthwhile.

Watch your email next week for further info about when your particular site/server will be upgraded. And remember that even though the upgrade is about improving search, your search will initially be unavailable (for up to 12-24 hours) after the upgrade, while we re-index your site.