phpBB Native search worse after 3.3.6

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phpBB Native search worse after 3.3.6

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I've successfully updated my boards to phpBB 3.3.7 and the phpBB Native Search backend is a major regression.

From the phpBB 3.3.6 - Release Highlights
Marc wrote: Tue Mar 15, 2022 8:27 pm Release highlights
  • Notable Improvements
On my board I'm seeing search results that used to return hundreds or thousands of results now returning with "Search found 1 match" and one page of results.

Opened https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-16976

Unfortunately my board is on a shared hosting plan so I cannot use Sphinx Full-Text backend and the MySQL Fulltext backend doesn't work efficiently for the subject matter of my board.
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Not sure what the Support can do for you here. :|
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Re: phpBB Native search worse after 3.3.6

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I know.

Hopefully it might help other board admins who have updated to 3.3.7 understand it is a known problem and there is an open ticket that can be tracked.
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Please add a note when you have moved this topic to another forum, it seems I have posted "bananas" otherwise ;)
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Re: phpBB Native search worse after 3.3.6

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I confirm this is also an issue in 3.3.7.
I figured out how to fix it myself, so this might help other board administrators until the official patch is available:
viewtopic.php?f=661&t=2618666
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