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That's what I've gathered based on the online discussions:

Possible reasons why the original project stagnated: [0].

Mention of the manticoresearch as a fork project was removed from the sphinx forum [1] - so I can guess that developers who moved to the new project did not part on good terms with Andrew - the original author.

that's the last reply in that thread from person involved in Manticore, posted on the 23rd of Oct 2017:

" aditirex just replied to 'Sphinx search fork':

===cut=== > But your the people who are already using sphinx, why we should change?

The open-source version of Sphinx received 5 code commits since November last year, from which 3 are related to building stuff. Last release was 12 months ago. There are also a lot of unresolved reported bugs (many of them are crashes) in the bug tracker. Andrew said a while ago that the open-source version would only receive fixes (which doesn't seem to happen either). No one wanted to do the fork, it was the only way several big users saw it in order to continue using Sphinx. Don't ask me how we got into this situation, I'm not the right person to answer to that.

> What are the main benefits rather than using Sphinx?

Manticore is pretty much continuing Sphinx. Last year we had 4 developers + Andrew working on the code, 3 of them are working now on Manticore.

If Sphinx just works for you there is no reason to switch. But we're adding new features, fix existing bugs, the software is tested by some big users before getting released, you get a software that has support from it's developers.

> Is Foolz\SphinxQL\SphinxQL working?

Everything works as before, it's a fork, not a total new software. "

[0] http://sphinxsearch.com/blog/2017/07/24/sphinx-2017/ [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...