WooCommerce Product Search 6.1.0

* Update - WordPress 6.4 compatible.
* Update - WooCommerce 8.3 compatible.
* Update - Requires at least WooCommerce 7.9.
* Update - This major new release introduces a new high performance scalable search engine and cache system, engineered specifically for WooCommerce and created from the ground up.
* Update - This new search engine is unique in that it provides fast, scalable, complete and sound results for any search and filter combinations, including those involving mixes of keyword...

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Update - Disables the render cache by default to avoid issues with inconsistent page content.

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Fix - Use the order determined for Product Search Field instances to sort results appropriately.

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* Dev - Revised coherency tests in the query control on incoming request values to prevent odd values from causing errors.
* Dev - Made our query control less restrictive for backend taxonomy term requests like wp-admin/edit.php?pa_example=foo&post_type=product where we would previously filter out variable products with no variations related to a requested term.
* Dev - Revised query control to pagination conditions.

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* Update - WordPress 6.4 compatible.
* Update - WooCommerce 8.5 compatible.
* Update - Requires at least WooCommerce 8.2.
* Update - Requires at least PHP 7.4.
* Add - Added compatibility plugin header fields.
* Fix - Fixed instances of wrong spelling of WPML.
* Update - Updated the translation template.
* Update - Updated the included translations.
* Fix - Limit set on Product Search Field without effect on results included.
* Dev - Added a cap of 100 on the requestable results for the...

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* Update - WordPress 6.6 compatible.
* Update - WooCommerce 9.3 compatible.
* Add - Added the new REST API which allows to use the Search Engine to build customized components and Apps which support holistic search and filtering.
* Add - Introduces the wps/v1/products REST API endpoint.
* Add - Introduces the wps/v1/terms REST API endpoint.
* Add - Introduces the wps/v1/shop REST API endpoint.
* Dev - Now featured and sale stages allow boolean values as parameters.
* Dev - Engine provides...

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* Update - WordPress 6.6 compatible.
* Update - WooCommerce 9.3 compatible.
* Dev - Added the order parameter to the terms REST controller's collection parameters.
* Dev - Revised terms REST controller's product processing to avoid sorting for efficiency.
* Dev - Revised shop REST controller's taxonomy-data parameter handling to support passing the taxonomy as parameter instead of as key only in JSON.

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* Update - WordPress 6.6 compatible.
* Update - WooCommerce 9.3 compatible.
* Dev - Added handling of JSON format to process the except parameter in the terms REST controller.
* Dev - When the setting to "Hide out of stock items from the catalog" is enabled, filter results now also include products which are available on back order along with those that are in stock.
* Add - Added the woocommerce_product_search_cache_control_marker_threshold filter and support for the...

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* Update - WordPress 6.7 compatible.
* Update - WooCommerce 9.4 compatible.
* Update - Extends existing support for brands. Requires a database update which may a take a while when large numbers of products are related to brands. An update during low traffic hours is recommended.
* Add - Added the Product Filter – Brands block.
* Add - Added the [woocommerce_product_filter_brand] shortcode.
* Add - Added the woocommerce_product_search_filter_brand() API function.
* Dev - Extended indexing...

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