From 07da87b5fb72ee617bb52d0e86d9a20e4b612211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyndsey Jane Moulds <2042238+Apophenia@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 11:57:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Hotfix: escape "*" in ES queries to prohibit wildcard use
 in search

---
 api/elastic.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/api/elastic.py b/api/elastic.py
index 2427748bb41..0b2a7e88de5 100644
--- a/api/elastic.py
+++ b/api/elastic.py
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ def makeDictHashable(cls, object):
     @staticmethod
     def escapeSearchQuery(query):
         return re.sub(
-           r'[\+\-\&\|\!\(\)\[\]\{\}\^\~\?\:\\\/]{1}', '\\\\\g<0>', query
+           r'[\*\+\-\&\|\!\(\)\[\]\{\}\^\~\?\:\\\/]{1}', '\\\\\g<0>', query
         )
 
     def languageQuery(self, workTotals):

From 2d72d177c6bba614ef6c770e48af5e0ac37a7564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyndsey Jane Moulds <2042238+Apophenia@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 12:06:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update changelog

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 26d1c08779a..8ddaafcd724 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # CHANGELOG
 
+## 2023-09-05 version -- v0.12.3
+## Removed
+- The "*" character is escaped from queries passed to ElasticSearch, limiting wildcard searches
+## Fixed
+- High volume of wildcard searches should no longer create unrecoverable queues/timeouts
+
 ## 2023-08-31 version -- v0.12.2
 ### Added
 - Script to count and return ids of PD Univ of Cali Books from Hathitrust