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Yes, it was incorporated, but there are two ways to query the Sphinx search engine: via the original Sphinx API protocol, and via an SQL-like querying system called "SphinxQL". The former is being phased out in favor of the latter. The current implementation appears to derive from a phpBB mod that ...

It sounds like from the Sphinx release notes that the author plans to phase out the API he formerly used, in favor of using an SQL-like query syntax he calls "SphinxQL". There seem to be a number of new features in the works too, that he only plans to support via the SphinxQL interface. I can't say ...