ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.7.9 released

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

tracker 0.7.9 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.7/

24eb0a35129d98e4b74267057c1cf8f8  tracker-0.7.9.tar.gz

What is it?
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All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database.

Where can I find out more?
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You can visit the project web site:

  http://www.tracker-project.org/

What's New?
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  General:
  * Bumped libexempi requirement from 1.99.2 to 2.1.0 for NS_PDF.
  * Fixed linking errors found with binutils-gold ld.

  Ontology:
  * New property tracker:writeback used to know if ontology should be
    written back to their original files (if supported by
    tracker-writeback).
  * Added nmm documentation.
  * Added nmm:dlnaProfile and nmm:uPnPShared properties.
  * Added mfo documentation.
  * Added mfo:optional property.
  * Added nmm:alternativeMedia property.
  * Renamed nmm:meteringMode-* to nmm:metering-mode-*.
  * Renamed nmm:whiteBalance-* to nmm:white-balance-*.
  * Updated mlo, ncal, mfo, nmm, mto, nao, nfo + nco documentation.

  SPARQL:
  * Updated to return generated URIs for inserted blank nodes.

  libtracker-common:
  * Fixed removable device code to include volumes mounted in /media

  libtracker-data:
  * Fixed build with vala master.
  * Fixed to accept NULL for GErrors.
  * Added support for returning generated uuid URIs for updates.

  libtracker-fts:
  * Fixed crash in TrackerParser's parser_next() function.
  * Fixed invalid read in TrackerParser.

  libtracker-miner:
  * Updated to use standard GIO callbacks (GAsyncResult, etc).
  * Removed redundant monitor code.
  * Fixed memory corruption for directory moves in monitor code.
  * Fixed test/ to use ::finished not ::terminated which is unused.
  * Moved test/ directory to examples/libtracker-miner.

  tracker-miner-fs:
  * Added $HOME as a single level directory to index by default.
  * Removed duplicate call to tracker_storage_new() / hal debug dump.

  tracker-preferences:
  * Fixed title, use "Tracker Preferences" not "tracker-preferences".
  * Moved "Indexing" options to their own tab.
  * Added mnemonics for notification area options.

  tracker-writeback:
  * New binary for writing metadata back to files. Initial support for
    XMP and MP3 for now.

  tracker-extract:
  * Fixed XMP coalescing for TIFF/PNG/PDF/JPEG.
  * Fixed build warning with mockup_SOURCES.

  rss_reader:
  * Fixed exception handling on import.

Bugs Fixed
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  * Fixes NB#135360, Images from all memory location are not disp...
  * Fixes GB#598470, Search entry icons grayed out
  * Fixes GB#600973, tracker-control: don't use "-h" to remove th...

NOTES:
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  The Deskbar applet packaged with Tracker is currently out of date
  and needs some love to get it working with the new APIs. It is in
  the same state as it was for 0.6. As such it isn't expected to work.

--
27 November 2009
Tracker team