ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.3 released (unstable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

tracker 0.9.3 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.9/

664baf4cf18f28dfa4420fbc81bb95cf  tracker-0.9.3.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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A lot of these changes have also been back-ported to the 0.8 branch!

Improvements / New:

  General:
  * Fixed miner desktop files so they have trailing ; for Categories
  * Added structural view design document
  * Added queries for contact data generation scripts
  * Added queries for message data generation scripts
  * Added debugging to libinotify to assist in fixing GB#615965
  * Updated data generation scripts and templates quite heavily
  * Disable inotify and tracker-storage for coverage reports

  Ontology:
  * Added nco:contactLocalUID property

  Functional Tests:
  * Fixed query used for getting image metdata
  * Fixed signal handling in miner file operations test
  * Fixed performance scripts to not use isStoredAs
  * Updated contact related performance queries
  * Updated message related performance queries
  * Added writeback support for PNG, TIFF, MP4

  libtracker-common:
  * Removed tracker_power_get_battery_percentage(), it's unused
  * Port from libdevkit-power-gobject to libupower-glib

  libtracker-db:
  * Added tracker:uri-is-parent SQLite functions (for crawling 
improvements)
  * Added tracker:uri-is-descendant SQLite functions (for crawling 
improvements)
  * Define a maxium size for each DBusMessage

  libtracker-data:
  * Added fn:lower-case function

  libtracker-miner:
  * Improve crawling queries (3693 dirs, 27678 files, was 651s, now 166s)

  libtracker-client:
  * Added initial test cases

  tracker-store:
  * Fixed cursor iteration to make sure it is done in the thread that 
prepared the query
  * Fixed memory corruption, using DBusGMethodInvocation after freed
  * Create DBusMessages without dbus-glib to avoid memory 
duplication/fragmentation

  tracker-extract:
  * Fixed man page for -d
  * Fixed double free in Vorbis extractor, caused timeouts in miner-fs logs
  * Added tracker_getline() API for platforms without it

  tracker-miner-fs:
  * Use new libupower API in tracker-common

  tracker-miner-flickr:
  * Added new miner for Flickr web service thanks to the work from 
Adrien Bustany

  tracker-writeback:
  * Fixed double free in taglib module

  evolution:
  * Fixed race condition

  tracker-search-tool:
  * Removed --service (old 0.6 option which is unused)
  * Added support for starting queries using command line arguments

Bugs:

  * GB#615930 - crash in evolution caused by tracker plugin
  * GB#616493 - Remove unzip dependency from the OASIS extractor
  * GB#615836 - tracker:available doesnt work: wrong dataSource for 
removeable drives
  * GB#579051 - provide getline() if not found
  * NB#166080 - extraction of copyright for jpg image is partially correct
  * NB#164958 - tracker-search for a default song doesn't work for 
"beautif" and "beautifu"

Translations:

  * Updated cs: Petr Kovar
  * Updated sl: Andrej Žnidaršič

Notes:

  None

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29 April 2010
Tracker team