ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.17 released (unstable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

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/

Where can I get it?
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  http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.9/

What's New?
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A lot of these changes have also been back-ported to the 0.8 branch!

The changes are:

  * Require SQLite 3.7 (for Write Ahead Logging)
  * Require D-Bus GLib 0.82 (for dbus_g_connection_unregister_g_object())
  * Fixes: GB#627281, crash in tracker-0.8.15 ms-office extractor
  * Fixes: GB#623005, Remove odt2txt dependency in the OASIS extractor
  * Fixes: GB#623207, tracker 0.8.6/0.9.x fails to build against 
evolution 2.31.4
  * Fixes: NB#185950, COREWEB: /usr/lib/tracker/tracker-extract 
'*__GI_strncmp extract_gif get_file_metadata tra
  * Fixes: NB#185070, Enable PNG_iTXt_SUPPORTED flag in libpng
  * Fixes: NB#182948, Keywords/Subject metadata not written back to the 
file
  * Fixes: NB#184882, tracker-extract is getting crashed for malformed 
gif files
  * Functional Tests: refactoring branch merged, much more 
comprehensive testings now
  * SPARQL: Improve lexer performance for strings with ASCII characters
  * libtracker-common: Make sure libtracker-sparql inherits verbosity
  * libtracker-data: Merged DataError into TrackerSparqlError, was 
causing miner-fs to not finish
  * libtracker-data: Remove unused Options database table
  * libtracker-sparql: Added dbus-glib-1 dependency when building Vala 
sources
  * libtracker-sparql: Added example documentation for update_blank() API
  * libtracker-bus: Catch SPARQL errors thrown by D-Bus
  * tracker-extract: MP3, Fixed extraction of certain ID3v2.3 and 
ID3v2.4 tags
  * tracker-extract: MP3, Fixed un-unsynchronisation in ID3v2
  * tracker-store: Fixed some memory leaks in dbus shutdown
  * tracker-store: Removed plugin support (was only used by kmail)
  * tracker-miner-fs: Fixed memory leak when setting up volumes
  * tracker-search: Fixed typo, output was "Contacts:" when it should 
be "Files:"
  * tracker-search: Improved output for --contacts and --files
  * kmail: Removed this plugin, it was unmaintained

Translations:

  * Updated es: Jorge González

Notes:

  None

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19 August 2010
Tracker team