ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.18 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!

  * Fixes: GB#613252, Application-driven indexing and metadata storage
  * Fixes: GB#627893, tracker 0.9.17 does not compile with 
e-d-s/evolution 2.31.90 built with gtk+ 3.0
  * Fixes: NB#187148, "Not tagged, file is not indexed" message is seen 
when adding a tag
  * Fixes: NB#184505, Video files without audio are listed as music clips.
  * coverage: Ignore deprecated libtracker-client
  * coverage: Ignore generated .c files
  * functional-tests: Use python instead of specific python2.6
  * functional-tests: Corrupted-image extraction test is no longer an 
expected failure, as bug was fixed
  * functional-tests: FTS: Improve offsets/rank tests
  * functional-tests, FTS: Remove rdfs:Resource, not rdf:Resource
  * Ontology: Renamed slo:longitudeUncertainty to slo:horizontalAccuracy
  * Ontology: Renamed slo:latitudeUncertainty to slo:verticalAccuracy
  * libtracker-data: Fixed journal reader with rotated journals
  * libtracker-data: Make sure tracker_fts_update_commit() is called 
for FTS updates
  * libtracker-direct: Use maximum D-Bus timeout
  * libtracker-direct: Wait for tracker-store to be ready
  * libtracker-bus: Use maximum D-Bus timeout
  * libtracker-bus: Fixed linking to include libtracker-sparql
  * libtracker-bus: Throw errors for non-FD passing when Cancellable is 
cancelled
  * libtracker-bus: Support BatchUpdate for low priority requests
  * libtracker-sparql: Added debugging to know what SPARQL is used with 
direct-access
  * libtracker-sparql: Added TRACKER_SPARQL_BACKEND environment variable
  * libtracker-sparql: Added deps file for tracker-sparql.vapi to 
distribution
  * libtracker-sparql: cursor_get_n_columns() should only be called 
after cursor_next()
  * libtracker-miner: Allow API to bypass config dir checks for user 
based indexing
  * libtracker-miner: Add method to reindex certain mimetypes
  * libtracker-miner: Add method to invoke tracker-miner-fs to index a file
  * tracker-store: Fixed race conditions with new 'Wait' d-bus interface
  * tracker-store: Fixed unregister_g_object() criticals
  * tracker-store: Small busy callback improvements, indexing speed 
increased
  * tracker-miner-fs: Remove --add-file option (now done using 
tracker-control -f)
  * tracker-miner-fs: Added debugging to know which file is requested 
to be indexed over D-Bus
  * tracker-miner-fs: Use tracker_dbus_request_failed() for error 
situations
  * tracker-miner-fs: Do not index dirs unconditionally when adding 
monitors, huge crawling performance improvement
  * tracker-miner-fs: Renamed Reindex D-Bus interface to Index
  * tracker-control: Make -f and -m outputs translatable
  * tracker-control: Print when reindexing mime types or files is 
successful
  * tracker-control: Don't print PIDs if we're reindexing mimes or a file
  * tracker-control: Use TrackerMinerManager to reindex mimetypes
  * tracker-tag: Bail out if none of the passed files exist in the store

Translations:

  * Updated es: Jorge González
  * Updated fr: Bruno Brouard
  * Updated cs: Marek Cernocky
  * Updated de: Mario Blättermann
  * Updated sl: Andrej Žnidaršič

Notes:

  None

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26 August 2010
Tracker team