ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.9 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:

  * Fixes: GB#621547, inconsistent messages on hard-reset
  * Fixes: GB#621126, Status icon's progress bars should be at 0% on init
  * Fixes: GB#620094, tracker-status-icon shows "search" menu item even though t-s-t is not installed
  * Fixes: GB#621183, When mounting volume 2nd time, inotify watches don't work any more
  * Fixes: GB#621001, tracker-miner-fs fails to initialize active mount points if CD name has whitespaces
  * Fixes: NB#174162, Tracker's filesize returns integer which prevents to show correct file size for big files.
  * Fixes: NB#174333, Each file is listed twice in tracker search results
  * Fixes: NB#174591, Tracker accepts unbound variables in FILTER() expression.
  * Fixes: NB#173673, SMS validity period property needed in nmo ontology
  * Fixes: NB#172818, Tracker is not indexing new content on EMMC
  * Fixes: NB#173589, tracker-store is killed due to high memory usage from large INSERTs
  * Fixes: NB#174248, Filtering by boolean value fails
  * configure: Fixed summary for miners (strings were blank sometimes)
  * Ontology: Removed nrl:maxCardinality from nco:hasAffiliation (was 1)
  * Ontology: Added tracker:isRemovable and tracker:isOptical properties
  * libtracker-db: Database version bump (due to ontology changes)
  * libtracker-db: Simplify DB abstraction, it is not needed
  * libtracker-db: Add a "length" parameter to tracker_db_cursor_string
  * libtracker-fts: Fixed libicu backend memory leak in tracker_parser_reset()
  * libtracker-miner: Added tracker_storage_get_type_for_uuid()
  * libtracker-miner: Update the database when config changes for optical/removable media
  * libtracker-miner: Use GMount instead of GVolume which is for user-mountable devices only
  * libtracker-miner: Detect removable devices using GDrive API, not guessing
  * libtracker-miner: Ignore GMounts which are considered shadowed mounts
  * libtracker-miner: Import GIO's system for detecting optical media more accurately
  * tracker-store: Optimized memory use for class signals
  * tracker-store: Optimized class signals with use of GStringChunk
  * tracker-store: Avoid using dbus-glib for sending class signals
  * tracker-store: Compress SubjectsChanged signal for multi-value fields
  * tracker-extract: Slightly reduce SPARQL update size for playlists
  * tracker-miner-fs: Force re-check of mounted path ONLY if an indexed location
  * tracker-minre-fs: Fixed build when there is no DEVKIT or HAL

Translations:

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Notes:

  The database version up has been incremented, this will force a
  reindex for any existing Tracker installation.

-- 
17 June 2010
Tracker team