ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.6 released (unstable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

tracker 0.9.6 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.9/

6e6137b340594403c3c8a5db4c919659  tracker-0.9.6.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 libtracker-client header includes for all tracker-utils

  Ontology:
  * Added SLO (Simplified Location Ontology) for testing

  libtracker-db: 
  * Replaced unreliable sqlite3_interrupt() with another solution

  libtracker-data:
  * Fixed backup test to properly shutdown libtracker-data
  * Improved error reporting when inserting multiple values for single valued property
  * Don't remove temporary data asynchronously, leads to race conditions

  libtracker-extract:
  * XMP: Protect against division by zero
  * Updated tracker_text_validate_utf8(), text_len was gsize, now it is gssize

  libtracker-fts:
  * Make sure to not keep table locked after queries
  * Added README.parsers to explain libicu/libunistring/libglib parsing methods
  * Removed max_words_to_index, it was unused
  * Removed delimit_words, it was unused

  tracker-extract:
  * XMP: Fix strings that go like "n1/n2" that are xsd:double

  tracker-writeback:
  * XMP: Don't writeback fields that are typically set by the camera itself

  tracker-search: 
  * Don't append "*" to all fts:match queries

Bugs:

  * GB#619826 - don't clean-up search terms before storing them in history
  * GB#526346 - please add option to disable stemming
  * GB#560220 - New option required:ignore diacritics when indexing and searching
  * GB#619271 - pango dependency only needed if compiling with the glib/pango parser
  * GB#619487 - ensure that one can search terms with _underscores_
  * GB#619630 - HTML extractor inserts several nie:title if title has an ampersand (&) character
  * GB#619615 - Include DC ontology in gtk-doc documentation
  * GB#619801 - We need SPARQL escaping for cases where we use g_file_info_get_display_name()
  * GB#616540 - tracker-preferences doesn't like non-UTF8 locale
  * NB#167449 - The attached PDF file is not displayed in the front page.
  * NB#168740 - Tracker-Critical **: Could not execute sparql: Unable to insert multiple values for subject 
  * NB#169460 - Added m3u playlist is not harvested by tracker in SB1
  * NB#170142 - Same tags are extracted twice if found from DC:Subject and IPTC:keywords
  * NB#164822 - Need property to associate a video URL with a contact

Translations:

  * Updated fr: Claude Paroz

Notes:

  None

-- 
27 May 2010
Tracker team