ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.27 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:

  * NEW feature: New journal format to separate ontology from data for 
improved data integrity
  * Fixes: NB#199131, Geotags are not displayed for the images
  * Fixes: NB#194908, Compilation albums (multiple albumArtist in the 
same Album) doesn't work properly
  * Fixes: NB#200310, BMP files should also be registered as nmm:Photo
  * Fixes: GB#633118, Read comments embedded in GIF files
  * Fixes: GB#633093, Use statvfs64() if available to check for free space
  * Fixes: GB#631391, MsOffice-XML content extraction doesn't work properly
  * build: Don't check for 'tar' command
  * functional-tests: Moved all IPC tests to ipc/
  * libtracker-common: Use per-client timeouts to avoid unnecessary 
wake ups
  * libtracker-client: Disable deprecation warnings when building this 
library
  * libtracker-data: Identify unsupported ontology change coping more 
broadly
  * libtracker-bus: Disable dbus timeouts in updates to the store
  * tracker-sparql: Added --list-indexes to show database indexes
  * tracker-store: Use per-query watchdogs to avoid unnecessary wake ups
  * tracker-extract: Removed all tests, they've been commented out for 
some time
  * tracker-extract: GIF: Fixed memory leak for height and width
  * tracker-extract: GStreamer: Write multiple nmm:albumArtist if there 
are more than one
  * tracker-extract: MSOffice: Don't use a static var to check if 
nie:generator was already set
  * tracker-miner-fs: Removed all tests, test source file was just a main()
  * tracker-control: Fix runtime critical when journal file doesn't exist

Translations:

  * de: Mario Blättermann
  * sl: Andrej Žnidaršič
  * fr: Bruno Brouard

Notes:

  None

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28 October 2010
Tracker team