ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.10.0 released (stable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

Where can I get it?
===================

  http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.10/

What is it?
===========

Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices. 
Tracker uses W3C standards for RDF ontologies using Nepomuk with SPARQL 
to query and update the data.

Tracker is a central repository of user information, that provides two 
big benefits for the user; shared data between applications and 
information which is relational to other information (for example: 
mixing contacts with files, locations, activities and etc.).


What's New Since 0.8?
=====================

Dependencies:

  * libtool >= 2.2 (previously no required version)
  * autoconf >= 2.64 was 2.59
  * automake 1.11 and use Vala features
  * Vala >= 0.11.4 for GDBus / sender support
  * GLib 2.26
  * D-Bus 1.3.1 or higher
  * SQLite 3.7 (for Write Ahead Logging)
  * libicu or libunistring (GLib unicode support has performance issues)
  * poppler 0.12.2 instead of poppler-glib 0.4.5

New Features:

  * Added GDBus support
  * Added direct access library libtracker-sparql for fast read-only 
queries
  * Added LRU (Least Recently Used) for database statement cache (huge 
memory footprint difference)
  * Added a GUPnP DLNA extractor
  * Added domain specific indexes, adding a column to DB tables to 
avoid full table scans/joins with larger tables for performance.
  * Added metadata guarantee support when key data is missing (e.g. 
nie:title generation from filename)
  * Added tracker-sql (in utils/) to run SQL on the databases directly 
(for developers)
  * Added unicode compliance for FTS (Full Text Search)
  * Don't do mtime checks on start up (dramatically reduces start time 
for miner-fs)
  * Replaced tracker-search-tool with tracker-needle
  * New API methods in libtracker-sparql which allow multiple inserts 
per DBus call (and yet get multiple errors back).
  * New journal format to separate ontology from data for improved data 
integrity
  * New journal compression and rotation using 50Mb chunk sizes
  * Task pool in libtracker-miner for store updates/metadata 
extractions, 10-20% speed increase indexing thanks to the work from 
Zhenqiang Chen
  * Monitor event black listing and events are condensed (less event 
spam up the stack)
  * Return types in TrackerSparqlCursor API (previously just strings)
  * Collation support
  * Refactored and much more efficient signal notification API
  * Use libtracker-sparql: Client library for direct/dbus access
  * SPARQL, Add support for EXISTS and NOT EXISTS
  * SPARQL, Add support for IN
  * SPARQL, Add support for INSERT SILENT and DELETE SILENT
  * Updated totem plugin to use libtracker-sparql
  * Updated evolution plugin to recent versions of Evolution/EDS
  * Updated GTK+ search engine to use libtracker-sparql
  * Updated tracker-search bar to be GTK+ 3 / GNOME 3 compliant
  * Removed tracker-status-icon
  * Merged tracker-status into tracker-control
  * libtracker-client is now marked as deprecated

GNOME bugs fixed (102):

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=640845,639547,641906,640623,636074,631955,623666,639542,622918,639918,639556,639543,639552,600081,638159,636936,624041,636604,635756,636383,635794,635757,634424,630244,635652,634669,633118,633093,631391,575993,628872,628859,628090,628536,627893,613252,627281,623005,623207,624731,616199,624346,624071,623836,622702,623203,616809,511474,621070,621987,620354,620362,622351,621108,621110,621015,619244,621183,621112,621001,620353,619498,619929,619535,619826,619801,619615,619630,619271,560220,616540,526346,617812,619487,503366,619061,616845,618822,618707,618821,618544,618011,614728,616808,617515,617082,579051,615930,616493,615836,616165,616403,616329,615948,616158,615868,615035,615178,615563,615184,615313,615182

Nokia bugs fixed (154):

https://projects.maemo.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=227977,208621,223536,225910,221340,180770,217610,224993,222182,224760,218525,224763,197067,223938,185309,223622,223282,223133,223148,223161,222645,222494,222664,222578,221700,220373,218092,218332,217636,218125,219309,216582,218560,211147,218123,216329,217575,198003,216350,212736,214163,214478,214413,213419,211928,212116,210217,211926,198155,207918,208420,203538,204706,202291,206752,203540,203593,195787,203632,202275,199968,202627,202581,201122,200310,199131,194908,194548,186096,197546,197097,195394,196143,194677,195547,192790,193044,194746,193061,186055,190480,192326,188031,184220,187558,189896,188494,184505,187149,174794,185950,185070,182948,184882,184823,177663,181421,181112,183307,172390,179570,180803,182788,181538,179894,180236,180679,179434,179559,179798,176090,178599,178825,178808,174590,177447,176932,175723,170915,175957,175712,174591,174333,174162,173673,172818,174248,173589,173164,172414,161449,173206,172652
,171657,167647,170142,168740,164822,169460,163155,169254,169105,169119,168742,167616,166767,166717,166684,166080,164958,161047,163544,163715,163480

Translations:

  Many, thank you to everyone involved.

Notes:

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


Where can I find out more?
==========================

You can visit the project web site:

   http://www.tracker-project.org/


Thanks
======

Thank you to everyone involved in submitting patches over the past year 
or so, mostly to these people (commits in brackets). Some great patches, 
branches, bug reports and testing from all of these people:

  Adrien Bustany (66)
  Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (16)
  Rob Taylor (10)
  Michael Biebl (9)
  Lionel Landwerlin (6)
  Amit Jain (6)
  Javier Jardón (5)
  Jean-Luc Lamadon (3)
  Frederic Crozat (3)
  Deji Akingunola (3)
  Vincent Untz (2)
  Murugappan Nataraj (2)
  Mathias Hasselmann (2)
  Jussi Kukkonen (2)
  Akos PASZTORY (2)

If I missed anyone, I apologise. Enjoy the new release!

--
17 February 2010
Tracker team