tracker 1.2.0

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

About Tracker
=============

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.).


IMPORTANT!
==========
The change in cardinality to nfo:hasMediaStream from 1 to many may force 
a reindex for any existing Tracker installation. This change in ontology 
is _NOT_ supported automatically.

It is recommended to use:

  tracker-control --backup /path/to/backup.db

In case you later need to:

 tracker-control --restore /path/to/backup.db

Forgive any disruption this may cause!


News
====

The main changes since 1.0.x are:

  * New Feature: Extractor now supports eBook and Comic book formats
  * New Feature: Extractor now supports BMP files
  * New Feature: Data Provider: Now there are TrackerDataProvider and 
TrackerEnumerator interfaces to allow 3rd parties to supply their own 
data to Tracker to be indexed, for example for an online or proprietary 
service
  * New Feature: Extractor is now 'crash-aware' that being, we have a 
separate data source for content that can't be extracted to avoid 
repeated failures from tracker-extract. This also survives through 
crashes that may occur due to attempted extractions
  * build: Updated doap file (added programming language and category 
is now "core")
  * build: Improve firefox and thunderbird detection to avoid warnings 
in console
  * build: Removed all GNU_SOURCE additions in sources, use 
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS instead
  * build: Fixed many unit tests that were not properly isolated
  * build: configure now has an --enable-minimal option to ONLY build 
tracker-store
  * build: Reduce vala generated source warnings from GCC
  * build: Use major version only PkgConfig files. Previously, we had 
$library-$major-$minor (e.g. tracker-sparql-1.2, when it should be 
tracker-sparql-1.0) to avoid creating unnecessary work for developers 
using Tracker. This release corrects this and it was planned originally.
  * build: Include COPYING*GPL files in tarball
  * build: Generate Vala bindings from GIR for libtracker-miner, 
libtracker-control
  * build: Improved many GIR annotations for nullable cases in 
libtracker-miner, libtracker-control
  * build: Avoid using rpath where possible
  * build: Make check fails to generate test reports
  * build: Remove --enable-guarantee metadata, always guarantee 
nie:title and nie:contentCreated
  * build: Added CC_CHECK_FLAGS_APPEND m4 macros from xinelib/systemd 
projects to check GCC compiler flags we can use
  * ontology: nfo:hasMediaStream no longer has a max cardinality of 1, 
this may mean a reindex is needed
  * libtracker-bus: Fixed a crash in query_async() where splice async 
operation is cancelled
  * libtracker-bus: Fixed a bug where tracker-stats showed no 
information with Vala 0.24+
  * libtracker-sparql: All TrackerSparqlConnection APIs throw 
GLib.Error due to GUnixFDList _append() API
  * libtracker-sparql: Move TRACKER_ const definitions to Tracker 
namespace, i.e. Tracker.DBUS_*
  * libtracker-miner: Fixed reference leak with TrackerTaskPool when 
using external data miners
  * libtracker-miner: Add new API tracker_decorator_fs_prepend_file() 
as part of 'crash-aware' feature.
  * libtracker-miner: PkgConfig file now requires libmediaart (when 
dependent) privately
  * libtracker-extract: Fixed broken EXIF GPS coordinate extraction
  * libtracker-extract: There is no longer an example in the examples/ 
directory as this library is now private
  * tracker-extract: Fixed missing TRACKER_EXTRACTORS_DIR env var that 
was removed at some stage
  * tracker-extract: Cleaned up signal handling, SIGALRM and SIGABRT no 
longer used
  * tracker-extract: [DOC] Catch more MS Office MIME types supported
  * tracker-extract: [MP3] Fixed mp3 parsing for ID3v24 or ID3v23 tags
  * tracker-extract: [ISO] Extract language, copyright and author 
information about ISO images using new ontology
  * tracker-extract: [ODT] Improved extraction of content so we don't 
stop on embedded tabs and line breaks
  * tracker-extract: [GIF] Support giflib 5.1.0 as well as earlier versions
  * tracker-stats: Now EXPRESSIONS can be used to filter stats shown
  * tracker-stats: Now only common and fallback RDF types are shown by 
default, --all can be used to old behaviour
  * tracker-info: Add --resource-is-iri or -i to avoid filename to URN 
lookups
  * tracker-info: Don't show "(null)" for nie:InformationElements with 
no nie:url
  * tracker-control: Added a lot of strings previsouly untranslated
  * tracker-control: Removed shorthand command line switches for less 
common arguments (--list-*, --pause-details)
  * tracker-control: Added --watch command line option to watch changes 
to the database.
  * tracker-miner-fs: By default, ignore directories with 
'.trackerignore' file inside
  * tracker-miner-apps: New process to mine data about applications, 
previously part of tracker-miner-fs. Can be disabled with 
--disable-miner-apps
  * tracker-miner-user-guides: New process to mine data about user 
guides and help content, previously part of tracker-miner-fs. Can be 
disabled with --disable-user-guides
  * tracker-writeback: Support GIFs
  * tracker-preferences: Removed fixed column for indexed locations, 
column header text was cut off
  * tracker-preferences: Don't use Stock.* deprecated since Gtk+ 3.10
  * tracker-preferences: Added suggestion to reindex OR restart 
depending on configuration changes applied
  * tracker-preferences: General UI clean up and modernization fixing 
many deprecations where old GTK+ widgets were used
  * tracker-preferences: Added 'control' tab to allow users to enable 
finer control of what's indexed (e.g. numbers - which are normally disabled)
  * tracker-preferences: Add AppData with screenshots for app stores
  * tracker-needle: Add AppData with screenshots for app stores
  * tracker-sandbox: Setup xdg-user-dirs too

Bugs Fixed (31):


https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=737023,736328,735180,735645,735636,735460,735610,735567,735317,735339,733573,733317,734464,733857,734089,734144,733316,733948,733863,733536,733439,732839,730627,728370,730111,729253,729968,729708,728252,728546,725717

Translations:

  Many, thank you to everyone involved.



ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/1.2/tracker-1.2.0.changes 
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