Re: [Tracker] [Announce] Tracker 0.6.2

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2007/9/5, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Im pleased to announce a new much improved version of tracker which has
been highly tuned and optimised to give excellent performance (in most
cases)

downloads:

http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.2.tar.gz
http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.2.tar.bz2


Changes:

* New Sqlite based indexer which utlises the new incremental blob I/O
in sqlite 3.4

* Highly optimised email indexing (up to 5x faster)

* Dramatically reduced disk access and disk contention

* Indexer now pauses for a grace period when non-tracker processes write
to disk (providing changed files are being watched by tracker) -
minimises slowdowns when compiling or checking out source code

* Makes use of idle class disk IO scheduling if available

* Makes preliminary use of NO_ATIME (some disk access still uses fopen)

* Fixed restore of user metadata on re-index (keywords are
auto-restored)

* Added increased number of (junk) files to automatically ignore

* Improved stopwords

* New deskbar handler that uses the new deskbar api (2.19+)

* Fixed old deskbar handler to remove race condition causing crashes

* Fixed a number of annoying bugs in email indexing and tracker
preferences


This version will cause your hard drive to be re-indexed due to the new
sqlite indexer backend

From this version Tracker no longer compiles on Ubuntu Feisty, since it only ships sqlite 3.3 (3.4 is required), and the inlined sqlite is no longer bundled.

I consider this a rather big thing that ought to be mentioned in the release notes.

Cheers,
Mikkel