[Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.6.95 released

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

tracker 0.6.95 is now available for download from:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.6/

72a24cd14f0047fea82d4823f3877560  tracker-0.6.95.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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  * Fixes indexer potential path breakage by using g_build_path instead
  * Fixes indexer so we do not parse metadata text if FTS is disabled
  * Fixes mime check for albumart extraction in gstreamer & mp3
extractors
  * Fixes max extractor time per file from 10s to 5s, videos reached
this
  * Fixes n updates vs. 1 insert to DB Services table, much faster now
  * Fixes SQLite FTS warning in logs
  * Fixes double free in MP3 extractor
  * Fixes memory leaks in tracker-files
  * Fixes trackerd to remove QDBM indexes on reindex too.
  * Fixes indexer to disable all sync/async flushing on any error
  * Fixes SEGFAULT if calling g_filename_to_utf8() with symlink
  * Fixes not crawling inserted media AFTER indexing is complete
  * Fixes album art heuristics
  * Fixes missing va_end calls in evolution-imap module when returning
  * Fixes unchecked return values g_stat() and g_file_get_content()
  * Fixes unused variables left in various places found by coverity
  * Fixes leaks in utils/qdbm/ print and search applications
  * Fixes xmp extractor white balance check which had old code in use
  * Fixes RDF query functions which failed coverity checks
  * Fixes condition where we hang setting volume states with no volumes
  * Fixes daemon shutdown with unresponsive indexer setting volume
states
  * Fixes warning in indexer logs for NULL udi
  * Fixes the way we get volume IDs for a given path
  * Fixes albumart heuristic scanner
  * Fixes tracker-query to allow queries without an rdf-file
  * Fixes binary search index size error, assumed 0 to array->len
  * Fixes binary search index use gint64 not guint for array index
  * Fixes indexer invalid writes in state_to_string() if string is empty
  * Fixes indexer crash, by setting ALL struct members in
unindex_metadata
  * Fixes turtle memory leaks and unnecessary allocations and adds
checks
  * Fixes trackerd disk_space_check_stop() critical warning on shutdown
  * Fixes indexer transactions, start after data extraction, now 2x
faster
  * Fixes indexer to perform binary searches on cached words.
  * Fixes tracker_hal_path_is_on_removable_device() performance.
  * Fixes need for sqlite_load_extension() without FTS support enabled.
  * Fixes several memory leaks
  * Fixes missing break causing WHERE property to return ORDER property
  * Added more generic DBus API for performing aggregates on unique
values
  * Added test cases for TrackerDataMetadata, TrackerThumbnailer, etc
  * Added dynamic pragma loading for SQLite now in $HOME/.config/tracker
  * Improves indexer's error handling, we now pause on error
  * Improves MP3 extractor checks for files before getting metadata
  * Improves indexing speed by not inserting less important metadata to
db
  * Improves indexing speed by using less columns for Services indices
  * Improves HAL UDI lookup speed from ~5ms to 0.5ms
  * Improves embedded albumart extraction speed
  * Reverted QDBM binary search work after several negative reports
  * Disable QDBM operations with patch 09
  * Disable FTS support, so we don't open files and extract content
  * Disabled indexer TTL support improving speed and general
responsivness
  * Set volume states before enabling DBus interfaces, shutdown on error

Bugs Fixed:
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  * Fixes: NB#110584, Image:HasKeywords cannot be used for
ImageViewer...
  * Fixes: NB#113083, Tracker extracts Sub-location instead of
Location...
  * Fixes: NB#106085, Tracked database is not updated when images
were...
  * Fixes: NB#110584, Image:HasKeywords cannot be used for
ImageViewer...
  * Fixes: NB#115978, two instances of "0" are seen in the
tracker-unique...
  * Fixes: NB#109892, NFTTOP10: tracker-files is not listing the
newly ...
  * Fixes: NB#112632, Files seem to go missing from database
  * Fixes: NB#113903, tracker-extract crashes on mp3 files with a bad...
  * Fixes: NB#110221, ML: Album Art is not displaying in All Album...
  * Fixes: NB#100123, Image:Date is empty for some of the images
  * Fixes: NB#115184, tracker-unique crashed
  * Fixes: NB#114354, trackerd polls
  * Fixes: NB#113528, Tracker indexer crashes after querying meta data
of...
  * Fixes: NB#109071, Error updating "Playlist:ValidDuration" property
  * Fixes: NB#107962, trackerd crashes
  * Fixes: GB#580586, FTBFS: undefined reference to
`sqlite3_enable_load...
  * Fixes: GB#580908, [PATCH] Make configure error on missing hal
and ...
  * Fixes: GB#580905, [PATCH] Clean up help messages in configure
  * Fixes: GB#575130, Remove deprecated GTK+ symbols

Translations:
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  * Updated es: Jorge Gonzalez
  * Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen
  * Updated it: Luca Ferretti

Manual Translations:
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None


22 May 2009
tracker team