Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.7.2 released

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

What about the user data (e.g. tags) if one still runs 0.6.95? Is it
preserved in 0.7.2?
The "changes" and "news" file don't mention it.

Am Freitag, den 09.10.2009, 16:02 +0100 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> tracker 0.7.2 is now available for download from:
> http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.7/
>
> c2e2b87c97547e43cc87ca3006b8d67d  tracker-0.7.2.tar.gz
>
> What is it?
> ===========
> All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database.
>
> Where can I find out more?
> ==========================
> You can visit the project web site:
>
>    http://www.tracker-project.org/
>
> What's New?
> ===========
>
>    General:
>    * Added support for AM_SILENT_RULES (used for producing nice build
>      output), see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/NicerBuilds
>    * Removed filters/ - they are no longer used, was for full text
>      search abilities. We now do this in tracker-extract.
>    * Simplify CFLAGS/LIBS for applications and generally all Makefiles.
>
>    Ontology:
>    * Added average{audio|video}bitrate for nmm:Video. This allows the
>      audio and video to have different bit rates in the same URN.
>    * Added properties for newly added MTP.
>    * Added properties fourCC and waveformat for MTP.
>    * Added properties to NMM to support MTP (nmm:lyrics,
>      mmm:skipCounter, nmm:isCropped, nmm:isColorCorrected).
>    * Added nmm and mto prefixes.
>    * Updated mtp:ScanType to subclass nie:InformationElement allowing
>      nie:description on instances.
>    * Renamed nmm:album to nmm:videoAlbum to be consistent with
>      nmm:audioAlbum.
>
>    libstemmer:
>    * Fix API to return const/non-const more consistently.
>
>    libtracker-common:
>    * Fixed TrackerConfigFile to make it an abstract type object.
>    * Fixed storage (HAL) APIs to return const/non-const more
>      consistently.
>    * Fixed tracker_path_evaluate_name() so we use the HOME environment
>      variable with g_getenv() instead of g_get_home_dir(). This fixes
>      issues seen with NFS mounted home directories.
>    * Fixed storage (HAL) APIs to normalise directories returned.
>    * Fixed timezone test case for tracker-type-utils.
>    * Improve documentation.
>
>    libtracker-data:
>    * Fixed virtual property tracker:uri.
>
>    libtracker-miner:
>    * Added "process-pool-limit" to TrackerMinerFS, this allows us to
>      process more than one file at once. Previously each file was
>      extracted in tracker-extract and stored in tracker-store
>      sequentially. Now data is extracted while it is being stored if
>      process-pool-limit is > 1. Now it is set to 10.
>    * Added support for deleting recursively when a directory is removed.
>    * Updated the documentation.
>    * Removed "application" parameter in tracker_miner_pause(), since
>      it now uses g_get_application_name() or TrackerMiner::name
>      internally.
>    * Update vtable function process_file() for TrackerMinerFS into a
>      signal to be consistent with the rest of the API.
>    * Fixed pkg-config file to include dbus-glib.
>    * Fixed moving items between two monitored directories. Was
>      unsupported.
>    * Fixed g_timer_destroy() warning with timer != NULL.
>
>    tracker-store:
>    * Updated the Dia documentation for trackerd to detail how
>      tracker-store works.
>    * Updated SQL generated for FTS queries by SPARQL.
>    * Added support for function calls as select expressions in SPARQL.
>    * Added support dots at the end of simple OPTIONAL statements in
>      SPARQL.
>
>    tracker-miner-fs:
>    * Fixed crawling duplicate directories if one is in the config file
>      and the other is a removable media.
>    * Fixed memory leak with returned removable devices from storage
>      (HAL).
>    * Updated the Dia documentation for tracker-indexer to detail how
>      tracker-miner-fs works.
>    * Fixed so we don't print "miners all finished" more than once.
>
>    tracker-extract:
>    * Added tracker_text_normalize() to clean up content used for FTS.
>      This function effectively strips non-text characters, extra spaces,
>      carriage returns, etc.
>    * Added FTS support for MS and ODF document formats.
>    * Fixed PDF extractor to use tracker_text_normalize().
>
>    tracker-tag:
>    * Added support for removing a tag on a per URN basis instead of
>      for all content.
>    * Fixed return value
>
> Bugs Fixed
> ==========
>
>    * Fixes GB#570608 - Translation of firefox-extension
>    * Fixes GB#592400 - String translation issues
>    * Fixes GB#589059 - Add option to set evolution plugins directory in
>      configure
>    * Fixes GB#591814 - Clean up .ui files
>    * Fixes GB#581984 - Get rid of deprecated libgnome(ui)
>    * Fixes GB#595752 - Minor string fixes
>    * Fixes NB#142257 - Query from QtTracker causes error
>
> NOTES:
> ======
>
>    The Deskbar applet packaged with Tracker is currently out of date
>    and needs some love to get it working with the new APIs. It is in
>    the same state as it was for 0.6. As such it isn't expected to work.


-- 
thomas