news 28 Posted July 15, 2008 Hello, I am pleased to announce the release of Beagle 0.3.8, the next feature release of the 0.3 series. There are lots of new features, GUI changes and bug fixes; see below for the rather large list. Due to time constraints, we could not get the translations up-to-date for the GUI. Expect a release shortly with up to date translations. THE SHORT OF IT --------------- Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time. To download the 0.3.8 release or learn more about Beagle, visit the Beagle web page: http://beagle-project.org Beagle supports many different data sources and file formats. For a complete listing, visit: http://beagle-project.org/Supported_Filetypes Beagle includes an optional GNOME-based graphical tool and a browser interface for searching its indexes. To learn more about Beagle, visit: http://beagle-project.org/About IMPORTANT CHANGES between 0.3.7 and 0.3.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dependencies: * Update local copy of SemWeb and include it under GPLv3 instead of CC-by-2.0. * Update beagle-settings-qt requirements: look for either qyoto.pc or qt-dotnet.dll. * Remove internal taglib-sharp. We now require that taglib-sharp be installed. * Remove the build dependency of sqlite3-devel, * Fix our D-Bus requirements. System D-Bus is an optional requirement for beagled. Session D-Bus is a necessary requirement for "beagle-search --icon". Distributions should make beagle-search depend on something that starts session D-Bus at login (e.g. KDE3 does not automatically start D-Bus at login). * Explicitly use -lX11 to build libbeagleuiglue.so. Fixes #540120. * Require gtk+/# >= 2.10. * Remove the build dependencies of libgnome-2.0-dev and libgnomevfs-dev. Features: * Add a SemWeb based adapter for querying beagle using RDF. Strictly experimental and enabled only with --enable-rdf-adapter. (http://beagle-project.org/RDF) * Add the GMail backend related options to beagle-settings-qt. * Add a BibTex filter based on the command line program 'bibparse'. bibparse is a run-time requirement and can be found in the btparse package. * Add infrastructure and command-line tools to create and manage static indexes for removable sources. (http://beagle-project.org/Static_Indexes#Indexing_Removable_Medium) * Add a crawl-rule for indexing executables in /usr/bin, /bin etc. Add beagle-crawl-system [--list] [crawl-] options to list the system indexes and selectively update only one system index. * Add support for snippets for remote beagled query. * Add support for KDE4 konqueror history. * Show a drop-down list in beagle-search to choose search categories. This was previously hidden in the menus. Use BEAGLE_SEARCH_SCOPE environment variable to allow users to create custom categories. * Add menu options to beagle-search to start and stop beagled and show index statistics. * Enable the Open-With context-menu in beagle-search results. * Include a python script to grab shortcut keys from beagle-settings (distributed under GPL3). Bugfixes: * Focus the search entry is there are no results initially. Fixes #529540. * Fix a regression where searching applications and other system wide indexes were disabled by default in beagle-search. * Update Evolution backend for the new Evolution-Sharp API. Fixes #526685. * Use the correct protocol for evolution-tasks "task:///...". Fixes #530624. * Handle corrupt config files. Fixes #532308. * Fix parsing of Opera history cache. Fixes #533529. * If the firefox extension does not find ~/.beagle, show the message in the icon tooltip instead of showing the disruptive alert. Fixes debian #463922, bnc #385513. * Handle rogue backends if they start throwing lots of errors. This will save the log files from getting flooded with unnecessary exceptions. * Fix the spreadsheet filter which was broken since 2007! * Correctly generate URIs for child-indexables (e.g. archive contents, docbook entries). Fixes #535020. * Fix the docbook filter to not return unnecessary matches when only one docbook section matches the query. * Show an error dialog if beagle-settings encounters an unhandled exception. This gives a better feedback to the user. Fixes #541134. * Always show the filename separately in the beagle-search results. Show the filename instead of document title for pdf, odt etc. files whose titles are mostly unset or auto-generated. * Do not index javascript: pages in the firefox extension. * Properly parse Pidgin log files with smilies; these lines used to throw an exception earlier. * Support KMail-3 in KDE4. Fixes #540153. * The FileSystem backend now correctly handles filenames in a non-utf8 locale if MONO_EXTERNAL_ENCODINGS is set to the platform encoding. Fixes #440458. * Fix a bug where beagled sometimes returns less than 100 (max-results) results even though more results are available. Translations: - Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen) - Spanish (Jorge Gonzalez) - Italian (Gianvito Cavasoli) - Occitan (Yannig Marchegay) - French (Claude Paroz) - Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira) - Czech (Adrian Gunis (Fixes #537846)) - Swedish (Daniel Nylander) - Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas) Other contributors: Nirbheek Chauhan, Arun Chaganty, Florian Echtler. Full set of changes: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/beagle/tags/BEAGLE_0_3_8/beagle/ChangeLog?view=markup KNOWN ISSUES ------------------------ * If you use any torrent client or any other p2p application, add its download directory to the excluded directory list of beagled. Sometimes beagle can take a long time to parse partially downloaded files. Enjoy, - dBera _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
