ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.9.37 released (unstable)

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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/

 

Where can I get it?

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http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.9/

 

What's New?

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The changes are:

 

* New feature: Don't do mtime checks on start up (dramatically

reduces start time for miner-fs)

* Fixes: NB#198003, Don't crash in 'tracker_miner_init', support

GInitable and handle errors gracefully

* Fixes: NB#224342, tracker-control should have options to pause and

resume the miners

* Fixes: NB#218525, tracker-miner is too heavy to start

* Fixes: NB#224763, GLIB CRITICAL ** GLib-GIO - g_dbus_proxy_call:

assertion `parameters == NULL || g_variant_is_of_type (parameters,

G_VARIANT_TYPE_TUPLE)' failed

* Fixes: NB#197067, tracker-miner-fs crawls open files

* Fixes: NB#223938, Don't crash in tracker-extract when using QImage

for SVG files

* Fixes: NB#185309, Extract track numbers from MP3 ID3v2.2 frames

* Fixes: NB#223622, Tracker should update mtime of the

"db-version.txt" stamp file after a backup restoration

* Fixes: NB#223282, --enable-guarantee-metadata and PNG: no

nie:contentCreated

* Fixes: NB#223133, GLIB CRITICAL ** Tracker - file tracker-bus.c:

line 2700: uncaught error:

GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._tracker_5fdate_5ferror_2dquark.Code1

* Fixes: NB#223148, Don't crash in tracker-extract when passing NULL

artist/album to g_variant_new()

* Fixes: NB#223161, tracker-miner-fs crashes trying to g_object_unref

a GError

* Fixes: NB#222645, Inserting a resource using an non-existing class,

doesn't rollback completely

* Fixes: NB#222494, Tracker writeback uses CPU while recording video

with camera

* Fixes: GB#636074, libunistring and glib collations break fn:starts-with

* Fixes: GB#631955, drop status icon use

* Fixes: GB#623666, Change the 3 days time for removable media

information deletion to a configuration value

* Fixes: GB#600081, Get rid of Bonobo

* functional-tests: Added tests for interaction with applications

creating content

* functional-tests: Added parameter to start the tracker processes

manually

* libtrakcer-data: We now restore tracker:modified values after

journal replay and backup restore

* libtracker-data: Don't journal non-embedded data (e.g.

nie:plainTextContent)

 

Translations:

 

* Updated cs: Marek Černocký

* Updated es: Daniel Mustieles

* Updated et: Ivar Smolin

* Updated fr: Bruno Brouard

* Updated sl: Andrej ŽnidarÅ¡iÄÂ

 

Notes:

 

The command 'tracker-status' no longer exists, its command line

features have been merged into 'tracker-control'.

 

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03 February 2010

Tracker team

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