Xapian discuss - Jun 2005 - Xapian 0.9.1 released

I've uploaded Xapian 0.9.1:

http://www.xapian.org/download.php

This release features:

* A fix for the segmentation fault (introduced in 0.9.0) when
  Query::get_terms_begin() is called on an empty Query object. This
  mainfests itself in Omega when an empty query string is specified.

* On platforms which use glibc we now use the library version of getopt
  rather than including our own copy of the code.

* There are also a number of documentation improvements (most notably all
  the QueryParser methods added in 0.9.0 are now documented).

* The RPM packaging has been updated.

* This release is also the first to include a version of the new flint
  backend.  By default, this is enabled but not used unless explicitly
  requested.  I'll write more about this in a separate message shortly.

Full details of the changes can be found using the links next to each
component on the download page.

Enjoy!

Cheers,
    Olly

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 20:42 +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> I've uploaded Xapian 0.9.1:
Debian packages of Xapian 0.9.1 are now available from the usual place
(see http://www.xapian.org/download.php for details).

Note that these are built for the newly released stable version of
Debian (ie, Debian 3.1, aka "woody").  I imagine that unstable
hasn't
yet diverged enough that they are incompatible.

I do not propose to support the previous Debian release.

Python bindings are included for python versions 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4.
Python 2.1 is not supported due to a problem with the SWIG code
generator - if you're desperate to use python 2.1 with Xapian, olly has
just posted a patch on the xapian-devel mailing list...
Python 2.1 support will hopefully return in a future release.

If any Debian maintainers are listening - we'd like help getting these
packages adopted into Debian proper, now that the freeze for the Debian
release is over.

(There are a few minor policy issues that will need to be sorted out
before this can be done - mainly producing man pages for all the
utilities - but it's mainly just a case of finding a sponsor and
uploading the packages.)

-- 
Richard Boulton <richard@tartarus.org>