Xapian discuss - Oct 2014 - Xapian 1.2.19 released

I'm happy to be able to announce the release of Xapian 1.2.19, which
you can download from:

http://xapian.org/download

Since 1.2.16, release tarballs are compressed with xz instead of gzip,
as it provides much better compression, without being too slow to
decompress.  (For now at least, Search::Xapian is still gzipped.)

We decided not to provide multiple formats for the downloads.  The size
reduction provided by xz is greater than the size of the xz source code
download, so installing it doesn't seem an onerous requirement.

The wiki has a summary of the most notable changes:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ReleaseOverview/1.2.19

A big thankyou to the following people for helping to make this release
a reality: Germ?n M. Bravo, Jean-Francois Dockes, Sebastian Gottfried,
Dmitry Karasik, Craig Macdonald, Jan Mienert, Tobias Scheinert and
Paul Wise.

If I've missed anyone out, you can claim an extra big thankyou.

As always, if you encounter problems, please report them here, or to
the bug-tracker: http://xapian.org/bugs

Since 1.2.17, I'm providing detached GPG signatures for each of the release
tarballs (for each tarball, the signature is in a corresponding file
with ".asc" appended).

Here are the SHA1 checksums of the released files:

1503a0fd4471410d035611f87d3c8be678410d9a  Search-Xapian-1.2.19.0.tar.gz
5aa4a5f8d2f8dbc604f7e785a087668543ede9a1  xapian-bindings-1.2.19.tar.xz
a8679cd0f708e32f2ec76bcdc198cd9fa2e1d65e  xapian-core-1.2.19.tar.xz
3a74aeab5f2311425a36895b180a1ad17e6ba773  xapian-omega-1.2.19.tar.xz

And SHA256 checksums (more secure, but sha256sum is less widely installed):

d9ff745bb3ace7c1c2dbcf4ad65f3e50b3744d16c0a9ee3a51fe7c6541f639c2 
Search-Xapian-1.2.19.0.tar.gz
3b9434c6144cc347783175c92829f304e86919bbbd44f51b7b4a7148960cde17 
xapian-bindings-1.2.19.tar.xz
4a78260388ff1b042f0ab5d18afdd524a530ae609690d0339990ddc147a54785 
xapian-core-1.2.19.tar.xz
ca0a9afe2d1ced933408fc0b089c96cd55f90d7b06ae9708eb84294cd77e35ed 
xapian-omega-1.2.19.tar.xz

Cheers,
    Olly
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:51:31 PM Olly Betts wrote:
> The wiki has a summary of the most notable changes:
> 
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ReleaseOverview/1.2.19
The link to the four modules news pages (e.g. for Omega - 
http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-omega-1.2.19/NEWS) is giving me 403 Forbidden.

Brad

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 04:03:19PM +1100, Brad Hards
wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:51:31 PM Olly Betts wrote:
> > http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ReleaseOverview/1.2.19
> The link to the four modules news pages (e.g. for Omega - 
> http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-omega-1.2.19/NEWS) is giving me 403
Forbidden.
Thanks for reporting this, but they seem to be working now, and the
permissions look good on the server.

The server actually crashed while I was running the website update
script the first time (unconnected I think - we have had some
instability recently), and I reran it after the reboot.  So maybe
you hit the window in the crash and the second update and the crash
had left permissions oddly set.

We build the new version of the site in a temporary location, set the
permissions, and then rsync it over, so I would think the permissions
should be OK during a normal update.

Cheers,
    Olly