2007/9/5, jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Im pleased to announce a new much improved version of tracker which has > been highly tuned and optimised to give excellent performance (in most > cases) > > downloads: > > http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.2.tar.gz > http://www.gnome.org/~jamiemcc/tracker/tracker-0.6.2.tar.bz2 > > > Changes: > > * New Sqlite based indexer which utlises the new incremental blob I/O > in sqlite 3.4 > > * Highly optimised email indexing (up to 5x faster) > > * Dramatically reduced disk access and disk contention > > * Indexer now pauses for a grace period when non-tracker processes write > to disk (providing changed files are being watched by tracker) - > minimises slowdowns when compiling or checking out source code > > * Makes use of idle class disk IO scheduling if available > > * Makes preliminary use of NO_ATIME (some disk access still uses fopen) > > * Fixed restore of user metadata on re-index (keywords are > auto-restored) > > * Added increased number of (junk) files to automatically ignore > > * Improved stopwords > > * New deskbar handler that uses the new deskbar api (2.19+) > > * Fixed old deskbar handler to remove race condition causing crashes > > * Fixed a number of annoying bugs in email indexing and tracker > preferences > > > This version will cause your hard drive to be re-indexed due to the new > sqlite indexer backend
>From this version Tracker no longer compiles on Ubuntu Feisty, since it only ships sqlite 3.3 (3.4 is required), and the inlined sqlite is no longer bundled. I consider this a rather big thing that ought to be mentioned in the release notes. Cheers, Mikkel
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