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@@ -1,335 +0,0 @@ -Tracker 0.6.6 -============= (03 Mar 2008) - - Applet - * HIG fix for preference window. - * Progress for index merges added. - - Tracker daemon - * Fixed shutdown of daemon when paused to prevent hangs. - * Fixed an unfinished final index merge step when next restarted. - - - -Tracker 0.6.5 -============= (27 Feb 2008) - - Applet - * Removed popup window and replaced with tooltip displaying status - and progress. - * New Applet preferences to turn off animation/hide icon/set - smart pause. - * Smart pause feature which can auto-pause the Tracker daemon - whenever the user presses a key or moves the mouse, thereby - improving system responsiveness during indexing. - * Annoying merge messages have now been removed. - * Reindex option added. - * About box added. - * Now hidden if indexing is disabled. - * Bugs with constant animation fixed. - * Animation rate slowed right down so as to be less annoying. - - Tracker daemon - * Temporary blacklisting of frequently changing files (they are - indexed after one hour or on next restart of Tracker daemon). - This prevents constant indexing from downloads and torrents. - * More blacklisting of common tmp formats and vmware files. - * Memory leak fixes. - * Removed CPU-heavy corruption scan which can last long time and - occurs on battery too at startup when tracker daemon was not - previously shut down properly. Instead we now use bigger - transactions with fsync on to prevent corruption in the first - place (only slightly more disk IO is used during indexing as a - result). - * Fixed crashers. - * Fixed D-Bus shutdown/reindex call. - - - -Tracker 0.6.4 -============= (11 Dec 2007) - - * Made indexing more robust by pausing if disk space is low or - index grows too big. - * Limit log file size to 10MB. - * New Tracker Applet - animates when indexing, provides ability to - pause indexing as well as viewing status and progress feedback - from indexer, statistics, and notification warnings; it can - also launch Tracker Preferences and Tracker Search Tool. - * New power management options enable much better customization. - * Ignored files fixes. - * Deskbar/tracker integration fixes. - * Made most prefs live and affect Tracker in real time; others - will prompt for restart and/or reindex where necessary. - * Shell script fixes - * Fixed Imap bug with embedded Auth in URI. - * Built-in corruption check and scan when Tracker is not shut down - cleanly - prevents infinite looping. - * Fix index deletions. - * Many more bug fixes and stability improvements. - - - -Tracker 0.6.3 -============= (25 Sep 2007) - - * Fixed memory leaks. - * New index merging which allows for much better performance and - much less disk hogging I/O. - * Battery throttling - Tracker now stops indexing when on battery. - * Many more optimisations - transactions, use of O_NOATIME and - posix_fadvise everywhere. - * Check files exist before including in search results. - * Fixed disabling of indexing option in tracker-preferences. - * HIG fixes to tracker-preferences screen. - * Fixed resetting of stats. - - note: - This version will cause your hard drive to be re-indexed so - that stats are fixed (previous version broke them). - - - -Tracker 0.6.2 -============= (25 Sep 2007) - - * New Sqlite-based indexer which utilises 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. - - note: - This version will cause your hard drive to be re-indexed due to - the new Sqlite indexer backend. - - -Tracker 0.6.1 -============= (08 Aug 2007) - - * translations and bugfixes - - -Tracker 0.6.0 "better late than never" -============= (24 Jul 2007) - - * Evolution Emails (mbox/pop/imap) now indexed. - * Gaim/Pidgin chat logs now indexed. - * Applications now indexed. - * New files indexed - all spreadsheets, csv (these require - Gnumeric to be installed) and oo draw. - * Vastly improved and new search UI using a sidebar for categories - and a new metadata tile. - * Tagging support in the UI. - * New tracker-preferences UI for easy setting of prefs. - * Added libtracker-gtk widget toolkit. - * Now uses XDG directories. - * Optimised triple store. - * Handles multiple triple stores (files, emails and user data are - all separate dbs). - * New IDF based ranking algorithm. - * XMP metadata support added. - * Made use of async calls in tracker-search-tool to prevent it - from freezing. - * Added a 60 second delay before indexing to prevent slowdowns on - desktop start-up. - * Added support for crawling directories without watching overhead - (useful for indexing source code without causing slowdowns when - compiling). - - -Tracker 0.5.4 "Speed Daemon" -============= (26 Jan 2007) - - * Indexing at ludicrous speed - massively optimised indexing so - its now 10x faster than previous version. Indexing speeds are - now around 100 text files per second (which is about the - maximum possible considering the I/O time to read 100 files from - a hard drive). - * Index while you work - now scheduled even better so it should - never slow the system down whilst allowing users to work without - being affected by or even noticing it. - * Also provides additional --throttle command line parameter to - customise throttling even further so no need to endure noisy - fans or hot laptops while indexing. - * New verbosity param to control how much data is shown on screen - and in log. - * Fixed MPlayer backend which is now used if gstreamer backend - returns no metadata - * Improved reaping of all spawned apps - no more zombies! - * Improved mime and text file detection. - * Added improved deskbar-handler. - * Got Tracker to run nicely on FUSE based filesystems. - - -Tracker 0.5.3 -============= (24 Dec 2006) - - * Fixed memory leaks when indexing (typical mem usage should now - be ~6MB RSS when indexing large numbers of files). - * New improved metadata engine now sports multiple values per - metadata item and rdf style recursive metadata relationships. - * Support for Dublin Core types (especially for metadata - relationships). - * Changed command line options for trackerd to be similiar to - other programs. - * Metadata names now to reflect rdf style syntax (Eg DC:Keywords). - * Improved indexing of numeric data so that only meaningful - numbers are indexed (IE must contain 5 or more consecutive - numbers to be indexable). - * Improved indexing of filenames so that hyphens and underscores - are used as word breaks to create a delimited filename in - addition to the full filename. - * Improved snippet generator to start/end on a word break if - possible. - - -Tracker 0.5.2 -============= (21 Nov 2006) - - * Now has l10n/i18n support. - * Added timeout to all external processes and metadata extractors - used by Tracker. - * Added missing OpenOffice templates to our filters. - * Fixed filters to use different packages like w3m for indexing - html. - * Fixed Debian build and added new packages for data files and - translations. - * Imporved t-s-t and made snippets wordwrap, made snippets async, - used Tracker's mime facility, improved highlighting and fixed - crasher. - * Limited tracker-extract's memory usage using setrlimit. - * Added desktop files for tracker-search-tool. - - -Tracker 0.5.1 -============= (07 Nov 2006) - - * Inlined a threadsafe version of sqlite to prevent common errors - like content not being indexed. This can be overriden for those - with a threadsafe version of SQlite. - * New Gstreamer-based audio/video extractor on by default. - * Made extractors more robust. - * Fixed a number of compiler warnings. - * Tidied up the tracker-search-tool to have buttons more evenly-sized - * Fixed a few leaks and made the D-Bus interface more robust. - * Imporved IOprio detection. - - -Tracker 0.5.0 -============= (25 Oct 2006) - - * Completely new backend that has been moved from Mysql to the - nimble Sqlite database and QDBM inverted word index. - * New tracker-search-tool GUI which allows you to search for your - files in a google-like fashion with results depicted with - google-style search snippets. - * Revamped Rdf Query engine. - * New lighter design with big dependencies like libextractor - having been dropped in favour of lighter and optional metadata - extractors. - * Added new extractors that can use Totem or MPlayer. - * New options to tune Tracker for your system. We now have a - --enable-low-memory setting for use with computers with less - RAM and a --turbo mode for those who want indexing to take - place as fast as possible. - * New snowball stemmers have been integrated into Tracker to - provide some of the highest quality open source stemming around. - * New language-specific stopword lists to prevent indexng of - common words (which are of little value). - * Can optionally make use of Pango word breaking for full - internationalisation support. - - -Tracker 0.0.4 "Now indexing at Warp speed" -============= (16 May 2006) - - * Hugely optimised indexing when many files are waiting to be - indexed (especially when you first run trackerd). - * Mass queueing of files no longer blocks the main thread, meaning - super fast searches can still be performed during heavy indexing. - * Eliminated CPU bottlenecks and improved thread synchronisations - so Tracker now hits the ground running when indexing (approx - 500+ files indexed per minute on inotify-enabled systems). - * Extended metadata support for more Exif fields. - * Added more service types. - * Imporved build and support for FC5 (includes RPMs). - * Redesigned Database around version 5 of the *embedded* - in-process MySQL database library. - * Now uses the auto-repair facility provided by MySQL to - automatically repair damaged database files so you need never - worry about losing your precious data. - * Moved virtually all DB logic into stored procedures which - provides a clean seperation of DB logic and application logic. - * Added support for parsing dates in various formats including - conversion to/from ISO 8601 format - * Fixed MSWord filter to prevent looping (WvText causes inotify to - report file write change causing endless looping). - * Redesigned DB structure to be more generic and service orientated - * Added support for service types (first class objects) to DB. - * Cleaned up code warnings and fixed potential crasher. - * Fixed issues with argv handling. - * Fixed build issue for Fedora Core 5. - - -Tracker 0.0.3 -============= (29 Mar 2006) - - * Made D-Bus interface more generic - * Corrected search results of hyphenated search terms. - * Added support for limiting no. of hits for searches. - * Added optional support for sorting search results by relevance - score. - * A few minor bug fixes (Updating file name metadata correctly - during move, correcting use of hyphenated search terms). - * Streamlined the inlined version of libextractor and improved - build system and fixed bug in previous version which prevented - compilation of the inlined version. - - -Tracker 0.0.2 -============= (27 Feb 2006) - - * Full inotify support (only compatible with Linux kernels 2.6.13 - or higher) with optimisations for detected moves. - * Fallback to FAM/GAMIN and manual polling for non-Linux and/or - non-inotify systems. - * Improved build system which allows you to specify which file - monitoring backend to use. - * Valgrind'ed to remove all leaks. - - -16 Jan 2006 - * Added support for Tracker as a Nautilus Search Backend. - - -05 Jan 2006 - * Added polling mechanism to watch files in absence of FAM/iNotify - or when FAM/iNotify watch limits have been exceeded. - -13 Dec 2005 - * Imported Tracker into GNOME CVS. - - -08 Dec 2005 - * Pre-release of Tracker launched. - -15 Sep 2005 - * Tracker project started. - - |