ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.11.2 released (unstable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

Where can I get it?
===================

http://download.gnome.org/sources/tracker/0.11/


What is it?
===========

Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices. 
Tracker uses W3C standards for RDF ontologies using Nepomuk with SPARQL 
to query and update the data.

Tracker is a central repository of user information, that provides two 
big benefits for the user; shared data between applications and 
information which is relational to other information (for example: 
mixing contacts with files, locations, activities and etc.).


What's New?
===========

  * Build: Bump tracker_api_version to 0.12 but keep major/miner as 
0.11 (for so names)
  * Build: New 
--with-gstreamer-backend=[tagreadbin,decodebin2,discoverer] switches
  * Require: gstreamer-pbutils when using discoverer backend
  * Removed: Helix extractor for Real Media (it's covered by the 
GStreamer extractor)
  * Fixes: GB#655987, VAPI file lacks annotation for MinerManager
  * Fixes: GB#655789, Some TrackerMinerManager methods lack 
introspection annotations
  * Fixes: GB#655701, Fix build system for firefox/thunderbird plugins 
to work for packaging
  * Fixes: GB#654441, Rename --enable-video-extractor to 
--enable-generic-media-extractor
  * Fixes: NB#247468, Ontology missing for message delivery status when 
sending while remote contact is offline
  * functional-tests: Disable optical and removable indexing for tests
  * libtracker-extract: Don't install examples/ rules mock up
  * libtracker-extract: Added some debugging to know what rules files 
are loaded
  * tracker-extract: Make sure we check filtered modules for dbus calls too
  * tracker-extract: Improve checks for mimetype guessing (didn't check 
empty strings)
  * tracker-extract: Improve debugging for filtered modules and mime 
guessing
  * tracker-extract: Fix --force-module for commandline extraction
  * tracker-extract: Make JPEG module handle DLNA profiles
  * tracker-extract: Make PNG module handle DLNA profiles
  * tracker-extract: Make MP3 module handle DLNA profiles
  * tracker-extract: Let gstreamer extractor handle 'dlna/*' mimetypes
  * tracker-extract-gstreamer: Compiler warning fixes and code refactoring
  * tracker-extract-gstreamer: Assume UTC for dates
  * tracker-miner-fs: Disable writeback by default (was enabled 
accidentally)
  * tracker-miner-flickr: Remove deprecated Encoding key in desktop file
  * tracker-needle: Avoid g_markup_escape_text() critical with NULL
  * tracker-needle: Show email subject as primary information not sender
  * tracker-needle: Fix build with Vala master
  * thunderbird: Add desktop file so needle opens email on activation
  * thunderbird: Use asynchronous connection opening to avoid blocking 
the UI
  * thunderbird: Don't break on consecutive make installs, use -f with ln
  * firefox: Use asynchronous connection opening to avoid blocking the UI
  * firefox: Raise compatibility level to 5.0.*
  * firefox: Don't break on consecutive make installs, use -f with ln

Translations:

  * Updated cs: Marek Černocký
  * Updated de: Christian Kirbach
  * Updated es: Daniel Mustieles
  * Updated ru: Yuri Myasoedov
  * Updated sl: Andrej Žnidaršič
  * Updated sv: Daniel Nylander


Where can I find out more?
==========================

You can visit the project web site:

http://www.tracker-project.org/


--
17 August 2011
Tracker team