[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.0.0 released!

[Olly Betts]

I'm overjoyed to be able to announce the release of Xapian 1.0.0.

This release features Unicode support, updated stemming algorithms
(with new languages: Hungarian, Romanian, and Turkish), a new and
improved indexing strategy, improvements to the remote backend (which
now supports all backend features and works on MS Windows), new
QueryParser features (ranges, pure NOT queries, support for incremental
searches), and major enhancements to the Python bindings.

Flint supports using zlib to compress tags in the record and termlist
trees, and is now the default backend. The documentation has also been
improved.

For a broader overview see:

http://wiki.xapian.org/ReleaseOverview/1.0.0

The full list of user-visible changes, can be seen via the "[news]"
links on the download page:

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

If you're using Xapian 0.9.x, you may need to plan your migration to
1.0.x.  The classes which care about encoding (Xapian::Stem,
Xapian::QueryParser and the new Xapian::TermGenerator) now expect UTF-8,
and Omega and its indexers now store everything in UTF-8 internally.
Also, a few features have been marked as deprecated, and features marked
as deprecated since 0.9.0 or earlier have been removed.

As always, if you encounter problems, please report them here, or to
the bugtracker.

And a big thankyou to everyone who's help make this release a reality!

Cheers,
    Olly