[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.2.18 released

[Olly Betts]

I'm happy to be able to announce the release of Xapian 1.2.18, 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/1.2.18

A big thankyou to the following people for helping to make this release
a reality: Jeff Rand, Vishesh Handa, Assem Chelli, "oilap",
Jean-Francois Dockes, "boomboo", Chris Olds, "Hurricane Tong", Alexis
Denis, and Richard Boulton.  I'm sure I will have managed to miss at
someone out, so an extra big thanks to you.

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

I'm now providing detached GPG signatures for each of the release
tarballs (for each tarball, the signature is in a corresponding file
with ".asc" appended).  These were actually provided for 1.2.17 too, but
this wasn't announced.

Here are the SHA1 checksums of the released files:

24b8f0a024411f569de090426c24818c4b391812  Search-Xapian-1.2.18.0.tar.gz
f185c5b3c34deb43b806f6c6bc0e296977b0f931  xapian-bindings-1.2.18.tar.xz
0eb07cfec9a213a6d310ae2472ccd3cd142d2d33  xapian-core-1.2.18.tar.xz
9b0060c639ebb53e9b2dd6928019e06d0fd24ced  xapian-omega-1.2.18.tar.xz

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

06bb1269c1b120b0c4edac33cd0380db2f95d822da5e6387eccf35f3a2d2183a  Search-Xapian-1.2.18.0.tar.gz
e0c13d4a15d310c309f03dc8a8edfb9f99c0876ea5c1b1261c38988126cfecf7  xapian-bindings-1.2.18.tar.xz
762c62d905608b8e411511f43ede84c52c49a94822d32d86c7b975fefb30209a  xapian-core-1.2.18.tar.xz
528feb8021a52ab06c7833cb9ebacefdb782f036e99e7ed5342046c3a82380c2  xapian-omega-1.2.18.tar.xz

Cheers,
    Olly
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