Xapian 1.3.5 development snapshot released

[Olly Betts]

I'm happy to be able to announce that Xapian 1.3.5 is now available.

Please note that 1.3.x releases are development releases - they are made
to encourage earlier and wider use and testing of new and changed code.

We're closing in on a stable 1.4 release series, so please consider trying
this out with your code if you haven't already.  There's not a set release
date for 1.4.0, but there are currently only 3 tickets marked as blockers
so unless more blockers are found I'd guess it'll be a few weeks.

If you make packages of this release, please make sure that they are
very clearly labelled as not being a stable version, and ensure that
they can be installed in parallel with the stable version (the default
paths and program suffix are set to help make this easier).  If they are
binary packages you should also be aware that 1.3.x comes with no
guarantee of ABI stability (code built against 1.3.4 will need
rebuilding for 1.3.5).

There's been exactly 3 months of development work since 1.3.4, so the lists
of changes are substantial and I won't try to summarise them here.  You can
read the full lists of user-visible changes here:

  http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-core-1.3.5/NEWS
  http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-omega-1.3.5/NEWS
  http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-bindings-1.3.5/NEWS

Note that 1.3.5 includes all relevant changes that were in 1.2.23.

The glass backend format has changed incompatibly since 1.3.4, but the
intention is it is now stable going forwards.

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

The source tarballs are available from here:

http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/1.3.5/

A big thankyou to the following people for helping to make this release
a reality: Joost Cassee, Will Greenberg, David Bremner, Assem Chelli,
Jean-Francois Dockes, Bob Cargill , Tim McNamara, Ayush Gupta, Andy Chilton,
Paul Wise, James Aylett, "HowManny", "abhishek_rand0wn", Barry Warsaw, and
Mark Dufour.

If I've missed anyone out, you can claim an extra big thankyou.

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

Since 1.2.17, I'm providing detached GPG signatures for each of the
release tarballs (for each tarball, the signature is in a corresponding
file with ".asc" appended).

As of this release, we're dropping the SHA1 checksums for released files,
and only providing SHA256 checksums - hopefully tools to check these are
now widely available, but feedback on this is welcome:

4b5b9089d39b2a725651349127f64d24fe66db46572bdd92f39b8483bca400c3  xapian-bindings-1.3.5.tar.xz
3ad99ff4e91a4ff997fd576377e7c8f0134ceb3695c49e8f7d78ebf3c19b70ad  xapian-core-1.3.5.tar.xz
f7a549cecd85fcecf0ec087fe7d839ce6d712b1c25fd1988c80f19df8958f47a  xapian-omega-1.3.5.tar.xz

Cheers,
    Olly
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