Xapian 1.3.4 development snapshot released

[Richard Heycock]

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 at 18:19, Olly Betts wrote:

>I'm happy to be able to announce that Xapian 1.3.4 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.
>
>Our record with 1.1.x was very good - all the bugs I am aware of were
>either in new features, or were also present in the corresponding 1.0.x
>release.  But if you main concern is minimising risk of accidental
>breakage, sticking with 1.2.x would be prudent, at least for deployment.
>
>The 1.3.x development series will lead to a stable 1.4.x release series.
>We don't yet have a date set for when that will happen, but we're certainly
>closing in on 1.4.0.
>
>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 1.3.3 will need
>rebuilding for 1.3.4).
>
>There's been exactly 6 months of development work since 1.3.3, 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:


Hey Olly,

I'm getting a 404 for these links.


>  http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-core-1.3.4/NEWS
>  http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-omega-1.3.4/NEWS
>  http://xapian.org/docs/xapian-bindings-1.3.4/NEWS




>Note that 1.3.4 includes all relevant changes that were in 1.2.22.
>
>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/1.3.4/
>
>A big thankyou to the following people for helping to make this release
>a reality: Richard Boulton, coventry, Philip Neustrom, James Aylett,
>Will Greenberg, Emmanuel Engelhart, Dylan Griffith, Jorge C. Leitão,
>UsusDei, boomboo, Charles Atkinson, Brian Burton, Gaurav Arora, Marco
>Hennigs, Thomas Viehmann, Pavel Strashkin, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen,
>Brandon Schaefer, Dagobert Michelsen, matf, Germán M. Bravo, Eric Lindblad,
>Josh Elsasser, John Alveris, Andrew Chilton, lhz7370, Val Rosca, Andreas
>Marienborg, and Andreas Vögele.
>
>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).
>
>Here are the SHA1 checksums of the released files:
>
>4e6a46b1898c91267d1319ff23ae860d7799b2a8  xapian-bindings-1.3.4.tar.xz
>a51c75fa7fe55a57b92228e67e7213e9f1ebc7b9  xapian-core-1.3.4.tar.xz
>5379eae77e47b645673a7795ba3bd35f86097a8e  xapian-omega-1.3.4.tar.xz
>
>And SHA256 checksums (more secure, but sha256sum is less widely
>installed):
>
>c2481c49007392ebe5f7a1bfbd88c528e329b74650a985dd3c7d3d6649d58498  xapian-bindings-1.3.4.tar.xz
>0a49da54a1eecb43de657f6341fde386f4c6e6bd1d2d64f77212adfc44bf67d4  xapian-core-1.3.4.tar.xz
>f6f31bd46194703adc317cfdbd62ce423fc2f9c96b7b1c9fb2a6bfa2f88779d7  xapian-omega-1.3.4.tar.xz
>
>Cheers,
>    Olly


rgh