Xapian 1.3.7 development snapshot released

[Olly Betts]

I'm happy to be able to announce that Xapian 1.3.7 is now available.
This development snapshot is essentially a release candidate for 1.4.0,
so please test with it and report any issues you hit.

The plan is to release 1.4.0 on or shortly after 2016-06-21 - this is
the date on which Unicode 9.0.0 is due to be officially released, so
we'll ship 1.4.0 with support for that (this is one planned change
over 1.3.7).

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 1.3.6 will need
rebuilding for 1.3.7).  That's true even though this is a release
candidate of sorts - we reserve the option to change the ABI if it's the
best way to address an issue which crops up in the next three weeks.

Most of the changes since 1.3.6 are portability fixes - I've resurrected
the buildbot slave VM which GPLHost kindly provide, and worked through
the builds which were failing.

You can read the full lists of user-visible changes here:

  https://xapian.org/docs/xapian-core-1.3.7/NEWS
  https://xapian.org/docs/xapian-omega-1.3.7/NEWS
  https://xapian.org/docs/xapian-bindings-1.3.7/NEWS

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/1.3.7/

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 SHA256 checksums (we've dropped the SHA1 checksums as of
1.3.5 as we believe tools to check SHA256 checksums are now widely
available, but feedback on this is welcome):

f014bb0281fdaa08fd9293ee187af0c2165f4fd2de91a67b76d9327b64677717  xapian-bindings-1.3.7.tar.xz
cfbbd8d42512690bc9867ed88a6a80723fe4193b6c4b97597f8fdf49026b94e7  xapian-core-1.3.7.tar.xz
3d3064289dc891c774a6be8b6e2f0f21691b88ab57ec7a5d16141179027c7453  xapian-omega-1.3.7.tar.xz

Cheers,
    Olly
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