Xapian 1.2.23 released

[Olly Betts]

Xapian 1.2.23 can now be downloaded 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/1.2.23

A big thanks to the following people for helping to make this release
a reality: Jean-Francois Dockes, Bob Cargil, James Aylett, 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).

Here are the SHA1 checksums of the released files:

d83eebe20a69fc6a3daafde43367a0dd19662e91  Search-Xapian-1.2.23.0.tar.gz
3c1e9bb7fa2e561c3c2c2e7389903f5af0c9c71a  xapian-bindings-1.2.23.tar.xz
ccb6884ea90d80b0859aba876e01b38950f03a43  xapian-core-1.2.23.tar.xz
8102ea0f74dc2671c459831301ca649875ae55d2  xapian-omega-1.2.23.tar.xz

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

90ea2e962f9a4e5f73719bd30b877f5272da886f3693d3a961f4d84b2ef34402  Search-Xapian-1.2.23.0.tar.gz
19b4b56c74863c51733d8c2567272ef7f004b898cf44016711ae25bc524b2215  xapian-bindings-1.2.23.tar.xz
9783aeae4e1a6d06e5636b270db4b458a7d0804a31da158269f57fa5dc86347d  xapian-core-1.2.23.tar.xz
55c790204fc0b1ddbd4bdae73aa55eed40671475e13252a71a53a01f80d172ef  xapian-omega-1.2.23.tar.xz

Cheers,
    Olly
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