Xapian 1.2.25 released; Xapian 1.2 series closed

[Olly Betts]

It's time we retired the Xapian 1.2 release series, but there were a
few useful changes on the branch since the last release so I've
rolled a final 1.2.25 release to push out those plus a few more
fixes:

https://xapian.org/download

And with that, the 1.2 series is officially closed.  If you've not
already migrated to 1.4 or at least made plans to do so, it's time
you did.

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:

https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ReleaseOverview/1.2.25

A big thanks to the following people for helping to make this release
a reality: Aaron Li, Kirill A. Shutemov, David Bremner, James Aylett,
Janko, Lucas Nussbaum.

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: https://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 of the released files:

5f07425d6c5fc540fab965cd011bb043e3ee0df7da03a8814d6fc20dc5e9dd0f  xapian-bindings-1.2.25.tar.xz
7c77ff259bc92414c620015d6798f5f3e2c52907936096ec97c23c17fc0d6403  xapian-core-1.2.25.tar.xz
041ada3c22d5a5f1c10fd3681426377696924def75ea6cb6710a182016bc7482  xapian-omega-1.2.25.tar.xz
5e5b5968c4001e89d72f93c8a118fa0840c888401ff62acc440ec76be32481d4  Search-Xapian-1.2.25.0.tar.gz

We're no longer providing SHA1 checksums.

Cheers,
    Olly
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