Xapian 2.0.0 released

[Bron Gondwana]

Thanks Olly, 

... and congratulations to all the Xapian contributors.  2.x is a huge milestone, and we appreciate all your hard work getting here!

Cheers,

Bron.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026, at 09:00, Olly Betts wrote:
> Xapian 2.0.0 can now be downloaded from:
> 
> https://xapian.org/download
> 
> This is the start of a new release series, so there are a lot of changes
> compared to 1.4.x.
> 
> The wiki has an overview page, but this is the start of the first new
> stable Xapian release series in nearly 10 years, so any summary of the
> most notable changes would either be too long to be very useful or miss
> out too much stuff.  Instead it links to the NEWS files for each module
> which have full details of user-visible changes:
> 
> https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ReleaseOverview/2.0.0
> 
> For those following the release candidates, this is what's changed since
> the last release candidate, which was numbered 1.5.2:
> 
> * Version numbers updated to 2.0.0.
> 
> * Fix a bug parsing a leading extended wildcard on a prefixed field.
>   Reported by David Bremner.
> 
> * Improve examples of omindex --filter option in documentation.
> 
> * Update to latest config.guess and config.sub, as used for 1.4.x since
>   1.4.30.
> 
> * Omega: Eliminate an out of date FSF address from source files in
>   common/.
> 
> * Python3: Remove hard-coded major version assumption in smoketest.py.
> 
> * Tcl8: Update smoketest.tcl to `package require xapian 2.0.0` since
>   Tcl requires the major version to match.
> 
> * Tcl8: Adjust examples to work with Xapian 1 or 2.
> 
> A big thanks to Alexander Slesarev, András Jankovics, Ann B, Ayush
> Pandey, Bruno Baruffaldi, Clem Wong, Damian Janowski, David Bremner,
> David Corbett, Dipanshu Garg, Ed Page, Emmanuel Engelhart, Eugene
> Mirotin, francesco, Frederick Ross, Fred Fung, Gareth Rees, Gaurav
> Arora, gboer, Germán M. Bravo, Guruprasad Hegde, Helder, James Aylett,
> Johan Benjaminsson, jrabensc, Justas Sakalauskas, Karel Pičman, Karianne
> Berg, Marc Schipperheijn, Marek Mizier, Matthieu Gautier, merwok, Nihal
> N, Nishad Dawkhar, Olga Gusenikova, Olly Betts, Parth Kapadia, Paul
> Rudin, Peter Salomonsen, Richard Boulton, Richhiey Thomas, ririsoft,
> Robert Frunzke, Robert Muir, Robert Stepanek, samiasmundi, Sonny, Sourav
> Saha, Steve Tolkin, Tanmay Sachan, Uppinder Chugh, Vaibhav Kansagara,
> Vivek Pal and znakeeye for helping to make this release a reality.
> 
> 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
> 
> You can find detached GPG signatures for each of the release tarballs
> in a corresponding file with ".asc" appended.
> 
> Here are the SHA256 checksums of the released files:
> 
> 9a544b69c31355a92edbcd4102cf0f1ec4407fd0a4645f4870fb52300b736910  xapian-bindings-2.0.0.tar.xz
> 6cea3f49952a47224439a40bdb3608f928d121ad8721b9921cc42802d548ecf8  xapian-core-2.0.0.tar.xz
> 85088a16cf64ea676d0856813244909f132e1b32013a56928c40a1e333a6734a  xapian-omega-2.0.0.tar.xz
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
> 
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