Xapian 2.0.0 released

[Christiano Anderson]

Congratulations, Xapian developers!

As the maintainer of Xapian packages for Fedora Linux, I'll be updating 
the packages for Fedora Rawhide in the coming days, which means Xapian 
2.0.0 will soon be available in Fedora :-)

Best,

Christiano

On 17/03/2026 02:00, 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 * Omega: Eliminate an out of date FSF address from source files in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