Xapian 2.0.0 released

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 07:23:57PM +0100, Christiano Anderson wrote:
> 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 :-)

Great, thanks.

I uploaded packages of 2.0.0 to Debian experimental earlier this week.

The API (both C++ and bindings) should be largely compatible with code
written for 1.4.x, but older code may still be using features deprecated
in 1.4.0 or earlier, and there are also a few corner case compatibility
issues, so some of the packages which depend on Xapian will need changes.
(This is why the Debian packages are still in experimental currently.)

I've started a document and have been adding issues as they are found:

https://getting-started-with-xapian.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deprecation/upgrading.html#xapian-2-x

If you find further problems while updating, please report them.

Cheers,
     Olly