Download Xapian 0.9.9

The development team of The Xapian Project has already released version 0.9.9 of Xapian. This program is an ‘open source information retrieval library’ written in C++, and is used as the engine behind a search engine of, for example, a website. It includes a proprietary database format, APIs to edit and search databases, tools to verify databases, and binding capabilities for other languages ​​such as Java, Ruby, PHP, and Python. The list of changes looks like this:

Xapian core 0.9.9:

test suite:
• Use popen() to run xapian-tcpsrv and wait for “Listening…” before returning rather than just sleeping for 1 second and hoping that’s enough.
• If we can’t start xapian-tcpsrv because the port is in use, try higher numbered ports.

remote backend:

• xapian-tcpsrv: If the port requested is in use, exit with code 69 (EX_UNAVAILABLE) which is useful if you’re trying to automate launching of xapian-tcpsrv instances.
• xapian-tcpsrv: Output “Listening…” once the socket is open and read for connections (this allows the testsuite to wait until xapian-tcpsrv is ready before connecting to it).
• xapian-progsrv: Now supports –help, –version, and has a man page. Fix Bug #98.
• Turn on TCP_NODELAY for the TCP variant of the remote backend which dramatically improves the latency of operations on the database.

build system:

• internaltest: Disable serialiselength1 and serialisedoc1 when the remote backend is disabled to fix build error in this case.
• Move libbtreecheck.la from testsuite/ to backends/quartz/.
• Move the test suite harness from test suite/ to tests/harness/.

documentation:

• Ship our custom INSTALL file rather than the generic one from autoconf which we’ve accidentally been shipping instead since 0.9.5.
• docs/Makefile.am: Building sourcedoc.pdf needs a larger pool_size now we’re using pdflatex.
• HACKING: Update debian packaging checklist.
• PLATFORMS: Updated with results from tinderbox.

portability:

• Create “safefcntl.h” as a replacement for instead of using “utils.h” for this purpose, since “utils.h” pulls in many other things we often don’t need.

package:

• RPMs: Prevent binaries getting an rpath for /usr/lib64 on FC6.

[break]An application that can be used on top of Xapian is Omega, a search engine to search Xapian databases. Omega also includes some tools that can be used to populate databases with data. Because the development of Omega is closely linked to that of Xapian itself, new versions of both are released simultaneously with the same version number. The list of changes for Omega 0.9.9 looks like this:[/break]Omega 0.9.9:

documentation:
• Ship our custom INSTALL file rather than the generic one from autoconf which we’ve accidentally been shipping instead since 0.9.5.

indexers:

• scriptindex: The “date” action no longer modifies the value it operates on (it was never meant to!)

omega:

• Report an error if $setmap is called with an even number of parameters. An incorrect example in the documentation used to suggest this, so it’s particularly useful to catch this case.

package:

• RPMs: Prevent binaries getting an rpath for /usr/lib64 on FC6.

[break]The following two files can be downloaded:
Xapian 0.9.9
Omega 0.9.9