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Xapian is an open source information retrieval library written in C++ that can be used as an engine behind a search engine. It includes a proprietary database format, APIs to edit and search these databases, tools to check the databases, and linking capabilities for other languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, and Python.

Omega is an application that can be used as a search engine to search Xapian databases. Omega also includes some tools that can be used to populate databases with data. The development team at The Xapian Project has released version 1.2.9 of Xapian and Omega with the following announcement:

Release Overview for 1.2.9

This page contains a high level description of the most notable changes made for release 1.2.9. For full details of user-visible changes, see the NEWS files in each module:

• xapian core
• omega
• xapian bindings
• Search::Xapian

See also the full list of bug reports marked as fixed in 1.2.9.

QueryParser

• Fix FLAG_AUTO_SYNONYMS not to enable auto multi-word synonyms too.

portability

• Address new warnings from GCC 4.6.
• Fix argument order when linking xapian-check to fix mingw build. (ticket #567)
• Add some missing explicit header includes to fix build with STLport.

Omega

• Our HTML parser now ignores sections bracketed by and , like we already do for .
• omindex: Add more extensions to the default ignore list: bin dat db fon jar lnk pyc pyd pyo sqlite sqlite3 sqlite-journal tmp ttf

lua

• Handle an exception from C++ by raising a xapian.Error object as an error in Lua.
• Rename get_description() methods to __tostring(), so that you can use write tostring(obj) in Lua.

Search::Xapian

• Wrap Document::get_docid() method.