The second milestone towards Tracker 1.6 is here

Aug 20, 2015 23:50 GMT  ·  By

As part of the forthcoming GNOME 3.18 desktop environment release, the GNOME developers pushed the second milestone towards the 1.6 branch of the Tracker open-source semantic data storage tool for desktop and mobile devices.

According to the internal release notes, which have been attached at the end of the article for reference, Tracker 1.5.2 is here with several new features for its built-in RSS component, such as the ability to set a website's URL as an nfo:WebSite, simplification of the creation of GrssFeedChannel lists, the ability to perform extraction and insertion of feed items simultaneously, as well as optimizations for deletes.

For the libtracker-extract component, Tracker 1.5.2 adds a built-in dummy extractor and plugs several memory leaks. On the other hand, the printf string format now works correctly for the libtracker-data component, which saw some clean-up for stale URIs on startup. Cardinality limits have been removed on nmo:communicationChannel for the ontology component.

libtracker-miner and tracker-extract received new features as well

Tracker 1.5.2 also improves the libtracker-miner component with the ability to fall back to basename checks for hidden files, fixes for cancellation on unmount operations, as well as deprecation of the tracker_miner_fs_add_directory_without_parent function. Moreover, a dummy fastpath is now used for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) extraction on the tracker-extract component.

Last but not least, the string to date conversion for the libtracker-common component has been updated to return with GError during null string, and the cache of IndexFile requesters is now kept in directories for the tracker-miner-fs component. The Catalan, Czech, Lithuanian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Slovak, and Turkish language translations have been updated.

You can download the Tracker 1.5.2 sources right now from Softpedia, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version and that it might contain unresolved issues. Thus, we do not recommend installing on production environments where stability is a must. Also, please note that Tracker 1.5.2 will be distributed as part of the upcoming GNOME 3.18 Beta 1 release.

Tracker 1.5.2 Changelog