Pinot 0.94

Long time, no release. Pinot 0.94 is out today and brings :
- changes to the daemon's DBus interface to tell the UI to reopen the index when it has changed on disk.
- a new search filter "inurl" that allows finding files nested in an mbox or an archive at a given URL.
- the ability to view the properties of documents from an external index.
- better MIME type detection, which means fewer calls to external uncompressor programs when dealing with archives and fixes cases where documents nested in them couldn't be open and viewed.
- the ability to index Debian packages.
- fixes to the mbox filter to fully work with GMime 2.4 (now required).
- a whole bunch of other bug fixes.

For the full details, see the NEWS file. Get the source tarball and RPM from the download page.

It's June already

Since the release of 0.93, I haven't been able to spend much time on Pinot. Things should go back to "normal" in a week or two.

I am waiting for the release of Fedora 11, first because I am an avid Fedora user, and second because it comes with gcc 4.4.0 which will probably bring up a couple of interesting issues :-)

Seeveral people have reported a compile error in 0.93 related to a "undefined reference to `DocumentInfo::setSize(long long)'" in Tokenize/FilterUtils.cpp. If you have experienced this, try the fix from SVN revision 1635.

Web stats show that http://pinot.berlios.de/ had a lot of visits from Eastern Europe over the last few months, mostly from Bulgaria, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Poland. These countries' languages are not supported yet, so if anyone would like to help translate Pinot using Launchpad, I am sure the effort will be much appreciated.