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Beagle Newsletter Issue 8 - 28 March 2005
Welcome to another edition of the Beagle Newsletter. If you're new to the project you can read up about it on our website: http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle
Releases
Beagle
This month Beagle version 0.0.8.1 was released. This version includes significant stability upgrades. Major features of this release are more efficent memory consumption requirement, open office 2 file support and the addition of a web service interface to Beagle.
D-BUS
Since the last newsletter a couple D-BUS releases have occured. The mono bindings have far fewer memory leaks leading to better stability.
Inotify
Robert Love has once again advanced his inotify kernel patch. Version 0.20 of the patch works with Beagle 0.0.8.1, while version 0.21 works with Beagle CVS.
Gmime
The 2.0.14 release of Gmime included many memory leak fixes in the mono bindings. If you use Beagle to index your mail, this upgrade is definitly worth your time.
Hacking
Milestone 1
Beagle "Milestone 1" has been the focus of many Beagle hackers as of late. The goal of stabilizing Beagle enough for inclusion in the SUSE 9.3 release has significantly improved the reliability of the Beagle Daemon. A big thank you goes out to all of the Beagle testers who reported bugs on bugzilla, the mailing list and IRC. Great job everyone.
Moving Files
As over Beagle 0.0.8 moving files now works much better due to updates in Inotify bindings by Robert Love and infrastructural improvments by Jon Trowbridge.
Invalid File Names
You can now let Beagle go index all of you files with invalid characters in the name as well as those files with legitimite characters. Daniel Drake has done great work in getting Beagle to recognize files no matter their file name.
Best UI
Beagle now comes with a .desktop file to put Best in your GNOME/KDE application menu. Other improvements include better workspace switching support, quick search with F12 fixes, and making Beagle work with out the notification area.
Project
Press
Beagle has enjoyed its share of press lately which hopefully drove some of you to this project. Whether it was during a Novell Brainshare keynote, Slashdot, Computer World or eWeek the Beagle search technology is certainly being recognized in the press.
Keep spreading the word
Due to in great part to the fantastic Beagle community, Beagle has found its way onto more desktops than ever before! A quick search on Technorati regarding Beagle and Search or Beagle and GNOME shows you why more and more people are recognizing Beagle: Because everyone is talking about! Countless blog chains have popped up with entry's starting out with "Inspired by so-and-so, I installed Beagle". So thank you everyone, and keep spreading your thoughts on the Beagle search tool.
As always if you have any input to how the next Beagle Newsletter should be distributed or what should go in it please email Joe Gasiorek at joe gasiorek gmail com
