Xapian 1.2.24 released

[Olly Betts]

Xapian 1.2.24 can now be downloaded from:

https://xapian.org/download

This release was actually cut nearly two weeks ago, but as you may
have seen we're in the process of migrating Xapian services to a new
server, so it seemed prudent to delay pushing this out.

Since 1.2.16, release tarballs are compressed with xz instead of gzip,
as it provides much better compression, without being too slow to
decompress.  (For now at least, Search::Xapian is still gzipped.)

We decided not to provide multiple formats for the downloads.  The size
reduction provided by xz is greater than the size of the xz source code
download, so installing it doesn't seem an onerous requirement.

The wiki has a summary of the most notable changes:

https://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ReleaseOverview/1.2.24

A big thanks to the following people for helping to make this release
a reality: Eric Wong, Amanda Jayanetti, Tejas Jogi, Vivek Pal, John
Bankert, Nick Morrott.

If I've missed anyone out, you can claim an extra big thankyou.

As always, if you encounter problems, please report them here, or to
the bug-tracker: https://xapian.org/bugs

Since 1.2.17, I'm providing detached GPG signatures for each of the release
tarballs (for each tarball, the signature is in a corresponding file
with ".asc" appended).

Here are the SHA1 checksums of the released files:

d59340d977024eb729494be68d8506934c9f852b  Search-Xapian-1.2.24.0.tar.gz
78324800fdff7c8fb1672b7b8917f20fc033fba2  xapian-bindings-1.2.24.tar.xz
5c63be033157e030f41e128956b873fbd9ad6a1c  xapian-core-1.2.24.tar.xz
2a9214275ab6d60c5769a5ad09dc4cbe352e3f5d  xapian-omega-1.2.24.tar.xz

And SHA256 checksums (more secure, but sha256sum is less widely installed):

77c1e3970a704f7903a27d4253816f23ac3dd297fea0e84254f40bf8537c16f7  Search-Xapian-1.2.24.0.tar.gz
0c2a0df0a4616e2bd8e578d372c9bb4684780573abebbd1ac515502177229965  xapian-bindings-1.2.24.tar.xz
57a82717ba07e9777958b6ef48d94b81ea41ac4c74d544f74da597fab1e1f87b  xapian-core-1.2.24.tar.xz
45fca431b812ddacbd592b522389474317af386b3ab554908edd36fc5918da53  xapian-omega-1.2.24.tar.xz

Cheers,
    Olly
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