Software update: Xapian 0.9.0

The development team at The Xapian Project has released version 0.9.0 of Xapian. This program is an open source information retrieval library written in C++, and is used as the “engine” behind a search engine. It includes a proprietary database format, APIs to edit and search databases, tools to verify databases, and binding capabilities for other languages ​​such as Java, PHP, and Python. The full changlog is up this one place to read.

An application that can be used on top of Xapian is Omega, a search engine to search Xapian databases. Omega also includes some tools that can be used to populate databases with data. Since the development of Omega is closely linked to that of Xapian itself, new versions of both are released simultaneously and here too the version number has reached 0.9.0. The changelog is up this one place to read.