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Version 0.0.12
July 11, 2005

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Add the libbeagle C API (Imendio, Joe Shaw)
* Big changes to the filtering code to make it more flexible (Joe, Fredrik
  Hedberg)
* Match multiple filters per indexable, use the highest ranking
  match (Fredrik)
* Match filters with a combination of Uri, Extension and/or
  MimeType (Fredrik)
* Allow FilterFactory to fall throught the filter list in the case of
  an error (Fredrik)
* Introducted events / callbacks when indexables are filtered (Fredrik)
* Mark files in the file system backend with the Filter used (Fredrik)
* Re-index files when a newer filter is available (Fredrik)
* Don't instantiate a new LuceneDriver for every remote indexing
  request (Fredrik)
* Allow us to disable Lucene locking per directory (Fredrik)
* Handle more failure conditions in the message passing code (Joe, Jon
  Trowbridge)
* Add support for running without extended attributes, and speed up the
  sqlite fallback by using transactions (Joe, Fredrik)
* Use UTC timestamps in Lucene so that we're not boxing integers
  unnecessarily (Joe)
* Add throttling to the scheduler when many immediate priority tasks are
  added, like when untarring a tarball or running rm -r on a directory
  (Joe)
* Set the default QueryDomain to both Local and System, so that per-user
  and the new systemwide indexes are both searched by default (Joe)
* Fix a bug whereby updates would cause hits to show up multiple times
  by issuing a subtract event before the add event (Joe, Daniel Drake)
* Friendlier inotify error messages (Daniel)
* libbeagle: Try BEAGLE_HOME and check that the bus socket exists (Daniel)
* Don't try and discover the file mime-type twice (Daniel)
* Small fixes to libbeagle (Lukas Lipka)
* Better built-in heap-buddy support (Jon)
* Avoid unnecessary boxing in the message passing code (Jon)
* Sqlite FileAttributeStore clean-ups (Jon)
* Added the ability to change an Inotify.Watch's event mask (Jon)

Backends:
* Indexing of mail attachments (Joe)
* Add a mail filter, giving us Maildir support, and port the Evolution
  mail backend to use it (Joe)
* Use IndexableGenerators for the Blam and Liferea backends so that it
  scales and performs better (Joe)
* Configuration option to ignore files by path, pattern etc. (Fredrik)
* Configuration option to ignore mail folders (Fredrik)
* Added StaticQueryable for searched canned indexes (Fredrik)
* Disabled the LauncherQueryable in favor of the system indexing
  features (Fredrik)
* Fix the Evolution mail backend to not reschedule a reindex if it's
  already in the middle of indexing itself, which would otherwise
  interrupt it (Joe)
* Fix a bug in the addressbook backend with older (pre-2.2) versions of
  Evolution in which contacts wouldn't be indexed after the addressbook
  index was first created (Joe)
* Fix handling of gaim logs with non-ascii characters represented in
  names (Daniel)
* Update the properties in some backends to the be correct (Lukas)
* Explicitly disable filtering on gaim log indexables, since the stream
  we produce is already filtered (Jon)
* To ensure that beagle-index-info returns correct information, get
  the item count from the IIndexer, not the driver we are using for
  querying (Jon)
* Fix a problem where we were losing mails from the index if an IMAP
  summary was updated later (Joe)

Filters:
* Added .desktop filter (Fredrik)
* Added .directory filter (Fredrik)
* Added Monodoc filter (Fredrik)
* Added Docbook filter (Fredrik)
* Filter text/x-chdr (C header files) using the C source code filter (Joe)
* Image filter abstraction. Created a FilterImage which all the image
  filters use. This lets us index F-Spot metadata information (Lukas)
* Added F-Spot metadata support which we now index (Lukas)

UI/Tools:
* Added beagle-build-index for building static indexes (Fredrik)
* Added beagle-manage-index for low-level Lucene index management (Fredrik)
* Configuration UI (Fredrik)
* Fix a problem with Best whereby the window wasn't being placed in the
  same place when F12 was pressed (Joe)
* Add a "Reply" action back to the mail tile, as it's available in Evo
  2.2 (Joe)
* Don't show "stop words" in the snippet highlights (Joe)
* Fix ImLogViewer to work with gaim's character escaping style (Daniel)
* Remember selected log in the IM timeline tree, improve searching,
  other random optimizations to the IM viewer (Lukas)
* Galago support and integration. Added Galago support to the Mail, IM
  log and Contact tile (Lukas)
* Fixed a crasher in TileMailMessage.cs and some random cleanups.  Fix a
  bug when the tile didnt show the subject when 'Who' was null. This was
  related to the email attachments (Lukas)
* Added an author field to the blog template (Lukas)
* Render mail attachments nicely (Lukas)

Web Services:
* Support for cascaded Beagle Networking (KN Vijay)
* Configuration of Beagle Web-services and Beagle networking via
  'beagle-config', with corresponding handlers for real-time update of
  configuration changes (Vijay)
* Added on-demand Prefetching and Caching of snippets for network hits
  (Vijay)
* Updates to Web interface wrt handling Actions for external accesses
  (Vijay)

Everything Else:
* Support either sqlite2 or sqlite3 (Daniel)
* Build fixes (Jon)
* Newsletter (Joe Gasiorek)
* Added Polish translation (Michal Kastelik)
* Added Turkish translation (Enver Altin)
* Updated Canadian English translation (Adam Weinberger)
* Updated Chinese translation (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
* Updated German translation (Hendrik Brandt)
* Updated Hungarian translation (Gabor Kelemen)
* Updated Norwegian translation (Terance Sola)
* Updated Spanish translation (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
* Updated Swedish translation (Fredrik)
* All the stuff I forgot (All of the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.11.1
June 15, 2005
* Build fixes for CHM filter (Jon)
* Fixed a bug in index versioning that was causing the file system
  indexed to get purged on start-up (Jon)

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Version 0.0.11
June 14, 2005

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Added a shiny new configuration system (Daniel Drake)
* Collect disk I/O statistics (Robert Love)
* Backported TermEnum optimizations from SVN Lucene (Lukas Lipka)
* Clean up the startup/shutdown quite a bit so that the daemon is ready
  to listen to requests almost immediately, so that early shutdowns are
  completed in a timely fashion, and to remove hacks from calling the
  remote shutdown method (Joe Shaw)
* Tons of portability fixes for FreeBSD (Jean-Yves Lefort,
  Joe, Daniel Drake)
* Fix crashes related to early disconnects from the server (Joe)
* Support extended attributes through libattr if not provided by
  libc (Daniel)
* Inotify subsciption system (Daniel)
* Properly handle exceptions when we walk a directory with strange
  permissions (Jon Trowbridge)
* If we are on a laptop running from battery power, don't speed up
  indexing when the system is idle (Jon)
* Sqlite locking fixes (Jon)
* Tons of query fixes (Jon)
* NameIndex optimizations (Jon)

Backends:
* Support additional date formats in the vcard Rev field and catch
  exceptions on unknown ones (Joe)
* Index flags from mbox mail (Joe)
* Camel summary fixes (Joe)
* Assorted property fixes (Jon)

Filters:
* CHM Filter (Miguel Cabrera)
* Matlab filter (Damodharan R)
* Scilab filter (Damodharan R)

UI/Tools:
* beagle-config utility (Daniel)
* Better handling of unchanged hits in Best (Lukas)
* IM Log Viewer clean-ups (Lukas)
* Present the Best window instead of just showing it; this should fix
  problems where the window pops up behind other windows (Joe)
* Fix a crasher in Best that amazingly only one person ever saw but
  everyone should have seen (Joe)

Web Services:
* Added new web-services based support for networked beagleds (KN Vijay)
* Added support for exporting multiple folders for public webservice
  access (Vijay)
* Fixes to filtering/translating logic for external access to
  web/web-service interface (Vijay)
* Set source for network hits to Network (Vijay)
* Added snippet support (Vijay)

Everything Else:
* Add library mappings for certain GNOME libraries so that devel
  packages aren't required (Brandon Hale)
* Updated British English translation (Christopher Orr)
* Added Bulgarian translation (Rostislav Raykov)
* Updated Canadian English translation (Adam Weinberger)
* Updated Dutch translation (Wouter Bolsterlee)
* Added French translation (Christophe Merlet)
* All the stuff I forgot (All of the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.10
May 30, 2005

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Remove dbus dependency and replace it with a simple point-to-point
  Unix domain socket and XmlSerialization message passing system
  (Joe Shaw, Jon Trowbridge, Robert Love, Daniel Drake, Fredrik Hedberg)
* Support multiple properties on the same name on hits (Veerapuram Varadhan,
  Jon)
* Delete logs older than 7 days on startup (Lukas Lipka)
* Bail out eariler if we are run the daemon as root (Lukas)
* Add --help option to beagled (Lukas)
* Inotify API updates, IsDirectory support and OneShot support (Robert)
* Inotify event-queue clean-up (Jon)
* Per-backend index versioning (Fredrik)
* Allow clients to lower hit limit (Daniel)
* Queries are now more flexible (Jon)
* Properly index and query keyword properties (Jon)
* Removed the old network interface (Fredrik)
* Use opendir and readdir from Mono.Posix to walk large directories (Jon)
* Shut down cleanly on SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGQUIT (Jon)

Backends:
* HitIsValid for TomboyQueryable (Lukas)
* Real-time indexing for Tomboy notes works again (Lukas)
* Fix detection of Evolution IMAP accounts that use authentication
  methods which aren't the default (Joe)
* Fix indexing of GAIM IRC logs (Daniel)
* Don't crash on unreadable .desktop files (Daniel)
* Index KDE Launchers (Daniel)
* Launcher backend cleanups (Daniel)
* Minor changes to the Monodoc backend (Fredrik)
* Improved relevancy for e-mails (Jon)
* Look at the REV field to know which contacts have changed since
  the last time we crawled the local addressbook (Jon)
* Fixed properties in addressbook and Blam objects (Jon)

Filters:
* Filter infrastructure improvements (Jon, Joe, Daniel)
* libexif build/dllmap fixes (Daniel, Jon)
* Spreadsheet filter using ssindex tool from gnumeric, supports
  Excel, Gnumeric, CSVs (Varadhan)
* Add identification of file-types using their extension (Varadhan)
* Added support for extracting header/footer contents in RTF documents
  (Varadhan)
* Filter for Javascript files (Anthony Batchelor)
* Filter for Lisp files (Wojciech Polak)

UI/Tools:
* Allow highlighting search terms in the IM viewer (Lukas)
* Make search work in IM viewer (Lukas)
* Revamped Best quicksearch menu (Lukas)
* Pull font settings from gconf and apply them to the style; fixes the
  GIANT FONT PROBLEM people were seeing in non-english locales (Joe)
* Unify beagle-status, beagle-index-info, and beagle-ping into a single
  beagle-info program (Joe)
* Show KDE launcher icons in Best (Daniel)
* Mouse-over tooltips in Best (Daniel)
* Fix the TileFolder ranking problem (Fredrik)

Web Services:
* Added support for Snippets in Beagle Web Interface (KN Vijay)
* Updated Beagle internal WebServer code to XSP-1.0.9 (Vijay)
* Added External Access filter for Web & Web-service accesses:
  Added check to distinguish between local and external web/web-service
  access, and do basic filtering of hit results for external accesses (Vijay)
* Added Locks to web & web-service backend code, to prevent changes to
  results set while generating response (Vijay)
* Updated web-interface to serve images for Icons from web server,
  converting file:/// uris into http:// uris. This should resolve the
  problem where images for web-interface results were not displayed on
  Mozilla/Firefox browsers, due to security restrictions (Vijay) 
* Changes in WebServiceBackEnd to update it in line with recent changes
  in Query, Hit & Property classes (Vijay)

Everything else:
* Check things more carefully at configure-time (Joe)
* New Wiki (Joe)
* Build fixes (Everyone)
* Removed a bunch of dead code (Everyone)       
* Added Catalan translation (joseppc)
* Added Danish translation (mwh)
* Added Greek translation (pkst)
* Added Hungarian translation (Gabor Kelemen)
* Added Spanish translation (Francisco Javier Fernandez)
* Updated Canadian English translation (Adam Weinberger)
* Updated German translation (Frank Arnold)
* Updated Japanese translation (Takeshi AIHANA)
* Updated Norwegian translation (Terance Edward Sola)
* Updated Dutch translation (Wouter Bolsterlee)
* All the stuff I forgot (All of the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.9
April 7, 2005

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Basic support for internationalization (Fredrik Hedberg)
* Properly delete Indexable content when asked (Joe Shaw)
* If watching or ignoring a directory with inotify fails, throw
  the correct exception (Joe)
* Tweaked the types of characters permitted in the snippet code,
  so that certain symbols that were ignored before are allowed (Joe)
* Updated inotify glue to support the latest inotify code (Robert Love)
* Added --list-backends option to beagled (Daniel Drake)
* Merged Exif compatibility code from F-Spot to be compatible with
  mono 1.1.5 (Daniel)
* Do the right thing if Beagle is passed a directory in an environment
  variable that ends with / (Daniel)
* Noise filter fixes (Jon Trowbridge)

Backends:
* Updated beagle-index-url to use FilteredIndexables (Joe)
* Have beagle-index-url delete content that it is unable to pass
  to the daemon (Joe)
* Fixed up the firefox extension to pass --title into beagle-index-url (Joe)
* Create temporary files in .beagle/firefox, not /tmp (Joe)
* Display snippets in web history tiles (Joe)
* Fixed a bug in the IMAP backend where mails would be indexed twice
  for two separate accounts if the URIs were similar (Joe)
* Do the right thing if we try to scan an unreadable directory (Joe)
* Added support for the IMAP4rev1 backend in Evolution 2.2 (Joe)
* Gracefully handle null queries that we get back from evolution-sharp
  when dealing with invalid email addresses (Joe)
* Display snippets in Blam hits (Joe)
* Ignore Gaim logs which don't follow the standard filename format (Daniel)
* Fixed bugs in the file system backend related to copying and moving
  files (Jon)
* In the file system backend, work around a mono bug by ignoring files
  whose name contain '\' (Varadhan, Jon)
* Work around a mono bug which causes dates in the stat structure to
  not reflect daylight savings time (Jon)

Filters:
* Abiword filter fixes (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* MS Word filter optimizations and enhancements (Varadhan)
* Fixed the RTF filter to not extract unwanted strings like font names
 (Varadhan)
* Handle '\n' in a sane way in the filte case class (Varadhan)
* Extract information from meta tags in the Html filter (Saravana)

UI/Tools:
* Catch exceptions when starting the daemon from Best (Joe)
* Add an "Open" action to the launcher tile (Chris Schneider, Joe)
* When opening a folder, run nautilus with the --no-desktop argument
  (Joshua Nichols, Joe)
* Display more information about OO.o 2.0 files in the document tile
  (Varadhan)
* Handle URI escaping when dealing with GNOME Thumbnails (Daniel)
* Better commandline parsing for beagle-query (Daniel)
* Folder tile improvements (Fredrik)

Web Services:
* Build fixes (Vijay, Jon)
* Return a searchToken whenever we return results (Vijay)
* Added support for Firefox search bar (Vijay)
* Updated TokenGenerator to use System.Guid (Vijay)
* Removed hard-wired paths (Vijay, Jon)
* Code reorganization and rationalization (Vijay)
* Allow beagled to run in-place when web services are enabled (Jon)

Everything else:
* Web services build fixes (Jon, Vijay)
* New configure option: --disable-evolution-sharp (Daniel)
* Merciless bugzilla rampage (Joe)
* i18n tips (Christian Rose)
* German translation (Frank Arnold)
* Canadian English translation (Adam Weinberger)
* British English translation (Christopher Orr)
* Japanese translation (Takeshi Aihana)
* Dutch translation (Wouter Bolsterlee)
* Brazilian Portuguese translation (Raphael Higino)
* Simplified Chinese translation (Funda Wang)
* Norwegian bokmal translation (Terance Edward Sola)
* All the stuff I forgot (All the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.8.1
March 24, 2005

* Web services build fixes (Jon Trowbridge)

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Version 0.0.8
March 23, 2005

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Added a new web services interface to beagled (KN Vijay)
* Better support for Move events in the Inotify bindings (Robert Love)
* Deal with unmatched Move events (Robert)
* Properly catch exceptions if we try to watch a directory that
  has just been deleted (Robert)
* Handle filenames containing funny characters (Daniel Drake)
* Allow beagled to be started even if X isn't running (Daniel)
* Better handling of GConf exceptions (Daniel)
* Check for null URIs in HitRegulator.Subtract() (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* Lots of snippet fixes and improvements (Fredrik Hedberg)
* Fixed numerous shutdown-related deadlocks (Jon Trowbridge)
* Uri serialization fixes (Jon, Daniel)
* Throw the right exception if we can't set EAs on a file (Jon)
* Removed inotify dependency from the code that processes gaim's
  buddy list (Jon)
* Use Mono.Posix functions to create Lucene's lockfiles (Jon)
* Construct our lucene queries in a more reasonable way (Jon)
* Fixed deadlocks and races in our D-BUS work-arounds (Jon)
* Better disposal/clean-up of unregistered D-BUS objects (Jon)
* Disable broken indexing of nautilus emblems and notes (Jon)
* Don't cache the ignore state of files -- it uses too much memory (Jon)
* When possible, re-use GLib.IdleHandlers to avoid allocations (Jon)
* If a hit is filtered out of the query results because HitIsValid
  returns false, schedule it for removal from the index (Jon)
* Work around dropped FlushComplete signals by polling the flush
  status in a timeout (Jon)
* Added a new property type: properties that are stored but not
  searched by standard queries (Jon)
* Don't allow beagled to run as root (Daniel)

Backends:
* Lots of file system backend fixes.  In particular, moving and
  renaming files now works in many cases.  (Jon)
* If the gconf key for Evolution accounts doesn't exist, fail gracefully
  (Joe)
* Don't require inotify for the Addressbook or Launcher backends (Joe)
* Only index launchers with a name (Joe)
* To avoid leaking delegates, iterate across GMime message parts by hand
  instead of using the built-in foreach function (Joe)
* Make liberal use of 'using' clauses and Dispose() on GMime objects
  to reduce our memory usage while indexing mail (Joe, Miguel de Icaza)
* Use a search pattern when calling DirectoryInfo.GetFiles() so that we
  don't load entries for all of the cached IMAP files into memory
  (Joe, Jon)
* Implemented HitIsValid check for the gaim log backend (Lukas Lipka)
* Changed some non-user-visible properties in addressbook backend to be
  unsearched (Jon)
* Don't index mail headers as text (Jon)
* If we are ignoring a file, ignore requests to remove it from the
  index (Jon)
* Do the right thing when renaming a file changes it's ignore-status (Jon)
* Lots of fixes to the FSW file system backend (Jon)
* Turn off synchronous writes to the sqlite NameIndex db (Jon)
* If we are deferring shutting down the IndexHelper because no
  RemoteIndexerImpl has been closed, wait a bit between checks (Jon)

Filters:
* Optimized Word document indexing (Varadhan)
* Remove null characters from media tags (Varadhan)
* Skip PPT 4.0 files, because we don't support them (Varadhan)
* OpenOffice 2.0 support (Varadhan)
* Added OpenOffice 1.0 template and all 2.0 mimetypes to the OpenOffice
  filter (Joe)
* Better handling of GSF exceptions in the PPT filter (Varadhan)
* Index non-ISO characters in Word documents (Varadhan)
* In the OOo filter, keep proper track of "hot" content in the presence of
  links (Varadhan)

UI/tools:
* Make PageUp and PageDown work in Best (Wouter Bolsterlee)
* Added a .desktop file (Joe)
* When running Best from menus, start in --no-tray mode (Lukas)
* Skip over session management arguments to Best, they are handled by the
  Gnome libraries (Joe)
* Catch exceptions thrown by snippet requests, so that Best won't crash
  if you flip through the pages of results while the daemon is down (Joe)
* When opening a blog entry, don't kill Best if we can't open a handler
  for the URI (Joe)
* Added --show-window option (Joe)
* Add 'Application' in front of launcher names so it is clear what
  they are (Joe)
* Fix F12 so that it works with numlock, caps lock, and whatever other
  crazy modifiers might be on (Joe)
* Don't crash on non-standard icon themes (Daniel)
* Allow beagle-query to be run even if X isn't running (Daniel)
* Improved command-line argument handling for Best (Lukas)
* Shut down Best properly in non-tray mode (Lukas)
* Fixed arguments in beagle-status (Lukas)
* Open Gaim IRC logs in the IM viewer (Lukas)
* Fixed Buddy List reader error (Lukas)
* IM viewer clean-ups (Lukas)
* Fall back to displaying the filename for untagged media files (Varadhan)
* Display snippets in glorious technicolor (Fredrik)
* Remember Best's position (Fredrik)
* Best tile-rendering fixes (Fredrik)

Everything else:
* Configure-time check for sqlite and dbus headers (Joe)
* Relentless, heroic D-BUS hacking and leak-fixing (Joe)
* GMime leak fixes (Joe)
* Fixed the Dashboard build (Joe)
* Fun with memory profilers (Ben Maurer, Jon)
* monogrind! (Nat Friedman)
* Mono-related hand-holding (the Mono team)
* All the stuff I forgot (All the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.7
February 28, 2005

Backends:
* All backends now work without inotify (Jon Trowbridge, Fredrik Hedberg)
* Lots of file system backend improvements (Jon)
* Deal with missing Evo mail directories (Joe Shaw, Lukas Lipka,
  Daniel Drake)
* Detect Evo summary file versions and skip ones we won't support (Joe)
* Launcher backend clean-up (Daniel)
* In the mail backend, don't index mail headers or non-text parts as
  text (Jon)

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Don't check access before setting EAs (Lukas)
* De-inotification of directory creation (Daniel, Christopher Orr)
* Before we serialize any XML, check for invalid characters (Joe)
* More fixes for filenames containing @ (Jon)
* Fixed logging for helper process (Jon)
* Don't complain so loudly if we can't set EAs on files (Daniel)
* Properly handle --fg and --bg in the beagled script (Jon)
* Look at VmRSS to decide when to restart the helper, not VmSize (Jon)
* Set the helper max memory size relative to the initial footprint (Jon)
* Added environment variables to override where beagle looks for your
  files and when it writes its indexes (Jon)
* TextCache fixes (Jon)
* Reset the stored path if a file already has attributes but appears to have
  been moved, copied or renamed (Jon)
* Properly shutdown the helper if the beagled terminates after an add
  but before flushing the indexer (Jon)
* Properly deal with multiple entries for one path in the fallback
  file attributes sqlite db (Jon)
* While indexing, filter out stuff that is obviously not text (Jon)

Filters:
* Greatly improved handling of .ppt files (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* Strip junk characters from .doc files (Varadhan)
* Support odt format in OpenOffice filter (Varadhan)
* Index contents of hyperlink fields in OpenOffice documents (Varadhan)
* Handle exif dates gracefully (Daniel)
* Support both libexif 0.5 and 0.6 (Daniel)
* Fail gracefully if an exception is thrown while a filter is pulling
  text (Jon)
* Don't index text/plain files that are suspiciously large (Jon)
* Lots of misc. clean-up, fixes for compile-time warnings, etc. (Varadhan)

UI:
* Print out nice error messages on dbus exceptions in beagle-query
  (Daniel)
* If we're unable to launch a process from Best, don't crash (Joe)
* Show snippets in presentation tiles (Jon)

Everything Else:
* D-BUSology (Joe)
* Wiki (Joe Gasiorek.)
* Newsletter (Joe G.)
* Fixed spelling of Tom von Schwerdtner's name... sorry! (Jon)
* All the stuff I forgot (All the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.6.1
February 16, 2005

* Filter/FilterGst.cs now compiles. (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* Properly handle extensions in mail folder names (Lukas Lipka)
* Properly open sub-subdirectories in the mail backend (Lukas)
* Fixed inotify_snarf_events to report zero events read in
  the event of a timeout (Jon Trowbridge)
* Work around D-BUS bugs by hoisting a few more calls up into
  the main loop (Jon)

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Version 0.0.6
February 15, 2005

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Indexing now happens outside of the begaled process, which allows us to
  substantially reduce our memory consumption (Jon Trowbridge)
* Updated to use inotify 0.18 (Robert Love)
* Use UTF-8 encoding when converting filenames from inotify (Joe Shaw)
* Added support for both D-BUS 0.23 and HEAD (Joe)
* Make the indexer more robust against filters that throw exceptions (Jon)
* Indexable serialization fixes (Jon)
* Put an upper limit on scheduler idle time (Jon)

Backends:
* Watch for .tomboy if it doesn't exist (Larry Reaves)
* Added an ExceptionHandleingThread class and port all the backends to
  use it for easier debugging (Joe)
* Non-existent directories no long kill the Evolution backend (Joe)
* Fixed mime encoding issues in mail headers (Joe)
* If .gaim or .gaim/logs doesn't exist, watch for them with inotify
  (Robert Van Gorkom)
* Some small launcher backend fixes (Jon)

Filters:
* Hot text and StructuralBreak fixes in the Filter base class
  (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* Assume ASCII for HTML files with unknown encodings (Joe)
* Made the PDF filter more robust (Joe)
* Pass the correct parameters to pdfinfo (Urko Frenandez)
* Lots of snippets fixes (Varadhan)
* Only initialize wv1 once (Varadhan)
* Lots of other filter fixes (Varadhan)
* PHP filter fixes (Rich Midwinter)
* C# filter fixes (Varadhan, with a shout out to Rafael Slinckx)

UI:
* Filter web history indexing by domain (Tom von Schwerdtner)
* Mozilla extension UI enhancements (James Viapond)
* Fixed best searches from the mozilla extensions (Rich Midwinter)
* Fixed the entry focus in Best (Stephen Solka)
* Added a right-click menu to Best (Shobith Alva)
* Fixed charset encoding issues in Best (Joe, Jonas Klingstedt)
* Improved Best startup behaviour if started with a query (Christopher Orr)
* Fixed music tile ID3 tag bug (Lukas Lipka)
* IM viewer tuning (Lukas)
* Gaim-remote fixes (Lukas)
* Fixed launching Evolution and sending mail from the mail tile (Nicolas
  Trangez)
* Fixed rendering bug in TileCanvas (Lukas)

Everything Else:
* Build fixes (Everyone)
* Testing and Bug Reports (Everyone)
* Hand-to-hand combat with D-BUS (Joe)
* Man pages (Robert)

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Version 0.0.5
January 26, 2005

Daemon:
* Improved interaction with Mono GC (Jon Trowbridge, Joe Shaw, Ben Maurer)
* Dot Lucene 1.4.3 (Joe)
* Snippets in Files, IM logs, and Tomboy Notes (Jon)
* Query infrastructure improvements (Jon)
* Dynamic backend loading (Fredrik Hedberg)
* Large queries are now much faster (Joe, Jon)
* Better handling of index optimize operations (Joe)
* Faster IM log parsing (Jon)
* Properly quote SQLite queries (Edward Cho, Chris Orr)
* Work around .NET Uri class weirdness (Adam Lofts)

Backends:
* Liferea backend (Carl-Emil Lagerstedt)
* Launcher backend (Joe Gasiorek)
* Thunderbird backend (Fredrik)
* The Tomboy backend works again (Robert Love)

Filters:
* Better infrastructure for source code filters (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* Abiword filter (Varadhan)
* Fortran filter (Vishravars)
* Pascal filter (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* PHP filter (Vishravars)
* Improved RTF filter (Varadhan)
* Improved PPT filter (Varadhan)

UI:
* IM log viewer (Lukas Lipka, Tuomas Kuosmanen)
* Right-click menu for Best (Shobith Alva)
* Document tile enhancements (Varadhan)
* Remember Best's position (Joe G.)
* Fix search entry focus problem (Stephen Solka)
* Client-side hit filtering (Nat Friedman)
* Calendar tile (Lukas)
* Fixed images under Mozilla 1.7 (Joe)
* Better addressbook look-ups (Nat)
* Use freedesktop-spec thumbnails (Fredrik) 
* IM fields in contact tile (Nat)

Everything Else:
* Build fixes (Everyone)
* Newletter (Joe G.)
* Wiki wrangling (Joe G.)
* Bold, haunting cinematic vision (Nat)
* Snapshot Resurrection (Joe)
* Inotify hacking (Robert)
* D-BUS hacking (Joe)
* GMime hacking (Joe)
* Win32 porting (Fredrik)
* All the stuff I forgot (All the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.4
December 10, 2004

Daemon:
* Improved relevancy scoring (Joe Shaw)
* Lots of D-BUS clean-up (Jon Trowbridge)
* Filter architecture clean-up (Jon)
* Improved Extended Attribute handling (Jon)
* If EAs can't be set on a file, store the information in a
  fallback database (Jon)
* Expose more information about the indexes via D-BUS (Jon)
* Added beagle-index-info script (Jon)
* Initial lucene optimize operations now threaded for faster
  start-up (Jon)

Backends:
* Addressbook is now synched to a lucene index (Dave Camp)
* New gmime-based mail backend that uses lucene for indexing (Joe)
* Blam backend fixes (Fredrik Hedberg)

Filters:
* Added meta-data for .ppt files (Veerapuram Varadhan)
* Improved RTF filter (Varadhan)
* Count the number of slides in .sxi files (Varadhan)
* Improved audio file filters (Rafael Slinckx)

UI:
* Updated web tile (Christopher Orr)
* Show folder and account properties in the mail tile (Joe)
* Filter results by hit type (Joe)
* Save search history (Joe)
* More stetic (Tuomas Kuosmanen)
* Tile art updates (Tuomas)
* "View Source" accelerator (Fredrik)
* Ctrl+L can focus the search bar (James Vipond)
* File tile uses nautilus-sendto if it's available (Dave)
* Mail tile improvements (Joe, Tuomas)
* Pretty-print dates in image tiles (Joe)

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Version 0.0.3
November 22, 2004

Daemon:
* Live query architecture (Jon, Joe, Dave)
* Inotify-fu (Robert, Dave, Jon)
* Extended Attributes (Jon, Robert)
* Task Scheduler (Jon)
* Start-up fixes (Dave, Jon)
* LuceneDriver Enhancements (Joe, Jon)
* Efficiency (Dave, Joe, Jon)
* Robustness (Hari, Joe, Dave, Nat, Jon)
* Memory consumption (Joe, Dave, Jon)
* Real logging (Dave, Jon)
* Build fixes (Everybody)
* Experimental Network Support (Fredrik)
* Command-line tools (Nat, Chris, Jon)
* Better serialization (Dave, Joe)
* Relevancy fixes (Joe)
* Memory Profiling (Jon)
* Clean shutdown via beagle-shutdown (Dave, Jon)
* D-BUS fixes (Dave, Jon)


Filters:
* MS Word (Varadhan, Chris)
* MS PowerPoint (Varadhan, Chris)
* Media Files/GStreamer (Adam, Chris)
* Texi (Naggapan)
* RTF (Varadhan and ???)
* Source Code (Siva, Varadhan)
* OpenOffice/SAX Parser (Dave)
* Flac (Rafael)
* Jpeg enhancements (Jon, Larry)
* Misc. fixes (Chris, Robert, Varadhan, Jon)


Backends:
* Mail (Joe)
* Addressbook (Dave)
* Filesystem (Jon)
* Gaim (Jon)
* Tomboy (Christopher)
* Bugzilla (Harish)
* Blam (Fredrik, Jon, Lukas)
* Monodoc (Fredrik)
* Network (Fredrik)


UI:
* Geckoification (Dave)
* Improved Rendering (Dave)
* Tiles (Tuomas, Dave, Nat, Lukas, Matt, Joe)
* Tile Actions (Dave, Nat)
* Stetic (Tuomas)
* Tray Icon (Srinivasa, Alex, Dave, Lukas, Nat)
* Other Best Fixes (Dave, Nat, Robert)


Everything Else:
* Better wrapper scripts (Chris, Jon, Todd)
* Build fixes (Everybody)
* Packaging & snapshots (Chris)
* Planet Beagle (Robert, Garrett)
* Kick-ass Logo (Larry, Garrett)
* Newsletter (Joe G.)
* Wiki (Joe G.)
* Website (Garrett, Ben)
* beagle-query man page (Nat)
* Heroic dashboard maintenance (Chris, Joe)
* All the stuff I forgot (All the people I forgot)

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Version 0.0.2
September 1, 2004

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Version 0.0.1
June 10, 2004

* Worked around Mono GC issues.
* Enabled stemming.
* Better relevancy computations.
* Distinguish between sent and received e-mail.
* Searchomatic!
* Added logging of indexing operations.

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Version 0.0.0 (Initial release)
June 3, 2004