Version 0.2.4
April 7, 2006

Daemon/Infrastructure:
* Use POSIX calls to create Lucene lockfiles, to work around the lock
  obtail timeout bug.  (D Bera)
* Check the first 256 bytes of application/octet-stream to make sure
  it's not actually text/plain.  (Bera)
* Extract a maximum for 40,000 words from filters.  (Bera)
* Allow keyword queries in non-property queries, and make most
  keywords throughout the backends and filters unsearched.  (Bera)
* Fix the thread local storage patch, to fix exceptions and memory
  explosions.  (Joe)
* Add indices to the fallback sqlite databases, dramatically speeding
  up creation and searching.  (Pat Double)
* Do a binary search when searching properties in a hit.  (Bera)
* Print out the Mono version at daemon startup.  (Joe)

Backends:
* Work around pipe URIs in Liferea backend.  (Bera)
* Don't index .system folders in Gaim directories.  (Lukas Lipka)
* Get the Google backend working again, but disable it by default.
  (Bera)

Filters:
* New GIF filter.  (Alexander Macdonald, Joe)
* New XSLT filter.  (Alexander)
* New RPM filter.  (Bera)
* New Ebuild filter.  (Pat)
* Make the new image filters use FilterImage.  (Lukas)
* Fix parsing of Gaim 2.0 logs.  (Lukas, Zafar)
* Fix the external filter to look in $sysconfdir/beagle, rather than
  $sysconfdir.  (Joe)
* Fixed up the HTML and PDF filters to not extract more than 40,000
  words.  (Bera)
* If an error is set when pulling text from filters, stop trying to
  pull.  (Joe)
* Fix an exception when trying to read from an F-Spot database we
  failed to open.  (Joe)
* Index the download size from an Ebuild file.

UI:
* Fix an exception when clicking the forward and back buttons.  (Dan
  Winship)
* Fix a crash if we got an empty MIME type.  (Dan)
* Fix crashes when drawing the F-Spot emblem on image tiles.  (Dan,
  Lukas)
* Make the folder tile look more like the file tile.  (Dan)
* Check whether we can thumbnail an item, so that we don't fill up the
  failed thumbnail cache.  (Dan)
* Remove some padding that is no longer needed and looks bad in some
  themes.  (Dan)
* Fix up a few localization issues.  (Dan)
* Fix up some timestamp bugs, especially with files.  (Dan)
* Don't use the MailMessage tile for messages not parsed through
  gmime.  (Lukas)
* Fix the awkwardly positioned date label in the MailMessage's details
  pane.  (Lukas)
* Close the query when we open the Quick Tips page, to prevent the
  page from disappearing.  (Lukas)

Tools:
* Fix the scripts to allow being run uninstalled from the source
  directory, but only from the system directories once installed, in a
  safe manner.  (Joe)
* GNOME HIG fixes for beagle-settings.  (Dennis Cranston)
* Add a --list-filters option to beagle-info.  (Bera, Joe)
* Fix a typo in the crawl-applications rule.  (Lukas)
* Add /usr/local/share/doc to the crawl-documentations rule.  (Lukas)
* Allow bludgeon to be disabled at configure time.  (Kevin Kubasik)
* Install the beagle-extract-content tool.  (Joe)
* Use cron.daily for beagle-crawl-system, rather than cron.d.  (Joe)

Bindings:
* Add a beagle_util_daemon_is_running() to libbeagle.  (Lukas)

Everything Else:
* Check for a newer version of Epiphany.  (Kyle Ambroff, Christian
  Persch)
* Move some more dependencies only required when building the GUI.
  (Bera)
* Allow beagle to be built without the X screensaver extension.
  (Marijn, Lipka)

Translations:
* Added Georgian translation.  (Vladimer Sichinava)
* Added Punjabi translation.  (Amanpreet Singh Alam)
* Updated Dutch translation.  (Vincent van Adrighem)
* Updated Italian translation.  (Luca Ferretti)
* Updated Japanese translation.  (Takeshi AIHANA)
* Updated Lithuanian translation.  (Žygimantas Beručka)
* Updated Spanish translation.  (Francisco Javier F. Serrador)
* Updated Vietnamese translation.  (Clytie Siddall)

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