Hi,

I am pleased to announce Harvest-1.9.7.
This ia a development version.


What's new:

        * Updated to qdbm 1.4.1.

        * Updated to idzebra 1.3.9.

        * Added french user interface.

        * Improved integration of zebra.

        The index for zebrasrv will be updated when glimpseindex
        updates its index and zebrasrv will start when the broker
        starts.

        The basic query page for the zebra fulltext engine is located
        at:

                http://your.server/Harvest/cgi-bin/zquery.pl

        A more detailed search page is available at:

                http://your.server/Harvest/brokers/zquery/index.html


The configuration of the idzebra server and modeling data isn't
finished yet. It will take some time until I have enough insight in
yaz and idzebra to achieve best results. This is on top of my todo
list.

The integration of yaz/idzebra into Harvest is partially done. It
already is usable, but there will be some tweaks necessary until we
have the same level of integration like glimpse and swish.

In the meantime, you will get different number of hits depending which
fulltext indexer you use. In most cases you will get fewer hits with
idzebra than with glimpse. This is caused by different default values
when performing queries. While glimpse defaults to non attribute
searches, idzebra defaults to attribute searches.

Despite the points listed above, Harvest already can be used with
idzebra as fulltext engine and the performance boost is quite
impressive. On my test machine, all queries are answered within three
seconds, and most queries just take a second or two instead of ranging
from some seconds to some tens of seconds.

As always, I appreciate any feedback.

I would like to invite everybody interested in developing, using or
simply keeping an eye on the future development of Harvest, to join
the mailinglist.

To join the mailinglist, please use:

  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/harvest-devel

For more information about Harvest, please visit:

  http://harvest.sourceforge.net/

Thank you.

kj