March 01, 2010 by sharky
Big news for Gazelle fans & tracker devs - it’s been more than a year since What.CD developers had released an updated version of Gazelle; release candidate 2 has finally arrived. Citing "thousands of changes", What.CD has already been running on RC2 for quite some time. For the first time ever, Gazelle is now publicly available (non-svn) as a download for anyone looking to create a tracker, or else just tinker around with the source code.
Some major changes in RC2 include:
- • The removal of torrent_hash and inclusion of sphinx for searching
- • Site-wide cache updates instead of expirations
- • A completely rewritten BBCode parser
- • Tight integration with an IRC network (Drone included), especially for debugging
- • Reportsv2, which makes handling reports much more streamlined
- • The collector - a feature that allows you to download all torrents from an artist or a whole collage:
Upgrading Gazelle?
Upgrading from RC1 to RC2 is not possible at this time, as there are too many changes made to the latter’s code. The two codebases are too dissimilar to allow for such a quick upgrade or migration.
Nightly builds (via svn) will also be available, in addition to the direct download.
New Gazelle Dev Site
ProjectGazelle.org has been replaced in favour of http://what.cd/gazelle/ which contains a forum & wiki that is actually running on Gazelle code. The source code for Gazelle RC2 is available to anyone, but for those who want to access the wiki, you’ll need to register/login in order to view the links. Which is recommended - readers can expect to see some installation guides coming in the near future.
FSF salutes everyone involved in the ongoing development of Project Gazelle. If it weren’t for you, we’d all be looking at dozens of trackers still running TBDev, or worse. Plus the fact that Gazelle is now available as a simple download will certainly spawn even more baby Gazelles; and also open the door to future modifications & dev.
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