[Wp-mirror-announce] wp-mirror 0.7.3 released

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Dear list members,

WP-MIRROR 0.7.3 is now available.

0) Feature

The main improvement is that working files are now compressed (working files were 62G, now 24G). This is an example of an engineering trade-off. Compression reduces mechanical motion of your HDD (which is slow) but increases CPU load (which is fast). You should experience an overall performance increase.

1) Changelog:

  * Bug fixed: Copyright in footer was not MediaWiki:Wikimedia-copyright
  * Bug fixed: DEB package upgrade deleted `LocalSettings_account.php'
  * Bug fixed: Disk space thresholds were too low
  * Bug fixed: Every file should have its size stored in `wpmirror.file'

  * Bug fixed: Fast index creation failed for `wikidatawiki.wb_*' tables

  * Command-line-option enhanced: `--profile' now also reports disk usage stats
  * Disk usage reduced: `schunk's are now compressed with `gzip'
  * Disk usage reduced: `xchunk's are now compressed with `bzip2' or `gzip'
  * FSM removed: `fsm-file-decompress' (no decompressed XML/SQL files on disk)
  * FSM removed: `fsm-file-split-xml' (no decompressed XML files on disk)
  * Performance enhanced: Incremental build of `titlekey' table

2) Web pages

The following pages have been updated:

<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wp-mirror>
<http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/>

As always, feedback is highly appreciated.

Sincerely Yours,

Kent