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      <h2><a name="1.13.0">Development version</a></h2>

      <ul>

       <li>Recoll has a new class of persistent external filters

         with the capability to process several documents, or

         multi-document files, in the same instance. Benefits: much

         faster image tag indexing, and new file formats. Except for

         the Perl image tag filter (because of ExifTool), the new

         filters are written in Python.<li>

       <li>New file formats: chm (microsoft help), zip archives, .ics

   calendar files. Individual pages in chm files are indexed and

   can be previewed. Zip is quite convenient for maildir

   archives (for example).</li>

       <li>Recoll can now use the output of the Beagle Firefox plugin

   to index visited web pages and bookmarks. This is only usable

   if Beagle itself is not running, else Recoll and Beagle will be

   fighting for the same queue.</li>

       <li>Big text files (like application logs) can now be paged for

         indexing, avoiding excess memory usage during indexing and

         improving the usability at query time. They can also be

         altogether skipped by setting a maximum size configuration

         parameter. These parameters have default values (1 MB and 20

         MB) which change Recoll behaviour compared to previous

         versions. You can set <i>textfilepagekbs</i>

         and <i>textfilemaxmbs</i> to -1 in the configuration to

         restore the old behaviour.</li>

       <li>A cache was implemented for mbox message header offsets. This

   speeds up message previews for big mbox files.</li>

       <li>Miscellaneous usability improvements: 

   <ul>

     <li>Allow using page-up/down and shift-home to scroll the

       result list while the focus is in the search entry. </li>

     <li>Make 'Use desktop preferences' the default for new

       Recoll installations, and make this choice more

       prominent in the external viewer dialog.</li> 

     <li>^P starts the print dialog on a preview window.</li>

     <li>If a search has no result, alternate spellings are

       suggested. This feature is still a bit raw and will be

       improved.</li> 

     <li>If the text of a document is empty, preview will switch to

       displaying the document fields.</li>

     <li>New entry in the result list contextual menu for opening

       the parent document of a result list hit with its native

       application. Useful for exemple for pages inside chm files.</li>

   </ul>

       </li>

       <li>Indentation is now preserved when displaying text documents

   inside the preview window. This is particularly welcome for

   program source files.</li>

       <li>Allow substituting arbitrary fields in the result

         paragraph, using a %(fieldname) syntax</li>

       <li>The real-time indexing monitor will now accumulate

   modifications during 30&nbsp;S before indexing.</li>

       <li>The indexer can now split camelCase words, allowing search on

   component terms. This is not enabled by default as it can

   confuse phrase searches (ie: "MySQL manual" is matched by

   phrase queries for "my sql manual" and "MySQL manual"

   but not "mysql manual"). Use "configure --enable-camelcase"

   to activate it.

       </li>

       <li>The ipath is now printed by default after the url in the

   default result list format.</li>

       <li><i>recoll_noindex</i> and <i>skippedNames</i> can now be

   changed at any point in the tree (only for topdirs previously).</li>

       <li>Allow using location/application sensitivity in external viewer

         choice. This uses several new functions: 

         <ul>

           <li>Allow the substitution of arbitrary document fields inside

             external viewer command line arguments.</li>

           <li>Allow field values to be set on all documents

             in a file system subtree. For example, you can 

             set an application tag (ie: rclaptg = gnus) on all mailbox

             files under a specific directory.</li>

           <li>New syntax in mimeview for including the rclaptg field in

             viewer choice

             (<i>mimetype</i>|<i>tagvalue</i>&nbsp;=&nbsp;...).</li> 

         </ul>

       </li>

       <li>Allow specifiying a specific default character set for mail

   messages. This is mainly useful for readpst dumps. All

   reasonable non-ascii messages specify their character set.</li>

       <li>Added a --without-gui configure option. Removes all X11 and

   Qt dependancies and only compiles the command-line interface.</li>

       <li>Improved the kio_recoll build. There is no need to run

   configure manually in the main directory any more. Ubuntu

   packages for kio_recoll are now built on the

   <a href="http://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/ppa">

     recoll-backports PPA on launchpad.net</a>.</li>

      </ul>

      <p>Bugs fixed:</p>

      <ul>

  <li>Qt4 version only: the search inside the preview window

  could become unbearably slow for big documents (quadratically

  so), and could not be interrupted (Qt bug). The Qt3 version of

  the code was included in the preview tool to restore good

  performance. This bug is the main reason for this release.</li>

      </ul>

      <p>Build system improvements:</p>

      <ul>

  <li>Perform minimal base package configuration inside the kio

    cmake code to permit building it from scratch (without a build

    of the main code). Mainly useful for builds on the Ubuntu

    PPA.</li>

  <li>Implement a --without-gui option to build a pure

    command-line version with no Qt or X11 dependancies.</li>

  <li>Ensure that the user's PATH settings determine where we

    look first for qmake in all cases.</li>

      </ul>

      <h2><a name="1.12.3">1.12.3</a></h2>

      <li>Fix the sort tool which had been broken since 1.11  with

         some (or all?) qt3 versions.<li>