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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.19.x</h1>
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<h2>Caveats</h2>
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<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.19
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<p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is still off by default for this
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release. It can be turned on <em>only</em> by editing recoll.conf
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(<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INDEXING.CONFIG.SENS">
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see the manual</a>). If you do so, you must then reset the index.</p>
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<p>Always reset the index if you do not know by which version it
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was created (you're not sure it's 1.18). The simplest way to
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do this is to quit all recoll programs and just delete the
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index directory
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(<span class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>),
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then start recoll or
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recollindex. <span class="literal">recollindex -z</span>
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will do the same in most, but not all, cases, it's
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better to use the <tt>rm</tt> method, which will also ensure
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that no debris from older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming
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files which are not used any more).</p>
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<p><span class="important">Viewer exceptions</span>:
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There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
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the locally configured application even when <em>Use
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Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This allows making
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use of new functions (direct access to page), which could not
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be available through the desktop's <tt>xdg-open</tt>. The
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default list contains PDF, Postscript and DVI, which should be
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opened with the <em>evince</em> (or <em>atril</em> for
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Mint/MATE users) viewer for the page access functions to
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work. If you want to keep the previous behaviour (losing the
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page number functionality), you need to prune the list after
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installation . This can be done from the <em>Preferences->Gui
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Configuration</em> menu.</p>
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<h2>Changes</h2>
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<p>Recoll 1.19 .... Changes documented from 1.18.1 to rev 3159</p>
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<li>There are new GUI configuration options to run in "search
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as you type" mode, and to disable the Qt auto-completion
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inside the simple search string, which was often more confusing
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and ennoying than useful.</li>
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<li>The software can now be built so that indexing is runs with
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multiple threads. This can be a major performance boost for
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people with multiprocessor machines and big indexes. It is not
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enabled by default for now, you will need to build from
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source. I wrote some
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<a href="http://www.recoll.org/idxthreads/threadingRecoll.html">notes
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about the transformation and the performance improvements</a>.</li>
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<li>The Python module has been expanded to include the
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interface for extracting data. This means that you could now
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write most of the Recoll GUI in Python if you wished. There
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a <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/src/5b4bd9ef26a1/src/python/samples/recollgui/qrecoll.py?at=default">bit
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of sample code</a> in the source package doing just this. A
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few incompatible changes had to be made to the Python
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module. Especially the "Query.next" field is gone and the
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module structure has been changed (different import
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statement needed). Adapting your code is trivial, have a
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look at the changes in
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the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/src/5b4bd9ef26a10912bf8bd833fe6c084bd5a7bdbd/src/desktop/unity-lens-recoll/recollscope/rclsearch.py?at=default">Unity
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Lens module</a> for an example. The new module is compatible
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with
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the <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/">Python
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Database API Specification v2.0</a> for the parts that make
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sense for a non-relational DB.</li>
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<li>You can now access your Recoll indexes through a Web
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browser interface. The server side is based on
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the <a href="http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/">Bottle Python
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Web frameork</a> and the Recoll Python module, and can run
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server), so it's quite simple to set up. See:
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the expanded Python module. See
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the <a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/">Recoll
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WebUI</a> on GitHub. </li>
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<li>Recoll now uses a dynamic library for the code shared by
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the query interface, the indexer and the Python
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module. This should have no visible impact but was rendered
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necessary by the Python module evolutions.</li>
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<li>Fixed bugs:
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