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    <title>Recoll 1.22 series release notes</title>

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          content="recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux     based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">

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      <h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.22.x</h1>

      

      <h2>Caveats</h2>



      <p>Some of the input handlers were converted from shell scripts

        to Python programs, and some helper dependancies changed. For

        example, you will need to install python-libxml2 and

        python-libxslt1 in most cases (for replacing xsltproc).</p>

      

      <p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.19 </p>



      <p>1.20-22 indexes are fully compatible. Installing 1.22

        over an 1.19 index is possible, but there have been small

        changes in the way compound words (e.g. email addresses) are

        indexed, so it will be best to reset the index. Still, in a

        pinch, 1.22 search can mostly use an 1.19 index. </p>



      <p>Always reset the index if you do not know by which version it

        was created (e.g.: you're not sure it's at least 1.18). The

        best method is to quit all Recoll programs and delete the

        index directory (<span class="literal">

          rm��-rf��~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>), then start <code>recoll</code>

        or <code>recollindex</code>. <br> 



        <span class="literal">recollindex -z</span> will do the same

        in most, but not all, cases. It's better to use

        the <tt>rm</tt> method, which will also ensure that no debris

        from older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming files which are

        not used any more).</p>



      <p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. It can be

        turned on <em>only</em> by editing

        recoll.conf (

        <a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INDEXING.CONFIG.SENS">

          see the manual</a>). If you do so, you must then reset the

        index.</p> 



      <h2>Changes in Recoll 1.22.0</h2>



      <ul>



        <li>The main "feature" in recoll 1.22 is that it has

          a <a href="pages/recoll-windows.html">Microsoft Windows

            version</a>. This is has been tested on Windows 7 and 

          Windows 10, and it works mostly like the Unix version, with

          the notable exceptions that it has no real-time mode (need to

          start indexing by hand from the GUI, or arrange something with

          the command-line recollindex.exe). Also there are a few very

          Unix-y file types which are not processed on Windows, and the

          indexer is single-threaded.</li>



        <li>It is now possible to define synonyms groups, used only at

          query-time to expand the query terms to their defined

          synonyms.

          <a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/webhelp/docs/RCL.SEARCH.SYNONYMS.html">

            More details</a>.</li>

        

        <li>Many shell-script input handlers have been converted to

          Python and are now persistent. Most are compatible with

          Python3 (the only ones which are not are kept back by the

          library they use). There are still a few shell handlers,

          mostly for less used and Linux-only formats. And a single

          Perl-based one (rclimg, which uses the excellent exiftool

          Perl library).</li>



        <li>The Unix/Linux build system has been converted to use the

          autotools in a fairly standard way. The Windows build is

          based on Qt Creator and MinGW.</li>



        <li>Make dehyphenation (co-worker->coworker in addition to the

          normal terms) optional, active by default.</li>



        <li>For people using the Firefox web page indexer add-on: a

          new tool in the GUI to list and delete entries from the Web

          cache.</li>

      

        <li>Improved index statistics in the GUI, and improved display

          while the indexer is working.</li>

        

      </ul>



      <h2>Minor releases</h2>

      <ul>

        <li>1.22.3:

          <ul>

            <li>Python module: do not limit result fetches to initial

              Xapian result count, which is often underestimated.</li>

            <li>Small bug fix in the text splitter: which resulted in

              missing results when matching a file name extension

              using, e.g. filename:doc$ instead of ext:doc.</li>

            <li>Added suffix associations for .java and .sql, to fix

              problems caused by the switch from 'file' to 'xdg-mime'.</li>

          </ul>

        </li>

        <li>1.22.2:

          <ul>

            <li>Small fixes for building the KIO</li>

            <li>Fixed debian packaging issues.</li>

          </ul>

        </li>

        <li>1.22.1:

          <ul>

            <li>Sidestep bus error in qt exit code by calling _exit()

              instead of exit() in GUI exit code.</li>

            <li>Eliminate the dependance of librecoll.so on libX11.</li>

            <li>Hungarian translation.</li>

            <li>GUI: enable displaying the Xapian docid in the result

              list with %x.</li>

            <li>GUI, advanced search: fix crash which occurred when

              restoring clause list bigger than the default size (6

              clauses).</li>

            <li>The documentation (user manual and man page) for

              recoll.conf is now generated from the structured

              comments in the sample file.</li>

          </ul>

        </li>



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