--- a/website/release-1.18.html
+++ b/website/release-1.18.html
@@ -34,18 +34,21 @@
<h2>Caveats</h2>
- <p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces serious
- index formats changes, and it will be advisable to reset the index
- in most cases. This will be best done by destroying the
- index directory (<tt>rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</tt>).</p>
+ <p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces
+ significant index formats changes to support optional
+ character case and diacritics sensitivity, and it will be
+ advisable to reset the index in most cases. This will be best
+ done by destroying the index directory (<tt>rm -rf
+ ~/.recoll/xapiandb</tt>).</p>
<p><em>If</em> the 1.18 index is not configured for case and
diacritics sensitivity, it is mostly compatible with 1.17
indexes though.</p>
- <p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. For 1.18, it can be
- turned on only by editing recoll.conf by hand (see the
- manual). If you do so, you must reset the index.</p>
+ <p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default for this
+ release. It can be turned on <em>only</em> by editing
+ recoll.conf (see the manual). If you do so, you must reset the
+ index.</p>
<p>Always reset the index if installing over an older version (1.16
and older). The simplest way to do this is to quit all recoll
@@ -67,12 +70,13 @@
There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
the locally configured application even when <em>Use
Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This allows making
- use of new function (direct access to page), which could not
+ use of new functions (direct access to page), which could not
be available through the desktop's <tt>xdg-open</tt>. The
default list contains PDF, Postscript and DVI, which should be
- opened with the Evince viewer for the page access functions to
+ opened with the <em>evince</em> (or <em>atril</em> for
+ Mint/MATE users) viewer for the page access functions to
work. If you want to keep the previous behaviour (losing the
- page number functionality), you need to empty the list after
+ page number functionality), you need to prune the list after
installation . This can be done from the <em>Preferences->Gui
Configuration</em> menu.</p>