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+    <title>Recoll release history</title>
+    <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
+    <meta name="Description"
+          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>Major Recoll releases at a glance</h1>
+
+	  <p>A summary of the major releases and the main features which
+		came with them.</p>
+
+	  <dl>
+		<dt><a href="release-1.21.html">Release 1.21</a> (future): new
+		  query parser</dt> 
+		<dd>
+		  <ul>
+			<li>Bison-based query parser replaces old regexp-based
+			  one and allows parenthized sub-expressions and easier
+			  future expansions.</li>
+		  </ul>
+		</dd>
+		<dt><a href="release-1.20.html">Release 1.20</a>: small
+		  improvements</dt> 
+		<dd>
+		  <ul>
+		  <li><i>Open With</i> results list popup menu entry.</li>
+		  <li><i>fieldname:term1,term2</i>
+			and <i>fieldname:term1/term2</i> shortcuts for AND/OR
+			searches inside fields.</li>
+		  <li><i>Query fragments</i> tool.</li>
+		  <li>Better handling of compound terms like mail
+		  addresses.</li>
+		  <li>Selection on source collection type (Web history / File
+			system).</li>
+		  <li>Configurable GUI geometry.</li>  
+		  <li>Different handling
+			of container file / subdocuments file name searches.</li>
+		  <li>Simultaneous -e -i options to recollindex.</li>
+		  </ul>
+		</dd>
+		</dd>
+		<dt><a href="release-1.19.html">Release 1.19</a>: multithreads
+		  indexing</dt> 
+		<dd>
+		  <ul>
+			<li>Better indexing performance through
+			  multithreading.</li>
+			<li>Display list of subdocuments (e.g. attachments) for a
+			  given result.</li>
+			<li>Collapsed duplicate results display link.</li>
+			<li>Path translation facility (for portable indexes).</li>
+			<li>Caches last uncompressed file (e.g. for fast
+			  compressed mbox access).</li>
+			<li>Partial recursive reindex option to command line
+			indexer.</li>
+			<li>Can import tags from external application.</li>
+			<li>Extended attributes indexing is on by default.</li>
+			<li>New Python interface for data access. API re-modeled against
+			  newer Python Database API 2.0.</li>
+			<li>Shared librecoll.so.</li>
+		  </ul>
+		</dd>
+		<dt><a href="release-1.18.html">Release 1.18</a>: case and
+		  diacritics switchable sensitivity</dt> 
+		<dd>
+		  <ul>
+			<li>Index configuration for case and diacritics sensitivity.</li> 
+			<li>Advanced search history.</li>
+			<li>Page-level access when opening PDFs, and snippets
+			  window.</li>
+			<li>Use Xapian Synonyms tables for query expansion.</li>
+		  </ul>
+		</dd>
+		<dt><a href="release-1.17.html">Release 1.17</a>: small
+		  improvements</dt> 
+		<dd>
+		  <ul>
+			<li>Language-dependant unaccenting.</li>
+			<li>GUI dialogs for indexing schedule setup.</li>
+			<li>Phrase-based <i>dir:</i> filtering, accepting path
+			fragments. Size filtering.</li> 
+			<li>Python module default install and Unity Lens.</li>
+			<li>Result list switched to WebKit: drops qt3 support.</li>
+			<li>Indexing always performed by separate process.</li>
+			<li>Dynamic category filters (defined as language fragments).</li>
+		  </ul>
+		</dd>
+		
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