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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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+ <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
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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>
+
+ </div>
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