<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<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">
<meta name="Keywords" content="full text search, desktop search, unix, linux">
<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="rightlinks">
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="doc.html">Documentation</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="content">
<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>A Bison-based query parser replaces the old
regexp-based one and allows parenthized
sub-expressions and easier future
expansions.</li>
<li>Avoid retrying to index previously
indexed files if nothing seems to have
changed in the filters.</li>
<li>Allow saving queries to files and reload them
later. Available both for simple and advanced queries, and
based on XML files.</li>
<li>Improve indexing speed by always using
vfork() for spawning external commands.</li>
<li>GUI gets "close to system tray" function.</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>
<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>
<dt><a href="release-1.16.html">Release 1.16</a>: small
improvements</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Images displayed in preview window.</li>
<li>Save to file popup in preview.</li>
<li>Fields in advanced search.</li>
<li>Searches anchored to beginning or end of text.</li>
<li>Saving the result table to CSV.</li>
<li>Improved indentation in preview window.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
<dt><a href="release-1.15.html">Release 1.15</a>: results
table</dt>
<dd>
<ul>
<li>Optional spreadsheet presentation of results.</li>
<li>Clear search history.</li>
<li>Better thunderbird mbox format handling.</li>
</ul>
</dd>
</div>
</body>
</html>