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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.16.x</h1>
<p><em>Note:</em> No release has been made yet in this
series. This document documents the progress of development, and
the state of snapshots sometimes found on the download page, in
a form which will hopefuly be found easier to read than the
Mercurial changelog on BitBucket.</p>
<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.16 is
mostly compatible with 1.15 indexes (except for a few
differences for really weird terms). Perform a full index pass
if installing over an older version. The simplest way to do
this is to quit all recoll programs and just delete the index
directory
(<span class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>). <span class="literal">recollindex -z</span>
will do the same in most cases.</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<p>Recoll 1.16 current change list:</p>
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<li>We can now perform negative directory filtering (-dir:/some/dir),
to return all results except those from the
specified directory (recursive). Other attempts at still
impossible negative searches
(ie: <span class="literal">-mime:</span>) now cause explicit
errors messages instead of lame results. The inverted
directory filtering is accessible from the query language
and by checking a checkbox in the advanced search
panel.</li>
<li>It is now possible to set an increased weight for indexing
some fields. The title fields gets a boost by default. See
the <tt>fields</tt> default file for details.</li>
<li>The query language allows setting weights on terms, ie,
as in: <tt>"important"2.5</tt> .</li>
<li>The GUI advanced search panel allows specifying a
field for each entry (ie: author/recipient, etc).</li>
<li>It is possible to configure the result list snippet
separator, given as an html fragment. This is an ellipsis by
default (&hellip;). </li>
<li>The preview window popup menu has a "save to file" entry
to write a subdocument (ie: mail attachement) to a file.</li>
<li>Images are displayed in preview. You can get at the fields
and complete extracted text using the popup menu.</li>
<li>Improved preservation of indentation for text files
displayed in the preview window.</li>
<li>Show hidden (dot) files in the indexing configuration
GUI dialogs.</li>
<li>Added filters for .war (Konqueror web archive) and .mhtm (other web
archive format).</li>
<li>Improved handling for native cjk punctuation signs.</li>
<li>Updated the list of native apps in the
default <tt>mimeview</tt> (ie: xv->gwenview, rox->dolphin,
etc.)</li>
<li>Added -f option to recollindex to ignore
skippedPaths/Names when used with -i. Allows the use of a
purely external file selection mechanism.</li>
<li>Result table:
<ul>
<li>The detail area now has a popup menu similar
to the one in the result list (open parent, save to disk
etc.).</li>
<li>Estimated result counts are displayed in the status line.</li>
<li>Set row height according to default font size, and better
adjust row height and vertical text position in
cells.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Real time indexer: several configuration
parameters allow adjusting the timing of indexing actions:
<ul>
<li><tt>monauxinterval</tt>: the interval between auxiliary
databases rebuilds (stemdb, aspell).</li>
<li><tt>monixinterval</tt>: The waiting period
during which indexing events are accumulated prior to actual
indexing (saves work on duplicate events).</li>
<li><tt>mondelaypatterns</tt>: a list of file patterns for
which indexing should be delayed longer (quick changing
files like logs that should be reindexed much slower than
they change).</li>
</ul>
See the default configuration file for more detail.
</li>
<li>Fixed bugs:
<ul>
<li>UTF-8 paths inside ZIP archives were mishandled. Also
fixes problem with colons inside archive member
paths.</li>
<li>Fixed GUI result list doc parent operations (open/preview)
which were broken in 1.15.</li>
<li>Fixed case where indexing could hang or crash after an
error occured while indexing an archive member (which
should have affected only the relevant document).</li>
<li>Real time indexer: uncontrolled concurrent access to
the global configuration could cause a startup crash (mostly of
big file trees because of timing issues).</li>
<li>Fixed sorting by document and file size in the result
table.</li>
<li>Email messages for which there would be an error indexing
an attachment would not be indexed at all.</li>
<li>Text files bigger than 2 GB could not be indexed.</li>
<li>Fixed the handling of compressed man pages.</li>
</ul>
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