Release notes for Recoll 1.16.x

Note: 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.

Caveats

Installing over an older version: 1.16 snapshots are fully compatible with 1.15 indexes for now. 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 (rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb). recollindex -z will do the same in most cases.

Changes

Recoll 1.16 current change list:

• Searches now allow negative directory filtering (all results except from the specified directory). Other attempts at still impossible negative searches (ie: -mime: 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.
• The GUI advanced search panel now allows specifying a field for each entry (ie: author/recipient, etc).
• Added filters for .war (Konqueror web archive) and .mhtm (other web archive format).
• Result table:
  • The detail area now has a popup menu similar to the one in the result list (open parent, save to disk etc.).
  • Estimated result counts are displayed in the status line.
  • Set row height according to default font size, and better adjust row height and vertical text position in cells.
• Fixed bugs:
  • UTF-8 paths inside ZIP archives were mishandled. Also fixes problem with colons inside archive member paths.
  • Fixed GUI result list doc parent operations (open/preview) which were broken in 1.15.
  • 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).