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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.15.0/1.15.7</h1>
<p><em>Notes:</em>
<ul><li>1.15.1 is identical to 1.15.0 except for a very
small modification to allow building with qt 4.4.</li>
<li>1.15.2 fixes the GUI startup crash described below, and an
issue with very long path elements, which manifested itself mainly
while indexing the Beagle queue.</li>
<li>1.15.5 fixes more crashes still in 1.15.2. See the
<a href="BUGS.html#b_1_15_2">BUGS</a> file</li>
<li>1.15.6 and 1.15.7 almost exclusively fix build issues (except
for the indication of the stemming language in the menu, fixed in
1.15.7). If you are running 1.15.5, you probably don't need to
upgrade.</li>
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<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p>There have been reports of the recoll 1.15 GUI crashing when
starting up after an upgrade. This was fixed by making a
backup of ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf and deleting it (Qt
stores the QSettings for the recoll GUI in this file, things
like the search history and mix GUI options).</p>
<p>If the result list is displayed with strange indentations, try
to completely clear the result list paragraph format (in query
preferences) to reset it to the default. Next time you open query
preferences, the new default format will be up, and you can make
any desired changes.</p>
<p>The support for Qt 3 has been removed in this version which
uses only native Qt 4 interfaces. If your system has no
support for Qt 4.4 or newer, you need to stick
with <a href="download-1.14.html">Recoll 1.14</a>, which is
still supported.</p>
<p>The defaults for file name searches with multiple fragments
changed from OR to AND: see the changes list below for more
detail.</p>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: version 1.15/14/13
indexes are mostly compatible with 1.11 indexes, but some new,
relatively minor, features (ie: duplicates collapsing) depend
on a full index rebuild. The 1.14 date search feature
does <i>not</i> need an index rebuild, the data was already in
the index. <i>The new 1.15 table will not be able to display
filenames without a full reindex (it does display the urls),
except for some previous custom field configurations</i>.</p>
<br />If installing over 1.10 or older, you need a full
rebuild. The best way to do this is to just delete the old
<span class="filename">.recoll/xapiandb</span> directory,
especially if the index was created by an older version.
(ie: <tt>rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb/</tt>). On very
old indexes, <tt>recollindex -z</tt> may sometimes end
with a <em>backend doesn't implement metadata</em> error,
which is wasteful because you then need to delete xapiandb and
run the indexing again.</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<p>Recoll 1.15.0 has major new GUI features and fixes a number
of small bugs</p>
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<li>The GUI has a new display for the result list inside a
spreadsheet-like table, with configurable columns and sort by
any column. The table header right-click menu has the <i>reset
sort</i> function and column adding/removing.The "classical" look
is still there, you can dynamically switch between list and
table by clicking the table-like icon in the toolbar. </li>
<li>The old sort tool is gone. There are now vertical arrows in
the tool bar to directly sort by date ascending or descending,
which was its only significant use.</li>
<li>We added duplication indicators to the result list when results
are collapsed because they have bit-for-bit identical
contents. The indicater is the collapse count in parentheses,
displayed just after the relevancy percentage.</li>
<li>There is now a menu entry to clear search history.</li>
<li>File name search: it used to be that multiple fragments
where OR'ed together to perform the search. They are now AND'ed,
which makes more sense in many cases (remembering several
fragments of the file name but not the order), but means that a
search for <tt>*.doc *.odt</tt> will always
fail. Use <tt>ext:doc OR ext:odt</tt> instead.</li>
<li>Autophrase now works with the query language where it makes
sense.</li>
<li>Support for lyrics in midi karaoke files. Works
better with the
Python <a href="http://chardet.feedparser.org/">chardet</a>
character encoding identification module.</li>
<li>Support newer Purple/Pidgin logs using an html format.</li>
<li>Support thunderbird extreme brokiness in handling the mbox
format: naked "^From $" separators are now accepted
with <tt>mhmboxquirks = tbird</tt>.</li>
<li>A change of method for filtering on directory location makes
it much more efficient and faster.</li>
<li>The utf-8 file name is now a stored field by default.</li>
<li>We now catch all exceptions in Python filters to avoid
crash reports from the system on benign filter failures.</li>
<li>Indexing now creates a lock/pid file inside the
configuration directory.</li>
<li>Fixed parallel build issue on FreeBSD.</li>
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