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that no debris from older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming
files which are not used any more).</p>
+ <p>Installing 1.19 over an 1.18 index will force a lot of
+ reindexing anyway because we switched from using st_ctime instead
+ of st_mtime to detect file modifications, meaning that all files
+ which were modified since created will be updated.</p>
+
<p><span class="important">Viewer exceptions</span>:
There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
the locally configured application even when <em>Use
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as you type" mode, and to disable the Qt auto-completion
inside the simple search string, which was often more confusing
and ennoying than useful.</li>
+
+ <li>Extended file attributes are now indexed by default. As a
+ side effect, recoll now uses st_ctime, not st_mtime to detect
+ file changes. This means that installing 1.19 will reindex
+ many files (all those that were modified since created).</li>
<li>The software can now be built so that indexing is runs with
multiple threads. This can be a major performance boost for