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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.17.x</h1>
<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.17 is mostly
compatible with 1.16 and 1.15 indexes, except for a few
differences for weird terms containing punctuation
signs. Also, file/document size computations have been
improved in 1.17 and you'll need an index reset if you want to
enjoy the new goodness. Always reset the index if installing
over an older version (1.14 and older). 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>),
then start recoll or
recollindex. <span class="literal">recollindex -z</span>
will do the same in most cases.</p>
<p>Some new, auxiliary, features do require a full reindex to work:</p>
<ul>
<li>The file size filtering functions.</li>
<li>The anchored search feature if the index was created by
release 1.15 or older.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Notes to the kind packagers:</h2>
<ul>
<li>you need to either depend on libqt4-webkit or run
configure --disable-webkit (1st option preferred if possible
of course).</li>
<li>The default build now installs the Python extension module.
This means that it needs the Python development
package. You can revert to the old behaviour by using
configure --disable-python-module.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<p>1.17.4 is quite probably the last update on the very stable
1.17 branch. It has updated German and Greek messages, and fixes
a few bugs, see the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_17_3">BUGS
file</a>.</p>
<p>1.17.3 fixed a nasty indexing bug in email processing
code. This was triggered most probably my messages containing
Microsoft mimehtml attachments, but possibly by other ones
too, and caused an indexing crash. Also fixes small glitches
in result list paging.</p>
<p>1.17.2 fixed a few <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_17_1">bugs</a> and
adds a small feature for handling characters that should not
be accented in your language (ie: �� in swedish). See
<tt>unac_except_trans</tt>x in the manual configuration
section. Also a new <tt>rcldia</tt> filter for Dia files.</p>
<p>1.17.1 was released only for a small function needed for
supporting the Unity Lens. If you don't need it, you can stay
with 1.17.0.</p>
<p>Recoll 1.17 is an incremental improvements release over 1.16,
with quite a few changes under the hood (like the introduction
of a webkit-based result list), but relatively few obvious
changes for the casual user.</p>
<p>Recoll 1.17.0 changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>GUI/config: new set of dialogs to set up the indexing
schedule, either as automatic real time indexing started
with the user session or as discrete cron entries. This
will take care of the details of autostart files or crontab
editing.</li>
<li>Search: Recoll now supports filtering on file sizes. This
is accessible from the advanced search panel, or from the
query langage (ie: "size>10k size<1m"). For
documents stored inside archives, the file size stored in
the index is now the actual one, not the archive's as was
previously the case. Because of this, you will need a full
reindex to completely enable this feature.</li>
<li>Query language: the "dir:" directive now accepts
non-absolute paths. For example dir:dir1/dir2 will select
any file the path of which includes "dir1/dir2".</li>
<li>Query language: tilde is now expanded inside a "dir:"
clause.</li>
<li>General: the Python extension module is now installed by
default. This will make it much easier to use small recoll
integration and extension hacks like the Unity Lens.</li>
<li>Desktop: there is a new Ubuntu Unity Recoll Lens, it is not
installed by default, but quite easy to install, see
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/UnityLens">the
Wiki page</a>.</li>
<li>GUI: it is now possible to cancel a query that takes too
long. Because of limitations in Xapian, this forces a program
exit, but it's probably better than staring at a hung
Recoll.</li>
<li>GUI/advanced search: the dialog gets new sections for
filtering on file dates and sizes, and has been split into two
tabs: for search terms, and for filtering.</li>
<li>GUI: use Shift+PageUp instead of Shift+Home to rewind the
result list to the first page. Shift+Home is useful in the
search entry.</li>
<li>GUI: the preview function will now check that the index is
up to date before fetching the preview data, and propose to
update the index if necessary. This is especially important
for mail folders. It was previously possible that the
preview would display a message unrelated to the current
result.</li>
<li>GUI: it is now possible to control the date format
displayed by the results (go to Query Preferences).</li>
<li>GUI: when a search fails to retrieve results, the spelling
suggestions are now presented as links inside the result list
area. Clicking a link will replace the appropriate word inside
the search entry.</li>
<li>GUI: thumbnails will be displayed in the result list if
found in the standard freedesktop thumbnails directory
(previously created by gimp or some file manager). This Recoll
release will not create thumbnails.</li>
<li>GUI: it is now possible to Copy/Paste from the term explorer
result list.</li>
<li>GUI: what used to be the document category filters
(media/text/etc.) are now defined as query language
fragments
inside <span class="filename">mimeconf</span>. This means
that you can redefine them freely (see the comments for the
<tt>[guifilters]</tt> section in the
default <span class="filename">mimeconf</span>).</li>
<li>GUI: it is now possible to use a Qt style sheet to modify
many aspects of Recoll appearance. A style sheet file can be
selected from the GUI query configuration dialog. A sample
skeleton style sheet is to be found in the
share/recoll/examples directory.</li>
<li>GUI: the result list is now based on the WebKit widget
instead of QTextBrowser. This means better HTML/CSS support,
and even Javascript ... You can force the use the old
QTextBrowser instead by using
configure --disable-webkit. See a few CSS examples in
the <a href="custom.html">result list customisation
examples page</a></li>
<li>GUI: added menu entry to show all the mime types actually
indexed.</li>
<li>GUI/indexing: the indexing thread has been removed. All
indexing is now performed by a separate recollindex
process. This has multiple advantages, the thread was just a
very bad idea. Among others, exiting the GUI has no
influence on an ongoing indexing.</li>
<li>GUI/indexing: new menu entry to force a full reindex.</li>
<li>GUI/config: the indexing configuration now only shows the
directories customized by the user, not those which come
from the standard configuration (ie:
~/.thunderbird). Showing the standard directories was more
often confusing than useful.</li>
<li>GUI: the default result list paragraph now displays the ipath:
this is very useful for archive members and not too
disturbing for other kinds.</li>
<li>Command line query: can now select a result slice
(first result rank and count of results). New option for
easy parsing of results by another program.</li>
<li>Indexing: handle the html5 <tt>charset</tt> meta tag.</li>
<li>Indexing: added support for Okular notes and Gnumeric.</li>
<li>Real time indexer: restart automatically when the
configuration changes.</li>
<li>Fixed bugs:
<ul>
<li>Indexing configuration: deleting one customized
directory would sometimes delete the whole list (depending
on Qt version I think).</li>
<li>Indexing configuration: adding a customized directory
would not make it the active/current one (so that
another click was needed to choose it before making
modifications).</li>
<li>The GUI preview now performs an up to date check
before displaying data from a subdocument, and proposes
to reindex the container if it changed. This is mostly
useful for mailbox containers, where preview would
sometimes display the wrong message (if the folder had
been compacted).</li>
<li>Fix a bug in html charset detection. The wrong charset
was sometimes used for GUI preview.</li>
<li>The chm filter can now process files lacking a Topics
node.</li>
<li>The default slack for proximity searches from the query
language (ie: "word1 word2"p) had become 0. It was restored to
10.</li>
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