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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.18.x</h1>
<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces serious
index formats changes, and it will be advisable to reset the index
in most cases. <em>IF</em> the 1.18 index is not configured for
case and diacritics sensitivity, it is mostly compatible with
1.17 indexes though. Case/diacritics sensitivity can be turned
off either by a compile flag or a configuration variable, and
the default is still a stripped index (so, mostly compatible
with 1.17). If you activate case and diacritics sensitivity,
you must reset the index.</p>
<p>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 also require a full reindex:</p>
<ul>
<li>The file size filtering functions if the existing index was
created by version 1.16 or older.</li>
<li>The anchored search feature if the index was created by
release 1.15 or older.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<p>Recoll 1.18 has some major changes, the most visible of
which is the ability to search for exact matches of character case
and diacritics.</p>
<p>Recoll 1.18.0 changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>The index can now be configured for case and diacritics
sensitivity, in which case raw terms are indexed. On such an
index, search insensitivity to case and diacriics is obtained,
when desired, by query time expansion, in a similar manner to
what is used for stemming. See the
<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INDEXING.CONFIG.SENS">
manual chapter for details</a> about controlling the
feature.</li>
<li>Recoll has a new capacity to store page break locations
and use them when opening a document at the location for a
given match. This currently works with PDF, Postscript and DVI
documents, and the <b>evince</b> viewer.</li>
<li>Recoll can now also pass a search string to the native
application.</li>
<li>The GUI result list has a new "snippets" window for
documents with page numbers, which let the user choose a
snippet and open the document at the appropriate page.</li>
<li>We now allow multiple directory specifications in the query
language, as in: <i>dir:/home/me -dir:tmp</i></li>
<li>The search inside the GUI preview window, has been
improved, and allows selecting from a list one of the
initial term groups as the search target.</li>
<li>A new script dedicated to laptops, which can start or stop
recollindex according to mains power status.</li>
<li>Added <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> to plain
text HTML display options. This will often be the best
option to display plain text: it will better respect
indentation, while folding long lines.</li>
<li>When running in an UTF-8 locale, and after decoding a
plain text file as UTF-8 fails, indexing will try again
using an 8bit character set heuristically chosen according
to the locale country code.</li>
<li>A new configuration, maxmemberkbs, has been implemented to
limit the size of archive members we process. This will avoid
recoll trying to read a 4 GB ISO from a zip archive...</li>
<li>Proper error reporting when a wildcard expansion is
truncated for size. An incomplete search could previously be
performed without any indication.</li>
<li>More effort is also put in choosing the terms used in
generating the snippets inside the result list.</li>
<li>Recoll now uses the Xapian "synonyms" mechanism to store all
data about stemming, case, and diacritics expansion (this
replaces the previous ad-hoc stemming expansion
mechanism).</li>
<li>Partial autodetection of thunderbird mailboxes found out
of the configured location.</li>
<li>Implemented a list of mime types that should be opened
with the locally configured application even when <em>Use
Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This will permit, for
example, using evince for its page access capabilities on
PDF files, while letting the desktop handle all the other
mime types.</li>
<li>Fixed bugs:
<ul>
<li>The unac_except_trans mechanism could be buggy in some
cases and generate wrong character translations.</li>
<li>Don't terminate monitor for permissions-related
addwatch error.</li>
<li>Fix handling of ODF documents exported by Google
docs.</li>
</ul>
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