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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.22.x</h1>
<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p>Some of the input handlers were converted from shell scripts
to Python programs, and some helper dependancies changed. For
example, you will need to install python-libxml2 and
python-libxslt1 in most cases (for replacing xsltproc).</p>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.19 </p>
<p>1.20-22 indexes are fully compatible. Installing 1.22
over an 1.19 index is possible, but there have been small
changes in the way compound words (e.g. email addresses) are
indexed, so it will be best to reset the index. Still, in a
pinch, 1.22 search can mostly use an 1.19 index. </p>
<p>Always reset the index if you do not know by which version it
was created (e.g.: you're not sure it's at least 1.18). The
best method is to quit all Recoll programs and delete the
index directory (<span class="literal">
rm��-rf��~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>), then start <code>recoll</code>
or <code>recollindex</code>. <br>
<span class="literal">recollindex -z</span> will do the same
in most, but not all, cases. It's better to use
the <tt>rm</tt> method, which will also ensure that no debris
from older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming files which are
not used any more).</p>
<p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. It can be
turned on <em>only</em> by editing
recoll.conf (
<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INDEXING.CONFIG.SENS">
see the manual</a>). If you do so, you must then reset the
index.</p>
<h2>Changes in Recoll 1.22.0</h2>
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<li>The main "feature" in recoll 1.22 is that it has
a <a href="pages/recoll-windows.html">Microsoft Windows
version</a>. This is has been tested on Windows 7 and
Windows 10, and it works mostly like the Unix version, with
the notable exceptions that it has no real-time mode (need to
start indexing by hand from the GUI, or arrange something with
the command-line recollindex.exe). Also there are a few very
Unix-y file types which are not processed on Windows, and the
indexer is single-threaded.</li>
<li>It is now possible to define synonyms groups, used only at
query-time to expand the query terms to their defined
synonyms.
<a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/webhelp/docs/RCL.SEARCH.SYNONYMS.html">
More details</a>.</li>
<li>Many shell-script input handlers have been converted to
Python and are now persistent. Most are compatible with
Python3 (the only ones which are not are kept back by the
library they use). There are still a few shell handlers,
mostly for less used and Linux-only formats. And a single
Perl-based one (rclimg, which uses the excellent exiftool
Perl library).</li>
<li>The Unix/Linux build system has been converted to use the
autotools in a fairly standard way. The Windows build is
based on Qt Creator and MinGW.</li>
<li>Make dehyphenation (co-worker->coworker in addition to the
normal terms) optional, active by default.</li>
<li>For people using the Firefox web page indexer add-on: a
new tool in the GUI to list and delete entries from the Web
cache.</li>
<li>Improved index statistics in the GUI, and improved display
while the indexer is working.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Minor releases</h2>
<ul>
<li>1.22.4:
<ul>
<li>Fix advanced search 'start search' button doing
nothing under qt5.</li>
<li>Fix html escaping with newer versions of
pdftotext.</li>
<li>New Danish and Dutch messages.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>1.22.3:
<ul>
<li>Python module: do not limit result fetches to initial
Xapian result count, which is often underestimated.</li>
<li>Small bug fix in the text splitter: which resulted in
missing results when matching a file name extension
using, e.g. filename:doc$ instead of ext:doc.</li>
<li>Added suffix associations for .java and .sql, to fix
problems caused by the switch from 'file' to 'xdg-mime'.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>1.22.2:
<ul>
<li>Small fixes for building the KIO</li>
<li>Fixed debian packaging issues.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>1.22.1:
<ul>
<li>Sidestep bus error in qt exit code by calling _exit()
instead of exit() in GUI exit code.</li>
<li>Eliminate the dependance of librecoll.so on libX11.</li>
<li>Hungarian translation.</li>
<li>GUI: enable displaying the Xapian docid in the result
list with %x.</li>
<li>GUI, advanced search: fix crash which occurred when
restoring clause list bigger than the default size (6
clauses).</li>
<li>The documentation (user manual and man page) for
recoll.conf is now generated from the structured
comments in the sample file.</li>
</ul>
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