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      <h1>Recoll journal of user-visible changes </h1>

      <h2><a name="1.14.0">(future)1.14.0</a></h2>
















      <ul>
  <li><a href="usermanual/rcl.search.lang.html">
      date selection in queries</a>.</li>
  <li>Pure negative queries (ie: <i>-someterm date:P10D/</i>.</li>
  <li>Autosuffs: option to automatically turn words into <tt>ext:</tt>
    clauses (ie: <i>xls</i> -> <i>ext:xls</i>) (GUI preferences
    panel).</li> 
  <li>Allow extracting arbitrary mail headers and use them as
    index/search fields (configured in the <tt>fields</tt>
    file).</li>
  <li><tt>nonumbers</tt> configuration parameter: disable
    indexing of all numbers, useful for some data files with lots
    of numerical data.</li>
  <li>Shortcuts for the results page: <tt>PageUp/Down</tt> can
    be used even when the focus is in the search
    entry. <tt>Shift+Home</tt>: back to first page of results.
    <tt>Ctrl+Shift+s</tt>: return focus to the search
    entry. </li>
  <li>Add full screen mode for small devices.</li>
  <li>Added -i option to recollq to specify extra indexes.</li>
  <li>Filter for <b>fictionbook</b> (.fb2) documents.</li>
  <li>Cleaned up the Python samples and made recollq.py a usable
    clone of recollq.</li>
  <li>Errors when opening additional indexes for a query are now
    fatal. They could easily go unnoticed before.</li>
  <li>Proper LARGEFILE support.</li>
  <li>Use <b>xsltproc</b> instead of misc dirty tricks to
    extract test from most current XML-based documents (except
    those in which the XML is too broken).</li>
  <li>Implement <tt>configure --enable-pic</tt> and use it for
    the KIO slave and Python and PHP modules.</li>







































































      </ul>

      <p>Bugs also fixed in the 1.13 branch:</p>


      <ul>
  <li>The <tt>filename</tt> (transcoded file name) field
      could not be stored, so it could not be displayed in the
      result list.</li> 
  <li>Html files would always be indexed even when filtered
      out by <tt>indexedmimetypes</tt></li>
  <li>Preview: toggling between main text and metadata
      display would confuse the text format.</li>
  <li>Restore <tt>indexallfilenames=0</tt> functionality.</li>
      </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.13.04">1.13.04</a></h2>
  <ul>
    <li>Provide a set of configuration defaults so that compilation has a
            chance to succeed on unknown systems.</li>
    <li>Install icon to the pixmaps directory.</li>
    <li>Fixes stemming, which was broken for all previous 1.13
      releases.</li>
    <li><a href="BUGS.html#b_1_13_02">Bugs fixed between 1.13.02
        and 1.13.04.</a></li>
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.13.02">1.13.02</a></h2>
  <ul><li>This version has a single fix to work around a problem in the
            Qt 4.6.1 uic utility. If you are not using Qt 4.6.1 and are
            currently running Recoll 1.13.01, you do not need to
            upgrade.</li></ul>

  <h2><a name="1.13.01">1.13.01</a></h2>

  <ul>
    <li>Recoll has a new class of persistent external filters
            with the capability to process several documents, or
            multi-document files, in the same instance. Benefits: much
            faster image tag indexing, and new file formats. Except for
            the Perl image tag filter (because of ExifTool), the new
            filters are written in Python.<li>

    <li>New file formats: chm (microsoft help), zip archives, .ics
      calendar files. Individual pages in chm files are indexed and
      can be previewed. Zip is quite convenient for maildir
      archives (for example).</li>

    <li>Recoll can now use the output of the Beagle Firefox plugin
      to index visited web pages and bookmarks. This is only usable
      if Beagle itself is not running, else Recoll and Beagle will be
      fighting for the same queue.</li>

    <li>Big text files (like application logs) can now be paged for
            indexing, avoiding excess memory usage during indexing and
            improving the usability at query time. They can also be
            altogether skipped by setting a maximum size configuration
            parameter. These parameters have default values (1 MB and 20
            MB) which change Recoll behaviour compared to previous
            versions. You can set <i>textfilepagekbs</i>
            and <i>textfilemaxmbs</i> to -1 in the configuration to
            restore the old behaviour.</li>

    <li>A cache was implemented for mbox message header offsets. This
      speeds up message previews for big mbox files.</li>

    <li>Miscellaneous usability improvements: 
      <ul>
        <li>Allow using page-up/down and shift-home to scroll the
      result list while the focus is in the search entry. </li>
        <li>Make 'Use desktop preferences' the default for new
      Recoll installations, and make this choice more
      prominent in the external viewer dialog.</li> 
        <li>^P starts the print dialog on a preview window.</li>
        <li>If a search has no result, alternate spellings are
      suggested. This feature is still a bit raw and will be
      improved.</li> 
        <li>If the text of a document is empty, preview will switch to
      displaying the document fields.</li>
        <li>New entry in the result list contextual menu for opening
      the parent document of a result list hit with its native
      application. Useful for exemple for pages inside chm files.</li>
      </ul>
    </li>

    <li>Indentation is now preserved when displaying text documents
      inside the preview window. This is particularly welcome for
      program source files.</li>

    <li>Allow substituting arbitrary fields in the result
            paragraph, using a %(fieldname) syntax</li>

    <li>The real-time indexing monitor will now accumulate
      modifications during 30&nbsp;S before indexing.</li>

    <li>The indexer can now split camelCase words, allowing search on
      component terms. This is not enabled by default as it can
      confuse phrase searches (ie: "MySQL&nbsp;manual" is matched by
      phrase queries for "my&nbsp;sql&nbsp;manual" and "MySQL&nbsp;manual"
      but not "mysql&nbsp;manual"). Use "configure&nbsp;--enable-camelcase"
      to activate it.
    </li>

    <li>The ipath is now printed by default after the url in the
      default result list format.</li>
    
    <li><i>recoll_noindex</i> and <i>skippedNames</i> can now be
      changed at any point in the tree (only for topdirs previously).</li>

    <li>Allow using location/application sensitivity in external viewer
            choice. This uses several new functions: 
            <ul>
              <li>Allow the substitution of arbitrary document fields inside
      external viewer command line arguments.</li>
              <li>Allow field values to be set on all documents
      in a file system subtree. For example, you can 
      set an application tag (ie: rclaptg = gnus) on all mailbox
      files under a specific directory.</li>
              <li>New syntax in mimeview for including the rclaptg field in
      viewer choice
      (<i>mimetype</i>|<i>tagvalue</i>&nbsp;=&nbsp;...).</li> 
            </ul>
    </li>

    <li>Allow specifiying a specific default character set for mail
      messages. This is mainly useful for readpst dumps. All
      reasonable non-ascii messages specify their character set.</li>

    <li>Added a --without-gui configure option. Removes all X11 and
      Qt dependancies and only compiles the command-line interface.</li>

    <li>Improved the kio_recoll build. There is no need to run
      configure manually in the main directory any more. Ubuntu
      packages for kio_recoll are now built on the
      <a href="http://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/ppa">
        recoll-backports PPA on launchpad.net</a>.</li>

  </ul>


  <h2><a name="1.12.4">1.12.4</a></h2>
  <p>Bugs fixed:</p>
  <ul>
    <li>Qt4 version only: the search inside the preview window
      could become unbearably slow for big documents (quadratically
      so), and could not be interrupted (Qt bug). The Qt3 version of
      the code was included in the preview tool to restore good
      performance. This bug is the main reason for this release.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>Build system improvements:</p>
  <ul>
      <li>Perform minimal base package configuration inside the kio
        cmake code to permit building it from scratch (without a build
        of the main code). Mainly useful for builds on the Ubuntu
        PPA.</li>
      <li>Implement a --without-gui option to build a pure
        command-line version with no Qt or X11 dependancies.</li>
      <li>Ensure that the user's PATH settings determine where we
        look first for qmake in all cases.</li>
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.12.3">1.12.3</a></h2>
  <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
  <ul>
    <li>Fix the sort tool which had been broken since 1.11  with
            some (or all?) qt3 versions.<li>
    <li>Catch two Xapian exceptions which could crash the GUI when a query
            was run while the index was being updated.</li>
    <li>Ensure that the result list right-click pop up menu will appear even
            when the click is inside a table.</li>
    <li>Fix the way we retrieve the Xapian library version to avoid
            GUI compilation problems.</li>
    <li>Inside the real-time indexer: only use the main thread to test that
            the X11 server is still alive. Multithreaded calls to x11IsAlive()
            would sometimes crash the process because of an X11 error.</li>
    <li>Define filter timeout so that a looping filter (ie: rclps trying to
            index loop.ps) will not completely stop the indexing. Default value:
            20mn. Add loop.ps to skippedNames.</li>
    <li>Improve filter subprocesses management. Some could previously be
            left around after recollindex was killed. Improve cancellation
            request acknowledgment by recollindex (two ^C were sometimes
            necessary to make it terminate).</li>
    <li>Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are now blocked in addition to
      INTR/TERM/QUIT.</li>
    <li>Extended attributes indexing now works for all file types.</li>
    <li>Ensure that queries started from the command line are handled as
            normal ones (they previously could not be sorted).</li>
    <li>Improve man page indexing: do not index section header terms.</li>
  </ul>


  <h2><a name="1.12.1">1.12.1</a></h2>
  <p>This is a very minor release, mainly to fix compilation
          issues and a few very minor bugs. No need to upgrade if
          you don't experience these.</p>
  <ul>
          <li>Fixed compilation errors for new gcc and gnu libc.</li>
          <li>Use groff html output in rclman to get rid of control
            characters in output (improve manual pages indexing). Fix
            8bit character issues in file names in rcllyx.</li>
          <li>Fixed command line arguments processing problem with 
            "recoll -q"</li>
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.12.0">1.12.0</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li>Recoll now implements a KIO slave to allow searching
            directly from KDE applications. This does not affect the
            main application and is not enabled by default (go to the
            kde/kio/recoll source directory for build
            instructions). </li>
          <li>Recoll now computes md5 checksums for all indexed
            documents and optionally collapses duplicate entries inside
            the result list. This needs a full reindex to become
            effective for older documents already in the index. The
            option to activate collapsing is in the <i>Query
              Configuration</i>.</li>
          <li>Typing F1 anywhere in the GUI should bring up the
            appropriate section of the manual in the application
            configured for viewing HTML documents.</li>
          <li>The result list right click menu now has an entry to
            save the document to a file. This is only enabled for
            documents contained inside another file (ie, messages inside
            an mbox folder, or attachments), and is especially useful for
            extracting an attachment with no associated external
            editor.</li>
          <li>The preview window now has a right-click menu, with an
            entry to toggle between viewing the main text or all the
            metadata for the document. This is most useful in the case
            where the search match actually occurred in a field not
            visible in the main text (ie: author or HTML title).</li>
          <li>Words glued by an underscore character like
            <i>compound_word</i> are now split during indexing, and
            will be found when queried either as themselves or in a
            search for the components.</li>
          <li>There is now a size limit over which no attempt will be made to
            uncompress/identify/index compressed files. Not active by
            default, to be set in the <i>Indexing Configuration</i>.</li>
          <li>Added support for fetching field values from extended file
            attributes. This is not enabled by default, use 
            <i>configure&nbsp;--enable-xattr</i>. You'll also need to
            set up a map from the attributes names to the Recoll field
            names (see comment at the end of the <i>fields</i>
            configuration file.</li> 
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.11.4">1.11.4</a></h2>
  <ul>

          <li>Bugs fixed:
            check the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_11_1">list</a>.</li>  

          <li>The right-click menu "Copy" commands inside the result list
            now copy to the clipboard in addition to the main selection,
            enabling subsequent ^v commands.</li>

  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.11.0">1.11.0</a></h2>

  <p><i>Recoll release 1.11 has relatively extensive changes that have
            necessitated a modification of the index format. Hence installing this
            release implies a full re-indexing, which is enforced by the
            software.</i></p> 

  <ul>
          <li>Filtering on category (message/text/media etc.) as a function of
            the main window for quick access.</li>

          <li>Use html for preview when available (ex: html files or "colorized"
            python) instead of converting to text. This can be turned of in the
            preferences. </li>

          <li>New Python query and index interfaces. The Python query
            interface will be used for building a Xesam adapter for
            Recoll when the specification is stabilized, and could be
            useful for other things, such as indexing contents from an
            RDBMS (see 
            <a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.PROGRAM.API">
              the manual</a> for details). Restructured and cleaned up
            internal Recoll interfaces.</li>

          <li>Improved filter framework. Can now process either html or text output
            from the filters, and more easily execute "raw" commands instead of
            Recoll scripts. Avoided wasteful repeated execution of filters for
            which the helper application is missing.</li>

          <li>Query language now closer to Xesam specification, (but
            still far from a 
            complete implementation). See the Recoll manual and
            <a href="http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage">
              http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage</a> </li>
          
          <li>Much improved configuration for fields. Fields like
            "author" can now be specified as storable (displayable in
            results) and/or indexed (searchable). Added alias facility
            for translating from user-level names to internal.</li>

          <li>Added "recipient" as an indexed/searchable field for emails.</li>

          <li>rcltext filter for processing text such as C code for which no specific
            processing is needed when indexing but a specific viewer is
            desired.</li>
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.10.6">1.10.6</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li>Fix a simple and mildly nasty bug that would cause the
            indexer to stop 
            indexing an mbox on encountering a specific but not exceptional error
            condition (like a few dozen errors while indexing attachments for which
            no filter was installed).</li>
  </ul>


  <h2><a name="1.10.5">1.10.5</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li>Ensure that file names indexed as terms don't overflow the maximum term
            size.</li>

          <li> Handle non-standard date format in mbox separator lines sometimes
            generated by thunderbird.

          <li> Use attachment file names to help identify a better mime type for
            parts only described as application/octet-stream

          <li> For Phrase/Near searches, highlight all term groups in preview, not just
            the first

          <li> Added Open XML filters

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.10.2">1.10.2</a></h2>
  <ul>

          <li>Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues.

          <li>Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64
            decoding errors.

          <li>Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when
            walking the search terms.

          <li> Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and
            preview (yes: feature change, should have waited for major release...)

          <li> Added svg filter

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.10.1">1.10.1</a></h2>
  <ul>

          <li> Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some
            error, at least the file name is indexed.

          <li> Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field
            specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor).

          <li> Fix filename search to split patterns on white space, so that 
            a "*.jpg *.jpeg" search does what's expected. Means you now need to use
            double-quotes if there is actual embedded white space.

          <li> Jump directly to the external editor choice dialog instead of opening
            preferences when an external viewer is not found.

          <li> Allow stopping indexing through menu action (only works with qt4 for now).

          <li> Create an "indexedmimetypes" configuration variable to allow explicitely
            restricting the file types which do get indexed.


  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.10.0">1.10.0</a></h2>
  <ul>

          <li> Added a GUI dialog to configure the indexing parameters.

          <li> Added better support for indexing CJK text (Chinese, Japanese, Korean). 
            Please note that:
            - You will need a full reindex to take good advantage of this. (You
            *don't* need to reindex if you don't need to search CJK, even if there
            is some in your index).
            - When entering CJK search terms, words (single or multiple characters)
            should be separated with white space.
            - The specific CJK processing can be turned off by setting the nocjk
            variable to true in the configuration file (this may make sense if you
            have a mixed cjk/other document base and don't want to index the cjk
            part, as it will save some disk space and a minuscule amount of cpu).

          <li> Changed the way Recoll handles searches including composite words (like
            an email address). The new approach looks saner, but could have
            side-effects, please report any problems in this area.

          <li> The query language got a new "dir:" specifier to filter results on location.

          <li> New rclimg perl filter for better indexing of picture tags, thanks to
            Cedric Scott. This depends on Exiftool.
          <li> New rcltex filter.

          <li> Changed and improved how the preview window local search finds the
            query terms, this does not involve weird characters any more. The
            display is cleaner and cut and paste works better.

          <li> Fixed the fact that a newline-separated word list in simple search would
            wrongly trigger a phrase search.

          <li> Fixed the way we input text to the preview textedit (the old way would
            sometimes confuse the window into displaying tags instead of acting on
            them).

          <li> Fixed transcoding to utf-8 for text/plain email attachments

          <li> Improved mbox From_ line detection

          <li> Added indexedmimetypes variables to allow restricting the list of indexed
            mime types.

          <li> KDE kicker applet: start a recoll search from the panel and get a
            Recoll window. This is a clone from the find_applet, originally meant to
            start a Tracker search. Not so useful presently because it will start a
            new Recoll instance for every search. Not part of the main source (the
            configure script is a whopping 1MB...), linked from the download page.
          <li> Added recoll command line options to define a query and execute it
            immediately when the program starts. This is used in practice from the
            applet and could be used from other programs. There is a also a new
            option to not start the GUI and print the results to stdout.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.9.0">1.9.0</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Incompatible change: the icon image reference is now part of the result
            list paragraph format string:
            - If you had a standard config, you need do nothing.
            - If you had a custom format string, you need to add
            <img src="%I" align="left"> at its beginning to get the same result as
            before.
            - If you had unchecked the "show icons" option, you need to remove the
            above string from the paragraph format to make the icons go away.
            Changes to the format string are performed in the 
            "Preferences->Query Configuration->User Interface" dialog tab.

          <li> New filters: wordperfect, abiword and kword, rcljpeg, rclflac, rclogg
            (contributed filters). The jpeg and audio filters should be extended to
            make use of the new field indexing/search capability (hint :) )

          <li> When searching for an empty string inside the preview window, position
            the window to the next occurrence of a primary search term.

          <li> Added ext: and mime: selectors to the query language.

          <li> Added an adjustable flush threshold during indexing: should help control
            memory usage. See the idxflushmb configuration variable.

          <li> Added a check for file system free space. Indexing will stop if the
            threshold is reached. See the maxfsoccuppc configuration parameter.

          <li> Added 'followLinks' configuration option to have the indexer follow
            symbolic links while walking the tree (the default is false).

          <li> Allow symbolic links as 'topdirs' members. These are always followed.

          <li> Add preference option to remember sort tool state between program
            invocations (it is reset to inactive by default)

          <li> Added File menu entry to erase document history.

          <li> Bound the space and backspace keys to PgUp/PgDown in preview.

          <li> (Hopefully) Improved abstract (keyword in context) generation

          <li> Added support for arbitrary fields. Filters can now produce any number of
            fields which will be selectively searchable through the query
            language. This could be useful, for exemple, for the mp3 and jpeg filters
            (but it is not currently used).

          <li> Improved qt4 build: no more need for --enable-qt4. Note: the qt4 build
            still needs the qt3 support library.

          <li> Changed the icon to an ugly one. The previous one was nicer but looked
            too much like Xapian's.

          <li> Added some kind of support for a stopword list.

          <li> Have email attachments inherit date and author from their parent message
            (instead of mail folder).

          <li> Fix bus error on rclmon exit

          <li> Better handling of aspell errors inside rclmon

          <li> Fixed a number of qt4 glitches: selection and keyboard shortcuts.

          <li> New query configuration parameter to set the maximum text size beyond
            which text won't be hilighted before preview (takes too much time). This
            was a fixed value in 1.8.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.8.2">1.8.2 2007-05-19</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fixed method name for compatibility with xapian 1.0.0
          <li> Add .beagle to default list of skipped names (avoids indexing beagle
            document cache...)
          <li> Fix configure.ac to use $libdir instead of /usr/lib
          <li> Fix recollinstall to properly copy translations and pictures for qt4

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.8.1">1.8.1 2007-02-20</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Add a small query language with some field-based searches (author, title,
            etc.)
          <li> Add wildcard handling everywhere. *, ?, [] can be used in any
            search. Warning: using a wild card at the left of a term can make
            for a very slow search.
          <li> Allow skipping specific paths during indexing (in addition to file name
            patterns)
          <li> Improved external index choice dialog, accessible from the top-level menu.
          <li> Many small bugs fixed: stemming language choice ignored in term explorer,
            qt4 preview window reentrancy crashes, issues with saving the default
            advanced search file, type filter, display more clearly missing helper
            errors, etc. 
          <li> Option to use the desktop defaults (with xdg-open) to choose the native
            viewer for files (instead of recoll's mimeview). 

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.7.6">1.7.6 2007-01-30</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fixes an issue with the openoffice filter on debian systems. 
          <li> Adds Scribus and Lyx filters.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.7.5">1.7.5 2007-01-15</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fixes two email indexing bugs in 1.7.3, which would bail out from an
            mbox folder on the first attachment filtering error, and would decline
            to handle multipart/signed bodies. You may need to run a full indexing
            pass (recollindex -z), to force reindexing of old folders.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.7.3">1.7.3 2007-01-09</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Email attachments are now indexed.
          <li> Right-click menu option to access the parent document of an embedded
            result (ie from mail attachment to parent message), or the parent folder
            of a given file (which is opened with the application configured for
            directories) 
          <li> The sort tool has been improved: no need to restart the query after sort
            criteria change. 
          <li> Support for real-time indexing with inotify is now enabled by default
            when appropriate.
          <li> Recoll now warns when the configured native viewer can not be found and
            starts an interface for chosing another one.
          <li> Categories (text, presentation, spreadsheets, etc.) can be used instead
            of raw mime types when filtering on file types in advanced search.
          <li> The port to qt4 is functional and can be enabled with configure --enable-qt4
          <li> 'autophrase' option improved and may now actually be useful.
          <li> Improved highlighting (again...)
          <li> Display term frequencies in term explorer.
          <li> Recollindex -e to remove data from index for listed files.
          <li> Directory names now indexed. Directories can be 'edited' with the
            configured application (rox by default)

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.6.3">1.6.3</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fixed problem with bad detection of mbox message boundaries.
            Upgrading can change the message numbering in some cases, and you should
            perform a full index update (recollindex -z) after installing
            the new version.
          <li> Fixed problem with execution of external viewer for files with
            single-quotes in the name.
  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.6.2">1.6.2</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Minor solaris compilation glitches only.
  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.6.1">1.6.1</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Term explorer: a multimode wildcard-regexp-spell/phonetic tool to search
            the index for terms. This uses aspell for the orthographic/phonetic part.
          <li> A more dynamic advanced search window. You now have a choice of the top
            level conjunction (OR/AND) and of any number of clauses, including NEAR
            and PHRASE clauses with an adjustable proximity parameter.
          <li> User-settable format for the result-list entries, which use an HTML
            string with %xx printf-like replacements (accessible from the user
            preferences).
          <li> Real time monitoring/indexing support. This is not configured by
            default, and must be specified at build time (configure --help).
          <li> Improved phrase/group highlighting in abstracts and preview
          <li> Better sample selection for synthetic abstracts.
          <li> Improved performance of the text splitter, good for indexing and previewing.
          <li> Shift+click link to open new preview window instead of tab in existing
            window.
          <li> The key sequence for term completion in the simple search entry was
            changed from CTRL+TAB to "Escape Space" to avoid interaction with window
            managers.
          <li> Improved recall for phrases with composite words like email addresses.


            Updating from 1.2 to 1.3 or 1.4 or 1.5: 
          <li>--------------------------------------
            From version 1.3 up, there is a new feature to search specifically for file
            names (with wildcard processing). If you want to take full advantage of
            this, you should perform a full reindex after installing the new version
            (ie: use recollindex -z, or delete ~/.recoll/xapiandb).
            Also, we now use the central copies of configuration files for default
            values, and the user ones only for overrides. Your old configuration files
            will still work, but, you may want to remove them if they are unmodified,
            or keep only the modified parameters.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.5.9 ">1.5.9 </a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fix bad timezone conversion in email dates. Display timezone in result
            list dates.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.5.8">1.5.8</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fix stored and displayed dates which used to come from the file's ctime,
            now use mtime (which was already used for deciding re-indexing).
          <li> Fix problem with some weird MIME messages (with null boundaries) which
            crashed the indexer.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.5.6">1.5.6</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Small fixes dealing with the build process or compiler issues. 
            1.5.6 has updated ukrainian and russian messages.
            Otherwise no functional changes, and no need to upgrade from 1.5.1

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.5.1">1.5.1</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fix serious bug with non ascii strings in simple search history
          <li> Improve synthetic abstracts: remove size limitations, handle overlapping
            extracts, avoid printing several terms from the same position.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.5.0">1.5.0 2006-09-20</a></h2>
  <ul>

          <li> Added support for powerpoint and excel files, with the catdoc package.
          <li> Allow viewing consecutive documents from the result list inside a single
            preview window using the shift-arrow-up and shift-arrow-down keys.
          <li> Colorize search terms in abstracts in the result list.
          <li> A number of elements are now remembered between program invocations:
            sort criteria, list of ignored file types (always starts inactive), 
            subtree restriction, better handling of the recent searches listbox, the
            buildAbstract and replaceAbstract settings are not forgotten any more.
          <li> New option to automatically add a phrase to simple searches.
          <li> Possibility to adjust the length and context width for synthetic abstracts.
          <li> Handle weird html better.
          <li> When indexing mail messages, walk the full mime tree instead of staying
            at the top level, index all text parts and attachement file names.
          <li> Add -c <confdir> option to recoll and recollindex to specify the
              configuration directory on the command line
              <li> Better synchronization between the active preview and the highlighted
      paragraph inside the list
              <li> Improved recall for some special cases of stemming.
              <li> Much better handling of email dates, allowing better email sorting by
      date (previously the message date was quite often the date when the file
      was indexed).
              <li> Store the external database lists in the configuration directory, not the
      qt preferences.
              <li> Ensure dialogs are sized according to font size


  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.4.3">1.4.3 2006-05-07</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Multiple search databases. 
          <li> Optionally auto-search when a word is entered in the simple search
            field.
          <li> Show possible term completions in simple search by typing CTRL+TAB
          <li> Add 'more like this' option to result list right-click menu, to look for
            documents related to the current result.
          <li> Double-click in preview or result list adds the selected word to the
            simple search text field.
          <li> The simple search text entry field is now a combobox and remembers
            previous searches.
          <li> Additional OR field in complex search.
          <li> Improved indexing cancellability (interrupting recollindex or closing 
            recoll with an indexing thread active), and status reporting.
          <li> Fixed filters to handle file paths with embedded spaces.
          <li> Misc small bug and memory leaks fixes.
          <li> More compact result list.
          <li> Set mode 0700 on .recoll directory by default

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.3.3">1.3.3 2006-04-04</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Implement specific search on file names with wildcard
            support. Indexing can optionally process all file names or only those
            with mime types supported for normal indexing. UPDATING: you need a
            full re-indexing to take advantage of this.
          <li> Use links and a right-click popup menu to replace confusing use of
            mouse clicks and double-clicks inside the result list.
          <li> The 'example' configuration files are now used as default, and are not
            copied any more to the user directory during installation. Overrides can
            be set in the personal files for any value that the user wishes to
            modify, with unchanged formats and file names (so that the files from
            previous versions remain valid, but you may wish to trim them of values
            that duplicate the central ones).
          <li> Use NLS information (LC_CTYPE, LANG) do determine default charset when
            possible.
          <li> Mp3 file indexing, either filenames only or also id3 tags if id3info is
            available. c/c++  ext edit. Use gnuclient instead of xemacs for text files.
          <li> Russian and Ukrainian translations and many improvement ideas thanks to
            Michael Shigorin.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.2.3">1.2.3 2006-03-03</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Added support for dvi (with dvips), and dvu (with DjVuLibre).
          <li> Ensure that configure and make use the same qt version.
          <li> Fix sorted sequence title display.
          <li> Discriminate fatal errors and missing docs while loading a doc list.
          <li> Improved and cleaned up way to position a preview on the first search term.

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.2.2">1.2.2 2006-02-02</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fix minor compilation glitches (FreeBSD 4, QT 3.1, xapian-config problem)

  </ul>
  <h2><a name="1.2.0">1.2.0 2006-02-01</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Improved preview loading: don't highlight very big documents (over 1Mb),
            allow cancellation while loading.
          <li> Abstracts generated in the result list by looking at search term
            contexts. This can slow down result list display for big documents, and
            can be turned off in the preferences menu.
          <li> Wrap query detail line displayed when clicking on result list header.
          <li> Text splitting cleanup with less spurious terms should result in
            slightly smaller databases.
          <li> Sligthly improved presentation in preview, esp. line breaks.
          <li> Color icons...
          <li> Let the user select the html browser used for help display.
          <li> autoconf/Makefile change: allow building UI from inside the qtgui
            directory. 
          <li> autoconf/Makefile: improved search and diagnostics for qt/qmake.
          <li> Internal code cleanup for maintainability: text splitting, user
            interface.
          <li> Added prototype kio_slave to show result inside Konqueror, doesn't seem
            particularly useful.</li>
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.1.0">1.1.0 2006-01-12</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> A much better user manual, which can be browsed from the help menu.
          <li> man pages for recoll, recollindex, recoll.conf
          <li> User/query interface configuration dialog.
          <li> Click on result list header will display the exact boolean search which
            was used.
          <li> recollindex can be used to create stem expansion databases independantly
            of a full indexing pass.
          <li> Misc user interface improvements, like an 'all terms' checkbox for
            simple search.
          <li> Fixed case-insensitivity issues. Probably needs more testing.

  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.16">1.0.16 2006-01-05</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Minor installation tweaks for rpm compatibility
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.15 ">1.0.15 </a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fix problems with prefix != /usr/local
          <li> Remove '.*' from the default list of ignored file/dir names: this
            prevented mozilla/thunderbird mail indexing. 
          <li> Fix some 64 bits issues
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.14">1.0.14</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Small changes for FreeBSD 4 compilation.
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.13">1.0.13</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Install of recollinstall program not done or needed any more.
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.12">1.0.12</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fixed nasty html parsing bug introduced in 1.0.9 Html parsing failed
            whenever the document charset name differed from the default only in 
            character case or punctuation.
  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.11">1.0.11</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Create personal configuration on first start.
          <li> Use qt toolbars.
          <li> Also index terms in file paths.
          <li> Tool for sorting on dates or mime types.
          <li> Fixed pdf filter which was broken by more recent xpdf
          <li> Filters now installed/executed from /usr/local

  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.10">1.0.10</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Added tool to manage the history of consulted documents.
          <li> Try harder to convert email messages with wrongly declared charsets.
          <li> Add option to reset the database before indexing (easier than rm -rf).
          <li> Small gui improvements.
          <li> Install partial french translation as a tease for future translaters...

  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.9">1.0.9</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Fixed 2 really ennoying bugs in 1.0.8: wouldn't preview 2nd document
            from same file + spurious db close when filter could not be executed.

  </ul>

  <h2><a name="1.0.8">1.0.8</a></h2>
  <ul>
          <li> Add support for rtf and gaim logs
          <li> Optionally show icons to indicate mime types in result list
          <li> Better (but imperfect) feedback during the preview
            loading for big files 
          <li> Remember main window geometry when closing
          <li> Fix stem expansion in advanced search
          <li> Some autoconf
          <li> Option to use the system's 'file' command as a final step of
            identification for suffix-less or unknown files.
          <li> Typo had removed support for .Z compression
          <li>Use more appropriate conjonction operators when
            computing the advanced search query (OP_AND_MAYBE,
            OP_FILTER instead of OP_AND) 
  </ul>

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34	<h2><a name="1.13.04">1.13.04</a></h2>	34	<h2><a name="1.14.0">(future)1.14.0</a></h2>
35	<p>Provide a set of configuration defaults so that compilation has a
36	chance to succeed on unknown systems.</p>
37	<p>Install icon to the pixmaps directory.</p>
38	<p>Fixes stemming, which was broken for all previous 1.13
39	releases.</p>
40	<p><a href="BUGS.html#b_1_13_02">Bugs fixed between 1.13.02
41	and 1.13.04.</a></p>
42
43	<h2><a name="1.13.02">1.13.02</a></h2>
44	<p>This version has a single fix to work around a problem in the
45	Qt 4.6.1 uic utility. If you are not using Qt 4.6.1 and are
46	currently running Recoll 1.13.01, you do not need to
47	upgrade.</p>
48
49	<h2><a name="1.13.01">1.13.01</a></h2>
50
51	<ul>	35	<ul>
52	<li>Recoll has a new class of persistent external filters	36	<li><a href="usermanual/rcl.search.lang.html">
53	with the capability to process several documents, or	37	date selection in queries</a>.</li>
54	multi-document files, in the same instance. Benefits: much	38	<li>Pure negative queries (ie: <i>-someterm date:P10D/</i>.</li>
55	faster image tag indexing, and new file formats. Except for	39	<li>Autosuffs: option to automatically turn words into <tt>ext:</tt>
56	the Perl image tag filter (because of ExifTool), the new	40	clauses (ie: <i>xls</i> -> <i>ext:xls</i>) (GUI preferences
57	filters are written in Python.<li>	41	panel).</li>
58		42	<li>Allow extracting arbitrary mail headers and use them as
59	<li>New file formats: chm (microsoft help), zip archives, .ics	43	index/search fields (configured in the <tt>fields</tt>
60	calendar files. Individual pages in chm files are indexed and	44	file).</li>
61	can be previewed. Zip is quite convenient for maildir	45	<li><tt>nonumbers</tt> configuration parameter: disable
62	archives (for example).</li>	46	indexing of all numbers, useful for some data files with lots
63		47	of numerical data.</li>
64	<li>Recoll can now use the output of the Beagle Firefox plugin	48	<li>Shortcuts for the results page: <tt>PageUp/Down</tt> can
65	to index visited web pages and bookmarks. This is only usable	49	be used even when the focus is in the search
66	if Beagle itself is not running, else Recoll and Beagle will be	50	entry. <tt>Shift+Home</tt>: back to first page of results.
67	fighting for the same queue.</li>	51	<tt>Ctrl+Shift+s</tt>: return focus to the search
68		52	entry. </li>
69	<li>Big text files (like application logs) can now be paged for	53	<li>Add full screen mode for small devices.</li>
70	indexing, avoiding excess memory usage during indexing and	54	<li>Added -i option to recollq to specify extra indexes.</li>
71	improving the usability at query time. They can also be	55	<li>Filter for <b>fictionbook</b> (.fb2) documents.</li>
72	altogether skipped by setting a maximum size configuration	56	<li>Cleaned up the Python samples and made recollq.py a usable
73	parameter. These parameters have default values (1 MB and 20	57	clone of recollq.</li>
74	MB) which change Recoll behaviour compared to previous	58	<li>Errors when opening additional indexes for a query are now
75	versions. You can set <i>textfilepagekbs</i>	59	fatal. They could easily go unnoticed before.</li>
76	and <i>textfilemaxmbs</i> to -1 in the configuration to	60	<li>Proper LARGEFILE support.</li>
77	restore the old behaviour.</li>	61	<li>Use <b>xsltproc</b> instead of misc dirty tricks to
78		62	extract test from most current XML-based documents (except
79	<li>A cache was implemented for mbox message header offsets. This	63	those in which the XML is too broken).</li>
80	speeds up message previews for big mbox files.</li>	64	<li>Implement <tt>configure --enable-pic</tt> and use it for
81		65	the KIO slave and Python and PHP modules.</li>
82	<li>Miscellaneous usability improvements:
83	<ul>
84	<li>Allow using page-up/down and shift-home to scroll the
85	result list while the focus is in the search entry. </li>
86	<li>Make 'Use desktop preferences' the default for new
87	Recoll installations, and make this choice more
88	prominent in the external viewer dialog.</li>
89	<li>^P starts the print dialog on a preview window.</li>
90	<li>If a search has no result, alternate spellings are
91	suggested. This feature is still a bit raw and will be
92	improved.</li>
93	<li>If the text of a document is empty, preview will switch to
94	displaying the document fields.</li>
95	<li>New entry in the result list contextual menu for opening
96	the parent document of a result list hit with its native
97	application. Useful for exemple for pages inside chm files.</li>
98	</ul>
99	</li>
100
101	<li>Indentation is now preserved when displaying text documents
102	inside the preview window. This is particularly welcome for
103	program source files.</li>
104
105	<li>Allow substituting arbitrary fields in the result
106	paragraph, using a %(fieldname) syntax</li>
107
108	<li>The real-time indexing monitor will now accumulate
109	modifications during 30 S before indexing.</li>
110
111	<li>The indexer can now split camelCase words, allowing search on
112	component terms. This is not enabled by default as it can
113	confuse phrase searches (ie: "MySQL manual" is matched by
114	phrase queries for "my sql manual" and "MySQL manual"
115	but not "mysql manual"). Use "configure --enable-camelcase"
116	to activate it.
117	</li>
118
119	<li>The ipath is now printed by default after the url in the
120	default result list format.</li>
121
122	<li><i>recoll_noindex</i> and <i>skippedNames</i> can now be
123	changed at any point in the tree (only for topdirs previously).</li>
124
125	<li>Allow using location/application sensitivity in external viewer
126	choice. This uses several new functions:
127	<ul>
128	<li>Allow the substitution of arbitrary document fields inside
129	external viewer command line arguments.</li>
130	<li>Allow field values to be set on all documents
131	in a file system subtree. For example, you can
132	set an application tag (ie: rclaptg = gnus) on all mailbox
133	files under a specific directory.</li>
134	<li>New syntax in mimeview for including the rclaptg field in
135	viewer choice
136	(<i>mimetype</i>\|<i>tagvalue</i> = ...).</li>
137	</ul>
138	</li>
139
140	<li>Allow specifiying a specific default character set for mail
141	messages. This is mainly useful for readpst dumps. All
142	reasonable non-ascii messages specify their character set.</li>
143
144	<li>Added a --without-gui configure option. Removes all X11 and
145	Qt dependancies and only compiles the command-line interface.</li>
146
147	<li>Improved the kio_recoll build. There is no need to run
148	configure manually in the main directory any more. Ubuntu
149	packages for kio_recoll are now built on the
150	<a href="http://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/ppa">
151	recoll-backports PPA on launchpad.net</a>.</li>
152
153	</ul>	66	</ul>
154		67
155		68	<p>Bugs also fixed in the 1.13 branch:</p>
156	<h2><a name="1.12.4">1.12.4</a></h2>
157	<p>Bugs fixed:</p>
158	<ul>	69	<ul>
159	<li>Qt4 version only: the search inside the preview window	70	<li>The <tt>filename</tt> (transcoded file name) field
160	could become unbearably slow for big documents (quadratically	71	could not be stored, so it could not be displayed in the
161	so), and could not be interrupted (Qt bug). The Qt3 version of	72	result list.</li>
162	the code was included in the preview tool to restore good	73	<li>Html files would always be indexed even when filtered
163	performance. This bug is the main reason for this release.</li>	74	out by <tt>indexedmimetypes</tt></li>
		75	<li>Preview: toggling between main text and metadata
		76	display would confuse the text format.</li>
		77	<li>Restore <tt>indexallfilenames=0</tt> functionality.</li>
164	</ul>	78	</ul>
		79
		80	<h2><a name="1.13.04">1.13.04</a></h2>
		81	<ul>
		82	<li>Provide a set of configuration defaults so that compilation has a
		83	chance to succeed on unknown systems.</li>
		84	<li>Install icon to the pixmaps directory.</li>
		85	<li>Fixes stemming, which was broken for all previous 1.13
		86	releases.</li>
		87	<li><a href="BUGS.html#b_1_13_02">Bugs fixed between 1.13.02
		88	and 1.13.04.</a></li>
		89	</ul>
		90
		91	<h2><a name="1.13.02">1.13.02</a></h2>
		92	<ul><li>This version has a single fix to work around a problem in the
		93	Qt 4.6.1 uic utility. If you are not using Qt 4.6.1 and are
		94	currently running Recoll 1.13.01, you do not need to
		95	upgrade.</li></ul>
		96
		97	<h2><a name="1.13.01">1.13.01</a></h2>
		98
		99	<ul>
		100	<li>Recoll has a new class of persistent external filters
		101	with the capability to process several documents, or
		102	multi-document files, in the same instance. Benefits: much
		103	faster image tag indexing, and new file formats. Except for
		104	the Perl image tag filter (because of ExifTool), the new
		105	filters are written in Python.<li>
		106
		107	<li>New file formats: chm (microsoft help), zip archives, .ics
		108	calendar files. Individual pages in chm files are indexed and
		109	can be previewed. Zip is quite convenient for maildir
		110	archives (for example).</li>
		111
		112	<li>Recoll can now use the output of the Beagle Firefox plugin
		113	to index visited web pages and bookmarks. This is only usable
		114	if Beagle itself is not running, else Recoll and Beagle will be
		115	fighting for the same queue.</li>
		116
		117	<li>Big text files (like application logs) can now be paged for
		118	indexing, avoiding excess memory usage during indexing and
		119	improving the usability at query time. They can also be
		120	altogether skipped by setting a maximum size configuration
		121	parameter. These parameters have default values (1 MB and 20
		122	MB) which change Recoll behaviour compared to previous
		123	versions. You can set <i>textfilepagekbs</i>
		124	and <i>textfilemaxmbs</i> to -1 in the configuration to
		125	restore the old behaviour.</li>
		126
		127	<li>A cache was implemented for mbox message header offsets. This
		128	speeds up message previews for big mbox files.</li>
		129
		130	<li>Miscellaneous usability improvements:
		131	<ul>
		132	<li>Allow using page-up/down and shift-home to scroll the
		133	result list while the focus is in the search entry. </li>
		134	<li>Make 'Use desktop preferences' the default for new
		135	Recoll installations, and make this choice more
		136	prominent in the external viewer dialog.</li>
		137	<li>^P starts the print dialog on a preview window.</li>
		138	<li>If a search has no result, alternate spellings are
		139	suggested. This feature is still a bit raw and will be
		140	improved.</li>
		141	<li>If the text of a document is empty, preview will switch to
		142	displaying the document fields.</li>
		143	<li>New entry in the result list contextual menu for opening
		144	the parent document of a result list hit with its native
		145	application. Useful for exemple for pages inside chm files.</li>
		146	</ul>
		147	</li>
		148
		149	<li>Indentation is now preserved when displaying text documents
		150	inside the preview window. This is particularly welcome for
		151	program source files.</li>
		152
		153	<li>Allow substituting arbitrary fields in the result
		154	paragraph, using a %(fieldname) syntax</li>
		155
		156	<li>The real-time indexing monitor will now accumulate
		157	modifications during 30 S before indexing.</li>
		158
		159	<li>The indexer can now split camelCase words, allowing search on
		160	component terms. This is not enabled by default as it can
		161	confuse phrase searches (ie: "MySQL manual" is matched by
		162	phrase queries for "my sql manual" and "MySQL manual"
		163	but not "mysql manual"). Use "configure --enable-camelcase"
		164	to activate it.
		165	</li>
		166
		167	<li>The ipath is now printed by default after the url in the
		168	default result list format.</li>
		169
		170	<li><i>recoll_noindex</i> and <i>skippedNames</i> can now be
		171	changed at any point in the tree (only for topdirs previously).</li>
		172
		173	<li>Allow using location/application sensitivity in external viewer
		174	choice. This uses several new functions:
		175	<ul>
		176	<li>Allow the substitution of arbitrary document fields inside
		177	external viewer command line arguments.</li>
		178	<li>Allow field values to be set on all documents
		179	in a file system subtree. For example, you can
		180	set an application tag (ie: rclaptg = gnus) on all mailbox
		181	files under a specific directory.</li>
		182	<li>New syntax in mimeview for including the rclaptg field in
		183	viewer choice
		184	(<i>mimetype</i>\|<i>tagvalue</i> = ...).</li>
		185	</ul>
		186	</li>
		187
		188	<li>Allow specifiying a specific default character set for mail
		189	messages. This is mainly useful for readpst dumps. All
		190	reasonable non-ascii messages specify their character set.</li>
		191
		192	<li>Added a --without-gui configure option. Removes all X11 and
		193	Qt dependancies and only compiles the command-line interface.</li>
		194
		195	<li>Improved the kio_recoll build. There is no need to run
		196	configure manually in the main directory any more. Ubuntu
		197	packages for kio_recoll are now built on the
		198	<a href="http://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/ppa">
		199	recoll-backports PPA on launchpad.net</a>.</li>
		200
		201	</ul>
		202
		203
		204	<h2><a name="1.12.4">1.12.4</a></h2>
		205	<p>Bugs fixed:</p>
		206	<ul>
		207	<li>Qt4 version only: the search inside the preview window
		208	could become unbearably slow for big documents (quadratically
		209	so), and could not be interrupted (Qt bug). The Qt3 version of
		210	the code was included in the preview tool to restore good
		211	performance. This bug is the main reason for this release.</li>
		212	</ul>
165	<p>Build system improvements:</p>	213	<p>Build system improvements:</p>
166	<ul>	214	<ul>
167	<li>Perform minimal base package configuration inside the kio	215	<li>Perform minimal base package configuration inside the kio
168	cmake code to permit building it from scratch (without a build	216	cmake code to permit building it from scratch (without a build
169	of the main code). Mainly useful for builds on the Ubuntu	217	of the main code). Mainly useful for builds on the Ubuntu
170	PPA.</li>	218	PPA.</li>
171	<li>Implement a --without-gui option to build a pure	219	<li>Implement a --without-gui option to build a pure
172	command-line version with no Qt or X11 dependancies.</li>	220	command-line version with no Qt or X11 dependancies.</li>
173	<li>Ensure that the user's PATH settings determine where we	221	<li>Ensure that the user's PATH settings determine where we
174	look first for qmake in all cases.</li>	222	look first for qmake in all cases.</li>
175	</ul>	223	</ul>
176		224
177	<h2><a name="1.12.3">1.12.3</a></h2>	225	<h2><a name="1.12.3">1.12.3</a></h2>
178	<p>This is a bug fix release.</p>	226	<p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
179	<ul>	227	<ul>
180	<li>Fix the sort tool which had been broken since 1.11 with	228	<li>Fix the sort tool which had been broken since 1.11 with
181	some (or all?) qt3 versions.<li>	229	some (or all?) qt3 versions.<li>
182	<li>Catch two Xapian exceptions which could crash the GUI when a query	230	<li>Catch two Xapian exceptions which could crash the GUI when a query
183	was run while the index was being updated.</li>	231	was run while the index was being updated.</li>
184	<li>Ensure that the result list right-click pop up menu will appear even	232	<li>Ensure that the result list right-click pop up menu will appear even
185	when the click is inside a table.</li>	233	when the click is inside a table.</li>
186	<li>Fix the way we retrieve the Xapian library version to avoid	234	<li>Fix the way we retrieve the Xapian library version to avoid
187	GUI compilation problems.</li>	235	GUI compilation problems.</li>
188	<li>Inside the real-time indexer: only use the main thread to test that	236	<li>Inside the real-time indexer: only use the main thread to test that
189	the X11 server is still alive. Multithreaded calls to x11IsAlive()	237	the X11 server is still alive. Multithreaded calls to x11IsAlive()
190	would sometimes crash the process because of an X11 error.</li>	238	would sometimes crash the process because of an X11 error.</li>
191	<li>Define filter timeout so that a looping filter (ie: rclps trying to	239	<li>Define filter timeout so that a looping filter (ie: rclps trying to
192	index loop.ps) will not completely stop the indexing. Default value:	240	index loop.ps) will not completely stop the indexing. Default value:
193	20mn. Add loop.ps to skippedNames.</li>	241	20mn. Add loop.ps to skippedNames.</li>
194	<li>Improve filter subprocesses management. Some could previously be	242	<li>Improve filter subprocesses management. Some could previously be
195	left around after recollindex was killed. Improve cancellation	243	left around after recollindex was killed. Improve cancellation
196	request acknowledgment by recollindex (two ^C were sometimes	244	request acknowledgment by recollindex (two ^C were sometimes
197	necessary to make it terminate).</li>	245	necessary to make it terminate).</li>
198	<li>Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are now blocked in addition to	246	<li>Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are now blocked in addition to
199	INTR/TERM/QUIT.</li>	247	INTR/TERM/QUIT.</li>
200	<li>Extended attributes indexing now works for all file types.</li>	248	<li>Extended attributes indexing now works for all file types.</li>
201	<li>Ensure that queries started from the command line are handled as	249	<li>Ensure that queries started from the command line are handled as
202	normal ones (they previously could not be sorted).</li>	250	normal ones (they previously could not be sorted).</li>
203	<li>Improve man page indexing: do not index section header terms.</li>	251	<li>Improve man page indexing: do not index section header terms.</li>
204	</ul>	252	</ul>
205		253
206		254
207	<h2><a name="1.12.1">1.12.1</a></h2>	255	<h2><a name="1.12.1">1.12.1</a></h2>
208	<p>This is a very minor release, mainly to fix compilation	256	<p>This is a very minor release, mainly to fix compilation
209	issues and a few very minor bugs. No need to upgrade if	257	issues and a few very minor bugs. No need to upgrade if
210	you don't experience these.</p>	258	you don't experience these.</p>
211	<ul>	259	<ul>
212	<li>Fixed compilation errors for new gcc and gnu libc.</li>	260	<li>Fixed compilation errors for new gcc and gnu libc.</li>
213	<li>Use groff html output in rclman to get rid of control	261	<li>Use groff html output in rclman to get rid of control
214	characters in output (improve manual pages indexing). Fix	262	characters in output (improve manual pages indexing). Fix
215	8bit character issues in file names in rcllyx.</li>	263	8bit character issues in file names in rcllyx.</li>
216	<li>Fixed command line arguments processing problem with	264	<li>Fixed command line arguments processing problem with
217	"recoll -q"</li>	265	"recoll -q"</li>
218	</ul>	266	</ul>
219		267
220	<h2><a name="1.12.0">1.12.0</a></h2>	268	<h2><a name="1.12.0">1.12.0</a></h2>
221	<ul>	269	<ul>
222	<li>Recoll now implements a KIO slave to allow searching	270	<li>Recoll now implements a KIO slave to allow searching
223	directly from KDE applications. This does not affect the	271	directly from KDE applications. This does not affect the
224	main application and is not enabled by default (go to the	272	main application and is not enabled by default (go to the
225	kde/kio/recoll source directory for build	273	kde/kio/recoll source directory for build
226	instructions). </li>	274	instructions). </li>
227	<li>Recoll now computes md5 checksums for all indexed	275	<li>Recoll now computes md5 checksums for all indexed
228	documents and optionally collapses duplicate entries inside	276	documents and optionally collapses duplicate entries inside
229	the result list. This needs a full reindex to become	277	the result list. This needs a full reindex to become
230	effective for older documents already in the index. The	278	effective for older documents already in the index. The
231	option to activate collapsing is in the <i>Query	279	option to activate collapsing is in the <i>Query
232	Configuration</i>.</li>	280	Configuration</i>.</li>
233	<li>Typing F1 anywhere in the GUI should bring up the	281	<li>Typing F1 anywhere in the GUI should bring up the
234	appropriate section of the manual in the application	282	appropriate section of the manual in the application
235	configured for viewing HTML documents.</li>	283	configured for viewing HTML documents.</li>
236	<li>The result list right click menu now has an entry to	284	<li>The result list right click menu now has an entry to
237	save the document to a file. This is only enabled for	285	save the document to a file. This is only enabled for
238	documents contained inside another file (ie, messages inside	286	documents contained inside another file (ie, messages inside
239	an mbox folder, or attachments), and is especially useful for	287	an mbox folder, or attachments), and is especially useful for
240	extracting an attachment with no associated external	288	extracting an attachment with no associated external
241	editor.</li>	289	editor.</li>
242	<li>The preview window now has a right-click menu, with an	290	<li>The preview window now has a right-click menu, with an
243	entry to toggle between viewing the main text or all the	291	entry to toggle between viewing the main text or all the
244	metadata for the document. This is most useful in the case	292	metadata for the document. This is most useful in the case
245	where the search match actually occurred in a field not	293	where the search match actually occurred in a field not
246	visible in the main text (ie: author or HTML title).</li>	294	visible in the main text (ie: author or HTML title).</li>
247	<li>Words glued by an underscore character like	295	<li>Words glued by an underscore character like
248	<i>compound_word</i> are now split during indexing, and	296	<i>compound_word</i> are now split during indexing, and
249	will be found when queried either as themselves or in a	297	will be found when queried either as themselves or in a
250	search for the components.</li>	298	search for the components.</li>
251	<li>There is now a size limit over which no attempt will be made to	299	<li>There is now a size limit over which no attempt will be made to
252	uncompress/identify/index compressed files. Not active by	300	uncompress/identify/index compressed files. Not active by
253	default, to be set in the <i>Indexing Configuration</i>.</li>	301	default, to be set in the <i>Indexing Configuration</i>.</li>
254	<li>Added support for fetching field values from extended file	302	<li>Added support for fetching field values from extended file
255	attributes. This is not enabled by default, use	303	attributes. This is not enabled by default, use
256	<i>configure --enable-xattr</i>. You'll also need to	304	<i>configure --enable-xattr</i>. You'll also need to
257	set up a map from the attributes names to the Recoll field	305	set up a map from the attributes names to the Recoll field
258	names (see comment at the end of the <i>fields</i>	306	names (see comment at the end of the <i>fields</i>
259	configuration file.</li>	307	configuration file.</li>
260	</ul>	308	</ul>
261		309
262	<h2><a name="1.11.4">1.11.4</a></h2>	310	<h2><a name="1.11.4">1.11.4</a></h2>
263	<ul>	311	<ul>
264		312
265	<li>Bugs fixed:	313	<li>Bugs fixed:
266	check the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_11_1">list</a>.</li>	314	check the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_11_1">list</a>.</li>
267		315
268	<li>The right-click menu "Copy" commands inside the result list	316	<li>The right-click menu "Copy" commands inside the result list
269	now copy to the clipboard in addition to the main selection,	317	now copy to the clipboard in addition to the main selection,
270	enabling subsequent ^v commands.</li>	318	enabling subsequent ^v commands.</li>
271		319
272	</ul>	320	</ul>
273		321
274	<h2><a name="1.11.0">1.11.0</a></h2>	322	<h2><a name="1.11.0">1.11.0</a></h2>
275		323
276	<p><i>Recoll release 1.11 has relatively extensive changes that have	324	<p><i>Recoll release 1.11 has relatively extensive changes that have
277	necessitated a modification of the index format. Hence installing this	325	necessitated a modification of the index format. Hence installing this
278	release implies a full re-indexing, which is enforced by the	326	release implies a full re-indexing, which is enforced by the
279	software.</i></p>	327	software.</i></p>
280		328
281	<ul>	329	<ul>
282	<li>Filtering on category (message/text/media etc.) as a function of	330	<li>Filtering on category (message/text/media etc.) as a function of
283	the main window for quick access.</li>	331	the main window for quick access.</li>
284		332
285	<li>Use html for preview when available (ex: html files or "colorized"	333	<li>Use html for preview when available (ex: html files or "colorized"
286	python) instead of converting to text. This can be turned of in the	334	python) instead of converting to text. This can be turned of in the
287	preferences. </li>	335	preferences. </li>
288		336
289	<li>New Python query and index interfaces. The Python query	337	<li>New Python query and index interfaces. The Python query
290	interface will be used for building a Xesam adapter for	338	interface will be used for building a Xesam adapter for
291	Recoll when the specification is stabilized, and could be	339	Recoll when the specification is stabilized, and could be
292	useful for other things, such as indexing contents from an	340	useful for other things, such as indexing contents from an
293	RDBMS (see	341	RDBMS (see
294	<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.PROGRAM.API">	342	<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.PROGRAM.API">
295	the manual</a> for details). Restructured and cleaned up	343	the manual</a> for details). Restructured and cleaned up
296	internal Recoll interfaces.</li>	344	internal Recoll interfaces.</li>
297		345
298	<li>Improved filter framework. Can now process either html or text output	346	<li>Improved filter framework. Can now process either html or text output
299	from the filters, and more easily execute "raw" commands instead of	347	from the filters, and more easily execute "raw" commands instead of
300	Recoll scripts. Avoided wasteful repeated execution of filters for	348	Recoll scripts. Avoided wasteful repeated execution of filters for
301	which the helper application is missing.</li>	349	which the helper application is missing.</li>
302		350
303	<li>Query language now closer to Xesam specification, (but	351	<li>Query language now closer to Xesam specification, (but
304	still far from a	352	still far from a
305	complete implementation). See the Recoll manual and	353	complete implementation). See the Recoll manual and
306	<a href="http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage">	354	<a href="http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage">
307	http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage</a> </li>	355	http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage</a> </li>
308		356
309	<li>Much improved configuration for fields. Fields like	357	<li>Much improved configuration for fields. Fields like
310	"author" can now be specified as storable (displayable in	358	"author" can now be specified as storable (displayable in
311	results) and/or indexed (searchable). Added alias facility	359	results) and/or indexed (searchable). Added alias facility
312	for translating from user-level names to internal.</li>	360	for translating from user-level names to internal.</li>
313		361
314	<li>Added "recipient" as an indexed/searchable field for emails.</li>	362	<li>Added "recipient" as an indexed/searchable field for emails.</li>
315		363
316	<li>rcltext filter for processing text such as C code for which no specific	364	<li>rcltext filter for processing text such as C code for which no specific
317	processing is needed when indexing but a specific viewer is	365	processing is needed when indexing but a specific viewer is
318	desired.</li>	366	desired.</li>
319	</ul>	367	</ul>
320		368
321	<h2><a name="1.10.6">1.10.6</a></h2>	369	<h2><a name="1.10.6">1.10.6</a></h2>
322	<ul>	370	<ul>
323	<li>Fix a simple and mildly nasty bug that would cause the	371	<li>Fix a simple and mildly nasty bug that would cause the
324	indexer to stop	372	indexer to stop
325	indexing an mbox on encountering a specific but not exceptional error	373	indexing an mbox on encountering a specific but not exceptional error
326	condition (like a few dozen errors while indexing attachments for which	374	condition (like a few dozen errors while indexing attachments for which
327	no filter was installed).</li>	375	no filter was installed).</li>
328	</ul>	376	</ul>
329		377
330		378
331	<h2><a name="1.10.5">1.10.5</a></h2>	379	<h2><a name="1.10.5">1.10.5</a></h2>
332	<ul>	380	<ul>
333	<li>Ensure that file names indexed as terms don't overflow the maximum term	381	<li>Ensure that file names indexed as terms don't overflow the maximum term
334	size.</li>	382	size.</li>
335		383
336	<li> Handle non-standard date format in mbox separator lines sometimes	384	<li> Handle non-standard date format in mbox separator lines sometimes
337	generated by thunderbird.	385	generated by thunderbird.
338		386
339	<li> Use attachment file names to help identify a better mime type for	387	<li> Use attachment file names to help identify a better mime type for
340	parts only described as application/octet-stream	388	parts only described as application/octet-stream
341		389
342	<li> For Phrase/Near searches, highlight all term groups in preview, not just	390	<li> For Phrase/Near searches, highlight all term groups in preview, not just
343	the first	391	the first
344		392
345	<li> Added Open XML filters	393	<li> Added Open XML filters
346		394
347	</ul>	395	</ul>
348	<h2><a name="1.10.2">1.10.2</a></h2>	396	<h2><a name="1.10.2">1.10.2</a></h2>
349	<ul>	397	<ul>
350		398
351	<li>Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues.	399	<li>Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues.
352		400
353	<li>Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64	401	<li>Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64
354	decoding errors.	402	decoding errors.
355		403
356	<li>Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when	404	<li>Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when
357	walking the search terms.	405	walking the search terms.
358		406
359	<li> Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and	407	<li> Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and
360	preview (yes: feature change, should have waited for major release...)	408	preview (yes: feature change, should have waited for major release...)
361		409
362	<li> Added svg filter	410	<li> Added svg filter
363		411
364	</ul>	412	</ul>
365	<h2><a name="1.10.1">1.10.1</a></h2>	413	<h2><a name="1.10.1">1.10.1</a></h2>
366	<ul>	414	<ul>
367		415
368	<li> Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some	416	<li> Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some
369	error, at least the file name is indexed.	417	error, at least the file name is indexed.
370		418
371	<li> Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field	419	<li> Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field
372	specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor).	420	specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor).
373		421