Release notes for Recoll 1.14.4
Recoll 1.14.4 fixes a number of small bugs
Installing over an older version: version 1.13/14 indexes are
mostly compatible with 1.11, but some new, relatively minor,
features (ie: duplicates collapsing) depend on a full index
rebuild. The 1.14 date search feature does not need an
index rebuild, the data was already in the index.
If installing over 1.10 or older, you need a full
rebuild. The best way to do this is to just delete the old
.recoll/xapiandb directory,
especially if the index was created by an older version.
(ie: rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb/). On very
old indexes, recollindex -z may sometimes end
with a backend doesn't implement metadata error,
which is wasteful because you then need to delete xapiandb and
run the indexing again.