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    <title>Recoll 1.21 series release notes</title>

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          content="recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux     based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">

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      <h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.21.x</h1>



      <h2>Caveats</h2>



      <p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.19 </p>



      <p>1.20 and 1.21 indexes are fully compatible. Installing 1.21

        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, 1.21 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 (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>Minor releases</h2>

      <ul>

        <li>1.21.5:

          <ul><li>Fixes a nasty bug affecting all previous 1.21 versions:

              the query language parser processed incorrectly multiple

              mime type or category specifications, with missing results

              as a consequence.</li></ul>



        <li>1.21.4:

          <ul>

            <li>Show confirmation dialog when opening a temporary file

              (to warn the user about possible lost edits). The dialog

              has a 'disable' checkbox.</li>

            <li>Fixed bug which would crash the GUI when clicking an

              Open link after modifying the indexing configuration

              through the GUI tool.</li>

            <li>Fix not showing results with paths over 1000

              characters.</li>

            <li>Fix Show subdocs: too many docs were shown in some

              cases, and the Preview button in the dialog was inactive.</li>

          </ul>

        <li>1.21.3: 

        <ul>

          <li>Web cache: fixed the GUI config to not cap the size at

            1 GB. added append function to test driver/maintenance

            utility.

          </li>

        </ul>

        <li>1.21.2: 

        <ul>

          <li>Added GUI dialog to perform partial indexing.</li>

          <li>Avanced search in "Any Clause" mode: directory filter

            would not filter but add an ORed clause.</li>

          <li>Fix bogus syntax errors about parentheses around

            phrases.</li> 

          <li>Fixed a few boundary conditions detected by VC++</li>

          <li>Misc other small fixes, see commit log.</li>

        </ul>

        </li>

        <li>1.21.1: 

        <ul>

          <li>Force memory usage limits on external filters.</li>

          <li>GUI: add Ctrl+l as a shortcut to return focus to the

            search entry (compat with web browsers).</li>

          <li>result list popup allows saving results from web cache

            to files.</li>

          <li>The web history indexer also processes non-html files

            (e.g.: pdfs).</li>

          

        </ul>

        </li>

      </ul>



      <h2>Changes in Recoll 1.21.0</h2>



      <ul>

        <li>Allow saving queries to files and reloading them

          later. Available both for simple and advanced queries, and

          based on XML files.</li>

	<li>A Bison-based query parser replaces the old regexp-based

	  one and allows parenthized sub-expressions and easier future

	  expansions.</li>  

        <li>The GUI gets a "close to system tray" function.</li>

        <li>Avoid retrying to index previously indexed files if

          nothing seems to have changed in the filters.</li> 

        <li>Improve indexing speed by always using vfork() for

          spawning external commands.</li> 

        <li>The pdf filter gains the capability to run OCR (tesseract) on

          image-only files. This happens automatically on image-only

          pdfs if tesseract is available.</li> 

        <li>Improved checks about when we should try to uncompress

          stuff. Will eliminate some of the most dreadful cases of

          recollindex having an impact on system performance.</li>

        <li>Warn if non-existent paths are listed in the configuration

          file (help with typos).</li>

        <li>Adjust background color for webkit-based elements (result

          list and snippets window) according to desktop setup.</li>

        <li>Listing the results with the KIO slave is now

          performed with incremental updates. Bumped max entries to

          10000.</li>

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