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+ <h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.18.x</h1>
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+ <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. IF 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 do require a full reindex to work:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>The file size filtering functions (for an index created by
+ 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 1.17, the most visible of
+ which is the ability to consider character case and diacritics
+ when searching.</p>
+
+ <p>Recoll 1.18.0 changes:</p>
+
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>The index can now be configured for case and diacritics
+ sensitivity. Raw terms are indexed, and query time expansions
+ are used when search insensitivity is designed (in a similar
+ manner to what is used for stemming). See the chapter
+ manual for details about controlling the feature.</li>
+
+ <li>More effort is put in choosing the terms used in
+ generating the snippets inside the result list.</li>
+
+ <li>Capacity to store page breaks and use them when opening a
+ document.</li>
+ <li>Capacity to pass a search string to the native app.</li>
+ <li>New "snippets" window for documents with page numbers, let
+ the user choose a snippet and open the document at the
+ appropriate page.</li>
+ <li>We now use the Xapian "synonyms" mechanism to store all
+ data about stemming, case, and diacritics expansion (this
+ replace the previous ad-hoc stemming expansion mechanism).</li>
+
+ <li>New script to start/stop recollindex according to mains
+ power status.</li>
+ <li>Add <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> to plain
+ text HTML display options.</li>
+ <li>Allow multiple directory specifications in the query
+ language, as in: <i>dir:/home/me -dir:tmp</i></li>
+ <li>Improved search in the preview window, allows selecting
+ one of the initial search clauses from a list.</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>
+ </li>
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