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--- a/website/CHANGES.txt +++ b/website/CHANGES.html @@ -1,426 +1,613 @@ -CHANGES - -1.10.2 - -- Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues. - -- Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64 - decoding errors. - -- Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when - walking the search terms. - -- Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and - preview (yes: feature change, should have waited for major release...) - -- Added svg filter - -1.10.1 - -- Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some - error, at least the file name is indexed. - -- Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field - specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor). - -- 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. - -- Jump directly to the external editor choice dialog instead of opening - preferences when an external viewer is not found. - -- Allow stopping indexing through menu action (only works with qt4 for now). - -- Create an "indexedmimetypes" configuration variable to allow explicitely - restricting the file types which do get indexed. - -1.10.0 - -- Added a GUI dialog to configure the indexing parameters. - -- 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). - -- 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. - -- The query language got a new "dir:" specifier to filter results on location. - -- New rclimg perl filter for better indexing of picture tags, thanks to - Cedric Scott. This depends on Exiftool. -- New rcltex filter. - -- 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. - -- Fixed the fact that a newline-separated word list in simple search would - wrongly trigger a phrase search. - -- 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). - -- Fixed transcoding to utf-8 for text/plain email attachments - -- Improved mbox From_ line detection - -- Added indexedmimetypes variables to allow restricting the list of indexed - mime types. - -- 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. -- 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. - -1.9.0 -- 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. - -- 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 :) ) - -- When searching for an empty string inside the preview window, position - the window to the next occurrence of a primary search term. - -- Added ext: and mime: selectors to the query language. - -- Added an adjustable flush threshold during indexing: should help control - memory usage. See the idxflushmb configuration variable. - -- Added a check for file system free space. Indexing will stop if the - threshold is reached. See the maxfsoccuppc configuration parameter. - -- Added 'followLinks' configuration option to have the indexer follow - symbolic links while walking the tree (the default is false). - -- Allow symbolic links as 'topdirs' members. These are always followed. - -- Add preference option to remember sort tool state between program - invocations (it is reset to inactive by default) - -- Added File menu entry to erase document history. - -- Bound the space and backspace keys to PgUp/PgDown in preview. - -- (Hopefully) Improved abstract (keyword in context) generation - -- 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). - -- Improved qt4 build: no more need for --enable-qt4. Note: the qt4 build - still needs the qt3 support library. - -- Changed the icon to an ugly one. The previous one was nicer but looked - too much like Xapian's. - -- Added some kind of support for a stopword list. - -- Have email attachments inherit date and author from their parent message - (instead of mail folder). - -- Fix bus error on rclmon exit - -- Better handling of aspell errors inside rclmon - -- Fixed a number of qt4 glitches: selection and keyboard shortcuts. - -- 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. - -1.8.2 2007-05-19 -- Fixed method name for compatibility with xapian 1.0.0 -- Add .beagle to default list of skipped names (avoids indexing beagle - document cache...) -- Fix configure.ac to use $libdir instead of /usr/lib -- Fix recollinstall to properly copy translations and pictures for qt4 - -1.8.1 2007-02-20 -- Add a small query language with some field-based searches (author, title, - etc.) -- 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. -- Allow skipping specific paths during indexing (in addition to file name - patterns) -- Improved external index choice dialog, accessible from the top-level menu. -- 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. -- Option to use the desktop defaults (with xdg-open) to choose the native - viewer for files (instead of recoll's mimeview). - -1.7.6 2007-01-30 - - Fixes an issue with the openoffice filter on debian systems. - - Adds Scribus and Lyx filters. - -1.7.5 2007-01-15 - - 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. - -1.7.3 2007-01-09 - - Email attachments are now indexed. - - 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) - - The sort tool has been improved: no need to restart the query after sort - criteria change. - - Support for real-time indexing with inotify is now enabled by default - when appropriate. - - Recoll now warns when the configured native viewer can not be found and - starts an interface for chosing another one. - - Categories (text, presentation, spreadsheets, etc.) can be used instead - of raw mime types when filtering on file types in advanced search. - - The port to qt4 is functional and can be enabled with configure --enable-qt4 - - 'autophrase' option improved and may now actually be useful. - - Improved highlighting (again...) - - Display term frequencies in term explorer. - - Recollindex -e to remove data from index for listed files. - - Directory names now indexed. Directories can be 'edited' with the - configured application (rox by default) - -1.6.3 - - 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. - - Fixed problem with execution of external viewer for files with - single-quotes in the name. -1.6.2 - - Minor solaris compilation glitches only. -1.6.1 - - Term explorer: a multimode wildcard-regexp-spell/phonetic tool to search - the index for terms. This uses aspell for the orthographic/phonetic part. - - 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. - - User-settable format for the result-list entries, which use an HTML - string with %xx printf-like replacements (accessible from the user - preferences). - - Real time monitoring/indexing support. This is not configured by - default, and must be specified at build time (configure --help). - - Improved phrase/group highlighting in abstracts and preview - - Better sample selection for synthetic abstracts. - - Improved performance of the text splitter, good for indexing and previewing. - - Shift+click link to open new preview window instead of tab in existing - window. - - 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. - - Improved recall for phrases with composite words like email addresses. - - -Updating from 1.2 to 1.3 or 1.4 or 1.5: ---------------------------------------- -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. - -1.5.9 -- Fix bad timezone conversion in email dates. Display timezone in result - list dates. - -1.5.8 -- 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). -- Fix problem with some weird MIME messages (with null boundaries) which - crashed the indexer. - -1.5.[23456] -- 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 - -1.5.1 -- Fix serious bug with non ascii strings in simple search history -- Improve synthetic abstracts: remove size limitations, handle overlapping - extracts, avoid printing several terms from the same position. - -1.5.0 2006-09-20 - -- Added support for powerpoint and excel files, with the catdoc package. -- Allow viewing consecutive documents from the result list inside a single - preview window using the shift-arrow-up and shift-arrow-down keys. -- Colorize search terms in abstracts in the result list. -- 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. -- New option to automatically add a phrase to simple searches. -- Possibility to adjust the length and context width for synthetic abstracts. -- Handle weird html better. -- When indexing mail messages, walk the full mime tree instead of staying - at the top level, index all text parts and attachement file names. -- Add -c <confdir> option to recoll and recollindex to specify the - configuration directory on the command line -- Better synchronization between the active preview and the highlighted - paragraph inside the list -- Improved recall for some special cases of stemming. -- 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). -- Store the external database lists in the configuration directory, not the - qt preferences. -- Ensure dialogs are sized according to font size - - -1.4.3 2006-05-07 - - Multiple search databases. - - Optionally auto-search when a word is entered in the simple search - field. - - Show possible term completions in simple search by typing CTRL+TAB - - Add 'more like this' option to result list right-click menu, to look for - documents related to the current result. - - Double-click in preview or result list adds the selected word to the - simple search text field. - - The simple search text entry field is now a combobox and remembers - previous searches. - - Additional OR field in complex search. - - Improved indexing cancellability (interrupting recollindex or closing - recoll with an indexing thread active), and status reporting. - - Fixed filters to handle file paths with embedded spaces. - - Misc small bug and memory leaks fixes. - - More compact result list. - - Set mode 0700 on .recoll directory by default - -1.3.3 2006-04-04 - - Implement specific search on file names with wildcard - support. Indexation can optionally process all file names or only those - with mime types supported for normal indexation. UPDATING: you need a - full re-indexation to take advantage of this. - - Use links and a right-click popup menu to replace confusing use of - mouse clicks and double-clicks inside the result list. - - 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). - - Use NLS information (LC_CTYPE, LANG) do determine default charset when - possible. - - 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. - - Russian and Ukrainian translations and many improvement ideas thanks to - Michael Shigorin. - -1.2.3 2006-03-03 - - Added support for dvi (with dvips), and dvu (with DjVuLibre). - - Ensure that configure and make use the same qt version. - - Fix sorted sequence title display. - - Discriminate fatal errors and missing docs while loading a doc list. - - Improved and cleaned up way to position a preview on the first search term. -1.2.2 2006-02-02 - - Fix minor compilation glitches (FreeBSD 4, QT 3.1, xapian-config problem) -1.2.0 2006-02-01 - - Improved preview loading: don't highlight very big documents (over 1Mb), - allow cancellation while loading. - - 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. - - Wrap query detail line displayed when clicking on result list header. - - Text splitting cleanup with less spurious terms should result in - slightly smaller databases. - - Sligthly improved presentation in preview, esp. line breaks. - - Color icons... - - Let the user select the html browser used for help display. - - autoconf/Makefile change: allow building UI from inside the qtgui - directory. - - autoconf/Makefile: improved search and diagnostics for qt/qmake. - - Internal code cleanup for maintainability: text splitting, user - interface. - - Added prototype kio_slave to show result inside Konqueror, doesn't seem - particularly useful. -1.1.0 2006-01-12 - - A much better user manual, which can be browsed from the help menu. - - man pages for recoll, recollindex, recoll.conf - - User/query interface configuration dialog. - - Click on result list header will display the exact boolean search which - was used. - - recollindex can be used to create stem expansion databases independantly - of a full indexing pass. - - Misc user interface improvements, like an 'all terms' checkbox for - simple search. - - Fixed case-insensitivity issues. Probably needs more testing. -1.0.16 2006-01-05 - - Minor installation tweaks for rpm compatibility -1.0.15 - - Fix problems with prefix != /usr/local - - Remove '.*' from the default list of ignored file/dir names: this - prevented mozilla/thunderbird mail indexing. - - Fix some 64 bits issues -1.0.14 - - Small changes for FreeBSD 4 compilation. -1.0.13 - - Install of recollinstall program not done or needed any more. -1.0.12 - - 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. -1.0.11 - - Create personal configuration on first start. - - Use qt toolbars. - - Also index terms in file paths. - - Tool for sorting on dates or mime types. - - Fixed pdf filter which was broken by more recent xpdf - - Filters now installed/executed from /usr/local - -1.0.10 - - Added tool to manage the history of consulted documents. - - Try harder to convert email messages with wrongly declared charsets. - - Add option to reset the database before indexing (easier than rm -rf). - - Small gui improvements. - - Install partial french translation as a tease for future translaters... - -1.0.8->1.0.9 - - 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. - -1.0.5 -> 1.0.8 - - Add support for rtf and gaim logs - - Optionally show icons to indicate mime types in result list - - Better (but imperfect) feedback during the preview loading for big files - - Remember main window geometry when closing - - Fix stem expansion in advanced search - - Some autoconf - - Option to use the system's 'file' command as a final step of - identification for suffix-less or unknown files. - - Typo had removed support for .Z compression - - Use more appropriate conjonction operators when computing the advanced - search query (OP_AND_MAYBE, OP_FILTER instead of OP_AND) +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> + <head> + <title>Recoll changes</title> + + <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> + <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes"> + <meta name="Description" content= + "recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux + based on the powerful and mature xapian engine"> + <meta name="Keywords" content= + "full text search, desktop search, unix, linux"> + <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en"> + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + <meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow"> + + <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css"> + </head> + + <body> + + <div class="rightlinks"> + <ul> + <li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li> + <li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li> + <li><a href="doc.html">Documentation</a></li> + </ul> + </div> + + <div class="content"> + + <h1>Recoll journal of user-visible changes </h1> + + <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. Indexation can optionally process all file names or only those + with mime types supported for normal indexation. UPDATING: you need a + full re-indexation 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> + + </div> + </body> +</html>