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<h1>Recoll journal of user-visible changes </h1>
+
+ <h2><a name="1.12.2">1.12.2</a></h2>
+ <p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <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 --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>
+ <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 --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>
+ <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>
+ 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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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
+ <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).
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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)
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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
+ <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.
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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)
+ <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>
+ <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.
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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.
+ <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
+ <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...
+ <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.
+ <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)
+ <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>