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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.17.x</h1>
<h2>Caveats</h2>
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.17 is fully
compatible with 1.16 indexes, and mostly compatible with 1.15
ones, except for a few differences for weird terms containing
punctuation signs. Perform a full index pass if installing
over an older version. The simplest way to do this is to quit
all recoll programs and just delete the index directory
(<span class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>),
then start recoll or
recollindex. <span class="literal">recollindex -z</span>
will do the same in most cases.</p>
<p>Also, using the anchored search feature on an 1.15 index
requires a full reindex.</p>
<h2>Changes</h2>
<p>Recoll 1.17 is an incremental improvements release over 1.16, no
major function was introduced or modified.</p>
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<li>When a search fails to retrieve results, the spelling
suggestions are now presented as links inside the result list
area. Clicking a link will replace the appropriate word inside
the search entry.</li>
<li>Thumbnails will be displayed in the result list if an
appropriate one is found in the standard freedesktop
thumbnails directory (ie: created by gimp or some file
manager). Recoll will not create thumbnails (this would slow
result display too much).</li>
<li>The GUI now has a set of dialogs to set up the indexing
schedule, either as automatic real time indexing started
with the user session or as discrete cron entries. This
will take care of the details of autostart files or crontab
editing.</li>
<li>The GUI indexing thread has been removed. All indexing is
now performed by a separate recollindex process. This has
multiple advantages, the thread was just a very bad
idea. Among others, exiting the GUI has no influence on an
ongoing indexing.</li>
<li>The GUI indexing configuration now only shows the directories
customized by the user not those which come from the
standard configuration (ie: ~/.thunderbird). Showing the
standard directories was more often confusing than
useful.</li>
<li>It is now possible to control the date format used to
display result (go to query preferences).</li>
<li>It is now possible to Copy/Paste from the term explorer
result list.</li>
<li>Indexer: handle the html5 <tt>charset</tt> meta tag.</li>
<li>Added okular notes and gnumeric filters.</li>
<li>GUI: it is now possible to use a Qt style sheet to modify
many aspects of Recoll appearance. A style sheet file can be
selected from the GUI query configuration dialog. A sample
skeleton style sheet is to be found in the
share/recoll/examples directory.</li>
<li>GUI: Added menu entry to show all the mime types actually
indexed.</li>
<li>Fixed bugs:
<ul>
<li>Indexing configuration: deleting one customized
directory would sometimes delete the whole list (depending
on Qt version I think).</li>
<li>Indexing configuration: adding a customized directory
would not make it the active/current one (so that
another click was needed to choose it before making
modifications).</li>
<li>The GUI preview now performs an up to date check
before displaying data from a subdocument, and proposes
to reindex the container if it changed. This is mostly
useful for mailbox containers, where preview would
sometimes display the wrong message (if the folder had
been compacted).</li>
<li>Fix a bug in html charset detection. The wrong charset
was sometimes used for GUI preview.</li>
<li>The chm filter can now process files lacking a Topics
node.</li>
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