diff --git a/website/download.html b/website/download.html
index 2d06bc66..9f44af85 100644
--- a/website/download.html
+++ b/website/download.html
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
           </tt></pre>
 
 
-        <h3><a name="mint">Mint Linux</a></h3>
+        <h3><a name="mint">Linux Mint</a></h3>
         <p>The Ubuntu PPA works perfectly for Mint 13 (and probably
           other releases too). Just follow the instructions for Ubuntu.</p>
         
diff --git a/website/index.html.en b/website/index.html.en
index 299eecfa..774c9a0a 100644
--- a/website/index.html.en
+++ b/website/index.html.en
@@ -84,9 +84,18 @@
       <h2>News</h2>
       <div class="news">
       <ul>
+        <li>2012-10-19: the source for <a href="recoll-1.18.0.tar.gz">
+            recoll 1.18.0</a> is available, and this is a call to
+            volunteers to test it. There are binary
+            packages for Ubuntu and Mint Linux users, and I can build
+            others. See this 
+     <a href="http://www.freelists.org/post/recoll-user/recoll-1180-prerelease">
+            message</a> for more information.</li>
+
         <li>2012-10-16: <a href="filters/filters.html">new filter for
             EPUB documents</a>.</li> 
         <li>2012-10-16: recoll 1.18 will soon be out. It will have
+
           optional character case and diacritics sensitivity, direct
           access to hit page when opening PDF files, complex search
           history, and a host of other smaller improvements. You can
diff --git a/website/release-1.18.html b/website/release-1.18.html
index 43d2a1a6..32299c49 100644
--- a/website/release-1.18.html
+++ b/website/release-1.18.html
@@ -34,18 +34,21 @@
 
       <h2>Caveats</h2>
 
-      <p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces serious
-        index formats changes, and it will be advisable to reset the index
-        in most cases. This will be best done by destroying the
-        index directory (<tt>rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</tt>).</p> 
+      <p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces
+        significant index formats changes to support optional
+        character case and diacritics sensitivity, and it will be
+        advisable to reset the index in most cases. This will be best
+        done by destroying the index directory (<tt>rm -rf
+        ~/.recoll/xapiandb</tt>).</p>
 
       <p><em>If</em> the 1.18 index is not configured for case and
         diacritics sensitivity, it is mostly compatible with 1.17
         indexes though.</p>  
 
-      <p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default. For 1.18, it can be
-        turned on only by editing recoll.conf by hand (see the
-        manual). If you do so, you must reset the index.</p>
+      <p>Case/diacritics sensitivity is off by default for this
+        release. It can be turned on <em>only</em> by editing
+        recoll.conf (see the manual). If you do so, you must reset the
+        index.</p>
 
       <p>Always reset the index if installing over an older version (1.16
         and older). The simplest way to do this is to quit all recoll
@@ -67,12 +70,13 @@
         There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
         the locally configured application even when <em>Use
           Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This allows making
-        use of new function (direct access to page), which could not
+        use of new functions (direct access to page), which could not
         be available through the desktop's <tt>xdg-open</tt>.  The
         default list contains PDF, Postscript and DVI, which should be
-        opened with the Evince viewer for the page access functions to
+        opened with the <em>evince</em> (or <em>atril</em> for
+        Mint/MATE users) viewer for the page access functions to
         work. If you want to keep the previous behaviour (losing the
-        page number functionality), you need to empty the list after
+        page number functionality), you need to prune the list after
         installation . This can be done from the <em>Preferences->Gui
         Configuration</em> menu.</p>