diff --git a/website/BUGS.txt b/website/BUGS.txt index f7ea72b9..93b95937 100644 --- a/website/BUGS.txt +++ b/website/BUGS.txt @@ -4,33 +4,7 @@ Bugs that are listed in an older version section are supposedly fixed in later versions. Bugs listed in the topmost section may also exist in older versions. -Latest (1.8.2): -- There are a few problems in the qt4 version of recoll: some accelerators - (esc-spc, ctl-arrow) do not work, neither do copy/paste between the - result list and preview windows and x11 applications. - -- The q3textedit find() method is extremely slow. Positionning to first - search term in preview has been disabled in qt4, and the application will - sometimes appear to be looping when using the find feature in the - preview window (it's not looping, it's searching :( ) - -- The dates shown for email attachments in a result list are the email - folder modification date. This should be inherited from the parent - message instead. - -- There are sometimes problems with document deletions: the index can - get in a state where deleted or moved documents are not purged from the - index (the log file says that the doc are deleted, but they aren't - actually). When this happens, the only solution currently is to reindex - from scratch (recollindex -z). This is due to a xapian bug, which will be - fixed in a future release. You can apply the following patch to xapian - 1.0.1 to fix it: - http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/xapian/xapian-delete-document.patch - -- Under ubuntu (at least), the default awk interpreter (mawk) is buggy, - and the recoll pdf input filter does not work (removes all space - characters). This can be solved by installing the gawk package. - +Latest (1.9.0 + xapian 1.0.2): - If the user-chosen result list entry format results in several paragraphs (in the qt textedit sense), right clicks will only work inside the first one for each entry. @@ -38,14 +12,14 @@ Latest (1.8.2): - NEAR crashes: 1.6 has added NEAR searches. Unlike what recoll did with PHRASES, stemming expansion is performed on terms inside NEAR clauses (except if prevented by a capitalized entry of course). There is - a bug in Xapian at least up to 0.9.10, where NEAR does not support + a bug in Xapian (all versions as far as I know), where NEAR does not support multiple OR subclauses, as would result from a multiple expansion. This manifests itself by a 'not implemented' Xapian exception. Workarounds: - Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by capitalizing them. - - Or apply the following patch to xapian 0.9.9 or 0.9.10, inside the + - Or apply the following patch to xapian, inside the "api/" directory: http://www.recoll.org/xapian/xapNearDistrib.patch or fetch the already patched source: @@ -81,7 +55,37 @@ Latest (1.8.2): recollindex program (the recoll index thread doesn't work for creating the database). Don't know the reason. Only idea I have is problem with exception handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the - yest inexistant db). + yet inexistant db). + +1.8.2 +- Under ubuntu (at least, maybe debian too), the default awk interpreter + (mawk) is ancient, and the recoll pdf input filter does not + work (removes all space characters). This can be solved by installing the + gawk package. + $ apt-get install gawk + $ update-alternatives --set awk /usr/bin/gawk + +- There are sometimes problems with document deletions: the index can + get in a state where deleted or moved documents are not purged from the + index (the log file says that the doc are deleted, but they aren't + actually). When this happens, the only solution currently is to reindex + from scratch (recollindex -z). This is due to a xapian bug, which is + fixed in xapian 1.0.2, or you can apply the following patch to xapian + 1.0.1 to fix it: + http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/xapian/xapian-delete-document.patch + +- The dates shown for email attachments in a result list are the email + folder modification date. This should be inherited from the parent + message instead. + +- There are a few problems in the qt4 version of recoll: + - Some accelerators (esc-spc, ctl-arrow) do not work, neither do + copy/paste between the result list and preview windows and x11 + applications. + - The qt4 q3textedit::find() method is extremely slow, so that + positionning to first search term in Recoll preview has been disabled, + and the application will sometimes appear to be looping when using the + find feature in the preview window (it's not looping, it's searching...) 1.8.1 - This is not really a bug but .beagle really should be included in diff --git a/website/CHANGES.txt b/website/CHANGES.txt index bfb96340..71494a96 100644 --- a/website/CHANGES.txt +++ b/website/CHANGES.txt @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ CHANGES Changes to the format string are performed in the "Preferences->Query Configuration->User Interface" dialog tab. -- New filters: 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 :) ) +- 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. @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ CHANGES - 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) diff --git a/website/download.html b/website/download.html index 850e6fae..d36efe9e 100644 --- a/website/download.html +++ b/website/download.html @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ installation. You will find source and binary packages on the Xapian download page. Recoll 1.8.2 should build with any 0.9.x or 1.0.x - Xapian version (the current one is 1.0.1).

+ Xapian version (the current one is 1.0.2).

You need Qt 3.3 (or qt 4) in all cases (configure Recoll with configure --enable-qt4 to build with qt4, this needs @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@

New and updated filters are sometimes available before the next Recoll - release

+ release. There are currently new or updated 1.8 filters for + Wordperfect, Abiword, KWord, and OpenOffice.

Source

diff --git a/website/features.html b/website/features.html index e04201d9..2a4a5d6b 100644 --- a/website/features.html +++ b/website/features.html @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@
  • OpenOffice files (needs unzip command).
    • +
  • Abiword + files.
    • + +
  • Kword + files.
    • +
  • maildir and mailbox (Mozilla, pdf with xpdf.
    • +
  • Wordperfect with libwpd.
    • +
  • postscript with