+Real time indexer: when running with gamin on FreeBSD, the
- indexer can deadlock in the gamin dialog in some
- cases.
-
- After an upgrade, the recoll GUI sometimes crashes on
- startup. This is fixed by removing (back it up just in case)
- ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf, the QSettings storage for
- recoll.
-
-
- The field value was ignored in field searches for phrases or
- capitalized words (ie: author:John or title:"the title").
- The GUI would sometimes crash during the first execution,
- after the dialog about starting configuration.
- kio-recoll was not fully updated for 1.13 internals.
- Would not compile on Solaris 8.
+There are two bugs specific to 64 bits system, affecting
- HTML display inside the preview window (wrong character set
- used in some cases, and problems with keyword highlighting).
-
+Specific File Name searches and Query Language searches
- for a 'filename:' field sometimes give different results due
- to the way we handle wild card expansion.
+Killing recollindex sometimes left filter processes
- sleeping around.
+The last entry in a configuration file was ignored if it
- was not followed by a newline (either the file had no ending
- newline or the line ended with backslash followed by the last
- file line.
-
- Non-ascii characters in path names did not work well from
- the configuration GUI (editing the configuration files did
- work).
-
- Accented characters in mail headers encoded according to a
- lax interpretation of rfc2047 were sometimes not decoded.
-
- Recoll dumps core when exiting if the configuration was not
- found.
-
- The Qt4 version sometimes did not display the
- status bar in the main window.
-
- Message boundaries were not detected inside mbox format
- files with quoted strings inside the 'From ' lines.
- (ie [From "Smith, John" ...]).
-
- The Term Explorer GUI dialog was not created at all if
- aspell was not compiled int (leaving no access to wildcard,
- regexp and stemming expansions).
-
- Give priority to the user's PATH when looking for qmake
- (fixes detecting the wrong qmake when more than one exists).
-
-
- The sort tool does not work with qt3 (at least some
- versions), the Apply button does nothing.
-
- Uncatched Xapian exceptions can crash the GUI when a query
- is run while the index is being updated.
- The result list right-click pop up menu does not appear
- when the cursor is inside a table.
- Multithreaded access to Xlib can crash the real-time indexer.
- A looping filter (ie: rclps trying to index loop.ps) can
- keep on running forever and stop the indexing while eating cpu.
- Filter subprocesses can sometimes be left around after
- indexing is interrupted. Two signals are sometimes necessary
- to get recollindex to exit.
- Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are not blocked.
- Sort does not work on queries started from the command line.
-
-
-
+Known bugs in current and older versions
-Known bugs in current and older versions
+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.
-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.
+recoll 1.19.0
+-
+
- On systems such as Debian Stable which use Evince version 2.x (not 3.x) + as PDF viewer, the default "Open" command for PDF files will not work. You + need to use the GUI preferences tool to change the --page-index option to + --page-label for the evince command line used for PDF. +
- It will sometimes happen that the result list paragraph format stored in
+ the Qt preferences file will get garbled, causing result lists with no
+ displayed paragraphs (the counts and pages are ok, the results can be seen
+ in table mode, but not in list mode). The workaround is to go to
-
-
recoll 1.19.0
--
-
- On systems such as Debian Stable which use Evince version - 2.x (not 3.x) as PDF viewer, the default "Open" command for - PDF files will not work. You need to use the GUI preferences - tool to change the --page-index option to --page-label for - the evince command line used for PDF. -
- It will sometimes happen that the result list paragraph
- format stored in the Qt preferences file will get garbled,
- causing result lists with no displayed paragraphs (the
- counts and pages are ok, the results can be seen in table
- mode, but not in list mode). The workaround is to go to
-
- Preferences->Query configuration->User interface -
and erase the result paragraph format string - (^A DEL in the text area), this will reset the string to the - default value.
+
+ Preferences->Query configuration->User interface
+ and erase the result paragraph format string (^A DEL in the text area), + this will reset the string to the default value.
+ - Real time indexer: when running with gamin on FreeBSD, the indexer can + deadlock in the gamin dialog in some cases. +
- After an upgrade, the recoll GUI sometimes crashes on startup. This is + fixed by removing (back it up just in case) + ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf, the QSettings storage for recoll. +
recoll 1.18.2
--
-
- When no indexing helper applications are actually missing, - an ennoying popup is shown in the GUI at each end of a batch - indexing run (it's supposed to be shown only once). - -
- Category (media, message, etc.) expansion does not work
- for mime types which have no associated filter. This is
- quite often the case for video types (so they won't be found
- under "media").
- There is a possible imperfect workaround. Create a filter - shell-script named rclbad inside the filters directory, with - only an 'exit 1' inside it, make it executable and associate - it to the video types, in ~/.recoll/mimeconf: --[index] +
recoll 1.18.2
+-
+
- When no indexing helper applications are actually missing, an ennoying + popup is shown in the GUI at each end of a batch indexing run (it's + supposed to be shown only once). +
- Category (media, message, etc.) expansion does not work for mime types
+ which have no associated filter. This is quite often the case for video
+ types (so they won't be found under "media").
+ There is a possible imperfect workaround. Create a filter shell-script + named rclbad inside the filters directory, with only an 'exit 1' inside it, + make it executable and associate it to the video types, in + ~/.recoll/mimeconf: +[index] video/mp2p = exec rclbad video/mp2t = exec rclbad video/mp4 = exec rclbad video/avi = exec rclbad video/divx = exec rclbad -video/x-msvideo = exec rclbad -
-
-
-
- - It's possible to add an external index with a - case/diacritics stripping option different from the main - index'. Searches will mostly not work. - -
- fnmatch() errors sometimes encountered because of - character set and locale issues were treated as - matches. - -
- When an advanced search finds no result, the spelling - suggestions screen which is displayed contains links which can - only be useful for a simple search. Clicking them will - result in confusion. - -
- When the real-time indexer updates a compound document - which has been shortened (typically, a truncated mbox folder), - the obsolete documents beyond the new end were not deleted, - resulting in confusing behaviour. - -
- Expansions of '*' were sometimes done against the whole - indexes in cases where it would have been able data restricted - to a field, resulting in much degraded performance. - -
- Wildcards were wrongly handled when splitting a string - before a query, so that things like recoll@* could - end up being split as recoll *. - -
recoll 1.18.1
--
-
-
- When using the Firefox plugin, increasing the web cache - size only has an effect when initially creating the - cache. If the cache already exists, you need to delete it - for the new limit to take effect. - -
- Sizes for documents bigger than 2 GB are improperly - displayed. - -
- Wildcards expressions sometimes cause false matches - because of issues in handling errors from fnmatch(). This - will only occur in an UTF-8 locale where file name - conversion errors are possible (for old 8bit file - names). - -
- CHM files character encoding is sometimes wrongly processed. - -
- Sorting by field 'relevancyrating' is not equivalent to - natural Xapian ordering. - -
- Weird data in filter output text (e.g.: produced by some - versions of pdftotext) can cause an error which will halt - the processing of the document, which becomes - unsearchable. This is a relatively uncommon problem which - signals itself by a specific error in the indexing log, so - you can know if you are affected. Look for: - xapian add_posting error Empty termnames aren't allowed - - -
- Raw indexes (not default): diacritics and case expansion - is not applied to terms containing numbers so that a - case-insensitive search does not work for them (e.g.: - searching for ds1820 will not find DS1820). -
recoll 1.18.0
--
-
- Thumbnails are not found on newer desktops (e.g. Ubuntu - Quantal) because of a change in the freedesktop.org - "standard". -
- A bug in extracting search term from click data in the - snippet window results in passing an incorrect term to the - viewer. Only affects non-ascii terms. -
- Using the snippets window can sometimes crash the - GUI. -
- Tilde expansion is not properly performed for the - "beaglequeuedir" parameter. This only affects people who - develop scripts over the queue feature. -
- The missing filter recording code is broken. -
- Opening embedded documents from the Unity Lens does not - work. -
recoll 1.17.3
- -Fixed in 1.17.4 and 1.18:
--
-
- The real time monitor can be terminated for permissions-related - addwatch errors that should be non-fatal. -
- text/plain files are sometimes opened as csv (using a - spreadsheet...) -
- Tilde expansion was wrong for the - beaglequeuedir/webqueuedir variable, causing problem when - using the new Web history indexer module with 1.17. -
- Fixed relatively benign memory leak in the filters - cache handler. -
- Prevent document indexing truncation caused by unac in - some marginal case which became quite common with the recent - versions of pdftotext. -
Only fixed in the 1.18 branch:
--
-
- Messages in Qt standard dialog messages are not translated. -
- The unac_except_trans mechanism can generate wrong - character translations in some cases. -
- ODF documents exported by Google docs are badly - processed. -
- It is impossible to open the parent of an - embedded document (e.g. the CHM file for an HTML page - inside the CHM) if the parent is itself a member of an - archive. -
- Text inside malformed HTML files (appearing before a <body> - tag, or after a second one, or after a </body> tag is - not indexed. As it would be displayed by current browsers, - this is wrong. - -
recoll 1.17.2
- --
-
- It appears that recollindex will sometimes crash while - indexing mail files. There are 2 separate reports about - this, and no resolution for now. This is not specific to - 1.17 as one of the reports is for 1.16. Refs: - Fedora - (maildir, processing an attachment), - Ubuntu: apparently (no stack trace): - Recoll was indexing files in .thunderbird when the crash - occurred. It seemed to be indexing the INBOX file on - disk. - -
- There were a few small glitches when paging the result - list, for example going back from the last page. -
recoll 1.17.1
- --
-
- You can crash the GUI by starting simultaneous queries, - which could be accomplished among others by quickly clicking - the sort order buttons. - -
- When external indexes set as active are not actually - present, the GUI fails to open the db. It should - automatically inactivate them instead. - -
- Does not display thumbnails for files with an URL which - should be encoded (ie: with embedded spaces). - -
- chm filter: url-encoded internal paths are mishandled. - -
- Does not compile on Solaris (flock() issue). - -
- The KDE recoll applet does not work. - -
- configure --disable-python-module breaks the installation - script. - -
- The version string is not correctly updated for 1.17.1, the - help dialog and recollindex -v will print 1.17.0. - -
- The HTML output from Python (rclexecm) filters is not - correctly escaped. - -
- Does not compile with gcc 4.7 (missing include). - -
recoll 1.17.0
- - The chm filter handles badly some CHM files with encoded - internal URLs (the whole file or some parts are not - indexed). There is an updated filter on the filters section - of the download page. -
- The application style sheet is not reapplied when changed - from the preferences menu, you have to restart the GUI. - -
- Real time indexer: directory moves are not handled at - all. Workaround: restart indexer from time to time. -
- Real time indexer: file move events are not detected when - running with inotify (at least for recent - versions). Workaround: restart indexer from time to time. -
- Cancelling a preview in the GUI will also cancel the indexing - thread if it is running. -
- Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform the initial - indexing with the recollindex program. For some unknown reason, - the recoll index thread does not work for creating the database. - The only idea I have is a problem with exception handling (recoll - catches an exception while trying the yet inexistant db). - -
- At least on OpenSUSE 12.1 / Qt 4.7.4 (and probably other - environments), the links to Preview or Open inside the - result list do not work. Also the GUI can crash if a - temporary directory creation fails. -
- The Python filters can crash under certain error - conditions. This is a benign error, affecting just - the current document, but it causes system reports. -
- The query is run 2 times, in most cases. This does not - cause a too dramatic performance impact because of caching but - still... -
- The output from some filters (most typically text files - out from the zip filters) is sometimes not transcoded - correctly to UTF-8, causing myriads of error messages (and a - possible application crash due to another bug in the unac - code, described further). -
- There is a compilation issue on Linux systems with a 3.x - kernel. -
- Queries without search terms (ie: all files of a given - mime type) fail with an "empty query" diagnostic. -
- The recollq command line query program sometimes does not - clean up its temporary directory. -
- Indexing can crash on files with weird names (inconsistent with the - locale) for which the format of the "file -i" command is - unexpected. This is probably dependant on the type of system - and/or locale. Workaround: arrange for the offending file - not to be indexed (move it away or configure it out), or - apply this patch, - which should work with all versions from 1.13 to 1.16.1 -
- Under certain conditions, the indexer can use all - available memory and crash. This is caused by a memory leak - in an error handling path inside unac, and can only be - triggered in specific conditions (all cases seen were from - files inside zip archives). Workaround: arrange for the - offending file not to be indexed (move it away or configure - it out), or apply this - patch, which should work with all versions from 1.13 to - 1.16.1 -
- The lyx filter does not correctly detect the Lyx version, - needed for correct indexing. -
- A typo in a memory reallocation call inside the firefox - web history indexing module may cause problems in a highly - improbable case. -
- Directory creations are not processed by the real time - indexer (for indexing directory names). -
- The recoll GUI program sometimes crashes when
- running a query while the indexing thread is active.
- Possible workarounds:
--
-
- Upgrade to 1.16.1 -
- Use the command - line recollindex program to perform indexing - (usually just type "recollindex" in a console, or see "man - recollindex"). -
- Do not run queries in recoll while the indexing thread - is running (as indicated in the bottom status line). -
- - The default filter for files in Microsoft Word format
- (application/msword, .doc), antiword, has trouble with some
- relatively rare files with a very small text, resulting in the
- following error message:
-
- I'm afraid the text stream of this file is too small to - handle. -
- - Only small files produced by Microsoft Word on a Mac, or by - OpenOffice will trigger this message.
- - Workaround: install wvWare and modify - mimeconf to use the rcldoc filter (instead of directly - executing antiword). Rcldoc will try antiword, then will use - vwWare if it is available. This will result in slightly - slower indexing for all normal .doc files. This fix was made the - default in 1.16
-
- - Compressed man pages could not be previewed. -
- Sorting by document and file size in the result table does - not work. -
- idxflushmb was not handled while deleting documents in the - index, leading to almost unbounded memory usage. -
- Email messages for which there would be an error indexing - an attachment would not be indexed at all. - -
- Performing a full index with release 1.11 or newer, over a - version created with a much older recoll release may - sometimes end with an error saying "backend doesn't - implement metadata". If this happens, you need to delete - the index directory (typically ~/.recoll/xapiandb/) - and restart indexing. For big indexes, to avoid losing - time, removing the directory preventively may be preferable . - -
- Text files bigger than 2 GB can not be indexed. - -
- Using the GUI preview while the indexing thread is running - will sometimes crash the GUI or provoke other - strangeness. This happens much more rarely than in 1.15.7, - but still occurs. Workaround if this happens too frequently: - use the standalone recollindex program instead of the GUI - thread. - -
- Real time indexer: uncontrolled concurrent access to - the global configuration can cause a startup crash (mostly of - big file trees because of timing issues). - -
- Using the result preview while the indexing thread is - running will sometimes crash the GUI or provoke other - strangeness. This is apparently due to insufficient - protection of resources shared by several threads. After - recent cleanup, the problem occurs quite seldom but it is - not completely gone. The current and unsatisfying - workaround, is to avoid the situation, for example by using - the standalone recollindex program instead of the GUI - indexing thread. - -
- The GUI preview function sometimes fails with a - non-sensical message about a non-related missing - helper. - -
- Most operations on the parent document in the result table - view are not connected and do nothing. - -
- The operations on the parent document in the result list - right click menu (Preview and Open), do not work, they - access the file's parent directory instead. - -
- The GUI option to remember sort state between invocations - only works for sort by date. - -
- The rclzip filter can't handle utf-8 in path names for archive - members. An - updated filter is available. - -
- The rclzip and rclchm filters can't handle archive members - with a colon (':') in the file name or path. The files are normally - indexed and can be searched for, but they can't be displayed - (neither opened nor previewed). There is a - - patch which fixes the issue (then needs full reindex for these - files). - -
- The ignored suffixes list (recoll_noindex) is itself - ignored in some cases. - - -
- The man filter creates groff temporary png files in the - home directory. - -
- Indexing can hang or crash after an error occurs on an - archive member (which should have affected only the relevant - document). - -
- The initial indexing pass in the real-time indexer does - not monitor the X11 session which can create problems if the - user ends the section at this point. - -
- Starting the indexing thread inside the GUI while another - indexer (batch or real-time) is active will silently - failed. It should show an error dialog. - -
- When an open error occurs on an external index while - starting the GUI, the initial indexing dialog is started, - which is incorrect because it cannot fix the problem. - -
- The result table row height is not adjusted according to - default font size, and the vertical position of text in cells - is often bad. -
- The Python and PHP modules in 1.15.5 have compile errors. This - is solved by - - this simple change. -
- The current stemming language is not indicated by menu - checkboxes. - -
- If a result table column is both added and moved in the same - GUI instance, the list becomes garbled (or/and the GUI - crashes). Workaround: remove the Qt GUI config - (.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf), and perform the operation in 2 GUI - sessions: add column, exit recoll, restart, move column. - -
- Clicking one of the category filter checkboxes - (one of the media/message/text/... things) with an empty result - list crashes the GUI (just like this, yeah, I know, quality - insurance etc.). Workaround: don't click these before running the - first query. - -
- Changing the indexing configuration parameters from the GUI - while the indexing thread (not an external recollindex command) is - running will sometimes (quite often) crash the GUI. - -
- Script files (ie: .sh .pl) indexed as text do not respect - the maximum text file limit (a problem with, ie, shar archives - identified as application/x-shellscript). - -
- indexing script for xml formats (ie: svg) sometimes stall for - 30 S while xsltproc tries to access remote dtds. - -
- recollindex inapproprietely sets the nice value for its whole - process group. In certain cases where the indexing monitor was - launched at session start, this could set the whole session to low - priority! - -
- rclmon.sh stop would not work. -
- Some shell, awk, and perl scripts are not indexed. There is a - simple - configuration tweak workaround -
- The tree walk in indexing could loop on symbolic links. -
- 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. -
- Email message preview is broken. -
- The new mutagen-based audio tags filter (rclaudio) only - works with very recent mutagen - versions. See here for a - corrected version. - -
- Compressed file view fix broke help viewer. - -
- Does not compile with Xapian - 1.2. Apply patch. -
- When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the - actual file is compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try - to start the external viewer on the compressed file, which - will not work in most cases. - -
- In case a new style filter (persistent) crashed while indexing, - it was not restarted, and all further files of the same mime type - were not updated (ie: python zip crash on encrypted files). - -
- Mac OS X + Qt 4.6.1 : the index configuration dialog - crashes. Fixed with Qt 4.7. - -
- If you are seeing a delay of a few seconds before the - result list displays for the first query of a recoll - instance, try changing the result list font in the query - preferences. This is not a recoll problem, I don't know the - exact cause (I've seen it happen with "Sans Serif" and go - away with Helvetica or Arial). - -
- It seems that the recoll program sometimes segfaults when - exiting after the first execution ? - -
- When Recoll is built with qt 4.4.0, the icons in the - result list are all displayed at the top of the page and - garbled. This appears to be a qt bug, fixed in 4.4.1. Use - either qt 4.3.x or 4.4.1 (stopped carrying this bug. Just don't use - 4.4.0) - -
- Under some versions of KDE (ie: Fedora FC5 KDE - 3.5.4-0.5.fc5), there is a problem with the window stacking - order. Opening the "browse" file selection dialog from the - advanced search dialog will stack the latter under the main - window, possibly making it invisible. This is quite probably - a Kwin bug, possibly related to - http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79183 or a correction - thereof. - - -
- Stemming does not work in the 1.13 series. The stemming - database was not created at all. Things would sort of work as - long as an older stemming database was around (which is why - this was not discovered earlier. -
- Fix the lyx filter to properly handle embedded white space in - file paths. - -
- The GUI display is garbled under Qt 4.6.1 and newer. This is
- a Qt bug, and a workaround was put in place in Recoll 1.13.02
- for Qt 4.6.1. If you are using a newer version and the problem
- is still there, you can fix the
- 4.6.1 fix to hopefully work with your Qt version: edit
- qtgui/rclmain_w.h, around line 37 (there is only one instance),
- change:
-
- #if QT_VERSION == 0x040601 +video/x-msvideo = exec rclbad
+
+ - It is possible to add an external index with a case/diacritics stripping + option different from the main index'. Searches will mostly not work. +
- fnmatch() errors sometimes encountered because of character set and + locale issues were treated as matches. +
- When an advanced search finds no result, the spelling suggestions screen + which is displayed contains links which can only be useful for a simple + search. Clicking them will result in confusion. +
- When the real-time indexer updates a compound document which has been + shortened (typically, a truncated mbox folder), the obsolete documents + beyond the new end are not deleted, resulting in confusing behaviour. +
- Expansions of '*' inside a field were sometimes done against the whole + index, resulting in much degraded performance. +
- Wildcards were wrongly handled when splitting a string before a query, so + that things like recoll@* could end up being split as recoll + *. +
recoll 1.16.2
-recoll 1.16.1
--
-
recoll 1.16.0
--
-
recoll 1.15.7
--
-
recoll 1.15.5
-recoll 1.15.2
--
-
recoll 1.14.4
--
-
recoll 1.14.3
-recoll 1.14.1
-recoll 1.14.0
-recoll 1.13.04
-Note: some of the bugs listed here are not actually - "fixed", mostly they were problems caused by old versions of - external software (ie: kde, qt), and I stopped carrying them. Just - don't use these versions, or live with the problem.
- -recoll 1.13.02
-recoll 1.13.01 + xapian 1.0.16
-recoll 1.18.1
+-
+
- When using the Firefox plugin, increasing the web cache size only has an + effect when initially creating the cache. If the cache already exists, you + need to delete it for the new limit to take effect. +
- Sizes for documents bigger than 2 GB are improperly displayed. +
- Wildcards expressions sometimes cause false matches because of issues in + handling errors from fnmatch(). This will only occur in an UTF-8 locale + where file name conversion errors are possible (for old 8bit file + names). +
- CHM files character encoding is sometimes wrongly processed. +
- Sorting by field 'relevancyrating' is not equivalent to natural Xapian + ordering. +
- Weird data in filter output text (e.g.: produced by some versions of + pdftotext) can cause an error which will halt the processing of the + document, which becomes unsearchable. This is a relatively uncommon problem + which signals itself by a specific error in the indexing log, so you can + know if you are affected. Look for: xapian add_posting error Empty + termnames aren't allowed +
- Raw indexes (not default): diacritics and case expansion is not applied + to terms containing numbers so that a case-insensitive search does not work + for them (e.g.: searching for ds1820 will not find DS1820). +
recoll 1.18.0
+-
+
- Thumbnails are not found on newer desktops (e.g. Ubuntu Quantal) because + of a change in the freedesktop.org "standard". +
- A bug in extracting search term from click data in the snippet window + results in passing an incorrect term to the viewer. Only affects non-ascii + terms. +
- Using the snippets window can sometimes crash the GUI. +
- Tilde expansion is not properly performed for the "beaglequeuedir" + parameter. This only affects people who develop scripts over the queue + feature. +
- The missing filter recording code is broken. +
- Opening embedded documents from the Unity Lens does not work. +
recoll 1.17.3
+ +Fixed in 1.17.4 and 1.18:
+-
+
- The real time monitor can be terminated for permissions-related addwatch + errors that should be non-fatal. +
- text/plain files are sometimes opened as csv (using a spreadsheet...) +
- Tilde expansion was wrong for the beaglequeuedir/webqueuedir variable, + causing problem when using the new Web history indexer module with + 1.17. +
- Fixed relatively benign memory leak in the filters cache handler. +
- Prevent document indexing truncation caused by unac in some marginal case + which became quite common with the recent versions of pdftotext. +
Only fixed in the 1.18 branch:
+-
+
- Messages in Qt standard dialog messages are not translated. +
- The unac_except_trans mechanism can generate wrong character translations + in some cases. +
- ODF documents exported by Google docs are badly processed. +
- It is impossible to open the parent of an embedded document (e.g. the CHM + file for an HTML page inside the CHM) if the parent is itself a member of + an archive. +
- Text inside malformed HTML files (appearing before a <body> tag, or + after a second one, or after a </body> tag is not indexed. As it + would be displayed by current browsers, this is wrong. +
recoll 1.17.2
+-
+
- It appears that recollindex will sometimes crash while indexing mail + files. There are 2 separate reports about this, and no resolution for now. + This is not specific to 1.17 as one of the reports is for 1.16. Refs: Fedora + (maildir, processing an attachment), Ubuntu: + apparently (no stack trace): Recoll was indexing files in .thunderbird + when the crash occurred. It seemed to be indexing the INBOX file on disk. + +
- There were a few small glitches when paging the result list, for example + going back from the last page. +
recoll 1.17.1
+-
+
- You can crash the GUI by starting simultaneous queries, which could be + accomplished among others by quickly clicking the sort order buttons. +
- When external indexes set as active are not actually present, the GUI + fails to open the db. It should automatically inactivate them instead. +
- Does not display thumbnails for files with an URL which should be encoded + (ie: with embedded spaces). +
- chm filter: url-encoded internal paths are mishandled. +
- Does not compile on Solaris (flock() issue). +
- The KDE recoll applet does not work. +
- configure --disable-python-module breaks the installation script. +
- The version string is not correctly updated for 1.17.1, the help dialog + and recollindex -v will print 1.17.0. +
- The HTML output from Python (rclexecm) filters is not correctly + escaped. +
- Does not compile with gcc 4.7 (missing include). +
recoll 1.17.0
+-
+
- The chm filter handles badly some CHM files with encoded internal URLs + (the whole file or some parts are not indexed). There is an updated filter + on the filters section of the download page. +
- The application style sheet is not reapplied when changed from the + preferences menu, you have to restart the GUI. +
recoll 1.16.2
+-
+
- Real time indexer: directory moves are not handled at all. Workaround: + restart indexer from time to time. +
- Real time indexer: file move events are not detected when running with + inotify (at least for recent versions). Workaround: restart indexer from + time to time. +
- Cancelling a preview in the GUI will also cancel the indexing thread if + it is running. +
- Under Solaris, it is necessary to perform the initial indexing with the + recollindex program. For some unknown reason, the recoll index thread does + not work for creating the database. The only idea I have is a problem with + exception handling (recoll catches an exception while trying the yet + inexistant db). +
recoll 1.16.1
+-
+
- At least on OpenSUSE 12.1 / Qt 4.7.4 (and probably other environments), + the links to Preview or Open inside the result list do not work. Also the + GUI can crash if a temporary directory creation fails. +
- The Python filters can crash under certain error conditions. This is a + benign error, affecting just the current document, but it causes system + reports. +
- The query is run 2 times, in most cases. This does not cause a too + dramatic performance impact because of caching but still... +
- The output from some filters (most typically text files out from the zip + filters) is sometimes not transcoded correctly to UTF-8, causing myriads of + error messages (and a possible application crash due to another bug in the + unac code, described further). +
- There is a compilation issue on Linux systems with a 3.x kernel. +
- Queries without search terms (ie: all files of a given mime type) fail + with an "empty query" diagnostic. +
- The recollq command line query program sometimes does not clean up its + temporary directory. +
- Indexing can crash on files with weird names (inconsistent with the + locale) for which the format of the "file -i" command is unexpected. This + is probably dependant on the type of system and/or locale. Workaround: + arrange for the offending file not to be indexed (move it away or configure + it out), or apply this patch, + which should work with all versions from 1.13 to 1.16.1 +
- Under certain conditions, the indexer can use all available memory and + crash. This is caused by a memory leak in an error handling path inside + unac, and can only be triggered in specific conditions (all cases seen were + from files inside zip archives). Workaround: arrange for the offending file + not to be indexed (move it away or configure it out), or apply this patch, which should work with + all versions from 1.13 to 1.16.1 +
- The lyx filter does not correctly detect the Lyx version, needed for + correct indexing. +
- A typo in a memory reallocation call inside the firefox web history + indexing module may cause problems in a highly improbable case. +
- Directory creations are not processed by the real time indexer (for + indexing directory names). +
recoll 1.16.0
+-
+
- The recoll GUI program sometimes crashes when running a query
+ while the indexing thread is active. Possible workarounds:
+ +-
+
- Upgrade to 1.16.1 +
- Use the command line recollindex program to perform indexing + (usually just type "recollindex" in a console, or see "man + recollindex"). +
- Do not run queries in recoll while the indexing thread is + running (as indicated in the bottom status line). +
+
recoll 1.15.7
+-
+
- The default filter for files in Microsoft Word format
+ (application/msword, .doc), antiword, has trouble with some relatively rare
+ files with a very small text, resulting in the following error message:
+
+
+ I'm afraid the text stream of this file is too small to handle. +
+ Only small files produced by Microsoft Word on a Mac, or by OpenOffice will + trigger this message.
+ Workaround: install wvWare and modify mimeconf to use the rcldoc + filter (instead of directly executing antiword). Rcldoc will try antiword, + then will use vwWare if it is available. This will result in slightly + slower indexing for all normal .doc files. This fix was made the default in + 1.16
+ - Compressed man pages could not be previewed. +
- Sorting by document and file size in the result table does not work. +
- idxflushmb was not handled while deleting documents in the index, leading + to almost unbounded memory usage. +
- Email messages for which there would be an error indexing an attachment + would not be indexed at all. +
- Performing a full index with release 1.11 or newer, over a version + created with a much older recoll release may sometimes end with an error + saying "backend doesn't implement metadata". If this happens, you need to + delete the index directory (typically ~/.recoll/xapiandb/) and + restart indexing. For big indexes, to avoid losing time, removing the + directory preventively may be preferable . +
- Text files bigger than 2 GB can not be indexed. +
- Using the GUI preview while the indexing thread is running will sometimes + crash the GUI or provoke other strangeness. This happens much more rarely + than in 1.15.7, but still occurs. Workaround if this happens too + frequently: use the standalone recollindex program instead of the GUI + thread. +
- Real time indexer: uncontrolled concurrent access to the global + configuration can cause a startup crash (mostly of big file trees because + of timing issues). +
- Using the result preview while the indexing thread is running will + sometimes crash the GUI or provoke other strangeness. This is apparently + due to insufficient protection of resources shared by several threads. + After recent cleanup, the problem occurs quite seldom but it is not + completely gone. The current and unsatisfying workaround, is to avoid the + situation, for example by using the standalone recollindex program instead + of the GUI indexing thread. +
- The GUI preview function sometimes fails with a non-sensical message + about a non-related missing helper. +
- Most operations on the parent document in the result table view are not + connected and do nothing. +
- The operations on the parent document in the result list right click menu + (Preview and Open), do not work, they access the file's parent directory + instead. +
- The GUI option to remember sort state between invocations only works for + sort by date. +
- The rclzip filter can't handle utf-8 in path names for archive members. + An updated filter is + available. +
- The rclzip and rclchm filters can't handle archive members with a colon + (':') in the file name or path. The files are normally indexed and can be + searched for, but they can't be displayed (neither opened nor previewed). + There is a patch + which fixes the issue (then needs full reindex for these files). +
- The ignored suffixes list (recoll_noindex) is itself ignored in some + cases. +
- The man filter creates groff temporary png files in the home + directory. +
- Indexing can hang or crash after an error occurs on an archive member + (which should have affected only the relevant document). +
- The initial indexing pass in the real-time indexer does not monitor the + X11 session which can create problems if the user ends the section at this + point. +
- Starting the indexing thread inside the GUI while another indexer (batch + or real-time) is active will silently failed. It should show an error + dialog. +
- When an open error occurs on an external index while starting the GUI, + the initial indexing dialog is started, which is incorrect because it + cannot fix the problem. +
- The result table row height is not adjusted according to default font + size, and the vertical position of text in cells is often bad. +
recoll 1.15.5
+-
+
- The Python and PHP modules in 1.15.5 have compile errors. This is solved + by this + simple change. +
- The current stemming language is not indicated by menu checkboxes. +
recoll 1.15.2
+-
+
- If a result table column is both added and moved in the same GUI + instance, the list becomes garbled (or/and the GUI crashes). Workaround: + remove the Qt GUI config (.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf), and perform the + operation in 2 GUI sessions: add column, exit recoll, restart, move + column. +
- Clicking one of the category filter checkboxes (one of the + media/message/text/... things) with an empty result list crashes the GUI + (just like this, yeah, I know, quality insurance etc.). Workaround: don't + click these before running the first query. +
- Changing the indexing configuration parameters from the GUI while the + indexing thread (not an external recollindex command) is running will + sometimes (quite often) crash the GUI. +
- Script files (ie: .sh .pl) indexed as text do not respect the maximum + text file limit (a problem with, ie, shar archives identified as + application/x-shellscript). +
- indexing script for xml formats (ie: svg) sometimes stall for 30 S while + xsltproc tries to access remote dtds. +
- recollindex inapproprietely sets the nice value for its whole process + group. In certain cases where the indexing monitor was launched at session + start, this could set the whole session to low priority! +
recoll 1.14.4
+-
+
- rclmon.sh stop would not work. +
- Some shell, awk, and perl scripts are not indexed. There is a simple configuration + tweak workaround +
- The tree walk in indexing could loop on symbolic links. +
- 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. +
recoll 1.14.3
+-
+
- Email message preview is broken. +
- The new mutagen-based audio tags filter (rclaudio) only works with very + recent mutagen versions. See here for a + corrected version. +
recoll 1.14.1
+-
+
- Compressed file view fix broke help viewer. +
recoll 1.14.0
+-
+
- Does not compile with Xapian 1.2. Apply patch. +
- When a mime type has an external viewer defined, but the actual file is + compressed (ie: xxx.txt.gz), recoll will try to start the external viewer + on the compressed file, which will not work in most cases. +
recoll 1.13.04
+ +Note: some of the bugs listed here are not actually "fixed", mostly +they were problems caused by old versions of external software (ie: kde, qt), +and I stopped carrying them. Just don't use these versions, or live with the +problem.
+-
+
- In case a new style filter (persistent) crashed while indexing, it was + not restarted, and all further files of the same mime type were not updated + (ie: python zip crash on encrypted files). +
- Mac OS X + Qt 4.6.1 : the index configuration dialog crashes. Fixed with + Qt 4.7. +
- If you are seeing a delay of a few seconds before the result list + displays for the first query of a recoll instance, try changing the result + list font in the query preferences. This is not a recoll problem, I don't + know the exact cause (I've seen it happen with "Sans Serif" and go away + with Helvetica or Arial). +
- It seems that the recoll program sometimes segfaults when exiting after + the first execution ? +
- When Recoll is built with qt 4.4.0, the icons in the result list are all + displayed at the top of the page and garbled. This appears to be a qt bug, + fixed in 4.4.1. Use either qt 4.3.x or 4.4.1 (stopped carrying this bug. + Just don't use 4.4.0) +
- Under some versions of KDE (ie: Fedora FC5 KDE 3.5.4-0.5.fc5), there is a + problem with the window stacking order. Opening the "browse" file selection + dialog from the advanced search dialog will stack the latter under the main + window, possibly making it invisible. This is quite probably a Kwin bug, + possibly related to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79183 or a + correction thereof. +
recoll 1.13.02
+-
+
- Stemming does not work in the 1.13 series. The stemming database was not + created at all. Things would sort of work as long as an older stemming + database was around (which is why this was not discovered earlier. +
- Fix the lyx filter to properly handle embedded white space in file + paths. +
recoll 1.13.01 + xapian 1.0.16
+-
+
- The GUI display is garbled under Qt 4.6.1 and newer. This is a Qt bug,
+ and a workaround was put in place in Recoll 1.13.02 for Qt 4.6.1. If you
+ are using a newer version and the problem is still there, you can fix the
+ 4.6.1 fix to hopefully work with your Qt version: edit qtgui/rclmain_w.h,
+ around line 37 (there is only one instance), change:
+
#if QT_VERSION == 0x040601 to - #if QT_VERSION >= 0x040601 -
-
+ #if QT_VERSION >= 0x040601
+
+
recoll 1.13.01 + xapian 1.0.16
+recoll 1.13.01 + xapian 1.0.16
+-
+
- The field value was ignored in field searches for phrases or capitalized + words (ie: author:John or title:"the title"). +
- The GUI would sometimes crash during the first execution, after the + dialog about starting configuration. +
- kio-recoll was not fully updated for 1.13 internals. +
- Would not compile on Solaris 8. +
1.12.4
+-
+
- There are two bugs specific to 64 bits system, affecting HTML display + inside the preview window (wrong character set used in some cases, and + problems with keyword highlighting). +
1.12.3
+-
+
- Specific File Name searches and Query Language searches for a 'filename:' + field sometimes give different results due to the way we handle wild card + expansion. +
- Killing recollindex sometimes left filter processes sleeping around. +
- The last entry in a configuration file was ignored if it was not followed + by a newline (either the file had no ending newline or the line ended with + backslash followed by the last file line. +
- Non-ascii characters in path names did not work well from the + configuration GUI (editing the configuration files did work). +
- Accented characters in mail headers encoded according to a lax + interpretation of rfc2047 were sometimes not decoded. +
- Recoll dumps core when exiting if the configuration was not found. +
- The Qt4 version sometimes did not display the status bar in the main + window. +
- Message boundaries were not detected inside mbox format files with quoted + strings inside the 'From ' lines. (ie [From "Smith, John" ...]). +
- The Term Explorer GUI dialog was not created at all if aspell was not + compiled int (leaving no access to wildcard, regexp and stemming + expansions). +
- Give priority to the user's PATH when looking for qmake (fixes detecting + the wrong qmake when more than one exists). +
1.12.2
+-
+
- The sort tool does not work with qt3 (at least some versions), the Apply + button does nothing. +
1.12.4
-1.12.1
+-
+
- Uncatched Xapian exceptions can crash the GUI when a query is run while + the index is being updated. +
- The result list right-click pop up menu does not appear when the cursor + is inside a table. +
- Multithreaded access to Xlib can crash the real-time indexer. +
- A looping filter (ie: rclps trying to index loop.ps) can keep on running + forever and stop the indexing while eating cpu. +
- Filter subprocesses can sometimes be left around after indexing is + interrupted. Two signals are sometimes necessary to get recollindex to + exit. +
- Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are not blocked. +
- Sort does not work on queries started from the command line. +
1.12.0
+-
+
- To compile the Python interface for recoll 1.12, you need to edit + setup.py and replace "rcldb/pathhash.cpp" with "utils/fileudi.cpp". +
- rclman outputs control characters, causing problems with preview and + phrase searches in manual pages. +
- rcllyx has trouble with 8bit characters in file names. +
- "recoll -q ..." processes incorrectly second and further command line + arguments. +
- The following problem was corrected by
+ Xapian 1.0.11 or 1.0.12, and I can see no reason to use older versions
+ and/or the patches below. However, they're kept around in case someone
+ needs them.
+ NEAR expansion errors: recoll performs stemming expansion inside NEAR + clauses (except if prevented by a capitalized entry). Because of a Xapian + bug (up to 1.0.12 (or 11?)), NEAR does not support multiple OR subclauses. + This manifests itself by a 'not implemented' Xapian exception or an + explicit error message. Workarounds: +-
+
- Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by capitalizing + them. +
- Or apply the following patch to xapian, inside the "api/"
+ directory:
+ 0.x versions: xapian/xapNearDistrib-0.x.patch +
+ 1.0.[0-9]: xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.0_9.patch +
+ 1.0.10: xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.10.patch +
+ or fetch the already patched source from the local + xapian/ directory then recompile, and install.
+
+
1.12.3
- -1.11.4
+-
+
- Possibly harmful bug in strerror_r usage (GNU case). +
- Incorrect handling of "accents" inside Japanese katakana text. +
- Using the "Erase history" command on an empty history would cause recoll + to crash. +
1.11.1
+-
+
- Unicode space characters like 0x3000, Ideographic space where + not detected inside user entries like the main interface search entry. + Badly parsed searches would retrieve no results, when the same search + entered with ascii space characters would have succeeded. +
- Spaces were inserted inside CJK strings when building abstracts for the + result list. +
- Accent removal should not be performed for Japanese. +
- When using the query language, an OR part with more than two terms will + swallow preceding AND terms, one for each additional OR. Ex: (champagne + ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx) will be interpreted as "champagne OR ext:odt + OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx" instead of the correct "champagne AND (ext:odt OR + ext:sxw OR ext:lyx)" Workaround until the fix is issued: add non-existing + terms before the OR part and check the resulting query: "champagne + bogusxyztv ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx" +
- The "Copy file name" and "Copy URL" entries of the right-click menus only + copy the data to the X11 primary selection (use middle-button click to + paste). This is probably a mistake, the data should be copied to the + clipboard too (permitting the use of the "Paste" edit menu entry or Ctrl+V + in the target). +
- Possibly harmful bug in strerror_r usage (GNU case). +
1.12.2
-1.12.1
-1.12.0
--
-
- To compile the Python interface for recoll 1.12, you need - to edit setup.py and replace "rcldb/pathhash.cpp" with - "utils/fileudi.cpp". -
- rclman outputs control characters, causing problems with - preview and phrase searches in manual pages. -
- rcllyx has trouble with 8bit characters in file names. -
- "recoll -q ..." processes incorrectly second and further - command line arguments. -
- The
- following problem was corrected by Xapian 1.0.11 or
- 1.0.12, and I can see no reason to use older versions and/or the
- patches below. However, they're kept around in case someone
- needs them.
- NEAR expansion errors: recoll performs stemming expansion inside - NEAR clauses (except if prevented by a capitalized - entry). Because of a Xapian bug (up to 1.0.12 (or 11?)), NEAR - does not support multiple OR subclauses. This manifests itself - by a 'not implemented' Xapian exception or an explicit error - message. Workarounds: --
-
- Prevent expansion of NEAR terms (possibly except one) by - capitalizing them. - -
- Or apply the following patch to xapian, inside the
- "api/" directory:
- 0.x versions: - - xapian/xapNearDistrib-0.x.patch -
- 1.0.[0-9]: - - xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.0_9.patch -
- 1.0.10: - - xapian/xapNearDistrib-1.0.10.patch -
- - or fetch the already patched source from - the local xapian/ directory - then recompile, and install. -
-
-
-
1.11.4
--
-
- Possibly harmful bug in strerror_r usage (GNU case). -
- Incorrect handling of "accents" inside Japanese katakana - text. -
- Using the "Erase history" command on an empty history - would cause recoll to crash. -
1.11.1
--
-
- Unicode space characters like - 0x3000, Ideographic space - where not detected inside user entries like the main - interface search entry. Badly parsed searches would retrieve no - results, when the same search entered with ascii space characters - would have succeeded. -
- Spaces were inserted inside CJK strings when building - abstracts for the result list. -
- Accent removal should not be performed for Japanese. -
- When using the query language, an OR part with more than - two terms will swallow preceding AND terms, one for each - additional OR. Ex: (champagne ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx) - will be interpreted as - "champagne OR ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx" - instead of the correct - "champagne AND (ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx)" - Workaround until the fix is issued: add non-existing terms - before the OR part and check the resulting query: - "champagne bogusxyztv ext:odt OR ext:sxw OR ext:lyx" - -
- The "Copy file name" and "Copy URL" entries of the - right-click menus only copy the data to the X11 primary - selection (use middle-button click to paste). This is - probably a mistake, the data should be copied to the - clipboard too (permitting the use of the "Paste" edit menu - entry or Ctrl+V in the target). - -
- Possibly harmful bug in strerror_r usage (GNU case). -
1.10.6
--
-
- If the locale is not utf-8, non-ascii command line
- arguments to recoll and recollq are not converted to utf-8,
- which may prevent, for example, the kde applet from
- working. The workaround is to apply the following one-line
- fix to qtgui/main.cpp, recompile and install recoll:
-
- 386c386 - < sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromUtf8(qstring.c_str())); +
1.10.6
+-
+
- If the locale is not utf-8, non-ascii command line arguments to recoll
+ and recollq are not converted to utf-8, which may prevent, for example, the
+ kde applet from working. The workaround is to apply the following one-line
+ fix to qtgui/main.cpp, recompile and install recoll:
+
386c386 + < sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromUtf8(qstring.c_str())); --- - > sSearch->setSearchString(QString::fromLocal8Bit(qstring.c_str())); --
-
+ - If the locale is not utf-8, non-ascii command line arguments to recoll
+ and recollq are not converted to utf-8, which may prevent, for example, the
+ kde applet from working. The workaround is to apply the following one-line
+ fix to qtgui/main.cpp, recompile and install recoll:
+
1.10.1
+1.10.1
+-
+
- A relatively simple error case can cause the indexer to stop processing + an mbox file (forgetting all subsequent messages). More specifically, this + happens when encountering more than than a few dozen errors while handling + attachments. This is relatively common: for exemple if an external helper + application is missing and multiple attachments of the affected type are + found (ie: multiple images and no exiftool). Workaround: install the helper + application. +
- The decoding of base-64 data in emails fails in a relatively uncommon but + sometimes encountered case. +
- In a preview window, when walking the search term hits with the + Previous/Next buttons, 'Previous' actually acts as 'Next' (it does work + normally for the local search). +
- Problems in detecting message separators inside Thunderbird mailboxes + (quite probably mainly for messages imported from outlook?). Can lead to + unindexed messages, and even apparently indexer crashes in some cases. +
- File names indexed as terms can sometimes overflow the maximum term size, + halting the indexing. +
- For Phrase/Near searches, only the first term group is highlighted in + preview. +
-
-
- A relatively simple error case can cause the indexer to - stop processing an mbox file (forgetting all subsequent - messages). More specifically, this happens when encountering - more than than a few dozen errors while handling - attachments. This is relatively common: for exemple if an - external helper application is missing and multiple - attachments of the affected type are found (ie: multiple - images and no exiftool). Workaround: install the helper - application. -
- The decoding of base-64 data in emails fails in a relatively uncommon - but sometimes encountered case. -
- In a preview window, when walking the search term hits with the - Previous/Next buttons, 'Previous' actually acts as 'Next' (it does work - normally for the local search). -
- Problems in detecting message separators inside Thunderbird mailboxes - (quite probably mainly for messages imported from outlook?). Can lead to - unindexed messages, and even apparently indexer crashes in some cases. -
- File names indexed as terms can sometimes overflow the maximum term - size, halting the indexing. -
- For Phrase/Near searches, only the first term group is highlighted in - preview. -
1.10.0
+-
+
- If a filter fails while trying to extract the data from a file, the file + will not be indexed at all (not even the file name). The file name should + be indexed in this case. This happens in particular in the very common case + where the helper application is not installed (ie: missing Exiftool -> + no *.jpg names in the index). +
- If several query language "ext:" qualifiers are specified, they will be + joined by an AND instead of OR, resulting in no results. Using an explicit + OR doesn't work (actually OR + field names is generally broken). In some + cases, you can use a "type:" qualifier as a workaround. +
1.10.0
--
+
- Problems have been reported indexing big mailstores (several hundreds of + thousands of messages): resulting in a very big database and even crashes. + +
- If a filter fails while trying to extract the data from a file, the file
- will not be indexed at all (not even the file name). The file
- name should be indexed in this case. This happens in particular in the
- very common case where the helper application is not installed (ie:
- missing Exiftool -> no *.jpg names in the index).
+
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...) +
- If several query language "ext:" qualifiers are specified, they will be
- joined by an AND instead of OR, resulting in no results. Using an
- explicit OR doesn't work (actually OR + field names is generally
- broken). In some cases, you can use a "type:" qualifier as a workaround.
+
1.8.1
+-
+
- This is not really a bug but .beagle really should be included in + "skippedNames", or you end up indexing the beagle text cache, which is not + really desirable. +
- Doc bug: the manual states that the query language supports a "mime:" + switch to filter mime types. There is currently no such thing. +
1.7.5
+-
+
- Debian and Ubuntu: the rclsoff Openoffice filter doesn't work, because of + an incorrect shell syntax (understood by bash but not sh). To fix, you edit + /usr[/local]/share/recoll/filters/rclsoff and can change the line: trap + cleanup EXIT SIGHUP SIGQUIT SIGINT SIGTERM into: trap cleanup EXIT HUP QUIT + INT TERM or download the updated filter from the filters page: + http://www.recoll.org/filters/filters.html +
1.9.x
+-
+
1.9.x
--
-
- Problems have been reported indexing big mailstores (several hundreds of
- thousands of messages): resulting in a very big database and even
- crashes.
+
1.7.3
+-
+
- Processing will stop on first error while indexing an mbox file. This + could happen just because an attachment could not be decoded, and can cause + non-indexing of many messages. The most probable cause of error is a + missing filter (ie for ms-word files), so the temporary workaround would be + to install the missing filters. This bug is specific to 1.7 and 1.6 users + need not worry. A correction will be issued very soon. +
- Messages of type multipart/signed are not indexed. +
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
+
1.6.2
+-
+
- Relatively unfrequent issue with message boundary detection in mbox + files, could cause miscellaneous problems. +
- Executing an external viewer for a file with single-quotes in the name + would not work. +
- 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
+
1.5.10
+-
+
- If a defaultcharset was set in the configuration file for a subdirectory, + it would stay in effect for all subsequent files/directories (except if + explicitely overridden), potentially causing many transcoding errors. +
- 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.
+
1.5.[1-7]
+-
+
- Dates in result list come from the file's ctimes, which may be confusing + +
- Some rare MIME messages with null boundaries can crash the indexer. +
- 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...)
+
1.5.0
+-
+
- Under some conditions, recoll startup and exit could be very slow: the + simple search history list had serious problems with non-ascii strings, + whose size sometimes doubled at each program startup/stop. +
1.8.1
--
-
- This is not really a bug but .beagle really should be included in - "skippedNames", or you end up indexing the beagle text cache, which is - not really desirable. -
- Doc bug: the manual states that the query language supports a "mime:"
- switch to filter mime types. There is currently no such thing.
+
1.3.3
+-
+
- Several of the external filters did not handle path names with embedded + spaces (rcluncomp rclsoff rclps rclmedia rcldjvu). This is fixed in 1.4. + +
- If your QT installation is built with the QT_NO_STL flag, Recoll will not + compile. I have a patch for this (will be fixed in the next release), + contact me if you get the problem. Typical error message: main.cpp:160: + error: no match for 'operator+=' in 'msg += reason' +
- The 'None of these words' field in the complex search does not work if + there are no other filled fields (it transforms into an ordinary search). + Workaround: enter very common term(s) in the 'any of these words' field. + +
- Indexing cannot currently be conveniently and cleanly stopped when it's + started. You can kill the process, and keyboard interrupt might work, but + this may leave the database in a bad state. This is fixed in the upcoming + release, there is no current workaround. +
1.7.5
--
-
- Debian and Ubuntu: the rclsoff Openoffice filter doesn't work, - because of an incorrect shell syntax (understood by bash but not sh). To - fix, you edit /usr[/local]/share/recoll/filters/rclsoff and can change - the line: - trap cleanup EXIT SIGHUP SIGQUIT SIGINT SIGTERM - into: - trap cleanup EXIT HUP QUIT INT TERM - or download the updated filter from the filters page: - http://www.recoll.org/filters/filters.html - -
1.7.3
--
-
- Processing will stop on first error while indexing an mbox file. This - could happen just because an attachment could not be decoded, and can - cause non-indexing of many messages. The most probable cause of error is - a missing filter (ie for ms-word files), so the temporary workaround - would be to install the missing filters. This bug is specific to 1.7 and - 1.6 users need not worry. A correction will be issued very soon. -
- Messages of type multipart/signed are not indexed. - -
1.6.2
--
-
- Relatively unfrequent issue with message boundary detection in mbox - files, could cause miscellaneous problems. -
- Executing an external viewer for a file with single-quotes in the name - would not work. - -
1.5.10
--
-
- If a defaultcharset was set in the configuration file for a subdirectory, - it would stay in effect for all subsequent files/directories (except if - explicitely overridden), potentially causing many transcoding errors. - -
1.5.[1-7]
--
-
- Dates in result list come from the file's ctimes, which may be confusing -
- Some rare MIME messages with null boundaries can crash the indexer. - -
1.5.0
--
-
- Under some conditions, recoll startup and exit could be very slow: the - simple search history list had serious problems with non-ascii strings, - whose size sometimes doubled at each program startup/stop. - -
1.3.3
--
-
-
- Several of the external filters did not handle path names with embedded - spaces (rcluncomp rclsoff rclps rclmedia rcldjvu). This is fixed in 1.4. - -
- If your QT installation is built with the QT_NO_STL flag, Recoll will not - compile. I have a patch for this (will be fixed in the next release), - contact me if you get the problem. Typical error message: - main.cpp:160: error: no match for 'operator+=' in 'msg += reason' - -
- The 'None of these words' field in the complex search does not work if - there are no other filled fields (it transforms into an ordinary - search). Workaround: enter very common term(s) in the 'any of these - words' field. - -
- Indexing cannot currently be conveniently and cleanly - stopped when it's started. You can kill the process, and - keyboard interrupt might work, but this may leave the - database in a bad state. This is fixed in the upcoming - release, there is no current workaround. -
1.2.2
--
-
- The preview window is supposed to scroll after loading the document so - that the first search term is visible. This does not work in many cases. -
- The result list title is not shown for sorted lists - - Notes on older versions: -
- Trouble compiling on some linux systems (Gentoo and Slackware?). There - existed a quite common issue where the Recoll link will fail trying to - use a libstdc++.la file. This was due to a problem with the xapian-config - program. A workaround has been included in the configure script for - recoll 1.2.2, and the problem should not occur any more. - -
- Case-insensitive search should now work in most cases - (used to not work except for accented ascii). - -
- All directories and files with names beginning with a dot were ignored - by the skippedNames directive in the default recoll.conf file from - older versions (no indexing of mozilla or thunderbird email !). An - upgrade will not fix this (it will not modify an existing - configuration). You need to edit recoll.conf by hand and remove the .* - from skippedNames. - -
1.2.2
+-
+
- The preview window is supposed to scroll after loading the document so + that the first search term is visible. This does not work in many cases. + +
- The result list title is not shown for sorted lists Notes on older + versions: +
- Trouble compiling on some linux systems (Gentoo and Slackware?). There + existed a quite common issue where the Recoll link will fail trying to use + a libstdc++.la file. This was due to a problem with the xapian-config + program. A workaround has been included in the configure script for recoll + 1.2.2, and the problem should not occur any more. +
- Case-insensitive search should now work in most cases (used to not work + except for accented ascii). +
- All directories and files with names beginning with a dot were ignored by + the skippedNames directive in the default recoll.conf file from older + versions (no indexing of mozilla or thunderbird email !). An upgrade will + not fix this (it will not modify an existing configuration). You need to + edit recoll.conf by hand and remove the .* from skippedNames. +