use st_ctime always to detect file changes
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that no debris from older releases remain (e.g.: old stemming
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files which are not used any more).</p>
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<p>Installing 1.19 over an 1.18 index will force a lot of
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reindexing anyway because we switched from using st_ctime instead
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of st_mtime to detect file modifications, meaning that all files
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which were modified since created will be updated.</p>
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<p><span class="important">Viewer exceptions</span>:
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There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
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the locally configured application even when <em>Use
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inside the simple search string, which was often more confusing
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and ennoying than useful.</li>
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<li>Extended file attributes are now indexed by default. As a
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side effect, recoll now uses st_ctime, not st_mtime to detect
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file changes. This means that installing 1.19 will reindex
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many files (all those that were modified since created).</li>
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<li>The software can now be built so that indexing is runs with
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multiple threads. This can be a major performance boost for
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people with multiprocessor machines and big indexes. It is not
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