diff --git a/src/VERSION b/src/VERSION
index f161df1c..98e863cd 100644
--- a/src/VERSION
+++ b/src/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.15.9pre
+1.15.8
diff --git a/website/BUGS.html b/website/BUGS.html
index 72bcf427..ca2a8662 100644
--- a/website/BUGS.html
+++ b/website/BUGS.html
@@ -38,38 +38,17 @@
       <h2><a name="b_latest">recoll 1.15</a></h2> 
 
       <ul> 
-
+        
         <li>Cancelling a preview in the GUI will also cancel the indexing
           thread if it is running.</li>
 
-        <li>Using search 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.</li>
+        <li>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.</li>
 
-        <li>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.</li>
-
-        <li>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.</li>
-
-        <li>The rclzip filter can't handle utf-8 in path names for archive
-          members. An <a href="http://www.recoll.org/filters/rclzip">
-            updated filter</a> is available. </li>
-
-        <li>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 
-          <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/changeset/3751ea8ea179">
-            patch</a> which fixes the issue (then needs full reindex for these
-          files).</li>
 
         <li>After an upgrade, the recoll GUI sometimes crashes on
           startup. This is fixed by removing (back it up just in case)
@@ -95,8 +74,8 @@
           relatively rare files with a very small text, resulting in the
           following error message:
           <blockquote>
-             I'm afraid the text stream of this file is too small to
-             handle.
+            I'm afraid the text stream of this file is too small to
+            handle.
           </blockquote> 
 
           Only small files produced by Microsoft Word on a Mac, or by
@@ -109,30 +88,89 @@
           slower indexing for all normal .doc files.</li>
       </ul>
 
+      <h2><a name="b_1_15_7">recoll 1.15.7</a></h2> 
+        <li>Using search 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.</li>
+
+        <li>The GUI preview function sometimes failed with a
+          non-sensical message about a non-related missing
+          helper.</li>
+
+        <li>The ignored suffixes list (recoll_noindex) is
+          ignored in some cases.</li>
+
+        <li>The GUI option to remember sort state between invocations
+          only works for sort by date.</li>
+        
+        <li>The man filter creates groff temporary png files in the
+          home directory.</li>
+
+        <li>Indexing can hang or crash after an error occurs on an
+          archive member (which should have affected only the relevant
+          document).</li>
+
+        <li>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.</li>
+
+        <li>Starting the indexing thread inside the GUI while another
+          indexer (batch or real-time) was active would silently
+          failed. It should show an error dialog.</li>
+
+        <li>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.</li>
+
+        <li>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.</li>
+
+        <li>Most operations on the parent document in the result table
+          view are not connected and do nothing.</li>
+
+        <li>The rclzip filter can't handle utf-8 in path names for archive
+          members. An <a href="http://www.recoll.org/filters/rclzip">
+            updated filter</a> is available. </li>
+
+        <li>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 
+          <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/changeset/3751ea8ea179">
+            patch</a> which fixes the issue (then needs full reindex for these
+          files).</li>
+
+
       <h2><a name="b_1_15_5">recoll 1.15.5</a></h2> 
-        <li>The Python and PHP modules in 1.15.5 have compile errors. This
+      <li>The Python and PHP modules in 1.15.5 have compile errors. This
         is solved by 
-          <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/changeset/0b09b33cd06a">
-            this simple change.</a></li>
-        <li>The current stemming language is not indicated by menu
-         checkboxes.</li> 
+        <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/changeset/0b09b33cd06a">
+          this simple change.</a></li>
+      <li>The current stemming language is not indicated by menu
+        checkboxes.</li> 
 
       <h2><a name="b_1_15_2">recoll 1.15.2</a></h2> 
       <ul>
         <li>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.</li>
+          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.</li>
 
         <li>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.</li>
+          (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.</li>
 
         <li>Changing the indexing configuration parameters from the GUI
-        while the indexing thread (not an external recollindex command) is
+          while the indexing thread (not an external recollindex command) is
         running will sometimes (quite often) crash the GUI.</li>
 
         <li>Script files (ie: .sh .pl) indexed as text do not respect
diff --git a/website/release-1.15.html b/website/release-1.15.html
index f13be069..5dfc4500 100644
--- a/website/release-1.15.html
+++ b/website/release-1.15.html
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     
     <div class="content">
 
-      <h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.15.0/1.15.7</h1>
+      <h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.15.0/1.15.8</h1>
 
       <p><em>Notes:</em>
         <ul><li>1.15.1 is identical to 1.15.0 except for a very
@@ -43,7 +43,42 @@
         for the indication of the stemming language in the menu, fixed in
         1.15.7). If you are running 1.15.5, you probably don't need to
         upgrade.</li>
-      </ul>
+
+        <li>1.15.8 fixes quite a few bugs (see
+        the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_15_7">BUGS</a> file) and also
+        breaks my promise to only fix bugs in minor releases because
+        it also has a few small functional improvements (which
+        actually border on the bug fix category):
+          <ul>
+            <li>Searches now allow negative directory filtering (all
+              results except from the specified directory). Other attempts
+              at still impossible negative searches
+              (ie: <span class="literal">-mime:</span>) now cause
+              explicit errors messages instead of lame results. The
+              inverted directory filtering is accessible from the query
+              language and by checking a checkbox in the advanced
+              search panel.</li> 
+
+            <li>The GUI advanced search panel now allows specifying a
+              field for each entry (ie: author/recipient, etc).</li>
+
+            <li>Added filters for .war (Konqueror web archive) and
+              .mhtm (other web archive format).</li>
+
+            <li>Result table:
+              <ul>
+                <li>The detail area now has a popup menu similar
+                  to the one in the result list (open parent, save to disk
+                  etc.).</li>
+                <li>Estimated result counts are displayed in the
+                  status line.</li> 
+                <li>Set row height according to default font size, and better 
+                  adjust row height and vertical text position in
+                  cells.</li>
+              </ul>
+            </li>
+
+          </ul>
       </p>
 
       <h2>Caveats</h2>