Release notes for Recoll 1.17.x
+ + +Caveats
+ +Installing over an older version: 1.17 is fully + compatible with 1.16 indexes, and mostly compatible with 1.15 + ones, except for a few differences for weird terms containing + punctuation signs. Perform a full index pass if installing + over an older version. The simplest way to do this is to quit + all recoll programs and just delete the index directory + (rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb), + then start recoll or + recollindex. recollindex -z + will do the same in most cases.
+ +Also, using the anchored search feature on an 1.15 index + requires a full reindex.
+ + +Changes
+ +Recoll 1.17 is an incremental improvements release over 1.16, no + major function was introduced or modified.
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- When a search fails to retrieve results, the spelling + suggestions are now presented as links inside the result list + area. Clicking a link will replace the appropriate word inside + the search entry. +
- Thumbnails will be displayed in the result list if an + appropriate one is found in the standard freedesktop + thumbnails directory (ie: created by gimp or some file + manager). Recoll will not create thumbnails (this would slow + result display too much). + +
- The GUI now has a set of dialogs to set up the indexing + schedule, either as automatic real time indexing started + with the user session or as discrete cron entries. This + will take care of the details of autostart files or crontab + editing. +
- The GUI indexing thread has been removed. All indexing is + now performed by a separate recollindex process. This has + multiple advantages, the thread was just a very bad + idea. Among others, exiting the GUI has no influence on an + ongoing indexing. + +
- The GUI indexing configuration now only shows the directories + customized by the user not those which come from the + standard configuration (ie: ~/.thunderbird). Showing the + standard directories was more often confusing than + useful. + +
- It is now possible to control the date format used to + display result (go to query preferences). +
- It is now possible to Copy/Paste from the term explorer + result list. +
- Indexer: handle the html5 charset meta tag. + +
- Added okular notes and gnumeric filters. + +
- GUI: it is now possible to use a Qt style sheet to modify + many aspects of Recoll appearance. A style sheet file can be + selected from the GUI query configuration dialog. A sample + skeleton style sheet is to be found in the + share/recoll/examples directory. + +
- GUI: Added menu entry to show all the mime types actually + indexed. + +
- Fixed bugs:
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- Indexing configuration: deleting one customized + directory would sometimes delete the whole list (depending + on Qt version I think). +
- Indexing configuration: adding a customized directory + would not make it the active/current one (so that + another click was needed to choose it before making + modifications). +
- The GUI preview now performs an up to date check + before displaying data from a subdocument, and proposes + to reindex the container if it changed. This is mostly + useful for mailbox containers, where preview would + sometimes display the wrong message (if the folder had + been compacted). +
- Fix a bug in html charset detection. The wrong charset + was sometimes used for GUI preview. +
- The chm filter can now process files lacking a Topics + node. + +
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