diff --git a/website/features.html b/website/features.html
index 53faac53..79c1eeaa 100644
--- a/website/features.html
+++ b/website/features.html
@@ -191,6 +191,11 @@
         with <span class="command">Python</span> and the 
         <span class="command">info</span> command.</li>
 
+        <li><span class="application">EPUB</span> files
+          with <span class="command">Python</span> and this
+          <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/epub/0.5.0">Python epub</a>
+            decoding module.</li>
+        
         <li><span class="application">Tar</span> archives (needs <span
         class="command">Python</span>). Tar file indexing is disabled
         by default (because tar archives don't typically contain the
diff --git a/website/filters/filters.html b/website/filters/filters.html
index 2484351f..67fc7666 100644
--- a/website/filters/filters.html
+++ b/website/filters/filters.html
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
 	<a href="mimeview">mimeview</a> </p>
 
       <blockquote>
+        <p>There is a new rclepub filter for EPUB ebooks. It new for
+          all recoll versions before 1.18.0.</p>
         <p>rclchm needs to be updated for all Recoll versions up
           to and including 1.17.1.</p>
 	<p>All filters are up to date in Recoll 1.16.2, except
@@ -75,6 +77,16 @@
           should upgrade.</p>
       </blockquote>
 
+      
+      <h2>EPUB documents</h2>
+
+      <p>New <a href="rclepub">rclepub</a> filter for EPUB documents.
+        This needs
+        the <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/epub/0.5.0">
+          python epub decoding module</a>. The mimeview/mimemap and
+          mimeconf files in this directory have the appropriate
+          entries.</p> 
+
       <h2>Updated Open Document filter</h2>
 
       <p>The <a href="rclsoff">new filter</a> will correctly handle
diff --git a/website/index.html.en b/website/index.html.en
index 47664ba9..299eecfa 100644
--- a/website/index.html.en
+++ b/website/index.html.en
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
   <head>
     <title>Recoll text search finds your documents</title>
     <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
-    <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
     <meta name="Description" content="Recoll is a desktop text search application for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, based on the Xapian search engine library.">
     <meta name="Keywords" content="text search, document search, full-text search, desktop search,open source,free">
     <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
@@ -61,7 +60,6 @@
 	extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical
 	interface.</p>
 
-
       <p class="remark">Recoll will index an <b>MS-Word</b> document
       stored as an <b>attachment</b> to an <b>e-mail message</b> inside
 	  a <b>Thunderbird folder</b> archived in a <b>Zip file</b>
@@ -86,6 +84,8 @@
       <h2>News</h2>
       <div class="news">
       <ul>
+        <li>2012-10-16: <a href="filters/filters.html">new filter for
+            EPUB documents</a>.</li> 
         <li>2012-10-16: recoll 1.18 will soon be out. It will have
           optional character case and diacritics sensitivity, direct
           access to hit page when opening PDF files, complex search
diff --git a/website/index.html.fr b/website/index.html.fr
index d2bf135b..a8eb5726 100644
--- a/website/index.html.fr
+++ b/website/index.html.fr
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
     <title>RECOLL: un outil personnel de recherche textuelle pour 
       Unix et Linux</title>
     <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
-    <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
     <meta name="Description" content=
     "recoll est un logiciel personnel de recherche textuelle pour unix et linux basé sur Xapian, un moteur d'indexation puissant et mature.">
     <meta name="Keywords" content=
@@ -101,6 +100,8 @@
       <h2>Nouvelles: </h2>
       <ul>
 
+        <li>2012-10-16: <a href="filters/filters.html">un nouveau filtre
+            pour les documents EPUB</a>.</li> 
         <li>2012-05-24: Sortie de la
           version <a href="download.html#source">1.17.3</a>. Voir
           les <a href="release-1.17.html">les notes</a>. Cette version
diff --git a/website/release-1.18.html b/website/release-1.18.html
index 3747941e..43d2a1a6 100644
--- a/website/release-1.18.html
+++ b/website/release-1.18.html
@@ -67,13 +67,14 @@
         There is a new list of mime types that should be opened with
         the locally configured application even when <em>Use
           Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This allows making
-        use of new function (direct access to page), which could
-        not be available through the desktop's <tt>xdg-open</tt>.
-        The default list contains PDF,
-        Postscript and DVI, so you may want to reset it after
-        installation if you want to keep the previous behaviour
-        (losing the page number functionality). This can be done
-        from the <em>Preferences->Gui Configuration</em> menu.</p>
+        use of new function (direct access to page), which could not
+        be available through the desktop's <tt>xdg-open</tt>.  The
+        default list contains PDF, Postscript and DVI, which should be
+        opened with the Evince viewer for the page access functions to
+        work. If you want to keep the previous behaviour (losing the
+        page number functionality), you need to empty the list after
+        installation . This can be done from the <em>Preferences->Gui
+        Configuration</em> menu.</p>
 
       <h2>Changes</h2>
 
