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<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.18.x</h1>
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<h2>Caveats</h2>
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<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces serious
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index formats changes, and it will be advisable to reset the index
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in most cases. <em>IF</em> the 1.18 index is not configured for
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case and diacritics sensitivity, it is mostly compatible with
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1.17 indexes though. Case/diacritics sensitivity can be turned
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off either by a compile flag or a configuration variable, and
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the default is still a stripped index (so, mostly compatible
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with 1.17). If you activate case and diacritics sensitivity,
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you must reset the index.</p>
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<p>Always reset the index if installing over an older version (1.14
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and older). The simplest way to do this is to quit all recoll
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programs and just delete the index directory (<span
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class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>), then
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start recoll or recollindex. <span
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class="literal">recollindex -z</span> will do the same in most
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cases.</p>
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<p>Some new, auxiliary, features also require a full reindex:</p>
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<li>The file size filtering functions if the existing index was
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created by version 1.16 or older.</li>
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<li>The anchored search feature if the index was created by
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release 1.15 or older.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Changes</h2>
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<p>Recoll 1.18 has some major changes, the most visible of
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which is the ability to search for exact matches of character case
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and diacritics.</p>
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<p>Recoll 1.18.0 changes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The index can now be configured for case and diacritics
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sensitivity, in which case raw terms are indexed. On such an
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index, search insensitivity to case and diacriics is obtained,
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when desired, by query time expansion, in a similar manner to
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what is used for stemming. See the
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<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.INDEXING.CONFIG.SENS">
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manual chapter for details</a> about controlling the
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feature.</li>
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<li>Recoll has a new capacity to store page break locations
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and use them when opening a document at the location for a
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given match. This currently works with PDF, Postscript and DVI
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documents, and the <b>evince</b> viewer.</li>
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<li>Recoll can now also pass a search string to the native
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application.</li>
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<li>The GUI result list has a new "snippets" window for
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documents with page numbers, which let the user choose a
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snippet and open the document at the appropriate page.</li>
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<li>We now allow multiple directory specifications in the query
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language, as in: <i>dir:/home/me -dir:tmp</i></li>
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<li>The search inside the GUI preview window, has been
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improved, and allows selecting from a list one of the
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initial term groups as the search target.</li>
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<li>A new script dedicated to laptops, which can start or stop
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recollindex according to mains power status.</li>
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<li>Added <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> to plain
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text HTML display options. This will often be the best
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option to display plain text: it will better respect
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indentation, while folding long lines.</li>
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<li>When running in an UTF-8 locale, and after decoding a
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plain text file as UTF-8 fails, indexing will try again
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using an 8bit character set heuristically chosen according
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to the locale country code.</li>
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<li>A new configuration, maxmemberkbs, has been implemented to
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limit the size of archive members we process. This will avoid
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recoll trying to read a 4 GB ISO from a zip archive...</li>
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<li>Proper error reporting when a wildcard expansion is
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truncated for size. An incomplete search could previously be
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performed without any indication.</li>
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<li>More effort is also put in choosing the terms used in
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generating the snippets inside the result list.</li>
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<li>Recoll now uses the Xapian "synonyms" mechanism to store all
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data about stemming, case, and diacritics expansion (this
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replaces the previous ad-hoc stemming expansion
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mechanism).</li>
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<li>Partial autodetection of thunderbird mailboxes found out
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of the configured location.</li>
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<li>Implemented a list of mime types that should be opened
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with the locally configured application even when <em>Use
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Desktop Preferences</em> is checked. This will permit, for
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example, using evince for its page access capabilities on
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PDF files, while letting the desktop handle all the other
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mime types.</li>
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<li>Fixed bugs:
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<ul>
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<li>The unac_except_trans mechanism could be buggy in some
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cases and generate wrong character translations.</li>
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<li>Don't terminate monitor for permissions-related
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addwatch error.</li>
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<li>Fix handling of ODF documents exported by Google
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docs.</li>
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</ul>
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