121 lines
4.5 KiB
HTML
121 lines
4.5 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
|
|
<html>
|
|
<head>
|
|
<title>Recoll 1.18 series release notes</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 simple full-text search system for unix and linux
|
|
based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">
|
|
<meta name="Keywords" content=
|
|
"full text search, desktop search, unix, linux">
|
|
<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
|
|
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
|
|
<meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow">
|
|
|
|
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">
|
|
</head>
|
|
|
|
<body>
|
|
|
|
<div class="rightlinks">
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li>
|
|
<li><a href="doc.html">Documentation</a></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<div class="content">
|
|
|
|
<h1>Release notes for Recoll 1.18.x</h1>
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>Caveats</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p><em>Installing over an older version</em>: 1.18 introduces serious
|
|
index formats changes, and it will be advisable to reset the
|
|
index in most cases. IF the 1.18 index is not configured for
|
|
case and diacritics sensitivity, it is mostly compatible with
|
|
1.17 indexes though. Case/diacritics sensitivity can be turned
|
|
off either by a compile flag or a configuration variable, and
|
|
the default is still a stripped index (so, mostly compatible
|
|
with 1.17). If you activate case and diacritics sensitivity,
|
|
you must reset the index.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Always reset the index if installing over an older version (1.14
|
|
and older). The simplest way to do this is to quit all recoll
|
|
programs and just delete the index directory (<span
|
|
class="literal">rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb</span>), then
|
|
start recoll or recollindex. <span
|
|
class="literal">recollindex -z</span> will do the same in most
|
|
cases.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Some new, auxiliary, features do require a full reindex to work:</p>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>The file size filtering functions (for an index created by
|
|
1.16 or older).</li>
|
|
<li>The anchored search feature if the index was created by
|
|
release 1.15 or older.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
<h2>Changes</h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>Recoll 1.18 has some major changes 1.17, the most visible of
|
|
which is the ability to consider character case and diacritics
|
|
when searching.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Recoll 1.18.0 changes:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
|
|
<li>The index can now be configured for case and diacritics
|
|
sensitivity. Raw terms are indexed, and query time expansions
|
|
are used when search insensitivity is designed (in a similar
|
|
manner to what is used for stemming). See the chapter
|
|
manual for details about controlling the feature.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>More effort is put in choosing the terms used in
|
|
generating the snippets inside the result list.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Capacity to store page breaks and use them when opening a
|
|
document.</li>
|
|
<li>Capacity to pass a search string to the native app.</li>
|
|
<li>New "snippets" window for documents with page numbers, let
|
|
the user choose a snippet and open the document at the
|
|
appropriate page.</li>
|
|
<li>We now use the Xapian "synonyms" mechanism to store all
|
|
data about stemming, case, and diacritics expansion (this
|
|
replace the previous ad-hoc stemming expansion mechanism).</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>New script to start/stop recollindex according to mains
|
|
power status.</li>
|
|
<li>Add <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap"> to plain
|
|
text HTML display options.</li>
|
|
<li>Allow multiple directory specifications in the query
|
|
language, as in: <i>dir:/home/me -dir:tmp</i></li>
|
|
<li>Improved search in the preview window, allows selecting
|
|
one of the initial search clauses from a list.</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>Fixed bugs:
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>The unac_except_trans mechanism could be buggy in some
|
|
cases and generate wrong character translations.</li>
|
|
<li>Don't terminate monitor for permissions-related
|
|
addwatch error.</li>
|
|
<li>Fix handling of ODF documents exported by Google
|
|
docs.</li>
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
</body>
|
|
</html>
|