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<h1>Recoll journal of user-visible changes </h1>
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<h2><a name="1.14.3">1.14.3</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Get rid of permanent filter subprocess at the end of a GUI
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indexing pass.</li>
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<li>Add new filter for indexing GNU info files.</li>
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<li>Index the file name from a zip or chm internal path.</li>
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<li>Add hotrecoll.py script to help with one-key recoll
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activation/hiding. Move focus to search entry when unminimized.</li>
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<li>Handle bad mbox format from Thunderbird.</li>
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<li>Catch exception which was causing stderr messages while
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indexing encrypted zip files.</li>
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<li>Change result list "Edit" links to "Open" for consistency
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with menus.</li>
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<li>Change the type of character set conversion occurring
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when using "Copy file path" from the result list.
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Should work in more cases than the previous approach (but
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will still fail sometimes).</li>
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<li>Update lyx filter.</li>
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<li>Fix problems with white space in file name in several
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input filters.</li>
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<li>Support mutagen versions older than 1.17.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.14.2">1.14.2</a></h2>
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<p>Note: most of the changes are in release 1.14.0. Release 1.14.1 fixed 2
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bugs. Release 1.14.2 fixes the help browser which was broken
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by 1.14.2. Sigh ...</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="usermanual/rcl.search.lang.html">
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date selection in queries</a>.</li>
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<li>Pure negative queries (ie: <i>-someterm date:P10D/</i>.</li>
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<li>Autosuffs: option to automatically turn words into <tt>ext:</tt>
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clauses (ie: <i>xls</i> -> <i>ext:xls</i>) (GUI preferences
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panel).</li>
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<li>Allow extracting arbitrary mail headers and use them as
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index/search fields (configured in the <tt>fields</tt>
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file).</li>
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<li><tt>nonumbers</tt> configuration parameter: disable
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indexing of all numbers, useful for some data files with lots
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of numerical data.</li>
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<li>Shortcuts for the results page: <tt>PageUp/Down</tt> can
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be used even when the focus is in the search
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entry. <tt>Shift+Home</tt>: back to first page of results.
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<tt>Ctrl+Shift+s</tt>: return focus to the search
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entry. </li>
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<li>Add full screen mode for small devices.</li>
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<li>Added -i option to recollq to specify extra indexes.</li>
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<li>Removed use of id3lib for extracting mp3 tags. A Python filter
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based on mutagen now handles all audio formats
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(mp3/flac/ogg). <i>If you are currently indexing audio
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files, you need to install mutagen, Recoll will not use
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id3lib or the Flac/Ogg tools any more</i>. </li>
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<li>Filter for <b>fictionbook</b> (.fb2) documents.</li>
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<li>Cleaned up the Python samples and made recollq.py a usable
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clone of recollq.</li>
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<li>Errors when opening additional indexes for a query are now
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fatal. They could easily go unnoticed before.</li>
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<li>Proper LARGEFILE support.</li>
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<li>Use <b>xsltproc</b> instead of misc dirty tricks to
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extract text from most current XML-based documents (except
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those in which the XML is too broken).</li>
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<li>Implement <tt>configure --enable-pic</tt> and use it for
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the KIO slave and Python and PHP modules.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Bugs also fixed in the 1.13 branch:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The <tt>filename</tt> (transcoded file name) field
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could not be stored, so it could not be displayed in the
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result list. Can now be displayed as %(filename).</li>
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<li>Html files would always be indexed even when filtered
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out by <tt>indexedmimetypes</tt></li>
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<li>Preview: toggling between main text and metadata
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display would confuse the text format.</li>
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<li>Restore <tt>indexallfilenames=0</tt> functionality.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.13.04">1.13.04</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Provide a set of configuration defaults so that compilation has a
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chance to succeed on unknown systems.</li>
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<li>Install icon to the pixmaps directory.</li>
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<li>Fixes stemming, which was broken for all previous 1.13
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releases.</li>
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<li><a href="BUGS.html#b_1_13_02">Bugs fixed between 1.13.02
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and 1.13.04.</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.13.02">1.13.02</a></h2>
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<ul><li>This version has a single fix to work around a problem in the
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Qt 4.6.1 uic utility. If you are not using Qt 4.6.1 and are
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currently running Recoll 1.13.01, you do not need to
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upgrade.</li></ul>
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<h2><a name="1.13.01">1.13.01</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Recoll has a new class of persistent external filters
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with the capability to process several documents, or
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multi-document files, in the same instance. Benefits: much
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faster image tag indexing, and new file formats. Except for
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the Perl image tag filter (because of ExifTool), the new
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filters are written in Python.<li>
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<li>New file formats: chm (microsoft help), zip archives, .ics
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calendar files. Individual pages in chm files are indexed and
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can be previewed. Zip is quite convenient for maildir
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archives (for example).</li>
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<li>Recoll can now use the output of the Beagle Firefox plugin
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to index visited web pages and bookmarks. This is only usable
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if Beagle itself is not running, else Recoll and Beagle will be
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fighting for the same queue.</li>
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<li>Big text files (like application logs) can now be paged for
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indexing, avoiding excess memory usage during indexing and
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improving the usability at query time. They can also be
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altogether skipped by setting a maximum size configuration
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parameter. These parameters have default values (1 MB and 20
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MB) which change Recoll behaviour compared to previous
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versions. You can set <i>textfilepagekbs</i>
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and <i>textfilemaxmbs</i> to -1 in the configuration to
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restore the old behaviour.</li>
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<li>A cache was implemented for mbox message header offsets. This
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speeds up message previews for big mbox files.</li>
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<li>Miscellaneous usability improvements:
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<ul>
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<li>Allow using page-up/down and shift-home to scroll the
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result list while the focus is in the search entry. </li>
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<li>Make 'Use desktop preferences' the default for new
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Recoll installations, and make this choice more
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prominent in the external viewer dialog.</li>
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<li>^P starts the print dialog on a preview window.</li>
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<li>If a search has no result, alternate spellings are
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suggested. This feature is still a bit raw and will be
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improved.</li>
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<li>If the text of a document is empty, preview will switch to
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displaying the document fields.</li>
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<li>New entry in the result list contextual menu for opening
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the parent document of a result list hit with its native
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application. Useful for exemple for pages inside chm files.</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Indentation is now preserved when displaying text documents
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inside the preview window. This is particularly welcome for
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program source files.</li>
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<li>Allow substituting arbitrary fields in the result
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paragraph, using a %(fieldname) syntax</li>
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<li>The real-time indexing monitor will now accumulate
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modifications during 30 S before indexing.</li>
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<li>The indexer can now split camelCase words, allowing search on
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component terms. This is not enabled by default as it can
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confuse phrase searches (ie: "MySQL manual" is matched by
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phrase queries for "my sql manual" and "MySQL manual"
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but not "mysql manual"). Use "configure --enable-camelcase"
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to activate it.
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</li>
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<li>The ipath is now printed by default after the url in the
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default result list format.</li>
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<li><i>recoll_noindex</i> and <i>skippedNames</i> can now be
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changed at any point in the tree (only for topdirs previously).</li>
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<li>Allow using location/application sensitivity in external viewer
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choice. This uses several new functions:
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<ul>
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<li>Allow the substitution of arbitrary document fields inside
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external viewer command line arguments.</li>
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<li>Allow field values to be set on all documents
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in a file system subtree. For example, you can
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set an application tag (ie: rclaptg = gnus) on all mailbox
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files under a specific directory.</li>
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<li>New syntax in mimeview for including the rclaptg field in
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viewer choice
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(<i>mimetype</i>|<i>tagvalue</i> = ...).</li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Allow specifiying a specific default character set for mail
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messages. This is mainly useful for readpst dumps. All
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reasonable non-ascii messages specify their character set.</li>
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<li>Added a --without-gui configure option. Removes all X11 and
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Qt dependancies and only compiles the command-line interface.</li>
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<li>Improved the kio_recoll build. There is no need to run
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configure manually in the main directory any more. Ubuntu
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packages for kio_recoll are now built on the
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<a href="http://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/ppa">
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recoll-backports PPA on launchpad.net</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.12.4">1.12.4</a></h2>
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<p>Bugs fixed:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Qt4 version only: the search inside the preview window
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could become unbearably slow for big documents (quadratically
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so), and could not be interrupted (Qt bug). The Qt3 version of
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the code was included in the preview tool to restore good
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performance. This bug is the main reason for this release.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Build system improvements:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Perform minimal base package configuration inside the kio
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cmake code to permit building it from scratch (without a build
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of the main code). Mainly useful for builds on the Ubuntu
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PPA.</li>
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<li>Implement a --without-gui option to build a pure
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command-line version with no Qt or X11 dependancies.</li>
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<li>Ensure that the user's PATH settings determine where we
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look first for qmake in all cases.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.12.3">1.12.3</a></h2>
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<p>This is a bug fix release.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Fix the sort tool which had been broken since 1.11 with
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some (or all?) qt3 versions.<li>
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<li>Catch two Xapian exceptions which could crash the GUI when a query
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was run while the index was being updated.</li>
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<li>Ensure that the result list right-click pop up menu will appear even
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when the click is inside a table.</li>
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<li>Fix the way we retrieve the Xapian library version to avoid
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GUI compilation problems.</li>
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<li>Inside the real-time indexer: only use the main thread to test that
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the X11 server is still alive. Multithreaded calls to x11IsAlive()
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would sometimes crash the process because of an X11 error.</li>
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<li>Define filter timeout so that a looping filter (ie: rclps trying to
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index loop.ps) will not completely stop the indexing. Default value:
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20mn. Add loop.ps to skippedNames.</li>
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<li>Improve filter subprocesses management. Some could previously be
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left around after recollindex was killed. Improve cancellation
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request acknowledgment by recollindex (two ^C were sometimes
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necessary to make it terminate).</li>
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<li>Signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are now blocked in addition to
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INTR/TERM/QUIT.</li>
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<li>Extended attributes indexing now works for all file types.</li>
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<li>Ensure that queries started from the command line are handled as
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normal ones (they previously could not be sorted).</li>
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<li>Improve man page indexing: do not index section header terms.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.12.1">1.12.1</a></h2>
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<p>This is a very minor release, mainly to fix compilation
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issues and a few very minor bugs. No need to upgrade if
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you don't experience these.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed compilation errors for new gcc and gnu libc.</li>
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<li>Use groff html output in rclman to get rid of control
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characters in output (improve manual pages indexing). Fix
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8bit character issues in file names in rcllyx.</li>
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<li>Fixed command line arguments processing problem with
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"recoll -q"</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.12.0">1.12.0</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Recoll now implements a KIO slave to allow searching
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directly from KDE applications. This does not affect the
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main application and is not enabled by default (go to the
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kde/kio/recoll source directory for build
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instructions). </li>
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<li>Recoll now computes md5 checksums for all indexed
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documents and optionally collapses duplicate entries inside
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the result list. This needs a full reindex to become
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effective for older documents already in the index. The
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option to activate collapsing is in the <i>Query
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Configuration</i>.</li>
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<li>Typing F1 anywhere in the GUI should bring up the
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appropriate section of the manual in the application
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configured for viewing HTML documents.</li>
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<li>The result list right click menu now has an entry to
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save the document to a file. This is only enabled for
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documents contained inside another file (ie, messages inside
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an mbox folder, or attachments), and is especially useful for
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extracting an attachment with no associated external
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editor.</li>
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<li>The preview window now has a right-click menu, with an
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entry to toggle between viewing the main text or all the
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metadata for the document. This is most useful in the case
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where the search match actually occurred in a field not
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visible in the main text (ie: author or HTML title).</li>
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<li>Words glued by an underscore character like
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<i>compound_word</i> are now split during indexing, and
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will be found when queried either as themselves or in a
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search for the components.</li>
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<li>There is now a size limit over which no attempt will be made to
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uncompress/identify/index compressed files. Not active by
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default, to be set in the <i>Indexing Configuration</i>.</li>
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<li>Added support for fetching field values from extended file
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attributes. This is not enabled by default, use
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<i>configure --enable-xattr</i>. You'll also need to
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set up a map from the attributes names to the Recoll field
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names (see comment at the end of the <i>fields</i>
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configuration file.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.11.4">1.11.4</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Bugs fixed:
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check the <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_11_1">list</a>.</li>
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<li>The right-click menu "Copy" commands inside the result list
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now copy to the clipboard in addition to the main selection,
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enabling subsequent ^v commands.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.11.0">1.11.0</a></h2>
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<p><i>Recoll release 1.11 has relatively extensive changes that have
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necessitated a modification of the index format. Hence installing this
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release implies a full re-indexing, which is enforced by the
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software.</i></p>
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<ul>
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<li>Filtering on category (message/text/media etc.) as a function of
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the main window for quick access.</li>
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<li>Use html for preview when available (ex: html files or "colorized"
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python) instead of converting to text. This can be turned of in the
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preferences. </li>
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<li>New Python query and index interfaces. The Python query
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interface will be used for building a Xesam adapter for
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Recoll when the specification is stabilized, and could be
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useful for other things, such as indexing contents from an
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RDBMS (see
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<a href="usermanual/usermanual.html#RCL.PROGRAM.API">
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the manual</a> for details). Restructured and cleaned up
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internal Recoll interfaces.</li>
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<li>Improved filter framework. Can now process either html or text output
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from the filters, and more easily execute "raw" commands instead of
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Recoll scripts. Avoided wasteful repeated execution of filters for
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which the helper application is missing.</li>
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<li>Query language now closer to Xesam specification, (but
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still far from a
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complete implementation). See the Recoll manual and
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<a href="http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage">
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http://www.xesam.org/main/XesamUserSearchLanguage</a> </li>
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<li>Much improved configuration for fields. Fields like
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"author" can now be specified as storable (displayable in
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results) and/or indexed (searchable). Added alias facility
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for translating from user-level names to internal.</li>
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<li>Added "recipient" as an indexed/searchable field for emails.</li>
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<li>rcltext filter for processing text such as C code for which no specific
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processing is needed when indexing but a specific viewer is
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desired.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.10.6">1.10.6</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Fix a simple and mildly nasty bug that would cause the
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indexer to stop
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indexing an mbox on encountering a specific but not exceptional error
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condition (like a few dozen errors while indexing attachments for which
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no filter was installed).</li>
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.10.5">1.10.5</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Ensure that file names indexed as terms don't overflow the maximum term
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size.</li>
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<li> Handle non-standard date format in mbox separator lines sometimes
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generated by thunderbird.
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<li> Use attachment file names to help identify a better mime type for
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parts only described as application/octet-stream
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<li> For Phrase/Near searches, highlight all term groups in preview, not just
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the first
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<li> Added Open XML filters
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.10.2">1.10.2</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Fixed openSuse 11 compile issues.
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<li>Fixed bug in interpreting email mime structure, which resulted in base-64
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decoding errors.
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<li>Fixed "Prev" button in preview window. Would actually go forward when
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walking the search terms.
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<li> Allow setting the highlight color for search terms in result list and
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preview (yes: feature change, should have waited for major release...)
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<li> Added svg filter
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.10.1">1.10.1</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Ensure that in case the data of a file can't be indexed because of some
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|
error, at least the file name is indexed.
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|
|
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<li> Improve query language to support OR queries of terms with field
|
|
specifications (ie: title:someterm OR author:someauthor).
|
|
|
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<li> Fix filename search to split patterns on white space, so that
|
|
a "*.jpg *.jpeg" search does what's expected. Means you now need to use
|
|
double-quotes if there is actual embedded white space.
|
|
|
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<li> Jump directly to the external editor choice dialog instead of opening
|
|
preferences when an external viewer is not found.
|
|
|
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<li> Allow stopping indexing through menu action (only works with qt4 for now).
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|
|
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<li> Create an "indexedmimetypes" configuration variable to allow explicitely
|
|
restricting the file types which do get indexed.
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|
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.10.0">1.10.0</a></h2>
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<ul>
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|
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<li> Added a GUI dialog to configure the indexing parameters.
|
|
|
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<li> Added better support for indexing CJK text (Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
|
|
Please note that:
|
|
- You will need a full reindex to take good advantage of this. (You
|
|
*don't* need to reindex if you don't need to search CJK, even if there
|
|
is some in your index).
|
|
- When entering CJK search terms, words (single or multiple characters)
|
|
should be separated with white space.
|
|
- The specific CJK processing can be turned off by setting the nocjk
|
|
variable to true in the configuration file (this may make sense if you
|
|
have a mixed cjk/other document base and don't want to index the cjk
|
|
part, as it will save some disk space and a minuscule amount of cpu).
|
|
|
|
<li> Changed the way Recoll handles searches including composite words (like
|
|
an email address). The new approach looks saner, but could have
|
|
side-effects, please report any problems in this area.
|
|
|
|
<li> The query language got a new "dir:" specifier to filter results on location.
|
|
|
|
<li> New rclimg perl filter for better indexing of picture tags, thanks to
|
|
Cedric Scott. This depends on Exiftool.
|
|
<li> New rcltex filter.
|
|
|
|
<li> Changed and improved how the preview window local search finds the
|
|
query terms, this does not involve weird characters any more. The
|
|
display is cleaner and cut and paste works better.
|
|
|
|
<li> Fixed the fact that a newline-separated word list in simple search would
|
|
wrongly trigger a phrase search.
|
|
|
|
<li> Fixed the way we input text to the preview textedit (the old way would
|
|
sometimes confuse the window into displaying tags instead of acting on
|
|
them).
|
|
|
|
<li> Fixed transcoding to utf-8 for text/plain email attachments
|
|
|
|
<li> Improved mbox From_ line detection
|
|
|
|
<li> Added indexedmimetypes variables to allow restricting the list of indexed
|
|
mime types.
|
|
|
|
<li> KDE kicker applet: start a recoll search from the panel and get a
|
|
Recoll window. This is a clone from the find_applet, originally meant to
|
|
start a Tracker search. Not so useful presently because it will start a
|
|
new Recoll instance for every search. Not part of the main source (the
|
|
configure script is a whopping 1MB...), linked from the download page.
|
|
<li> Added recoll command line options to define a query and execute it
|
|
immediately when the program starts. This is used in practice from the
|
|
applet and could be used from other programs. There is a also a new
|
|
option to not start the GUI and print the results to stdout.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.9.0">1.9.0</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Incompatible change: the icon image reference is now part of the result
|
|
list paragraph format string:
|
|
- If you had a standard config, you need do nothing.
|
|
- If you had a custom format string, you need to add
|
|
<img src="%I" align="left"> at its beginning to get the same result as
|
|
before.
|
|
- If you had unchecked the "show icons" option, you need to remove the
|
|
above string from the paragraph format to make the icons go away.
|
|
Changes to the format string are performed in the
|
|
"Preferences->Query Configuration->User Interface" dialog tab.
|
|
|
|
<li> New filters: wordperfect, abiword and kword, rcljpeg, rclflac, rclogg
|
|
(contributed filters). The jpeg and audio filters should be extended to
|
|
make use of the new field indexing/search capability (hint :) )
|
|
|
|
<li> When searching for an empty string inside the preview window, position
|
|
the window to the next occurrence of a primary search term.
|
|
|
|
<li> Added ext: and mime: selectors to the query language.
|
|
|
|
<li> Added an adjustable flush threshold during indexing: should help control
|
|
memory usage. See the idxflushmb configuration variable.
|
|
|
|
<li> Added a check for file system free space. Indexing will stop if the
|
|
threshold is reached. See the maxfsoccuppc configuration parameter.
|
|
|
|
<li> Added 'followLinks' configuration option to have the indexer follow
|
|
symbolic links while walking the tree (the default is false).
|
|
|
|
<li> Allow symbolic links as 'topdirs' members. These are always followed.
|
|
|
|
<li> Add preference option to remember sort tool state between program
|
|
invocations (it is reset to inactive by default)
|
|
|
|
<li> Added File menu entry to erase document history.
|
|
|
|
<li> Bound the space and backspace keys to PgUp/PgDown in preview.
|
|
|
|
<li> (Hopefully) Improved abstract (keyword in context) generation
|
|
|
|
<li> Added support for arbitrary fields. Filters can now produce any number of
|
|
fields which will be selectively searchable through the query
|
|
language. This could be useful, for exemple, for the mp3 and jpeg filters
|
|
(but it is not currently used).
|
|
|
|
<li> Improved qt4 build: no more need for --enable-qt4. Note: the qt4 build
|
|
still needs the qt3 support library.
|
|
|
|
<li> Changed the icon to an ugly one. The previous one was nicer but looked
|
|
too much like Xapian's.
|
|
|
|
<li> Added some kind of support for a stopword list.
|
|
|
|
<li> Have email attachments inherit date and author from their parent message
|
|
(instead of mail folder).
|
|
|
|
<li> Fix bus error on rclmon exit
|
|
|
|
<li> Better handling of aspell errors inside rclmon
|
|
|
|
<li> Fixed a number of qt4 glitches: selection and keyboard shortcuts.
|
|
|
|
<li> New query configuration parameter to set the maximum text size beyond
|
|
which text won't be hilighted before preview (takes too much time). This
|
|
was a fixed value in 1.8.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.8.2">1.8.2 2007-05-19</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fixed method name for compatibility with xapian 1.0.0
|
|
<li> Add .beagle to default list of skipped names (avoids indexing beagle
|
|
document cache...)
|
|
<li> Fix configure.ac to use $libdir instead of /usr/lib
|
|
<li> Fix recollinstall to properly copy translations and pictures for qt4
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.8.1">1.8.1 2007-02-20</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Add a small query language with some field-based searches (author, title,
|
|
etc.)
|
|
<li> Add wildcard handling everywhere. *, ?, [] can be used in any
|
|
search. Warning: using a wild card at the left of a term can make
|
|
for a very slow search.
|
|
<li> Allow skipping specific paths during indexing (in addition to file name
|
|
patterns)
|
|
<li> Improved external index choice dialog, accessible from the top-level menu.
|
|
<li> Many small bugs fixed: stemming language choice ignored in term explorer,
|
|
qt4 preview window reentrancy crashes, issues with saving the default
|
|
advanced search file, type filter, display more clearly missing helper
|
|
errors, etc.
|
|
<li> Option to use the desktop defaults (with xdg-open) to choose the native
|
|
viewer for files (instead of recoll's mimeview).
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.7.6">1.7.6 2007-01-30</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fixes an issue with the openoffice filter on debian systems.
|
|
<li> Adds Scribus and Lyx filters.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.7.5">1.7.5 2007-01-15</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fixes two email indexing bugs in 1.7.3, which would bail out from an
|
|
mbox folder on the first attachment filtering error, and would decline
|
|
to handle multipart/signed bodies. You may need to run a full indexing
|
|
pass (recollindex -z), to force reindexing of old folders.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.7.3">1.7.3 2007-01-09</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Email attachments are now indexed.
|
|
<li> Right-click menu option to access the parent document of an embedded
|
|
result (ie from mail attachment to parent message), or the parent folder
|
|
of a given file (which is opened with the application configured for
|
|
directories)
|
|
<li> The sort tool has been improved: no need to restart the query after sort
|
|
criteria change.
|
|
<li> Support for real-time indexing with inotify is now enabled by default
|
|
when appropriate.
|
|
<li> Recoll now warns when the configured native viewer can not be found and
|
|
starts an interface for chosing another one.
|
|
<li> Categories (text, presentation, spreadsheets, etc.) can be used instead
|
|
of raw mime types when filtering on file types in advanced search.
|
|
<li> The port to qt4 is functional and can be enabled with configure --enable-qt4
|
|
<li> 'autophrase' option improved and may now actually be useful.
|
|
<li> Improved highlighting (again...)
|
|
<li> Display term frequencies in term explorer.
|
|
<li> Recollindex -e to remove data from index for listed files.
|
|
<li> Directory names now indexed. Directories can be 'edited' with the
|
|
configured application (rox by default)
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.6.3">1.6.3</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fixed problem with bad detection of mbox message boundaries.
|
|
Upgrading can change the message numbering in some cases, and you should
|
|
perform a full index update (recollindex -z) after installing
|
|
the new version.
|
|
<li> Fixed problem with execution of external viewer for files with
|
|
single-quotes in the name.
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.6.2">1.6.2</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Minor solaris compilation glitches only.
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.6.1">1.6.1</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Term explorer: a multimode wildcard-regexp-spell/phonetic tool to search
|
|
the index for terms. This uses aspell for the orthographic/phonetic part.
|
|
<li> A more dynamic advanced search window. You now have a choice of the top
|
|
level conjunction (OR/AND) and of any number of clauses, including NEAR
|
|
and PHRASE clauses with an adjustable proximity parameter.
|
|
<li> User-settable format for the result-list entries, which use an HTML
|
|
string with %xx printf-like replacements (accessible from the user
|
|
preferences).
|
|
<li> Real time monitoring/indexing support. This is not configured by
|
|
default, and must be specified at build time (configure --help).
|
|
<li> Improved phrase/group highlighting in abstracts and preview
|
|
<li> Better sample selection for synthetic abstracts.
|
|
<li> Improved performance of the text splitter, good for indexing and previewing.
|
|
<li> Shift+click link to open new preview window instead of tab in existing
|
|
window.
|
|
<li> The key sequence for term completion in the simple search entry was
|
|
changed from CTRL+TAB to "Escape Space" to avoid interaction with window
|
|
managers.
|
|
<li> Improved recall for phrases with composite words like email addresses.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Updating from 1.2 to 1.3 or 1.4 or 1.5:
|
|
<li>--------------------------------------
|
|
From version 1.3 up, there is a new feature to search specifically for file
|
|
names (with wildcard processing). If you want to take full advantage of
|
|
this, you should perform a full reindex after installing the new version
|
|
(ie: use recollindex -z, or delete ~/.recoll/xapiandb).
|
|
Also, we now use the central copies of configuration files for default
|
|
values, and the user ones only for overrides. Your old configuration files
|
|
will still work, but, you may want to remove them if they are unmodified,
|
|
or keep only the modified parameters.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.5.9 ">1.5.9 </a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fix bad timezone conversion in email dates. Display timezone in result
|
|
list dates.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.5.8">1.5.8</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fix stored and displayed dates which used to come from the file's ctime,
|
|
now use mtime (which was already used for deciding re-indexing).
|
|
<li> Fix problem with some weird MIME messages (with null boundaries) which
|
|
crashed the indexer.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.5.6">1.5.6</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Small fixes dealing with the build process or compiler issues.
|
|
1.5.6 has updated ukrainian and russian messages.
|
|
Otherwise no functional changes, and no need to upgrade from 1.5.1
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.5.1">1.5.1</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fix serious bug with non ascii strings in simple search history
|
|
<li> Improve synthetic abstracts: remove size limitations, handle overlapping
|
|
extracts, avoid printing several terms from the same position.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.5.0">1.5.0 2006-09-20</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
|
|
<li> Added support for powerpoint and excel files, with the catdoc package.
|
|
<li> Allow viewing consecutive documents from the result list inside a single
|
|
preview window using the shift-arrow-up and shift-arrow-down keys.
|
|
<li> Colorize search terms in abstracts in the result list.
|
|
<li> A number of elements are now remembered between program invocations:
|
|
sort criteria, list of ignored file types (always starts inactive),
|
|
subtree restriction, better handling of the recent searches listbox, the
|
|
buildAbstract and replaceAbstract settings are not forgotten any more.
|
|
<li> New option to automatically add a phrase to simple searches.
|
|
<li> Possibility to adjust the length and context width for synthetic abstracts.
|
|
<li> Handle weird html better.
|
|
<li> When indexing mail messages, walk the full mime tree instead of staying
|
|
at the top level, index all text parts and attachement file names.
|
|
<li> Add -c <confdir> option to recoll and recollindex to specify the
|
|
configuration directory on the command line
|
|
<li> Better synchronization between the active preview and the highlighted
|
|
paragraph inside the list
|
|
<li> Improved recall for some special cases of stemming.
|
|
<li> Much better handling of email dates, allowing better email sorting by
|
|
date (previously the message date was quite often the date when the file
|
|
was indexed).
|
|
<li> Store the external database lists in the configuration directory, not the
|
|
qt preferences.
|
|
<li> Ensure dialogs are sized according to font size
|
|
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.4.3">1.4.3 2006-05-07</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Multiple search databases.
|
|
<li> Optionally auto-search when a word is entered in the simple search
|
|
field.
|
|
<li> Show possible term completions in simple search by typing CTRL+TAB
|
|
<li> Add 'more like this' option to result list right-click menu, to look for
|
|
documents related to the current result.
|
|
<li> Double-click in preview or result list adds the selected word to the
|
|
simple search text field.
|
|
<li> The simple search text entry field is now a combobox and remembers
|
|
previous searches.
|
|
<li> Additional OR field in complex search.
|
|
<li> Improved indexing cancellability (interrupting recollindex or closing
|
|
recoll with an indexing thread active), and status reporting.
|
|
<li> Fixed filters to handle file paths with embedded spaces.
|
|
<li> Misc small bug and memory leaks fixes.
|
|
<li> More compact result list.
|
|
<li> Set mode 0700 on .recoll directory by default
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.3.3">1.3.3 2006-04-04</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Implement specific search on file names with wildcard
|
|
support. Indexing can optionally process all file names or only those
|
|
with mime types supported for normal indexing. UPDATING: you need a
|
|
full re-indexing to take advantage of this.
|
|
<li> Use links and a right-click popup menu to replace confusing use of
|
|
mouse clicks and double-clicks inside the result list.
|
|
<li> The 'example' configuration files are now used as default, and are not
|
|
copied any more to the user directory during installation. Overrides can
|
|
be set in the personal files for any value that the user wishes to
|
|
modify, with unchanged formats and file names (so that the files from
|
|
previous versions remain valid, but you may wish to trim them of values
|
|
that duplicate the central ones).
|
|
<li> Use NLS information (LC_CTYPE, LANG) do determine default charset when
|
|
possible.
|
|
<li> Mp3 file indexing, either filenames only or also id3 tags if id3info is
|
|
available. c/c++ ext edit. Use gnuclient instead of xemacs for text files.
|
|
<li> Russian and Ukrainian translations and many improvement ideas thanks to
|
|
Michael Shigorin.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.2.3">1.2.3 2006-03-03</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Added support for dvi (with dvips), and dvu (with DjVuLibre).
|
|
<li> Ensure that configure and make use the same qt version.
|
|
<li> Fix sorted sequence title display.
|
|
<li> Discriminate fatal errors and missing docs while loading a doc list.
|
|
<li> Improved and cleaned up way to position a preview on the first search term.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.2.2">1.2.2 2006-02-02</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fix minor compilation glitches (FreeBSD 4, QT 3.1, xapian-config problem)
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
<h2><a name="1.2.0">1.2.0 2006-02-01</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Improved preview loading: don't highlight very big documents (over 1Mb),
|
|
allow cancellation while loading.
|
|
<li> Abstracts generated in the result list by looking at search term
|
|
contexts. This can slow down result list display for big documents, and
|
|
can be turned off in the preferences menu.
|
|
<li> Wrap query detail line displayed when clicking on result list header.
|
|
<li> Text splitting cleanup with less spurious terms should result in
|
|
slightly smaller databases.
|
|
<li> Sligthly improved presentation in preview, esp. line breaks.
|
|
<li> Color icons...
|
|
<li> Let the user select the html browser used for help display.
|
|
<li> autoconf/Makefile change: allow building UI from inside the qtgui
|
|
directory.
|
|
<li> autoconf/Makefile: improved search and diagnostics for qt/qmake.
|
|
<li> Internal code cleanup for maintainability: text splitting, user
|
|
interface.
|
|
<li> Added prototype kio_slave to show result inside Konqueror, doesn't seem
|
|
particularly useful.</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="1.1.0">1.1.0 2006-01-12</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> A much better user manual, which can be browsed from the help menu.
|
|
<li> man pages for recoll, recollindex, recoll.conf
|
|
<li> User/query interface configuration dialog.
|
|
<li> Click on result list header will display the exact boolean search which
|
|
was used.
|
|
<li> recollindex can be used to create stem expansion databases independantly
|
|
of a full indexing pass.
|
|
<li> Misc user interface improvements, like an 'all terms' checkbox for
|
|
simple search.
|
|
<li> Fixed case-insensitivity issues. Probably needs more testing.
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="1.0.16">1.0.16 2006-01-05</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Minor installation tweaks for rpm compatibility
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="1.0.15 ">1.0.15 </a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fix problems with prefix != /usr/local
|
|
<li> Remove '.*' from the default list of ignored file/dir names: this
|
|
prevented mozilla/thunderbird mail indexing.
|
|
<li> Fix some 64 bits issues
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="1.0.14">1.0.14</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Small changes for FreeBSD 4 compilation.
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="1.0.13">1.0.13</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Install of recollinstall program not done or needed any more.
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="1.0.12">1.0.12</a></h2>
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li> Fixed nasty html parsing bug introduced in 1.0.9 Html parsing failed
|
|
whenever the document charset name differed from the default only in
|
|
character case or punctuation.
|
|
</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.0.11">1.0.11</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Create personal configuration on first start.
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<li> Use qt toolbars.
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<li> Also index terms in file paths.
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<li> Tool for sorting on dates or mime types.
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<li> Fixed pdf filter which was broken by more recent xpdf
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<li> Filters now installed/executed from /usr/local
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.0.10">1.0.10</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Added tool to manage the history of consulted documents.
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<li> Try harder to convert email messages with wrongly declared charsets.
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<li> Add option to reset the database before indexing (easier than rm -rf).
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<li> Small gui improvements.
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<li> Install partial french translation as a tease for future translaters...
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.0.9">1.0.9</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Fixed 2 really ennoying bugs in 1.0.8: wouldn't preview 2nd document
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from same file + spurious db close when filter could not be executed.
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="1.0.8">1.0.8</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li> Add support for rtf and gaim logs
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<li> Optionally show icons to indicate mime types in result list
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<li> Better (but imperfect) feedback during the preview
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loading for big files
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<li> Remember main window geometry when closing
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<li> Fix stem expansion in advanced search
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<li> Some autoconf
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<li> Option to use the system's 'file' command as a final step of
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identification for suffix-less or unknown files.
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<li> Typo had removed support for .Z compression
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<li>Use more appropriate conjonction operators when
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computing the advanced search query (OP_AND_MAYBE,
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OP_FILTER instead of OP_AND)
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</ul>
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