Recoll (original) (raw)

2024-11-17

Someone (NN708, not me) made a flatpak for recoll. It is now available onflathub. Note that only a limited number of MIME handlers are bundled with the Flatpak (ExifTool and Poppler), so that there are some limitations as to exactly what can be done with the Recoll FlatPak. More detail on thedownloads page.

2024-11-15

recoll 1.40.4. Small fixes. See the release notes. The appimage file was updated to this version.

2024-11-09

I’ve set up a Recoll WEBUI instance to search the documentation on this site. Pleasegive it a try and maybe tell me if this looks useful (jf@dockes.org).

2024-08-04

recoll 1.39.4. Small fixes. See the release notes.

2024-07-18

If you wondered how big a Recoll index could be: the answer is: very big(According to this reddit post).

2024-05-30

Recoll 1.39.0: allow configuring non-alphanumeric characters (e.g., ,%$€) to be indexed as separate words. Allows searching for things which would previously have been indiscriminately mixed up.

2024-03-28

Recoll gets an AppImage. This will index and search many document formats (not all) on most Linux distributions from around 2019 (the image is built on Debian Buster) and newer.

2024-03-08

The Recoll WEB pages have been moved to their own host: https://www.recoll.org, for clarification and security.

2024-02-02

release 1.37.4: indexer for Joplin notes. Misc bug fixes. See therelease notes.

2022-12-07

Debian repositories on this site: the repository key has expired on the 6th of December. It has been extended and the repositories re-signed, but you will need todownload and install the key again

2021-03-09

A contributed script for indexing Anki flashcards, and another for aNewsboat RSS reader.

2021-02-03

There is now a new way to install Recoll on macOS.

2020-11-21

New version 1.1.0 for the Recoll Gnome Shell Search Provider (recoll GSSP). Version 1.0.0 had stopped working with newer Gnome versions.

2020-11-18

Version 1.27.12. Improved Korean indexing, docx endnotes and footnotes support, easy switch to dark mode and misc. bug fixes, see therelease notes.

2020-11-02

A new article by a kind Recoll user about using Linux cgroups to limit indexing CPU usage.

2020-04-03

Version 1.26.7. Fix the GUI settings issue described above for 1.26.6, for those who have not run 1.26.6 yet.

2020-03-26 1.26.6 update, loss of GUI preferences

Version 1.26.6. Small fixes. See therelease notes
A change in 1.26.6, which was supposedly intended for Windows, has unfortunately resulted in a change of name for the GUI preferences file under Linux. This was previously named ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf, and it is is now ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.ini. Changing back would risk causing even more trouble for the people who have began using the new file, and besides, the new name avoids confusion with the indexing configuration file ~/.recoll/recoll.conf. In order to recover your preferences, please exit recoll, then rename ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.conf to ~/.config/Recoll.org/recoll.ini.

2020-03-08

The Recoll source repository and issues tracker moves toframagit. It was nice to find the opensourceprojects.eu haven when leaving Github, but there are now better alternatives. Framagit runs on the Gitlab software.

2020-02-28

Version 1.26.5. Vastly improved OCR support, with caching. See therelease notes and themanual.

2019

Recoll now has a Gnome Shell Search Provider. See the downloads page.

2019-10-07

Version 1.25.23. Fixes a nasty bug in the mbox parser. Needed if you want to index gmail exports. Other small fixes. See the release notes.

2019-02-19

Version 1.25.4. Full switch to Python3, new completer tool. See therelease notes.

2019-01-31

Version 1.24.5. Fixes an ennoying bug with recollindex -z resetting the index format to the one compatible with Xapian 1.2 and problematic with Xapian 1.4.

2017-12-08

Version 1.23.6 is released to provide a workaround to the Xapian 1.4 snippets generation issue. It will create indexes with the previous 'Chert' index format by default. If your index is in 'Glass' format and you are experiencing the UI freezes, you will need to delete it, by actually running rm -rf on the directory, (typically rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb) before restarting the indexing.

2017-11-24

Release 1.23.5 has a few changes and fixes and supports the (still experimental) new version of the Web browser extension. Also, I split the Debian/Ubuntu packages into command-line/GUI parts (recollcmd/recollgui), with a top recoll packages which depends on both, and this causes conflicts during the upgrade. For upgrading, either first delete the recoll package, then upgrade and reinstall recoll, or fix the issues with apt -f upgrade

2017-07-31

Finalizing the move to the new site, I am closing the old BitBucket project. The existing BitBucket issues have been archived.

2014-02-27

While working on aRecoll-Mutt interface I discovered incidentally that the Recoll Webui Web interface works quite well with the links web browser inside a terminal window. This appears to be an interesting solution for people looking for a search interface usable in a non-GUI environment.

2013-04-30

Thanks to some of its users, Recoll now has filters to index and retrieve Lotus Notes messages(someimplementation notes from an early user), and there is also now a Web browser interface for querying your Recoll indexes.

2012-09-11

A new user-contributed script for those who use real-time indexing on laptops: stop or start indexing according to AC power status. See the details on theWiki.