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2021-05-25 - DocFetcher 1.1.25

Bugfixes
  • Major bugfix: The highlighting in the preview pane was broken. This was a side effect of the recently added line numbers feature. For each line of text in the preview pane, DocFetcher would only highlight the first match in the line, not any subsequent matches. (Bug #2157)

2021-05-10 - DocFetcher 1.1.24

Bugfixes
  • Emergency bugfix: Index saving was broken because one of the index files, called "tree-index.ser", was not properly written to disk. As a result, the program would later fail to load newly created indexes and warn about index incompatibility. This release fixes the index saving issue. Note that you can manually repair indexes that fail to load by closing DocFetcher and then renaming all "tree-index.ser.temp" files on your computer to "tree-index.ser".

2021-05-07 - DocFetcher 1.1.23

Features
  • The preview pane now displays line numbers for plain text file formats, such as source code.
  • Improved MS PowerPoint text extraction: Now notes, comments and master text are extracted.
  • Improved MS Excel support: Now cell comments are extracted.
  • MS Office support: Added various file extensions. (Word 2007+: dotm; Excel 2007+: xltm; PowerPoint 2007+: ppsm, potx, potm; PowerPoint before 2007: pot; Visio before 2007: vss, vst, vsw.)
  • Added GUI und manual translations for Chinese Simplified, Turkish and Ukrainian.
  • Advanced setting "CheckSingleInstance" to suppress the warning message that DocFetcher displays when it detects after launch that another DocFetcher instance is running or was not cleanly terminated.
  • Advanced setting "ShowPathsDuringIndexing" to display file paths instead of filenames during indexing. This is useful for locating files that cause DocFetcher to hang.
  • Advanced setting "WriteIndexingLog" to write the paths of files being indexed to a log file. This helps with identifying problematic files DocFetcher chokes and crashes on during indexing.
  • Advanced setting "PdfPreviewVisualOrder": If the preview pane shows the words in PDF files in a jumbled order, experimenting with this setting may help.
  • Advanced setting "OpenLimit" to adjust the maximum number of files that can be opened all at once from the search results.
  • Any changes you've previously made to the values in the advanced settings file (program-conf.txt) will now be preserved when upgrading to this DocFetcher version or a later version. In earlier versions, such changes were lost when the upgrade added new entries to the advanced settings file.
Bugfixes
  • The global hotkey (by default Ctrl + F8) is now disabled by default due to known stability issues (e.g., bug #1514). You can enable the hotkey at your own risk via the new advanced setting "HotkeyEnabled".
  • Upgraded the GUI library SWT for 64-bit systems (SWT 4.9 → 4.19). This fixes a NullPointerException crash on macOS that prevented the program from being started.
  • Added an extra macOS launch script in portable DocFetcher, as a fallback in case of launch problems.
  • On macOS, DocFetcher can now be run on the current Java runtimes from Oracle. The legacy Java 6 runtime from Apple is not required anymore.
  • On Java 9 and later, the -Duser.home variable in the various launcher scripts was ignored.
  • The startup message about launching another DocFetcher instance was opened under all other windows.
  • On Windows, the taskbar pinning of the program did not work entirely correctly.
  • Previously, it was possible to add new indexes via the indexing dialog despite index creation being disabled in the advanced settings.
  • ClassCastException crash during indexing of PDF files.
  • On Java 10, DocFetcher was unable to read certain EPUB files, displaying a "Use a Path constructor or method instead!" error (bug #1559).
  • Fixed an issue with the indexing of old MS Word files.
  • When writing the tree-index.ser file (a vital part of the index files) to disk, the program will now first write to a temporary file instead of overwriting the old file directly. This is a safeguard against potential corruption of the tree-index.ser file.
  • Since DocFetcher 1.1.20, the wildcard '?' did not match numbers preceded by a dot anymore, due to changes in the underlying Lucene search engine. As a workaround, there's now a "Whitespace" word segmentation option in the preferences to somewhat restore the old behavior (bug #1558).
  • On KDE-based Linux distributions such as Kubuntu, double-clicking files in the search results did not open them.
  • The icon in the top right of the file size filter was always in the state "minimize" after program launch, even if the file size filter is already minimized.
  • On macOS, the program erroneously showed the Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut instead of ⌘C in several places, e.g., in the context menu of the result pane.
Changes
  • New DocFetcher*.exe launchers with 12 GB and 16 GB memory limit.
  • Added documentation in the DocFetcher.bat file.
  • Increased default memory limit from 512 MB to 1 GB.
  • Upgraded PDFBox library for reading PDF files (PDFBox 2.0.9 → 2.0.13).
  • Added default exclusion rules for .git and .svn folders on the indexing dialog.
  • DocFetcher no longer considers the file extensions "php", "asp" and "jsp" as HTML file extensions.
  • Indexing: The keep-discard dialog now takes the "platform dismissal alignment" into account, meaning the order of the dialog's buttons now follows the conventions of the platform.
  • Slight design change with respect to the borders of the filter controls in the left part of the GUI.
  • Added a link to the DocFetcher Pro website in the status bar, and an info message about DocFetcher Pro.

2018-07-30 - DocFetcher 1.1.22

Bugfixes
  • DocFetcher could not be started on OS X with Java 9 or newer.
  • Crash on Windows due to hotkey issues (bug #1466 and others).
  • Crash on some PDF files (bug #1477 and others).
  • MS Office files containing very large amounts of text could not be read.
  • DocFetcher could not read the metadata of certain JPEG files (bug #1493).

2018-06-22 - DocFetcher 1.1.21

Bugfixes
  • The previous version of DocFetcher could not be started on OS X when running Java 8 or older.
  • Crash with "root cannot be null" message on certain malformed PDF files (bug #1443).
  • Crash with "ClassCastException" error on certain PDF files (bug #1459).
  • Crash on certain EPUB files (bug #1463).
  • Crash when trying to set strings like "(zip jar" in the plain text or zip extension field on the indexing dialog (bug #1457).

2018-06-14 - DocFetcher 1.1.20

Features
  • Type-ahead search: Typing in the search field starts the search without the user having to press Enter. This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled in the preferences.
  • Chinese word segmentation: When enabling the Chinese word segmentation algorithm in the preferences, DocFetcher will search on whole Chinese words rather than on individual Hanzi.
  • Python scripting API for programmatically launching searches and accessing the search results. See the explanation at the top of the file ''search.py'', which can be found in the DocFetcher program folder.
  • Improved HTML processing: Now HTML files without body element (e.g., Chrome bookmark files) can be indexed.
  • Italian translation of GUI, manual and website.
  • Chinese translation of main manual page.
Bugfixes
  • DocFetcher could not be run on Java 9 and newer.
  • On certain machines, DocFetcher could not be started due to issues with the global hotkey or the embedded web browser.
  • Crash on 7z archives containing unnamed entries (bug #1369).
  • The indexing process was halted by a password prompt when encountering a password-protected zip archive. Now the latter is automatically skipped with an error message.
  • DocFetcher failed to create an index if the folder to be indexed contained zip archives using an unsupported encryption scheme (bug #1309).
  • DocFetcher failed to index plain text files with certain less common text encodings, such as HZ-GB-2312 (bug #1410).
  • DocFetcher failed to index MS Office files with unusually high compression ratio. These were identified as "zip bombs".
  • Crash on Abiword files with missing metadata element (bug #1358).
  • On Windows, the HTML preview did not display files accessed through a UNC path. This caused portable DocFetcher to fail to find its program manual if it was run on a network location without drive mapping (bug #1351).
Changes
  • On Windows, DocFetcher now uses Lucida Sans Unicode as the default font for non-monospace text in the preview pane. This is to ensure that Unicode characters can be properly displayed.
  • Upgraded POI library for reading MS Office files (POI 3.13 → 3.17, fixes bug #1415).
  • Upgraded PDFBox library for reading PDF files (PDFBox 1.8.7 → 2.0.9, fixes issues with encrypted PDF files among other things).
  • Slight change in the behavior of the Regex test widget on the indexing dialog (paths are automatically normalized with "/" instead of "\" as path separator).

2017-01-10 - DocFetcher 1.1.19

Features
  • Polish GUI translation.
  • DocFetcher now ships with Windows launchers with up to 8 GB of memory. Note that more than 1 GB requires a 64-bit Java runtime.
  • Advanced settings: Option for disabling the text preview. This is useful for searching the contents of very large text files.
  • Advanced settings: New entry AllowIndexRenaming for hiding the "Rename Index" context menu entry in the Search Scope pane.
Bugfixes
  • The Windows installer couldn't detect an installed 64-bit Java runtime.
  • Crash during startup saying "invalid sash weights" (bug #1223 and others).
  • The GUI translations were not loaded in the OS X application bundle.
  • Fixed Outlook PST indexing issues.
  • Crash on certain CHM files (bug #1232).
  • Crash on RTF files containing images (bug #1230).
  • IndexOutOfBoundsException crash (bug #1298 and others).
  • NullPointerException crash during indexing (bug #1236).
  • Folder paths as long as or longer than 260 characters were incorrectly identified as NTFS junctions, causing some folders to be ignored during indexing.
  • Crash when trying to rename a folder beneath an index (i.e. a top-level folder). Now the renaming operation is only enabled for indexes.
  • Crash under certain circumstances when clicking on the buttons in the toolbar above the preview pane (bug #1252).
Changes
  • The Windows installer now downloads JRE 8 Update 111 32-bit if no Java runtime was found.
  • The comments in the DocFetcher.bat file were printed in the command prompt.

Changelog for older versions

Changes for older versions are listed in a separate text file. Additionally, there is a wiki page detailing the changes from v1.0.3 to v1.1 beta 1, where the program was rewritten from scratch: [Changes in v1.1]

Related

Wiki: Changes in v1.1