Release Notes - eSearch Pro

1.0.9120 (2024-12-20) Public Release

  • Change: hit count/navigation limited to 1024 hits.
  • Improve: Installer now has platform specific files, smaller installer.
  • Fix: Update .NET messages, missing files.
  • Fix: Manage Indexes-> close window with empty index library displayed error dialog.
  • Fix: Query Clear (X) did not clear results if ‘Search as you Type’ was not selected.
  • Change: View PDF as plain-text option now displays as HTML.
  • Fix: Plain text viewer ignored CR/LF.
  • Added: Jupyter Notebook support.
  • Added: Markdown file support.
  • Fix: Portable Index path was absolute, now relative to Index Library.
  • Added: Portable – Search Only non-expiry support for publishing
  • Added:  -s command line argument for Pro/Lite search-only.
  • Change: Create/Update Indexes – Index Settings buttons moved and have ‘cog’ icon
  • Added: Index Menu > Manage Indexes…
  • Removed: Index Menu > Settings…
  • Fix: Index drop down shows yellow error message
  • Change: Rebuild button now labelled Rebuild… and opens Index Settings
  • Other minor fixes

1.0.9077 (2024-11-07) Public release

  • First eSearch Portable public release
  • Enhancement: Improved Index Progress for extracted archive files
  • Enhancement: .csv files are indexed by record.
  • Enhancement: Index lists on main window & update index dialog are now sorted alphabetically.
  • Added: ‘Search metadata’ button (metadata shows in word list).
  • Added: Search Settings ‘Search as you type’ option (default = checked)
  • Enhancement: upgrade from .NET6 to .NET8
  • Fix: Context menu in Viewer missing text.
  • Enhancement: reduced memory usage when indexing subdocuments, incl. PST.
  • Fix: Menu bar poor contrast in dark mode.

1.0.9060 Beta (2024-10-21) Public release

  • Fix: Navigation unhide on leaving certain image files
  • Fix: Tab order
  • Added: clear (x) button in search bar
  • Fixes: .tiff & .pgm image display
  • Fix: results list – checkbox is now anchored to left
  • Fix: html contrast detection in dark mode
  • Fix: Index Progress bar now hides on completion
  • Fix: results list column order is now persisted between sessions.
  • Fixed: results list, default Column order now puts Name column after Title
  • Enhancement: results list, Title column now truncated to 80 characters
  • Fixed: .coffee .sh .rs .bat .js .ps1 files were excluded from index
  • Added: Prolog (.pro) format added to source code filetype in index tree view.
  • Fix: Highlighting wrong words & failing to navigate to some hits in certain documents
  • Fix: PDF viewer not opening.
  • Fix: Number of results stayed at 10 after entering serial in Lite version
  • Fix: Metadata panel stuck open when switching index
  • Fix: Hit navigation buttons did not work if just a single hit
  • Added: Type column in results list
  • Fix: hit-highlighting on source-code
  • Enhancement: email .eml files now display as html instead of plain text
  • Fix: email .eml Title field in results list did not display emojis.
  • Enhancement: Search Settings: Synonyms > New Group focus moves to textbox, then automatically selects New Group and moves focus to expansion textbox.
  • Enhancement: Taskbar buttons are disabled unless a document is selected in results list.

1.0.9039 Beta (2024-09-30) Public release

  • Fix: .rtf parser dark mode contrast.
  • Fix: .rtf parser now displays formatted with images even if file no longer on system.
  • Fix: Viewer stuck on dark mode after switch to light mode.
  • Fix: Word List lost culture awareness on reloading.
  • Added: Index Progress window on completion if indexing errors will display a message to view log.
  • Added: Index Progress window on completion displays total document count
  • Added: Update Index now displays document count.
  • Added: If Synonyms is selected, Use Synonyms checkbox on Search Settings will be selected/disabled.
  • Fix: extracted PDF from .zip shows blank in viewer.
  • Fix: when .zip file is passed as a single file it will no longer just supply a list of files
  • Added: icon and name label/button.
  • Fix: files with a period at start are now treated as hidden and are not indexed.
  • Fixes: Index updates.
  • Fix: Nested File/Folder clean-up after zip file extraction.
  • Added: Filetype Tree View – 25 new Source Code file formats.
  • Added: Index New… View Log button at completion of indexing.
  • Added: Index logging
  • Added Index New… Progress dialog now includes count of files discovered and indexed.

1.0.9022 (2024-09-14)

  • Fixes to recursive directory indexing
  • Added source code is displayed with syntax highlighting and line numbers
  • Added Index New… Filetype tree view Source Code > .cs .js .java
  • Added Search Settings >Show all results with empty query option. (Selected by default)
  • Added Index New… Filetype tree view Archives > .rar, .zip, .bz2, .gz
  • Added Index New… Filetype tree view Data > .xml, .xliff, .tmx, .tbx, .json, .csv
  • Added Index Settings – stop word list selector, Max word length, max file size, Case sensitive option.
  • Added Index menu – Settings…
  • Added Create Index – Settings… button
  • Added F1 Help shortcut
  • Fixes to Index New, Rebuild
  • Fix serial expiry end date

1.0.9001 (2024-08-16)

  • Fixes to Index Rebuild and Delete
  • Change ‘None’ stop word sorts to top of list.
  • Change View > Appearance menu renamed to View > Theme
  • Added Viewer displays Web type Images and geolocation map.
  • Added Map Pin button displays on Viewer taskbar if image contains geolocation.
  • Added Media – Images, Video, Audio to Index Filetype selector
  • Added Export Results now includes all meta-data, not just columns displayed in results grid.
  • Added Use List will now disable All/Any radio buttons and default to Any
  • Added Synonyms – Sample Numeric Patterns and Sample Numbers files
  • Added Name column to results.
  • Added Results – press space to check/uncheck rows; shift select multiple rows and press space to check rows in bulk.
  • Fix – display of some accented characters in viewer and word list
  • Added Results 5000 row limit
  • Pro – Added evaluation countdown.
  • Fix: Wordlist did not scroll if query in upper case.
  • Search Settings: Synonyms, removed Group name box and sample User Thesaurus file.
  • Added 3 files for User Defined Synonyms.
  • Viewer Settings: Added display of font size
  • Create Index: Added tree-view for selecting filetypes by category, by extension. (Pro only)
  • Create Index: Added selector of stop word file (30 languages).
  • .lang file format change to suit Language File Editor.

1.0.8958 (2024-07-11)

  • Fixes: template.lang, de-DE.lang, fr-FR.lang,
  • Added Serial Validation
  • Added Licenses & Notices
  • Added link in Help>About to Online Help (User Guides for Lite and Pro)
  • Added Filters dialog (non-functional in Lite version)
  • Added Lite limits
  • Added sorting on File Size column
  • Added tooltips to path in Index dialog
  • Fixes to html parser
  • Lite version is feature complete (First Public Release of free Lite version)

1.0.8936 (2024-06-19)

  • Enhancement: Navigation bar restyled
  • Added AND OR NOT button functionality
  • Added AND OR NOT operators are automatically uppercased
  • Added Search Results > Accessed Date/Time column
  • Enhancement: Date/Times in Search Results are in ISO8601 format
  • Renamed Sample Thesaurus to User Thesaurus
  • Added Search Results > File Size column
  • Added Copy Document Window > Append Date option
  • Added File > Print
  • Added File > Exit
  • Added Viewer Settings >Hit Highlight color picker
  • Added Viewer Settings > Unformatted Text font selection
  • Added Viewer Settings > View PDF as Plain Text option
  • Added Viewer Settings > Added View Large Files in Report View or Fully options.
  • Not feature complete (see Beta Tester User Guide – 5 )

1.0.8907 (2024-05-21)

  • Added Export Search Results > Edit name, append date checkbox
  • Added Update Index > Rename 
  • Added Index New > Add Files… 
  • Added Export Search Results > select columns to be shown 
  • Added Results Settings > select columns to be shown 
  • Added Results grid > columns can now display metadata fields 
  • Added Results Settings > Columns, Fit to content|Fit to window|Set Manually, all ‘per index’. 
  • Added Results grid – columns can now be resized/rearranged. 
  • Added Results grid – Checkbox in rows 
  • Added About window shows (Desktop) or (Portable) depending on build. 
  • Added Portable version 
  • Added File > Export Search Results. 
  • Added Search Settings > Use List 
  • Added Copy Documents dialog 
  • Fix:  Hit highlighting did not work on long texts 
  • Not feature complete (see Beta Tester User Guide – 4 )

1.0.8861 (2024-04-05)

  • Fix: Search Settings>Stemming options – changes not applied unless Stemming checkbox unchecked/checked again.
  • Not feature complete (see Beta Tester User Guide – 3)

1.0.8853 (2024-03-28)

  • Added Porter Stemming option
  • Added User Defined Synonyms with editing and sample files
  • Added UI Language Selection (French/German samples)
  • Added stemming language drop down selection
  • Added phonetic options Soundex|Double Metaphone
  • Added All|Any search
  • Added Metadata window (Info button)
  • Added PST|PST Attachment support
  • Added signed msi installer
  • Not feature complete (see Beta Tester User Guide -2 )

1.0.8749 (2023-12-15)

  • First public (beta) version for Windows 10/11 only) from Member Shop only.
  • .NET 6.0
  • Not feature complete (see Beta Tester User Guide)

0.1.8523 (2023-05-03)

  • Pre-release (alpha) Proof of Concept version for Windows 10/11 only.
  • .NET Framework 4.7.2
  • May contain features that will not be in production
  • May not be feature complete.