1.0.9148 Beta – private (2025-01-17)

• Fix: First hit not highlighted in PDF as plain text
• Added Search>AI Online search menu
• Added AI Online Login dialog (Perplexity web search, ChatGPT, Custom).
• Added Viewer Full height/Hide Results when in AI search mode.
• Added Viewer displays AI response with citation tag numbers.

1.0.9120 Beta (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 Beta (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 Beta (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 Beta (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 Beta (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 Beta (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 Beta (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.