Our development schedule aims at weekly private beta releases and monthly public beta releases.
We are aiming for general release of eSearch Pro in Q2, 2025. If you have search or AI needs not met by dtSearch or other desktop search tools, please contact us at support@electronart.co.uk with your requirements. Public betas are available from the Download buttons on the eSearch Pro page. Private betas are only available to those that have previously provided feedback on at least one public beta version. All feedback is welcome, especially if you experience problems running on your machine or with your own documents

1.1.9260 beta (2025-05-09) private

• Fix: Results grid. Sort order is now persisted and cleared by pressing the checkbox column header.
• Viewer HTML default font size changed from 10 to 12 pt.
• UI change: In AI Mode, AND, OR, NOT, Stemming, Synonyms, Soundex, All, Any, controls are no longer displayed.
• UI change: Positions of AI Mode and Search settings buttons swapped.
• Added: AI Mode query text box is now multiline. Shift + Enter shortcut for new lines.
• Added: Connect to API window, System Prompt now has vertical scroll and word-wrap.
• Fix: Connect to API window, Connection Name was lost upon Edit system prompt.
• Fix: Wordlist, count is now right aligned.
• Added: Results Settings, Selected columns move to top after window is closed.
• Added: Results Settings, drag and drop column order.
• Added: Ctrl+Shift+V shortcut to toggle voice input.
• Fix: Could not enter ‘?’ into search bar (Was caused by adding ‘/’ shortcut in 9208 build).
• Added: New Results Grid control & virtual lists to overcome display & sorting issues with large datasets. Was returning only first page (300) of results.
• Fix: JSON file with large number of hits not highlighted.
• Fix: Crash with pasted text into search bar if copied from right to left in viewer.
• Fix: Results sorting on numeric column items (e.g. row numbering).
• Fix: Hang during Index Rebuild via ‘Manage Indexes’ menu.
• Added: Copy Document window will now persist Output Directory; File / Clipboard Selection; Append Date, File Name, and Note Checkboxes.
• Fix: XML file hit count and highlighting were non functional. (Requires Index Rebuild).
• Fix: Cancel & Voice input buttons were skipped in tab order.
• Added: JSONL & JSON parsers display in viewer beautified and with syntax highlighting.
• Added: JSONL Parser, each row is treated as a separate document. Row number in results.

1.1.9225 beta (2025-04-04) Public Release

• Added: S3 Indexer Demo Plugin (separate download).
• Added: File menu > Launch at Start-up option
• Added: Plugin add/remove window
• Added: AI Mode Copy Document – Model name appears in Append Note window.
• Fix: AI Mode Copy Document window Append Filename renamed Append Query
• Change: Copy Document window default is Copy To: File instead of Clipboard.
• Added: Create Index window allows plugins to add extra data-source buttons.

1.0.9208 beta (2025-03-18) Public Release

• Fix: AI connections sorted alphabetically.
• Fix: Selection of ranges of results now SHIFT Down, CTRL Up/Down, Shift CTRL Down. CTRL Up/Down, Spacebar to select/unselect individual rows..
• Change: AI Connections ChatGPT now labelled OpenAI to reflect correct service name.
• Fix: Wordlist – mouse double-click on word caused selection to scroll to top of list.
• Added: Shortcut / to put cursor in search bar (same as in Twitter(x) and GitHub).
• Fix: Theme was high contrast. Various theme adjustments in light and dark modes.
• Added: View > Theme > High Contrast toggle on/off
• Added: word list tooltip on words so that very long words can be seen in full.
• Added: AI Mode – ability to copy AI output
• Fix: English stemming, SPAC exception rule added
• Fix: cursor was not restored after double-clicking to insert a word from the word list
• Removed: Filter button near search bar
• Added: Voice input button on query bar
• Fix: Viewer taskbar – map pin, metadata, and view in folder buttons were disabled.
• Fix: word list missing word count after AI Mode toggling.
• Fix: word list – descenders were clipped
• Fix: .eml index, word list pollution.
• Fix: AI Mode model name in viewer does not always update when selecting a new model
• Added: AI Mode connections now use streaming to improve UX on deep research models.

1.0.9190 beta (2025-02-28) Public Release

• Added: AI Mode, Cancel button added in viewer to cancel long running chats.
• Change: in AI Mode, at start-up, the last query will be displayed but not submitted, allowing users to pickup where they left off if they want to.
• Change: CTRL+A selects all results and checks all checkboxes.
• Change: AI Mode, connection timeout increased to 10 mins.
• Added: Copy File copies attachments into a folder under the destination folder.
• Added: Copy File… button on results task bar.
• Added: new email (.eml) parser, unfiltered attachments will also show in index (Requires rebuild of old indexes)

1.0.9183 Beta (2025-02-21) Public Release

• Added: Edit button on API Connections form.
• Added: -x command line argument to disable Search > AI search setup menu
• Added: -a command line argument to disable AI Mode
• Added: User can choose AI models from main window dropdown.
• Added: + – and Rename buttons to API Connections list – to add/remove/rename API connections
• Added: Connections list to AI API setup dialog.

1.0.9176 Beta (2025-02-14) Public Release

• Added: interop library to support library plugins
• Revised query stems in word list, removed predictive phrases.
• Added: Viewer now displays Model name in AI Mode
• Fix: Results Settings – Columns selection not synchronized to correct indexes.
• Added: Soundex checkbox on main window
• Removed: Phonetic options on Search Settings window
• Fix: Soundex – now independent of index
• Added: AI Online Login dialog Deactivate button
• Added: Perplexity Sonar Reasoning Pro model (USA hosted DeepSeek-R1)
• Fixed: Geolocation button pop-up text not updating
• Added: Perplexity Sonar Reasoning model (USA hosted DeepSeek-R1)
• Fix: pop up text missing on Search Settings button.
• Added: when in AI mode Search Settings, Filter, Stemming, Synonyms are disabled
• Added latest Perplexity Sonar Pro and Sonar Models.
• Fix: handles empty prompt in AI mode.
• Added: Word List displays question stems in AI mode.
• 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.