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DocFetcher Pro 1.10 has just been released. This time, two problems were fixed: First, performance issues and a crash related to the preview pane line numbers that were introduced in the previous 1.9 release. And second, with type-ahead search enabled, phrase search and proximity search worked incorrectly when combined with wildcards. For details, see the changelog.
The development agenda posted earlier still applies.
DocFetcher Pro 1.9 has just been released. There’s good news for people working with plain text files in general, and source code in particular: DocFetcher Pro now shows line numbers when displaying plain text files in the preview pane. This feature was ported from a code contribution to the upcoming DocFetcher 1.1.23 release.
In addition to the new line numbers feature, an indexing crash was fixed, and a small index optimization step that is run after each index update was added. For details, see the changelog.
DocFetcher Pro 1.8 has just been released.
The one big news item for this release is that the program finally runs on macOS, specifically on macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) and later. For those who have used the free DocFetcher on macOS before, a notable improvement of DocFetcher Pro on macOS is that the latter comes with the DocFetcher Pro daemon, the small companion of DocFetcher Pro that provides automatic index updating while the main program isn’t running. Please note that on macOS, the daemon needs to be manually added to the startup apps (also known as Login Items). How this is done is explained on the page “Daemon Setup” in the user manual.
For Windows and Linux users, this 1.8 release brings a critical Outlook-related bugfix (email bodies were no longer indexed) and two minor improvements, as explained on the changelog.
The next items on the development agenda are:
As stated in the previous post, due to the complexity of the above items it’s hard to give any reliable release date estimates, but hopefully they will all be completed in 2021.
On the planned 7z v0.4 support: DocFetcher Pro inherited its 7z support from DocFetcher, so currently they both support 7z archives up to v0.3 of the 7z format. However, the recent versions of 7-zip create 7z archives in the v0.4 format, so those archives cannot be read by DocFetcher and DocFetcher Pro. That’s kind of a big deal, considering the relative popularity of 7z archives. Adding v0.4 support in DocFetcher Pro requires completely rewriting the 7z handling, so this is going to be a major item on the development agenda.