Indexing uses your graphics card, and old Word files are searchable
Semantic indexing on Windows and Linux now runs on your graphics card, which makes it considerably faster. Indexing work is also distributed by CPU core count, so the slow crawl large libraries used to settle into is back to normal speed.
System requirements moved back down in this release: macOS is supported from 13.4 again, and the Linux glibc baseline drops to 2.35. Machines that could not install the previous version because they were too old can install this one.
Where the hardware acceleration switch lives
Open Settings → Indexing. Acceleration is on by default; if your graphics driver misbehaves you can switch back to CPU at any time. Nothing stops working, it is just slower.
Two older formats
RTF and Word 97–2003 .doc files can now be parsed and indexed, and both get an
outline. If you have a pile of documents from fifteen or twenty years ago, they
no longer need converting one by one.
Text-based PDFs without bookmarks also get an outline generated automatically, so you can jump straight to a chapter in a long document.
A crash now asks before it reports
Crash detection is new here. When one happens, a diagnostic report is prepared with the contents redacted, and nothing is sent until you confirm it. Decline and nothing is sent; the app works the same either way.
A batch of long-standing problems, fixed
- Long documents being killed by the system partway through embedding. They now finish.
- Text files in older encodings such as GBK having their contents discarded.
- Indexing stopping entirely after one transient failure, needing a restart.
- The indexing panel showing counts that did not add up, like more completed than there were files.
- Cloud sign-in hanging on Windows.