Add changelog and fix docs

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## Where are my files stored?
Everything, including all files, are stored in the database.
Everything, including all files, are stored in the database by
default.
Now that seems to put off some people coming to Docspell, so here are
some thoughts on why this is and why it may be not such a big deal. It
was a conscious decision and the option to hold all files in the file
system was considered, but not chosen in the end.
For the files there are alternatives: you can configure a S3 storage
and even using the filesystem directly is possible. I wouldn't
recommend the latter, especially not if networks are between the
nodes. The recommended default is using the database, as it was the
only way until 0.34.0, thus the others are not well battle tested.
Here are some thoughts on why the decision was made for using the
database only previous to 0.34.0.
First, it was clear that a database *is* required in order to support
the planned features. It is required to efficiently support a

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title = "Features and Limitations"
title = "Features"
weight = 9
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description = "A list of features and limitations."
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- Handle multiple documents as one unit
- OCR using [tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract)
- [Full-Text Search](@/docs/webapp/finding.md#full-text-search) based
on [Apache SOLR](https://solr.apache.org) or [PostgreSQL's text
search](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/textsearch.html)
on [Apache SOLR](@/docs/configure/fulltext-search.md#solr) or
[PostgreSQL's text
search](@/docs/configure/fulltext-search.md#postgresql)
- Conversion to PDF: all files are converted into a PDF file. PDFs
with only images (as often returned from scanners) are converted
into searchable PDF/A pdfs.
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- Everything stored in a SQL database: PostgreSQL, MariaDB or H2
- H2 is embedded, a "one-file-only" database, avoids installing db
servers
- Choose a [file backend](@/docs/configure/file-backends.md) to store
files right in the database, in a S3 compatible storage or also use
the filesystem directly
- Support for encrypted PDFs
- Files supported:
- Documents:

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title = "Feed Data into Docspell"
title = "Documents → Docspell"
weight = 8
description = "Shows several ways for getting data into Docspell."
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