I am quite happy to announce, at long last, the release of ht://Dig
version 3.2.0b3. This third beta release of 3.2 offers several
long-awaited features and should fix all bugs in previous 3.2
releases. As a beta release, it still has only received limited
testing. However, as the final release of 3.2.0 nears, we hope that
you consider giving it a try to provide feedback.
Reports of bugs and performance problems are quite welcome. Please
try to provide as much information as possible regarding OS,
configuration, hardware used, etc. Feedback should be sent to the
htdig-dev mailing list at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To download 3.2.0b3, see <http://www.htdig.org/files/where.html>
For the upgrade guide, see <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/upgrade.html>
For the Release notes, see <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/RELEASE.html>
For the ChangeLog, see <http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/ChangeLog>
Thanks to the many people who contributed to this release in the form
of code, feedback and bug reports!
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
Release notes for htdig-3.2.0b3 22-Feb-2001
This version is still marked beta because it has still only received
limited testing and there are still revisions pending for the 3.2
releases. However, it adds more functionality and should address all
serious bugs in the 3.2.0b2 release. As with 3.2.0b1 and 3.2.0b2, if
you are upgrading from a previous version, you should read the
upgrade guide first.
Please note if you are updating from a prior release (3.1 or 3.2), the
htmerge program has changed syntax as noted below. You will probably
want to change your behavior to call htpurge instead of htmerge after
htdig as noted below.
* Fixed several non-exploitable bugs in handling external parsers or
transport agents.
* Fix bug where changes in the robots.txt would be ignored. If a URL
was indexed and later the robots.txt changed to forbid it, the URL
would be checked anyway.
* Fixed scoring bugs introduced in 3.2.0b2.
* Fixed a non-exploitable security issue where content-type headers
were passed incorrectly to external parsers or converters.
* Fixed bugs in the accents fuzzy algorithm, cutting down on the
size of the accent database.
* Fixed a bug where duplicate documents would be generated when
merging a database with itself.
* Fixed a bug in the new regex handling for indexing limits where
large patterns could fail and would be silently ignored.
* Fixed minor bugs with the HTTP/1.1 implementation.
* Fix a bug where an extra config= portion of a URL would be output
when using collections.
* Fixed a bug with content-type declarations in external parsers
with combined content-type; charset declarations.
* Fixed a bug in the config parser that did not correctly handle
relative config include statements.
* Fixed a bug in htfuzzy which would append to an existing synonyms
database rather than creating it anew.
* Fixed problems with the configure script ignoring --enable-bigfile
flags.
* Fixed problems with retrieval order--this could potentially foul
things up when limiting indexing by hopcount.
* Fixed some problems with the HTML in the included sample files.
* Make the -l flag to htdig obsolete--this is now the default
behavior -- the program will intercept many signals and write a
log file for a restart.
* Updated database format from the mifluz/htword project.
* Changed syntax of htmerge. The program now only merges
databases. The htpurge program will "clean up" databases after
running htdig. The included "rundig" script reflects this.
* htload now properly loads ASCII word databases.
* Enhanced build_select_lists attribute.
* Added support for controlling the number of Page buttons in
htsearch with maximum_page_buttons.
* Added the METADESCRIPTION htsearch template variable for
displaying the <META> description field in output along with the
normal description, instead of using the use_meta_description
attribute.
* Added support for permanent URL rewriting with the
url_rewrite_rules attribute. (As opposed to the
url_part_aliases attribute which can provide a different URL
to htsearch and htdig.)
* Added support for restricting a search to match only documents
between two dates as specified in the search form as well as
the template variables STARTYEAR, STARTMONTH, STARTDAY,
ENDYEAR, ENDMONTH, ENDDAY.
* Added support for limiting duplicates based on MD5 signatures with
the new attributes check_unique_md5, check_unique_date,
md5_db.
* The documentation has been revised to include a block: portion to
note if attributes can be included in URL or Server blocks. See
the configuration documentation for more information.
* More attributes are set on a per-server or per-URL basis.
* New support for nttp:// protocol.
* Added support for auto-generating directory listings for file://
URLs.
* Set the default compilation to enable tests that can be run with
"make check"
* Greatly improved htnotify program with one message per e-mail
address and support for message templates using the new attributes
htnotify_webmaster, htnotify_replyto,
htnotify_prefix_file, htnotify_suffix_file.
* There are the usual variety of other fixes and
changes. See the ChangeLog for more details.
* Once again, a huge thank you to everyone who
contributed bug reports, fixes and patches!
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