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 Analog CE 6.0:
What was new in version 5?
 Analog CE 6.0:
What was new in version 5?
This section lists the new features which were in version 5 of analog.
  - What's new in version 6?
  - 5.32 (23-Mar-03)
  
- Recognises Safari and Camino browsers.
  - New LOGFORMAT
      specification %D (processing time in microseconds).
  - Understands %A and %D in
      APACHELOGFORMAT.
  
- 5.31 (11-Jan-03)
  
- Recognises Phoenix and Chimera browsers.
  - Fixes for Mac, OpenVMS and RISC OS ports.
  - Various other small bug fixes.
  
- 5.30 (30-Nov-02)
  
- Reads gzipped logfiles without the need for an UNCOMPRESS
      command.
  - Host inclusions and exclusions can now use
      IP address ranges and subnet
      masks.
  - New command BYTESDP
      command to list kilobytes etc. to a chosen number of decimal places. The
      default number of decimal places has changed from three to two.
  - New code for RISC OS port, including wildcards in filenames.
      (Thanks to Stefan Bellon for this code).
  - Various bug fixes.
  - Indonesian and Slovak language files.
  - New How-To entitled
      Getting started under Windows. (Thanks to Simon Handfield).
  
- 5.24 (25-Jun-02)
  
- Recognises Netscape 7 browser. Also better diagnosis of Windows
      operating systems for Netscape and Mozilla browsers.
  - New version of IIS How-To.
  - Later UNCOMPRESS commands now correctly override earlier ones.
  - SEARCHCHARCONVERT can now be
      turned on for multibyte character sets, though it's not recommended.
  - French report descriptions files.
  - New versions of Polish and alternative Swedish language files.
  - East Timor country code is now .tl.
  
- 5.23 (14-May-02)
  
- Added PROGRESSFREQ to the list of forbidden commands from the
      form interface, because it allows a
      denial-of-service
      attack.
  - Also emphasised in the documentation
      that allowing untrusted users to run analog through the form interface
      is inherently open to a denial-of-service attack.
  - Fixed two bugs which caused occasional crashes while outputting.
  - Russian language files included (KOI8-R and Windows-1251 character sets).
  - Added new domains to the French domains files.
  - New How-To on configuring IIS.
  
- 5.22 (20-Mar-02)
  
- Security fix for
      cross-site scripting
      security bug.
  - Upgraded zlib code to version 1.1.4 (although analog wasn't vulnerable
      to the security bug in zlib 1.1.3).
  - The PROGRESSFREQ
      messages now go to the screen as well as to the
      ERRFILE.
  - The second argument to
      SUBDOMAIN can now contain *'s and
      $'s.
  - Added eight new domains to many of the domains files.
  - Revised Japanese language files.
  
- 5.21 (20-Feb-02)
  
- Corrected the MacHTTP log format, which didn't work in 5.2.
  - All the BARSTYLEs
      redrawn, and two new BARSTYLEs added, adapted from an idea by
      Dave Holle. (You will have to move the new graphics into your
      IMAGEDIR in order to use them.)
  
- 5.2 (13-Feb-02)
  
- You can now plot the lower levels of hierarchical reports on the pie
      charts by using the new
      CHARTEXPAND family
      of commands.
  - Added MACHTTP to the list of built-in log formats that analog
      recognises automatically.
  - Recognises ; as well as & as query-string
      separator.
  - The rules for generating
      "organisations" from numerical addresses have changed.
  - Filenames given on the command line are now relative to the current
      directory, not the analog directory.
  - Ignores completely blank lines at the top of a logfile.
  - Makefiles for Microsoft Visual C++ can be found in the new
      src/build directory. Makefiles for other platforms have moved
      out of the source tree into there too.
  - You can now refer to kilobytes as kibibytes by
      editing your language file.
  - Revised versions of Japanese language files.
  - Revised the Licence.
  - Advertised new donations
      page.
  
- 5.1 (07-Nov-01)
  
- The Browser Summary now recognises the Konqueror and Galeon browsers,
      and distinguishes Mozilla and Netscape. (If you are using a
      configuration file from an older version of analog, you need to
      remove one line.)
  - The Operating System Report now recognises Windows XP.
  - Numerical addresses are now included in
      the Organisation Report.
  - Logfile and cache file names can now contain
      date codes, in the same way
      as the OUTFILE.
  - The person setting up the form interface can now
      specify a list of allowed commands,
      rather than a list of forbidden commands.
  - The LATEX output style now
      works with the ISO-Latin-2 character set as well as ISO-Latin-1. New
      command PDFLATEX.
  - New LOGFORMAT token
      %Z for two- or four-digit years.
  - In the COMPSEP, you can now use
      \t to represent a tab.
  - New warnings category G; some warnings
      reclassified.
  - Various small bugs fixed. Also there is some rewriting internally, but
      it should be transparent to the user.
  - The Windows executable has been compiled using
      MinGW instead of Microsoft
      Visual C++.
  - Finnish translation, and corrections to German and Serbian. Brazilian
      Portuguese report descriptions files.
  
- 5.03 (07-Jul-01)
  
- Bug fixes, including one bug that caused a crash under Windows.
  - Spanish translation, and corrections to SWEDISH-ALT
      translation.
  
- 5.02 (23-Jun-01)
  
- Understands the new IIS log format with four-digit years.
  - Traditional Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese language files.
  - Japanese is now available in four character sets.
  - Four language files which were already distributed with the program are
      now available through the
      LANGUAGE command:
      BULGARIAN-MIK (MIK-16 charset),
      CZECH-1250 and SLOVENE-1250 (Windows-1250), and
      SWEDISH-ALT (alternative translation avoiding Anglicisms).
  
- 5.01 (19-May-01)
  
- New command PNGIMAGES.
  - New token "PLAIN:" in
      ALIAS commands.
  - Unix man page included in source distribution.
  - New example configuration file examples/bigbyrep.cfg.
  - A few small bug fixes.
  - Italian report descriptions files; corrections to German language files.
  
- 5.0 (01-May-01)
  
- How-To's introduced.
  - Wildcards now allowed in LOGFILE names from the form
      interface.
  - UNCOMPRESS now works on filenames with spaces in, and other
      small bug fixes.
  - Makefiles and build scripts for OpenVMS.
  - This version is available in 24 languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan,
      Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, US English, French, German, Hungarian,
      Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (Bokmål &
      Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish and
      Ukrainian.
  
- 4.91beta1 (10-Apr-01)
  
- Output EXCLUDEs are now more fully excluded, producing
      significant changes in results.
  - New JPEGCHARTS command
      (only available if you compile analog yourself, with your own libgd).
  - New mailing list instructions to include
      subscriptions over the web, and the digest version of the analog-help
      list.
  - Mac version decompresses pkzip and bzip2 logfiles.
  - Ports to Mac OS X (Carbon) and IBM OS/390.
  - Pie charts work with EBCDIC character sets; and other improved EBCDIC
      support.
  - Wildcards in LOGFILE directories now work under more Unices.
  - The one-page version of the documentation, whole.html, is no longer
      distributed with the program. (It's still available at my site.)
  - This version is available in 21 languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan,
      Dutch, English, US English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
      Latvian, Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese,
      Serbian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
  
- 4.90beta4 (26-Mar-01)
  
- Wildcards in directory names in LOGFILE commands now work
      under Unix. (Thanks to Owen Cliffe for this code.)
  - The CHARTDIR and
      LOCALCHARTDIR can now contain date codes, in the same way
      as the OUTFILE.
  - My own configuration file included in the examples directory.
  - This version is available in sixteen languages: Armenian, Bulgarian,
      Catalan, English, US English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
      Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovene, Swedish and Ukrainian.
  
- 4.90beta3 (13-Feb-01)
  
- Security fix for buffer
      overflow bug.
  
- 4.90beta2 (05-Feb-01)
  
- New commands CHARTDIR and
      LOCALCHARTDIR.
  - The pie charts are now easier to read, and work properly in non-European
      character sets.
  - *.asp is no longer included in the
      default definition of "pages".
      (See how to upgrade).
  - The computer-readable output style now gives
      the REPORTSPANs.
  - On Unix, now follows symlinks when finding the name of the analog binary
      to construct other filenames.
  - Various other minor bug fixes from 4.90beta1.
  - This version is available in nine languages: Armenian, Bulgarian,
      Catalan, English, US English, French, Portuguese, Swedish and Ukrainian.
  
- 4.90beta1 (22-Jan-01)
  
- This is the first beta test for version 5.
  
    - Twelve new reports: Yearly Report, Quarterly Report, Five-Minute
	Summary, Quarter-Hour Summary, Hour of the Week Summary, Host Failure
	Report, Host Redirection Report, Virtual Host Failure Report, Virtual
	Host Redirection Report, User Redirection Report, Internal Search Word
	Report and Internal Search Query Report.
    
- Pie charts are now included at the top of most reports.
	*CHART commands to control
	them.
    
- New command
	GENSUMLINES to control
	which lines are listed in the General Summary.
    
- The "Distinct hosts" line now appears in the General
	Summary even if you aren't making a Host, Organisation or Domain
	Report.
    
- New commands
	DESCRIPTIONS and
	DESCFILE to provide descriptions of each report.
    
- New commands
	REPORTSPAN and
	REPORTSPANTHRESHOLD to list the time period covered by
	each report.
    
- New commands
	ROBOTINCLUDE and
	ROBOTEXCLUDE for listing robots in the Operating System
	Report.
    
- New command
	INTSEARCHENGINE to
	allow the internal search reports.
    
- New command DNSTIMEOUT
	(on some platforms) to reduce the time taken for failed DNS lookups.
    
- New LINKINCLUDE and
	LINKEXCLUDE commands. (See
	how to upgrade).
    
- New columns E and
	e for time of first request; and S,
	s, Q, q, C and c
	for data in last 7 days; also corresponding
	SORTBY and
	FLOOR commands.
    
- Substantial internal changes to allow these new columns without
	using extra memory if they are not wanted, and to substantially reduce
	code size (from what it would have been otherwise!).
    
- LaTeX output style.
    
- All files are now looked for in the "right" directories.
	This should improve usability substantially, especially from the form
	interface. (See how to upgrade).
    
- If you specify a CACHEFILE command but no
	LOGFILE command, analog won't read the default logfile. (See
	how to upgrade).
    
- US English now uses the 12-hour clock by default. (See
	how to upgrade).
    
- Computer readable output now reports the
	busiest time period for the time reports.
    
- Several commands have changed to better names, but the old names
	should still work.
  
 
- In addition, version 4.14 was also released on the same date, and this
      version includes all its changes.
  - This version is only available in English and US English.
  
- What was new in version 4?
  - What was new in version 3?
  - What was new in version 2?
  - What was new in version 1?
Go to the Analog CE home page.
Stephen Turner
19 December 2004
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