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Analog 5.03:
What's new in this version?
This section lists the major new features in each version of analog. There's
also another section about how to upgrade from older
versions of analog, listing which commands have changed or been abolished, or
how the output of this version differs from that of previous versions.
- 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 home page.
Stephen Turner
07 July 2001
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