modlogan

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 0.8.0

Notes:
read ./doc/Changes-0.8.0.txt and use the shipped default-configfile.

Changes:
-- 0.8.0 -
  - global, datatypes
    - rewrote the xml-parser for state and history (ostborn)
      - faster, less code, easier to understand
    - rewrote the xml-naming-scheme (ostborn)
      - the xml is now wellformed and VALID
        (http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/modlogan/mla.state.dtd)
      - automatic update of older statefile (0.7.x)
    - seperated statefile-dir from outputfile-dir (ostborn)
      - every output-plugins has "outputdir"
      - [global]-outputdir was replaced by "statedir"
    - added global-variables (ostborn)
      - var(hostname, jk.123.org)
    - drowngraded to gettext 0.10.40, automake 1.5x (ostborn)
    - added support for expat as the new default xml-parser (ostborn)
    - added the option -u the run modlogan under a given UID (le_zas)
    - added the a sybase_guj output plugin (ostborn)
    - removed the --enable-build-special option (ostborn)
    - cleanups and optimizations in misc.c and resolver.c (le_zas)
    - french translation was updated (le_zas)
    - updated INSTALL and README (ostborn)
    - updated modlogan.conf-dist (ostborn)
    - added russian translation (Ivan Pouzyrevsky (Sandello))
    - relaxed the whitespace-handling in the config-file parsing (ostborn,
      le_zas)
    - optimized mhash_insert_sorted() (ostborn)
    - optimized strmatch and substitute (ostborn)
  - input
    - clf
      - rewrote the LogFormat parser to be more flexible (ostborn)
        - we can now handle mod_gzip logs
      - stricter matching for protocol part of request (ostborn/le_zas)
      - absolute URIs requests are more elegantly handled (ostborn/le_zas)
      - added timezone handling (ostborn)
        - should fix the 'my logs only contains records for august, but the
          report puts them in september' bug-reports
      - rewrote the internal parsers for timestamp, url and referrer to
        use plain ANSI-C instead of a simple regexes (ostborn)
        - doubles to speed of the plugin (7000 rec/s -> 13000 rec/s)
  - processor
    - web
      - added hide_hostmask (ostborn)
      - re-added host-count for unresolved ips (ostborn)
      - replaced the whitelist-like handling of the searchengines by a
        blacklist approach (ostborn)
      - handle the "not-yet-handled-visits" before the output-generation is
        started (ostborn)
        -> processor_web has to be loaded be any output-plugin is loaded !!
      - the regex for the default extension is now a little bit more stricter
        (ostborn)
      - better check of response codes to determine ressource existence (le_zas)
      - referrer report was fixed (searchengines were ignored)
        (ostborn/le_zas)
      - visit duration report was fixed (abnormally long duration)
        (ostborn/le_zas)
      - two new options to ease group.searchengines.conf updates:
        log_ungrouped_searchengines (0|1)
        log_ungrouped_searchengines_file (absolute or relative to statedir
        filename, default to ungrouped_searchengines.txt) (le_zas)
      - searchstrings are now url-decoded (%3A -> ":", + -> " ") (le_zas)
      - new option hidebrokenlinksref that permit to hide broken links by
        referrer match against regexps (ie. hidebrokenlinksref = "^.?$" will
        hide all broken links with a referrer having zero or only one char,
        typically "-") (le_zas)
  - output
    - all
      - added "outputdir" (ostborn)
      - output_modlogan can be used in parallel with output_template (ostborn)
    - template
      - added "flat_menu" as template option (drzoom)
      - added "cell_class_xxx" for each table cell element (drzoom)
      - added "cell_tags_xxx" for each table cell element (drzoom)
      - changed the behavoir of table generation producing more different
        celltypes (left||right)(header|line|hline|gline|footer) (drzoom)
      - changed the templates to use this new features (drzoom)
      - (internal) move the subpath-handling to the wrapper-function (ostborn)
      - fixed drawing of pies for small angles. (le_zas)
      - added replacement of the TITLE variable with the menutitle. (drzoom)
      - added a 'users' and 'traffic by users' report (ostborn)
      - Hits -> Visits in entry/exit pages reports (le_zas)
      - reduced the number of allocations in the template engine for
        more speed and less memory-usage/fragmentation (ostborn)
    - modlogan
      - fixed drawing of pies for small angles. (le_zas)
      - % column was added in response codes report (le_zas)
      - new boolean configuration option to show month fullname at top of menu,
        named showmonthinmenu (le_zas)
      - new boolean configuration option to show a grid in monthly graph,
        named showmonthlygraphgrid (le_zas)
      - new RGB configuration option to set color of grids, named grid
        (le_zas)
      - Hits -> Visits in entry/exit pages reports (le_zas)
      - Visit paths report is now shorter, / -> / -> / is now represented as
        3x / (le_zas)
      - check for 'modlogan.css' BEFORE the logs are parsed (ostborn)
      - Added a new option named showmonthlymaxima which activates
        highlighting of max. values in history report, using the tinym
        modlogan.css class.
      - Some colors were added to summary report. See td.(hits|visits|...)
        classes in modlogan.css-dist file.