[htdig-announce] Release of ht://Dig version 3.2.0b5

[Gabriele B. <bar...@in...>]

The ht://Dig group is very happy to announce the release of ht://Dig 
version 3.2.0b5. This fourth beta release of 3.2 (yes, 3.2.0b4 was 
cancelled) should fix all bugs in previous 3.2 releases and indtroduces a 
few new features. As a beta release, it has not received exhaustive 
testing. However, we believe it to be almost stable enough for production 
use, and 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 <mailto:htd...@li...>htd...@li...

To download 3.2.0b5, see 
<http://www.htdig.org/where.html>http://www.htdig.org/where.html
For the upgrade guide, see 
<http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/upgrade.html>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>http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/RELEASE.html
For the ChangeLog, see 
<http://www.htdig.org/dev/htdig-3.2/ChangeLog>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!
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Release notes for htdig-3.2.0b5 10 Nov 2003

This version was slated to be 3.2.0rc1, but some final testing is
still required. It primarily fixes many bugs in 3.2.0b3, with some
limited new functionality. As with 3.2.0b1 and 3.2.0b2, if you are
upgrading from a previous version, you should read the upgrade
guide first.

     * Fixed database bugs. Introduced zlib compression to replace buggy 
internal compression.
     * Forward-ported functionality from 3.1.6 (description_meta_tag_names, 
use_doc_date, ignore_alt_text,
ignore_dead_servers, boolean_keywords, boolean_syntax_errors,
multimatch_factor, translate_latin1)
     * Fixed bugs in phrase searching
     * Fixed compile problems due to deprecated C++ includes
     * Fixed bugs handling double slashes in URLs
     * Suppress display of matches with weight zero
     * Fixed bugs in nesting of tags which turn off indexing

     * Added Native Win32 support
     * Added http_proxy_authorization attribute
     * Improved networking code, with improved cookie handling and 
accept_language support
     * Implemented field-restricted searches (e.g. title:word)
     * Handle noindex_start/noindex_end as string lists
     * Implemented external converters, text/html->text/html-internal
     * Improved support for MIME types
     * Changed licence to LGPL from GPL




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Gabriele Bartolini: Web Programmer, ht://Dig & IWA/HWG Member, ht://Check 
maintainer
Current Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
bar...@in... | http://www.prato.linux.it/~gbartolini | ICQ#129221447
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Inferno