[htdig-announce] Release of ht://Dig version 3.2.0b6

[Gabriele B. <g.b...@co...>]

The ht://Dig group is very happy to announce the release of ht://Dig
version 3.2.0b6.

It fixes several bugs from 3.2.0b5, and runs somewhat faster, although
still much slower than 3.1.6 (no significant speed improvements are
expected in the near future, although we are working on it).

Calling this release a "beta" simply means that exhaustive testing,
especially on non-Linux platforms, is not yet complete. However, we
consider it stable enough for most production use.

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 htd...@li... .

To download 3.2.0b6, 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!

-- the ht://Dig Group

Release notes for htdig-3.2.0b6 14 Jun 2004

Bug fixes:

    * Correctly handle empty disallow entries in robots.txt
    * No longer compile regular expressions for every URL (improve performances)
    * Allow compressed databases on Cygwin
    * Fixed bugs in phrase searching
    * Improved parsing of the configuration file
    * bin/rundig -a handles multiple database directories
    * Ellipsis displayed correctly by htsearch
    * Allow '-' argument to '-m' ('minimal') runtime option to htdig
    * Check validity of first URL from each server
    * No longer ignore empty configuration attributes
    * fixed bug in handling 'http_proxy', 'http_proxy_authorization', 'authorization attributes'
    * remove stale md5_db if '-i' specified
    * Make 'server_alias' case insensitive
    * fixed bugs with zlib
    * Allow &euro; HTML entity
    * fixed other minor bugs

New features:

    * added allow_space_in_url attribute: if set to true, htdig will handle URLs that contain embedded spaces
    * added store_phrases attribute: if it is false, htdig only stores the first occurrence of each word in a document
    * added an improved version of RTF2HTML into the contrib section
    * added OpenOffice.org support to doc2html in contrib section
    * improved date factor formula
    * improved tests
    * improved documentation
    * added man pages