AWStats Changelog
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5.3

Fixes:
- Fixed: Bad documentation for use of ExtraSection.
- Fixed: Bug in ValidSMTPCodes parameter.
- Fixed: Remove AWStats header on left frame if ShowHeader=0.
- Fixed: 29th february 2004 will be correctly handled.
- Fixed: Another try to fix the #include not working correctly.
- Fixed: Columns not aligned in unknownip view when not all fields are
  choosed.
- Fixed: Columns not aligned in allhosts and lasthosts view when not all
  fields are choosed.

New features/improvments
- Added awstats_exportlib.pl tool.
- Added 'Full list' view for Domains/Country report.
- Added 'Full list' and 'Last visits' for email senders/receivers chart.
- Added a memory cache for GeoIP plugin resolution (geoip is faster).
- New parameter: Added AuthenticatedUsersNotCaseSensitive.
- Speed increased when ExtraSection is used.

Other/Documentation
- Updates to AWStats robots, os, browsers, search_engines databases.
- Added awstats_logo3.png
- Added X11 as Unknown Unix OS, and Atari OS.
- Change way of reading -output= parameter to prepare build of several output
  with same running process.
- Updated documentation.


5.2

- Added urlalias plugin to replace URL values in URL reports by a text.
- Added geoip plugin to track countries from IP location instead of domain
  value.
- Support for postfix mail log.
- Added total and average row at bottom of day data array.
- Added dynamic filter in Host and Referer pages when used as CGI like
  in Url report.
- Removed "Bytes" text when values is 0.
- Reduced main page size.
- New parameter: Added OnlyHosts parameter.
- New parameter: Added ErrorMessages to use a personalized error message.
- New parameter: Added DebugMessages to not allow debug messages.
- New parameter: Added URLQuerySeparators parameter.
- New parameter: Added UseHTTPSLinkForUrl parameter.
- Report for robots accept codes like others charts ('HBL').
- Can use "char+" instead of "char" for LogSeparator.
- Records with bad http code for Microsoft Index Servers (on 1 digit instead
  of 3) are no more reported as corrupted records.
- Little support for IPv6.
- Static string changed from "string" to 'string'.
- Fixed: Fix a bug when using IIS and %query or cs-query-string tag in
  LogFormat and URLWithQuery=1.
- Fixed: #include now works correctly.
- Added Albanian, Bulgarian and Welsh language.
- Added Seychelles flag.


5.1

- Better support for ftp log files.
- Better support for mail log files.
- Can analyze streaming log files (Windows Media Server).
- Added choice of month and year in list boxes (when used as CGI).
- The data values for month and days are reported in main page under the
  graph, no need to change page.
- New feature: ShowxxxStats parameters accept codes to decide which columns to
  show in chart.
- New parameter: Added SkipUserAgents parameter to exclude some user agent
  from statistics.
- New parameter: Added URLNotCaseSensitive.
- New parameter: Added URLWithQueryWithoutFollowingParameters to exclude some
  parameters from URL when URLWithQuery is on.
- New parameter: Added URLReferrerWithquery.
- Added tag %Wm-n for LogFile parameter (replaced with the week number in month
  but differs from %WM-n because start with 0).
- Added tag %Wy-n for LogFile parameter (replaced with the week number in year
  but differs from %WY-n because start with 0).
- Added tag %Dw-n for LogFile parameter (replaced with the day number in week
  but differs from %DW-n because start with 0).
- Fixed: Log analyze is no more stopped if log file contains binary chars.
- Fixed: -debug option is allowed in migrate.
- Fixed: Wrong window was opened when clicking on flag link when
  UseFramesWhenCGI was on.
- Fixed: Fixed pb in refreshing page when clicking on "Update Now" link (no
  need to force the refresh).
- Fixed: a bug which makes the keywords report loaded twice when page viewed
  as a cgi after an update now click.
- Fixed: Pb with SAMBAR server ('Expires' line appears at the top of pages).
- Fixed: Now last update DNS cache file is saved with same permissions than
  history files so it depends on SaveDatabaseFilesWithPermissionsForEveryone.
- Fixed: Some sorting function were still using old 4.1 algorithm. Now all
  sorts use new 5.0 algorithm (so speed and memory use again increase above
  all for large web sites with a lot of referers).
- Fixed: Remove DecodeEncodedString on parameters sent by command line.
- Rewrite plugins to match the same standard for all of them (All use an init
  function + AWStats version check + no need of global vars in awstats.pl).
- Can use the #include "configfile" directive in config files.
- Added week-end color on week-end days in monthdayvalues report.
- Added 'spider' and 'crawler' as generic robots.
- Added awstats_updateall.pl tool.
- Remove common2combined.pl tool (useless).
- Updated graph colors.
- Updated documentation.
- Updated database.
- Updated language files.

Note 1:
  AWStats 5.x are compatible with previous versions (3.x or 4.x).
  However if you use awstats 5.x runtime to read statistics for old month
  build with 3.x or 4.x, speed will be a little bit reduce but data will be
  reported correctly.

  To benefit the speed/memory improvement of 5.x (2 to 8 times faster when
  reading stats, less memory use) you can migrate (after backup) your history
  files with the command :
    awstats.pl -migrate="/fullpath/awstatsMMYYYY.configval.txt"

Note 2:
  Old deprecated command line parameter site= has been removed.
  Use config= instead (replace site= since 3.0).


5.0

- Complete rewrite of update process and code to read/save history files.
  AWStats 5.0 is compatible with previous versions (3.x or 4.x).
  However if you use awstats 5.0 runtime to read statistics for old month
  build with 3.x or 4.x, speed will be a little bit reduce but data will be
  reported correctly.

  To benefit the speed/memory improvement of 5.0 (2 to 8 times faster when
  reading stats, less memory use) you can migrate your history files with the
  command :
    awstats.pl -migrate="/fullpath/awstatsMMYYYY.configval.txt"

- Fixed: pb when using several tags with different offset in LogFile name.
- Fixed: Create of directory with CreateDataDirIfNotExists is made with 0766
  instead of 0666.
- New feature: Track detailed minor and major version for browsers.
- New feature: Added bandwidth report for robots and errors.
- New feature: Support DNS cache files for DNS lookup.
- New feature: Added Plugins support and several working plugins:
  A GMT correcter, A hash file DNS cache saver/reader...
- New feature: Use framed report (new UseFramesWhenCGI parameter).
- "Never updated" and "Exact value ..." are now in language files.
- Reduce number of global vars in code.
- New feature: DefaultFile parameter accepts several values.
- New feature: Added all robots and last robots full list report.
- New feature: Added all logins and last logins full list report.
- New feature: Added url entry and url exit full list report.
- New feature: Added AllowAccessFromWebToFollowingIPAddresses parameter
- New parameter: LogSeparator for log files with exotic separators.
- New parameter: EnableLockForUpdate to allow lock for update process.
- New parameter: DecodeUA to make AWStats work correctly with Roxen.
- New tag for logfile: %WY is replaced by week number in year.
- Added slovak, spanish (catalan) language files and updated a lot of language
  files.
- Made changes to allow FTP log analysis.
- Made changes to prepare sendmail log analysis.
- Updated belarus flag.
- Updated os, browsers, robots, search engines database.
- Added a map of history files at beginning of files to allow other tools
  to read AWStats history files or part of them very quickly.
- Other minor changes and bug fixes.


4.1

- Fixed: -logfile option can be anywhere on command line and accept space
   in log file names.
- Fixed: A bug vampired memory and caused abnormal disk swapping in 
   logresolvemerge.pl
- Fixed: Reduce nb of dropped records for log files not 'completely' sorted.
- New tag for logfile: %virtualname allows you to share same log file for
   several virtual servers.
- New feature: A 'pipe' can be used in LogFile name parameter.
- New feature: Added full list for refering search engines and refering pages.
- New feature: Report keywords AND keyphrases. No need to choose one or else.
- New feature: Report exit pages.
- New feature: Report visits duration.
- New option: Added -dir option to choose destination directory for
   awstats_buildstaticpages.pl
- New option: Added AWStats common options to awstats_buildstaticpages.pl
- Updated AWStats databases (renamed into .pm files and moved to lib dir).
- Updated documentation.


4.0

  WARNING: 4.0 is not compatible with OLD history data files. If you use 4.0
  to read statistics for old month, report for "visitors" will be wrong as all
  old unresolved ip processed with AWStats 3.2 will not be counted when
  viewed with 4.0.

- Increased speed and reduce memory use for very large web sites.
- Unresolved ip are now processed like resolved one.
- Added icons in browsers chart.
- Personalized log format can also have tab separator (not only space).
- New ways to manage security/privacy with updated docs and new parameters:
  AllowAccessFromWebToAuthenticatedUsersOnly
  AllowAccessFromWebToFollowingAuthenticatedUsers
- New feature: Added mark on "grabber browsers" in browsers chart.
- New feature: Added average files size in Pages/URL report chart.
- New feature: You can put dynamic environnement variables into config file.
- New feature: Keyphrases list can be viewed entirely (not only most used).
- New parameter: WrapperScript
- New parameter: CreateDirDataIfNotExists
- New parameter: ValidHTTPCodes
- New parameter: MaxRowsInHTMLOutput
- New parameter: ShowLinksToWhoIs
- New parameter: LinksToWhoIs
- New parameter: StyleSheet
- New option: -staticlinks to build static links in report page (to use
  AWStats with no web servers).
- New tool: common2combined.pl (A log format converter)
- New tool: awstats_buildstaticpages.pl
- Fixed: wrong size of bar in "average" report when average value was < 1.
- Fixed: pb of "Error: Not same number of records" when using some version
  of mod_perl.
- Fixed: pb in logresolvemerge.pl
- Fixed: Security against CSSA.
- No more need to use \. to say . in config file.
- Documentation seriously updated.


3.2

- Increased speed (19% faster than 3.1).
- Fixed: AWStats history file is no more corrupted by hits made from a search
  engines using a URL with URL encoded binary chars.
- Fixed: AWStats history file is no more corrupted when a reverse DNS lookup
  return a corrupted hostname (Happens with some DNS systems).
- Fixed: Security fix. No more possible to update stats from a browser using
  direct url (awstats.pl?update=1) when AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser is off.
- New feature: Added various tags to use dynamic log file name in conf file
  according to current but also older date/time (%YYYY-n,%YY-n,%MM-n,%DD-n...)
- New feature: Added NotPageList parameter to choose which file extensions to
  count as "hit only" (and not reported in the "Page-URL viewed" report).
- New feature: Added KeepBackupOfHistoricFiles option.
- New feature: Number of visits is also visible in days stats.
- New feature: Added stats for day of week.
- New feature: Added stats for file types.
- New feature: Added stats for entry pages.
- New feature: Added stats for web compression (mod_gzip).
- New feature: Added stats for authenticated users/logins.
- New feature: Added parameters to choose which report to see in main page.
- New feature: Added URLWithQuery option to differentiate
  http://mysite/sameurl?param=x of http://mysite/sameurl?param=y
- New feature: ShowFlagLinks can now accept list of all wanted flags for
  translation link.
- New feature: Support standard ISA server log format.
- New tool: Add logresolvemerge tool to merge split log files
  from a load balancing web server before running awstats.
- New parameter: HTMLHeadSection allows you to add HTML code in header report.
- New parameter: NbOfLinesForCorruptedLog.
- Fixed: no more warning/error messages when runned with option perl -w.
- Reference database (robots, os, browsers, search engines, domains)
  has been extracted in external files.
- Other minor updates (new flags, reference database updates, ...)
- Fixed: Parameter MaxNbOfHostsShown was not working correctly.
- New languages.
- Added an HTML documentation.


3.1

- Increased seriously speed for update process (above all for large web sites).
- Increased VERY seriously speed for viewing stats from a browser.
- Reduced amount of memory used.
- AWStats search config file in directories:
   current dir, then /etc/opt/awstats, then /etc/awstats, then /etc
- New feature: AWStats can analyze NCSA common log files.
- New feature: List of last access.
- New feature: Full list of url scores.
- New feature: Date format can be chosen according to local country.
- New parameter: DirLang allows to choose directory for language files.
- New parameter: Expires allows to add a meta-tag EXPIRES in HTML report page.
- New parameter: LogoLink parameter to choose link used for clicking on logo.
- New parameter: color_weekend option to show week-end days in different colors.
- New option: -update and -output to update and/or output a report.
- New option: -showsteps to follow advancement of update process.
- Fixed: OS detection now works correctly (Windows ME reported correctly).
- Fixed: Bad value were reported in daily chart when no pages were viewed.
- Added WAP browsers in AWStats database.
- New languages.


3.0

- New look
- Added daily report for pages, hits and bytes.
- AWStats can use its own conversion array to make some reverse DNS lookup.
- Added also SkipDNSLookupFor option.
- Added OnlyFiles option.
- AWStats works with personalized log file format (support also Webstar native log format). New log format parsing algorithm.
- Now update is not made by default when stats are read from a browser. Added an "update now" button on HTML report page if new option AllowToUpdateStatsFromBrowser is on.
- Tooltips now works also with Netscape 6, Opera and most browsers.
- Update browsers database to add a lot of "audio" browsers and more.
- Update OS database (Added Windows ME, OpenBSD).
- Robots database updated.
- Support new domains (biz, museum, coop, info, aero...).
- Added some missing flags icons.
- Rewrite UnescapeURL function to works with all encoded URLs, cyrillic URL.
- Some minor changes.
- Added translation for some "not translated" words.
- Bytes reported are auto-scaled (Bytes, KB, MB, GB).
- Fixed problem of colors (styles) not working with some browsers.
- Added new languages (Korean, Danish, ...). Now 14 different languages.
- Fixed bug of bad link in TOP pages links when viewed page is of another virtual host.
- 259 domains/countries, 60 browsers database, 26 OS, 258 robots, 47 search engines.


2.24

- Added a way to include dynamic current year, month, day and hour in LogFile parameter.
- Option to choose month, year and language is also available from command line.
- https request are correctly reported.
- Added initialization of parameters to avoid problem of bad cache with mod_perl.
- Fixed check of parameters to avoid 'Cross Site Scripting attacks'.
- Added flags for Mongolia, Maldives, San Marino, Senegal.
- New keyword detection algorithm (Now use a search engine url database like Webalizer AND old algorithm of AWStats for unknown search engines).
- Added option to report keywords used from search engine as separate words or as full search strings.
- Added Greek, Czech and Portuguese translation (now 9 different languages supported).
- A better and faster config file parsing. Solve the problem of "=" into the HTMLEndSection parameter.
- AWStats is no more sensitive to DOS-UNIX config files.
- Disable DNS lookup only if host has at least 1 alphabetical char.
- Better management of corrupted log files.
- Make difference between windows NT and windows 2000.
- Added OmniWeb and iCab browser. Better MacOS detection.
- Make AWStats still working even when MS IndexServer return a bad HTTP return code (like "1" instead of a "three digits" number).
- Fixed problem of missing year=yyyy in some links.
- Fixed a bug of empty page when domain has "info" in its name.
- A lot of minor changes.
- 252 domains/countries, 44 browsers database, 24 OS, 252 robots, 39 search engines.


2.23

- Use of configuration file.
- Now AWStats can process old log files (however, you must keep order).
- Month-to-month basis statistics works now correctly.
- Old years now can also be viewed from AWStats report page.
- Working directory (with write permissions) can be chosen (you can use another directory than cgi-bin).
- Added PurgeLogFile option (you can choose if AWStats purge log file or not).
- awstats.pl can be renamed into awstats.plx (for ActiveState perl) and still works.
- Statistic page generated from command line has no more bad links.
- Added a link to choose full year view.
- Domain and page reports are sorted on pages (no more on hits)
- Automatic disabling of reverse DNS lookup if this is already done in your log file.
- Can add your own HTML code at the end of awstats (ban advert for example).
- Added Italian, German, Polish language (now 7 different languages supported).
- 252 domains/countries, 40 browsers database, 22 OS, 252 robots, 35 search engines.
- Setup instructions are cleaner


2.1

- AWStats considers myserver and www.myserver as the same, even if "HostAliases" setup is wrong.
- Fixed a bug making unique visitors counter too high.
- Added ArchiveLog parameter to archive processed records into backup files.
- Make difference between unknown browsers and unknown OS.
- Robots stats are isolated from the rest of visitors.
- Better keywords detection algorithm.
- Added last time connection for each hosts
- Added list of URL for HTTP Error 404
- Added pages, hits and KB for each statistics
- Added colors and links
- Works also with IIS
- Code a little bit cleaner and faster.
- Images are in .png format.
- 4 languages: English, French, Dutch, Spanish
- 252 domains/countries, 40 browsers database, 22 OS, 250 robots, 32 search engines.


1.0
- First version, not distributed