Analog 5.0: What's new in this version?

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?

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