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<h1><img src="analogo.gif" alt=""> Analog 5.21:
What was new in version 4?</h1>
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This section lists the new features which were in version 4 of analog.
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<dt><b><a href="whatsnew.html">What's new in version 5?</a></b>
<dt><b><a name="new4.16">4.16</a></b> (13-Feb-01)
<dd>Security fix for buffer overflow bug.
<br>Small correction to Brazilian Portuguese language file.
<dt><b><a name="new4.15">4.15</a></b> (01-Feb-01)
<dd>Bug fixes for accented letters in dates and for EBCDIC character set.
<dt><b><a name="new4.14">4.14</a></b> (22-Jan-01)
<dd>Commas are allowed in regular expressions.
<br>Can do a <kbd>FLOOR</kbd> beyond Terabytes.
<br>OS X & MPE/iX ports.
<br>Bug fixes, especially for multibyte character sets.
<br>Unprintable characters in the report are now replaced by '?'.
<br>Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, US English
and corrected French domains files.
<br>Rewrote the documentation on <cite><a href="cache.html">Cache
files</a></cite>. Added some new data to
<cite><a href="webworks.html">How the Web Works</a></cite>.
<dt><b><a name="new4.13">4.13</a></b> (11-Oct-00)
<dd>Corrected infelicity in compilation procedure.
<dt><b><a name="new4.12">4.12</a></b> (05-Oct-00)
<dd>Recognises Windows Me for Operating System Report.
<br>Can count beyond Terabytes.
<br>PCRE code upgraded to version 3.4.
<br>AS/400 port. Patches to compile cleanly on Cygwin and 64-bit Solaris.
<br>Bulgarian and Croatian language files. Catalan and Finnish domains
files.
<br>Various bug fixes.
<br>New <a href="Licence.txt">Licence</a> (mostly less restrictive than
the previous one).
<dt><b><a name="new4.11">4.11</a></b> (31-May-00)
<dd>The <a href="defns.html">default definition of "pages"</a> is
now <a href="update.html#up41">case insensitive</a>, and also includes
<kbd>*.asp</kbd>.
<br>Reads the extended logs from IIS 5 correctly.
<br>Version number displayed before any warning or debugging messages.
<br>The "number of days" at the top of the report now obeys
<kbd>DECPOINT</kbd> (and is also now to 2 decimal places).
<br>Improved OpenVMS build procedure.
<br>Hungarian and Romanian language files, and corrected Spanish
language files and English domains files.
<br>Italian and Spanish form interfaces.
<br>The FAQ now has a <a href="faq.html#faqcontents">list of
contents</a>.
<dt><b><a name="new41">4.1</a></b> (30-Mar-00)
<dd>Regular expressions in <kbd>ALIAS</kbd>es and <kbd>INCLUDE</kbd>s are
now available on all platforms.
<br>Regular expressions are now Perl-syntax regular expressions.
(Thanks to Philip Hazel's <a href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a>
library.)
<br>"Repeated fields" in logfile header lines are now allowed.
<br>New commands
<a href="include.html#STATUSINCLUDE"><kbd>STATUSINCLUDE</kbd> and
<kbd>STATUSEXCLUDE</kbd></a>, and
<kbd><a href="include.html#304">304ISSUCCESS</a></kbd>.
<br>New <a href="output.html#outstyle">output style <kbd>PLAIN</kbd></a>
(like <kbd>ASCII</kbd> but with accents). New language files for this.
<br>In the <a href="compout.html">computer-readable output</a>,
hierarchical reports now have an extra column, indicating the depth of
the item in the hierarchy.
<br>All referrers now count as "pages." (See
<a href="update.html#up404">upgrade notes</a>.)
<br>Configuration commands can be continued across lines with a
backslash.
<br><a href="logfmt.html#fmtstrings">New token <kbd>%s</kbd></a> in
<kbd>LOGFORMAT</kbd>, allowing per-line selection of client-name and
client-IP fields.
<br>New log format <kbd>WEBSTAR-EXTENDED</kbd> to allow for a small bug
in WebSTAR's implementation of the extended log format.
<br>Korean language files. Also alternative Swedish translation.
<dt><b><a name="new404">4.04</a></b> (21-Mar-00)
<dd>The analog home page has moved to
<a href="http://www.analog.cx/">www.analog.cx</a>
<br>New <a href="othreps.html#othCOLS">column <kbd>d</kbd></a> in
non-time reports.
<br>The <kbd>RUNTIME</kbd> command now turns off the "Program
started at" line as well as the "Running Time" line.
<br>Non-alphanumeric characters are now allowed in the
<kbd>REPORTORDER</kbd> as separators.
<br>Correctly parses more <kbd>APACHELOGFORMAT</kbd>s.
<br>Better detection of Windows 2000 in Operating System Report.
<br>Better warning messages when the erroneous command contains a space.
<br>Code for NeXTSTEP operating system.
<br>Better treatment of multibyte character sets.
<br>Icelandic language files. Corrections to Bosnian, French, Italian,
Japanese & Swedish.
<dt><b><a name="new403">4.03</a></b> (21-Feb-00)
<dd>Fixed several small bugs.
<br>New command <kbd><a href="output.html#RUNTIME">RUNTIME</a></kbd>.
<br>Brazilian Portuguese language files and Swedish domains files.
Corrections to Dutch.
<dt><b><a name="new402">4.02</a></b> (31-Jan-00)
<dd>New command <kbd><a href="args.html#SCC">SEARCHCHARCONVERT</a></kbd>.
<br>Support for Apache's new <kbd>%q</kbd> code in
<kbd>APACHELOGFORMAT</kbd>.
<br>Fix for search reports causing crashes on Windows.
<br>New language: Czech. Corrections for Serbian, Slovene and Ukrainian.
<dt><b><a name="new401">4.01</a></b> (17-Dec-99)
<dd>New command <kbd><a href="alias.html#CASE">USERCASE</a></kbd>.
<br>Some of the default paths have changed in <kbd>anlghead.h</kbd>.
<br>Improvements to OpenVMS port.
<br>Language files included for Armenian, Bosnian, Catalan,
traditional Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Slovak, Slovene,
Spanish, Swedish & Ukrainian; corrections to Russian & Turkish.
<dt><b><a name="new40">4.0</a></b> (16-Nov-99)
<dd>Simplified Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Portuguese & Serbian language
files included.
<br>Otherwise only small changes since 3.90beta2.
<dt><b><a name="new390b2">3.90beta2</a></b> (02-Nov-99)
<dd>It is now recommended that you don't run analog as a CGI program for
<a href="form.html#notcgi">security reasons</a>. (The <kbd>CGI</kbd>
command is still present, but it is now not documented.)<br>
The Organisation Report is now
<a href="hierreps.html">hierarchical</a>.<br>
The Browser Summary is now arranged by major version number. (See
<a href="update.html#up390b1">notes on upgrading</a>.)<br>
Non-exact bytes are now given to 3 decimal places.<br>
<kbd><a href="output.html#GOTOS">GOTOS FEW</a></kbd> puts the "Go
To" lines just at the top and bottom of the output.<br>
<kbd>PRINTVARS</kbd> has been renamed
<kbd><a href="syntax.html#settings">SETTINGS</a></kbd>.<br>
<kbd><a href="syntax.html#settings">-settings</a></kbd> output improved,
especially with <kbd>OUTPUT NONE</kbd>.<br>
Split <kbd>PAGEWIDTH</kbd> into
<kbd><a href="output.html#PAGEWIDTH">HTMLPAGEWIDTH</a></kbd> and
<kbd><a href="output.html#PAGEWIDTH">ASCIIPAGEWIDTH</a></kbd>.<br>
Includes language files for French, Greek, Norwegian (Bokmål
& Nynorsk), Polish, Russian and Turkish.<br>
New configuration file <kbd>examples/big.cfg</kbd> containing most
commands.
<dt><b><a name="new390b1">3.90beta1</a></b> (07-Oct-99)
<dd>First beta test for version 4. The most important new features are:
<ul>
<li>Five new reports: Organisation Report, Operating System Report,
Search Word Report, Search Query Report, Processing Time Report.
<li>Browser Summary improved (will <a href="update.html#up332">change
results</a>).
<li><a href="form.html">Form interface</a> completely rewritten, and
considerably simplified.
<li>Multiple *'s now allowed on left-hand side of
<a href="alias.html#useraliases"><kbd>ALIAS</kbd>es</a>.
<li>Regular expressions allowed in
<a href="include.html#incregexp"><kbd>INCLUDE</kbd>s &
<kbd>EXCLUDE</kbd>s</a>, and
<a href="alias.html#aliasregexp"><kbd>ALIAS</kbd>es</a>.
<li>The <a href="include.html#outputexcludes">output
<kbd>INCLUDE</kbd>s and <kbd>EXCLUDE</kbd>s</a> now apply to the
lower levels of a <a href="hierreps.html">hierarchical report</a>
as well as the top level.
<li>New commands: <kbd><a href="form.html">CGI</a></kbd>,
<kbd><a href="output.html#STYLESHEET">STYLESHEET</a></kbd> and
<kbd><a href="debug.html#ERRLINELENGTH">ERRLINELENGTH</a></kbd>.
<li>New <a href="othreps.html#othCOLS">column <kbd>N</kbd></a> in most
reports.
<li><kbd><a href="debug.html#debugs">DEBUG C</a></kbd> now reports
which part of a corrupt logfile line is corrupt.
<li>Non-exact bytes are now displayed as, e.g., 47.68 Mbytes instead of
48,832 kbytes. This should be less confusing.
<li>Timestamps added to
<kbd><a href="debug.html#PROGRESSFREQ">PROGRESSFREQ</a></kbd>
reports.
<li>The <a href="dns.html">DNS file</a> has a new time encoding.
<li>Header files split up to make <kbd>anlghead.h</kbd> simpler.
<li>Form interfaces in German and U.S. English included.
<li>New documentation about <a href="args.html">search arguments</a>.
<li>New <kbd>examples</kbd> directory.
<li>New <a href="Licence.txt">licence</a>. (Nearly the same, just
clarified, and slightly loosened).
</ul>
<dt><b><a href="wasnew3.html">What was new in version 3?</a></b>
<dt><b><a href="wasnew2.html">What was new in version 2?</a></b>
<dt><b><a href="wasnew1.html">What was new in version 1?</a></b>
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<address>Stephen Turner
<br>20 February 2002</address>
<p><em>Need help with analog? <a href="mailing.html">Use the analog-help
mailing list</a>.</em>
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