AWStats Changelog
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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 differenciate
  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: Add logresolvemerge tool to merge splitted log files
  from a load balancing web server before running awstats.
- New feature: Support standard ISA server log format.
- 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, cyrilic 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


2.22

- 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.
- Code a little bit cleaner and faster.
- Images are in .png format.
- Added Spanish language (now 4 different languages supported).
- 252 domains/countries, 40 browsers database, 22 OS, 250 robots, 32 search engines.


2.1

- 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
- 3 languages: English, French and Dutch
- 250 domains/countries, 38 browsers (more with all versions), 19 OS, 186 robots, 24 search engines.


1.0
- First version, not distributed