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• Relax 2.80 (2003-09-08), size = 153 kB.
  Added:
  • New search engine location report.
  • Memory consumption reduced.
  • Faster (if not all reports are generated).
  • Code clean-up: reports are generated in a separate module.
  • Engines.pm module internals changed, parser detects 492 search engines.
  • Dates can be added to reports.
  • Printed HTML reports are prettier.
  
  
  
• Relax 2.70 (2003-02-08), size = 127 kB
  Added:
  • New report layout, new report formats (XHTML, HTML, Plain text, Textless, CSV (Comma Separated Value)).
  • Reports can be splitted into separate files.
  • Memory consumption reduced.
  • Rewrite referring URL performance improved.
  • Progress indicator is more configurable.
  • Code clean-up.
  • Parser detects 471 search engines.
  
  
  
• Relax 2.60 (2002-11-29), size = 105 kB
  Added:
  • 40-60% faster, memory consumption reduced.
  • "Referring query terms by search engine" report added.
  • Incremential report support added.
  • Better recovery from corrupted log entries.
  • Improved character set suport.
  • Word splitter module can be selected. Supports Simplified Chinese.
  • Parser detects 458 search engines.
  
  
  
• Relax 2.51 (2001-06-12), size = 72 kB
  Added:
  • New domain related modifications. References to lambda.nic.fi have been changed to point to ktmatu.com.
  • A couple of reports have been renamed.
  Search engines added (Engines.pm version 1.32): +Search, 1stBlaze.com, 360.ru, @nifty, ABCsearch.com, ALLT.com, Abacho, Acoon, Ad-Guide Germany, Address.com, Ameta, Anazi, Aonde, Arama.com, Astalavista, BIGLOBE, BellZinc.ca, BlueHyppo, Bush Internet, Bytedog, Cadê?, Cari, Chart.dk, Clickey, Clix, Club-Internet, CompletePlanet Search, Dotzup, El Sitio, Espotting, Find11, Findology, FreshEye, Gee-Wiz!, Guia Útil, Guidebeam, ISIZE, Inquirus, Jippii Haku, JoeAnt.com, Jubii, JumpForce.Com, Khoj, Mantra Online, Metabot.ru, Molisearch, Nana, Nathan, NetFlip, NetKing, NetSeek, OCN navi, Oloplan, PageSeeker, Pandia Metasearch, Plux !, PointCom.com, QuestFinder, REX, RedBox, SearchAddict.com, SearchBug.com, SearchHippo.com, SearchIndonesia, SearchPower.com, SearchWiz, Searchgate, Second Power, Seek123.com, Sharelook, SherlockHound, Slider, Sportula, Summit Web, SurfWax, TheUseful.com, Use it!, Vinden.NL, VirtualFish, Walla!, blueyonder, e-kolay, empas, freenet.de, heySmarty.com, iNET Guide, ilse, infodigger.net, mynet, ntlworld.
  Search engine modifications (Engines.pm version 1.32): Ah-ha.com, All The Web, Allthesites.com, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Catcha.com, Espotting, Euroseek, Evreka, Excite, Google, Haku.net, Highway 61, HotBot, Indiatimes.com, Kolumbus Haku/Kompassi, MetaMiner, Metacrawler, My Starting Point/Starting Point, ProFusion/Intelliseek, QuiQuoiOù, Sify.com, Sina, SureSeeker, Voila, Yahoo!, iWon, terra.
  
  
• Relax 2.50 (2001-01-11), size = 65 kB
  Added:
  • Search engine parsers are now in a separate Engines.pm module. This makes it a lot easier to keep Relax up-to-date.
  • Added Engines.pm update status checks.
  • -C switch to convert all query terms to lower case.
  Search engines added (Engines.pm version 1.11): NetEase, M-Web, Sina, @brint.com, PlanetOut, Search Assistance, OniNet, CurryGuide, Vívisimo, IntelliZap, Sify.com, Netway Netguide, orange.net, Ariadna, DotPlanet!, 7MetaSearch.com, India.com, inwind, Best of the Web, WebInfoSearch, Search123.com, Kanoodle.com, SearchHound.com, Win4Win.com, Metaka Search, SureSeeker, Searches, MyFamily.com, start4all.com, meta360.com, Brightgate, Gais, Superonline.com, MetaIQ.
  Search engine modifications (Engines.pm version 1.11): Search66.com, SearchCactus.com, Catcha.com, Searchalot, Zoeken, Netvigator Search Engine, TROUVEZ!, AOL Search, inFind/Inference Find, CompuServe Search/CompuServe Internet Gateway Search, terra/Infosel, Intelliseek/ProFusion, The BigHub MegaSearch, ICQ Search/ICQ iT, AltaVista, Google, Query Server/Dataware Knowledge Query Server, GO.com, Forbes Finder, Searchengine.com/searchUK, Bay9.Com/RocketLinks, qbSearch/Quickbrowse, Evreka, Lycos (lycosasia), About.com, SimpleSearch.com, GOeureka, Goo, QuePasa.com, Arianna, METAspider.
  
  
• Relax 2.41 (2000-04-20), size = 55 kB
  Modified:
  • Fixed a couple of small typos that caused warnings on Perl 5.6.0.
  Search engines added: BT Internet Web Search, FT.com search, Netscape Online, CEOExpress, Rambler, Yandex, Aport, GOeureka, FindWhat.
  Search engine modifications: Search.com, Ask Jeeves, Freeserve, ICQ iT, HotBot, MegaSpider.
  
  
• Relax 2.42 (2000-10-08), size = 60 kB
  Modified:
  • Fixed really strange glob bug.
  Search engines added: Buscador.com, OpenChile, La Brújula, Allthesites.com, breathe, Cypria.com, eresMas, Forbes Finder, MonsterCrawler.com, savvy.com, Sawaal, 123India.com, IndiaInfo, METAspider, indya.com, SAPO, PlanetClick, Spray Search, in.gr, eFind.com, Jumpy, Snoopa, RocketLinks, Katalogo, Weather Underground Search, Wakano, fuzzycrawler, Surfy!, MetaMiner, InfoGrid, Everyday.com, TheKing.nl, Virgin Net Search, Web Search, Findia!, onwashington.com, rediff.com, Metor, Openfind, Dell Net, search.ch, Business.com, MetaEureka, Indiatimes.com, Sympatico-Lycos Find It, Starting Page, La Toile du Québec, ya.com, SearchFuel, BusinessIndia.com, ePilot.com, Alberta.com, emulti, Indiaa2z.com, Quickbrowse, RedeSearch, SearchBlaster.com, SearchCactus.com, ThaiFind, TsunamiSearch, Webhelp.com, Ah-ha.com, Efamily.com, OneSearch.com, DINO-Online, Altaseek, Départ Eclair, InfoZoid, Search66.com, IcySpicy.Com, Arianna.
  Search engine modifications: Ask Jeeves For Kids, Evreka, All The Web, the blue window/Sear.ch, Inference Find, Freeserve, Google, Voila, indya.com, Yahoo!, Search.com, Anzwers, NBCi/Snap!.
  
  
• Relax 2.41 (2000-04-20), size = 55 kB
  Modified:
  • Fixed a couple of small typos that caused warnings on Perl 5.6.0.
  Search engines added: BT Internet Web Search, FT.com search, Netscape Online, CEOExpress, Rambler, Yandex, Aport, GOeureka, FindWhat.
  Search engine modifications: Search.com, Ask Jeeves, Freeserve, ICQ iT, HotBot, MegaSpider.
  
  
• Relax 2.4 (2000-01-28), size = 54 kB
  Added:
  • French translations
  Modified:
  • Improved suport of compressed log files. Now it is easier to analyze .bz2, .zip, .Z, etc. compressed logs.
  • Improved standardize_url.
  • Fixed command line ARGV decoding bug. "-" characters in the middle of parameter are not anymore treated as start of parameter.
  • strip_dir deprecated.
  Search engines added: RealNames, iWon, GoToWorld Search, OneCenter Spider, MyWay, supercrawler.com, TROUVEZ!, Colorstamps, PerlCrawler, Hitsgalore.com, LineOne Internet Search, Search Engines Galore, WebTop.com, SearchIt, AT&T WorldNet Search, Ixquick Metasearch, InfoSpace.com, Fujo, MatchSite, Netvigator Search Engine, ninemsn, Catcha.com.
  Search engine modifications: MegaSpider, Northern Light, Microsoft Internet Search, Ask Jeeves, Radar UOL, Britannica.com/Encyclopædia Britannica's Internet Guide, MetaFind.
  
  
• Relax 2.3 (1999-10-19), size = 51 kB
  Added:
  • -wr switch to rewrite referring URLs
  • custom_parser support
  • CSS selectors to some elements
  Modified:
  • Etsin code completely rewritten
  • More information available in general summary report
  • Log files are opened in binmode to prevent middle of the file related ^Z (end of file) character troubles on Windows platforms
  Search engines added: Dataware Knowledge Query Server, Searchalot, The BigHub MegaSearch, Surfboard.nl, Thor, Searchopolis, MegaSpider.
  Search engine modifications: Yahoo!, ICQ iT, What-U-Seek (Intrasearch), AOL Search/AOL Netfind, Evreka, Nomade.fr, Voila, QuiQuoiOù, GoTo.com, Ask Jeeves, Virgilio Ricerca.
  
  
• Relax 2.2 (1999-09-09), size = 49 kB
  Added:
  • -rsq switch to generate Referring search engines and query terms report
  • -rgs switch to generate general summary report
  Modified:
  • Reports can now be configured so that only the first n entries are displayed
  • Improved standardize_url, if possible, bar.com/index.html and bar.com/ are consolidated.
  • Hex digits are now converted in referred documents also
  • Fixed a bug that replaced "%20" by spaces in referring URLs
  • Link generation code. create_link modified to recognize http://2566979858/~ktmatu/ type URLs.
  • parse_combined fixed to accept some rare log entries that were previously interpreted to be corrupted
  • Etsin support is now automatically disabled if the report is written to stdout ("-")
  • Partial code clean up
  Search engines added: myGO, All The Web, NetTaxi MetaSearcher, Radar UOL, MaxiSearch, canada.com, CompuServe Internet Gateway Search, NewMalaysia, SimpleSearch.com, QuePasa.com, MCI WorldCom Internet Search, NetWORLD Connections, Links²Go, Orientation, Nomade.fr, Ecila, Francité, Hachette.net, Lokace, carrefour.net, QuiQuoiOù, Yeller.COM, MyBC, AdValvas, EZResult, 7Search.com, MTV3 Internet, Yep.com.
  Search engine modifications: Ask Jeeves, Deja.com/Deja News, About.com/MininCo.Com, Excite, Naver.com/News Naver, GoHip!, AltaVista (AltaVista Canada), Netscape Netcenter, ICQ iT, Microsoft Internet Search, AOL Netfind, Evreka, Direct Hit, LookSmart, C4/Cyber 411, Voila.
  
  
• Relax 2.1 (1999-05-16), size = 46 kB
  Added:
  • -rk switch to generate keyword report
  • -X switch to exclude referring URLs
  • -sd switch to strip directories from local targets
  • -rqd switch to generate detailed query terms referring to local targets report
  • -rkd switch to generate detailed keywords referring to local targets report
  • -rtad switch to generate detailed local targets referred by all URLs report
  • --help and --version switches to make Relax more compatible with GNU Coding Standards
  • -pi switch to generate a progress indicator
  • -ed switch to modify Etsin domain settings
  • -f switch to change file mode of all generated files
  • Support for WebSTAR log files
  • support for automatically loaded configuration file, default.cfg
  Modified:
  • Documentation, table of contents added
  • Link generation code. Now only http and ftp URLs are links.
  • Partial code clean up
  • Improved handling of corrupted log files
  • Completely revamped Etsin support
  • Improved handling of illegal hex digits (%xx) in URLs
  Search engines added: Goo, Eule, Voila, Switchboard, Freeserve, AustroNaut, AccuFind, Apollo 7, MegaCrawler, Kimo, InfoTiger, Trade Compass, ICQ iT, Austasia.net, Index, EuroFerret, UKMax, searchUK, MetaGopher, MininCo.Com, WEB.DE, MultiCrawl
  Search engine modifications: AltaVista, Google, Search.com, SavvySearch, Metacrawler, NewHoo!/Netscape Open Directory, Excite, Direct Hit, Ask Jeeves, GO Network/Infoseek Microsoft Internet Search, Anzwers, Snap!, Starting Point, Encyclopædia Britannica's Internet Guide, iNET Haku/Sonera Plaza Haku.
  
  
• Relax 2.0 (1998-11-05), size = 48 kB
  Added:
  • -c switch for configuration file support
  • support for gzip compressed log files
  • -g switch to change language of the report
  • -toc switch to generate report's table of contents
  • -pw switch to make links rendered in a new pop-up browser window
  • -T switch to support template files
  • support for NCSA combined format log files
  • -s switch to standardize URL format
  • -N switch list web server's nicknames.
  Modified:
  • Document Type Declaration from HTML 3.2 to HTML 4.0 Transitional
  • handling of "+" characters in query strings. Now they are treated as space.
  Search engines added: Microsoft Internet Search, Kompassi, Ask Jeeves For Kids, Internet Sleuth, Direct Hit, NewHoo!, Google, Evreka
  Search engine modifications: Ask Jeeves, Inference Find, Northern Light, 100hot.com
  
  
• Relax 1.2 (1998-09-11)
  Added:
  • -E switch to prints a list of supported search engines
  • -np switch to avoid percents in reports
  • -o switch to write result to a file instead of standard output.
  Search engines added: What-U-Seek, Anzwers, Encyclopædia Britannica's Internet Guide, Debriefing, HuskySearch, ProFusion, Scrub The Web, go Hip, Zoeken, MetaGer, NetGuide, Fireball, Starting Point, 1Blink.com, Medialingua, Deja News, MEGAWEB, Infosel, Virgilio Ricerca, News Naver
  Search engine modifications: Magellan, AOL Netfind, Ask Jeeves, HotBot.
  
  
• Relax 1.1 (1998-06-29)
  Added:
  • percents and totals to reports
  • exclude command line option
  • Runs slightly faster.
  Search engines added: Haku.net, Cyber 411, 100hot.com, Netscape Netcenter, Sear.ch
  Search engine modifications: AltaVista, Excite, Serveri, AOL Netfind, LookSmart, Webcrawler.
  
  
• Relax 1.0 (1998-04-23), First public release.