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# Analog 5.32: What's new in this version?

This section lists the major new features in each version of analog. There's also another section about how to upgrade from older versions of analog, listing which commands have changed or been abolished, or how the output of this version differs from that of previous versions.

5.32 (23-Mar-03)
  Recognises Safari and Camino browsers.
  New `LOGFORMAT` specification `%D` (processing time in microseconds).
  Understands `%A` and `%D` in `APACHELOGFORMAT`.
5.31 (11-Jan-03)
  Recognises Phoenix and Chimera browsers.
  Fixes for Mac, OpenVMS and RISC OS ports.
  Various other small bug fixes.
5.30 (30-Nov-02)
  Reads gzipped logfiles without the need for an `UNCOMPRESS` command.
  Host inclusions and exclusions can now use IP address ranges and subnet masks.
  New command `BYTESDP` command to list kilobytes etc. to a chosen number of decimal places. The default number of decimal places has changed from three to two.
  New code for RISC OS port, including wildcards in filenames. (Thanks to Stefan Bellon for this code).
  Various bug fixes.
  Indonesian and Slovak language files.
  New How-To entitled Getting started under Windows. (Thanks to Simon Handfield).
5.24 (25-Jun-02)
  Recognises Netscape 7 browser. Also better diagnosis of Windows operating systems for Netscape and Mozilla browsers.
  New version of IIS How-To.
  Later `UNCOMPRESS` commands now correctly override earlier ones.
  `SEARCHCHARCONVERT` can now be turned on for multibyte character sets, though it's not recommended.
  French report descriptions files.
  New versions of Polish and alternative Swedish language files.
  East Timor country code is now .tl.
5.23 (14-May-02)
  Added `PROGRESSFREQ` to the list of forbidden commands from the form interface, because it allows a denial-of-service attack.
  Also emphasised in the documentation that allowing untrusted users to run analog through the form interface is inherently open to a denial-of-service attack.
  Fixed two bugs which caused occasional crashes while outputting.
  Russian language files included (KOI8-R and Windows-1251 character sets).
  Added new domains to the French domains files.
  New How-To on configuring IIS.
5.22 (20-Mar-02)
  Security fix for cross-site scripting security bug.
  Upgraded zlib code to version 1.1.4 (although analog wasn't vulnerable to the security bug in zlib 1.1.3).
  The `PROGRESSFREQ` messages now go to the screen as well as to the `ERRFILE`.
  The second argument to `SUBDOMAIN` can now contain `*`'s and `$`'s.
  Added eight new domains to many of the domains files.
  Revised Japanese language files.
5.21 (20-Feb-02)
  Corrected the MacHTTP log format, which didn't work in 5.2.
  All the `BARSTYLE`s redrawn, and two new `BARSTYLE`s added, adapted from an idea by Dave Holle. (You will have to move the new graphics into your `IMAGEDIR` in order to use them.)
5.2 (13-Feb-02)
  You can now plot the lower levels of hierarchical reports on the pie charts by using the new `CHARTEXPAND` family of commands.
  Added `MACHTTP` to the list of built-in log formats that analog recognises automatically.
  Recognises `;` as well as `&` as query-string separator.
  The rules for generating "organisations" from numerical addresses have changed.
  Filenames given on the command line are now relative to the current directory, not the analog directory.
  Ignores completely blank lines at the top of a logfile.
  Makefiles for Microsoft Visual C++ can be found in the new `src/build` directory. Makefiles for other platforms have moved out of the source tree into there too.
  You can now refer to kilobytes as kibibytes by editing your language file.
  Revised versions of Japanese language files.
  Revised the Licence.
  Advertised new donations page.
5.1 (07-Nov-01)
  The Browser Summary now recognises the Konqueror and Galeon browsers, and distinguishes Mozilla and Netscape. (If you are using a configuration file from an older version of analog, you need to remove one line.)
  The Operating System Report now recognises Windows XP.
  Numerical addresses are now included in the Organisation Report.
  Logfile and cache file names can now contain date codes, in the same way as the `OUTFILE`.
  The person setting up the form interface can now specify a list of allowed commands, rather than a list of forbidden commands.
  The `LATEX` output style now works with the ISO-Latin-2 character set as well as ISO-Latin-1. New command `PDFLATEX`.
  New `LOGFORMAT` token `%Z` for two- or four-digit years.
  In the `COMPSEP`, you can now use `\t` to represent a tab.
  New warnings category G; some warnings reclassified.
  Various small bugs fixed. Also there is some rewriting internally, but it should be transparent to the user.
  The Windows executable has been compiled using MinGW instead of Microsoft Visual C++.
  Finnish translation, and corrections to German and Serbian. Brazilian Portuguese report descriptions files.
5.03 (07-Jul-01)
  Bug fixes, including one bug that caused a crash under Windows.
  Spanish translation, and corrections to `SWEDISH-ALT` translation.
5.02 (23-Jun-01)
  Understands the new IIS log format with four-digit years.
  Traditional Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese language files.
  Japanese is now available in four character sets.
  Four language files which were already distributed with the program are now available through the `LANGUAGE` command: `BULGARIAN-MIK` (MIK-16 charset), `CZECH-1250` and `SLOVENE-1250` (Windows-1250), and `SWEDISH-ALT` (alternative translation avoiding Anglicisms).
5.01 (19-May-01)
  New command `PNGIMAGES`.
  New token "`PLAIN:`" in `ALIAS` commands.
  Unix man page included in source distribution.
  New example configuration file `examples/bigbyrep.cfg`.
  A few small bug fixes.
  Italian report descriptions files; corrections to German language files.
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 `EXCLUDE`s 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 `REPORTSPAN`s.
  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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