wrensoft
09-15-2006, 04:41 AM
V5 HAS BEEN RELEASED
After 18 months of development, testing and improvements. V5 has arrived!
New features
The main new features of V5 compared to V4 are,
Content filtering (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=936)
Incremental indexing (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1123)
Recommended links (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=954)
Charset by page (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=993)
Indexing enormous sites (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=929)
Image indexing and thumbnails (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1029)
Improved Categories (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1053)
XML/RSS output plus OpenSearch compatibility (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1089)
Adding meta data to remote files (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1075)
Highlighting words in PDF files (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4459)
Limit pages per start point (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4460)
MP3 music file indexing and searching (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4462)
Search depth control (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4463)
New CSS Classes (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1134)
DWF/AutoCAD file plugin (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1135)
Indexing filenames of .EXE, .ZIP and other binaries (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1136)
Improved logging & broken link detection (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1137)
Faster indexing with less RAM & CPU usage (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4470)
Faster searching, up to 6 times faster for the CGI. (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5595)
Google Sitemap generation (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1163)
Re-write of the FTP upload function to be more reliable
New index file upload function that avoids taking search offline
Vista compatibility
Sun Solaris support for the search.cgi via a seperate download (http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/faq_sparc_cgi.html)
Additional Minor Improvements (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1138)Release dates
Beta build 11 - First public beta release: 15/Sept/06
Up until now we made the previous beta releases available to only a small group of people. This is the first public release open to everyone. This release contains about 95% of the final functionality.
Beta build 12 - 5/Oct/06
This release has added some final functionality and should be very stable.
Beta build 14 - 6/Nov/06
All functionality included, documentation completed, but there are still a few known minor bugs.
Beta build 15 - 14/Nov/06
All known bugs addressed. All functionality and documentation is finalized. Release candidate.
Final 'gold' release - 30/Nov/06
It was the plan to release it at the end of Oct 06. But it released on the 30/Nov/06
After 18 months of development, testing and improvements. V5 has arrived!
New features
The main new features of V5 compared to V4 are,
Content filtering (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=936)
Incremental indexing (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1123)
Recommended links (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=954)
Charset by page (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=993)
Indexing enormous sites (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=929)
Image indexing and thumbnails (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1029)
Improved Categories (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1053)
XML/RSS output plus OpenSearch compatibility (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1089)
Adding meta data to remote files (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1075)
Highlighting words in PDF files (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4459)
Limit pages per start point (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4460)
MP3 music file indexing and searching (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4462)
Search depth control (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4463)
New CSS Classes (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1134)
DWF/AutoCAD file plugin (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1135)
Indexing filenames of .EXE, .ZIP and other binaries (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1136)
Improved logging & broken link detection (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1137)
Faster indexing with less RAM & CPU usage (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4470)
Faster searching, up to 6 times faster for the CGI. (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5595)
Google Sitemap generation (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1163)
Re-write of the FTP upload function to be more reliable
New index file upload function that avoids taking search offline
Vista compatibility
Sun Solaris support for the search.cgi via a seperate download (http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support/faq_sparc_cgi.html)
Additional Minor Improvements (http://www.wrensoft.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1138)Release dates
Beta build 11 - First public beta release: 15/Sept/06
Up until now we made the previous beta releases available to only a small group of people. This is the first public release open to everyone. This release contains about 95% of the final functionality.
Beta build 12 - 5/Oct/06
This release has added some final functionality and should be very stable.
Beta build 14 - 6/Nov/06
All functionality included, documentation completed, but there are still a few known minor bugs.
Beta build 15 - 14/Nov/06
All known bugs addressed. All functionality and documentation is finalized. Release candidate.
Final 'gold' release - 30/Nov/06
It was the plan to release it at the end of Oct 06. But it released on the 30/Nov/06