1 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.7
6 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.6 (2014-01-14)
8 Remove absolute directory ~/lib to make it portable.
11 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.5 (2013-12-05)
13 Parse <meta charset="...">.
16 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.4 (2013-11-23)
18 Published through git/gitweb.
21 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.3 (2013-07-26)
23 Minor tweak in Makefile.
28 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.2 (2012-09-24)
32 Handle redirects with codes 303 and 307.
34 Fixed a bug in handling place: URIs (do not append '//').
37 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.1 (2011-12-28).
39 Read/write mozilla-specific date/time format in json storage.
42 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.5.0 (2011-12-18).
44 Encode international domain names with IDNA encoding.
46 Adapted to different Mozilla 'place' URIs.
49 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-07).
51 Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level
54 Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html package.
56 Added statistics code to parse_html, got a statistics on parser
57 success/failrure rate, reordered parsers.
62 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
64 Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
67 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
69 Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
70 (html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for asynchronous
71 robot(s) that would test many URLs in parallel.
74 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.2.
76 Added HTML Parser based on lxml.
79 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.1 (2010-08-12).
81 Added HTML Parser based on html5 library.
84 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.2.0 (2010-08-11).
86 New storage: json; it allows to load and store Mozilla (Firefox) backup
90 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.2
92 Process http error 307 as a temporary redirect.
95 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.1 (2008-03-10)
97 Catch and report all errors.
99 Consider application/xhtml+xml as HTML.
101 Better handling of exceptions while looking up the icon.
103 Recode HTML entities.
105 Always use utf-8 as the default encoding.
108 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
110 Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
112 Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
113 "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
114 this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
115 that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
117 Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
119 Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
121 Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
124 WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
126 Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
127 Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
128 Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
130 The project celebrates 10th anniversary!
133 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
135 Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
138 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
140 Extended support for Mozilla: keywords in bookmarks.
141 Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
144 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
146 parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
149 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
153 HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
154 content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if
155 the Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with
156 charset, the title is converted from the given charset to the default
157 charset. The <HEADER> is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect,
161 WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
163 Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
164 managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.