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 WHAT IS IT
    A set of classes, libraries, programs and plugins I use to manipulate my
-bookmarks.html. I like Mozilla, but I need more features. I want to extend
-Mozilla's "Check for updates" feature (Navigator4 called it "Update
-bookmarks").
+bookmarks.html.
 
+WHAT'S NEW in version 4.4.0 (2011-01-??).
 
-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29)
-   Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion.
+Moved BeautifulSoup.py and subproc.py from Robots/ to the top-level directory.
 
+Moved parse_html.py and its submodules to a separate parse_html module.
 
-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.0 (2004-09-23)
-   Extended support for Mozilla; keywords in bookmarks.
-   Updated to m_lib version 1.2.
+Removed old cruft.
 
 
-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.2
-   parse_html.py can now recode unicode entities in titles.
+WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.1 (2011-01-03).
 
+Get favicon before HTML redirect (refresh).
 
-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.3.0
-   Required Python 2.2.
-   HTML parser. If the protocol is HTTP, and there is Content-Type header, and
-content type is text/html, the object is parsed to extract its title; if the
-Content-Type header has charset, or if the HTML has <META> with charset, the
-title is converted from the given charset to the default charset. The <HEADER>
-is also parsed to extract <META> tag with redirect, if any.
+Get favicon even if it's of a wrong type; many sites return favicon as
+text/plain or application/*; the only exception is text/html which is usually
+an error page instead of error 404.
 
 
-WHAT'S NEW in version 3.0
-   Complete rewrite from scratch. Created mechanism for pluggable storage
-managers, writers (DB dumpers/exporters) and robots.
+WHAT'S NEW in version 4.3.0 (2011-01-01).
 
+Robots no longer have one global temporary file - there are at least two
+(html and favicon), and in the future there will be more for
+asynchronous robot(s) that will test many URLs in parallel.
 
-WHERE TO GET
-   Master site:    http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
-
-   Faster mirrors: http://phd.by.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
-              http://phd.webhost.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
 
+WHERE TO GET
+   Master site: http://phdru.name/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
+   Mirrors: http://phd.webhost.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
+                 http://phd.by.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db
 
 AUTHOR
-   Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>
+   Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name>
 
 COPYRIGHT
-   Copyright (C) 1997-2007 PhiloSoft Design
+   Copyright (C) 1997-2011 PhiloSoft Design
 
 LICENSE
    GPL