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Alkaline 1.5 - What's New

Alkaline 1.5
  RTM is 1.5.0821.0
 (build 1.5.0816.0) corrected bug: when running as a service, stopping the engine randomly fails when background indexing is enabled
 (build 1.5.0811.0 RC1) not creating lazy background thread when running with --noreindex
 (build 1.5.0806.0 Beta 2) corrected bug: improper translation and a long timeout with servers responding with a HTTP/1.0 XXX error code with no description
 (build 1.5.0806.0) removed additional LFs in the HTTP request (workaround for several HTTP server issues)
 (build 1.5.0806.0) corrected bug: booolean search exclusion conditions not properly applied
 (build 1.5.0730.0) corrected bug: inapplicable ranking with boolean operators
 (build 1.5.0724.0) corrected bug: date scope restriction broken on several unix platforms
 (build 1.5.0709.0) added --regexp command line option with excludewords to apply existing regular expressions exclusion dictionaries to written indexes
 (build 1.5.0708.2) applying an exclusion dictionary with excludewords only loads the .ndx file and shows the reduction percentage after the dictionary is applied
 (build 1.5.0707.0) corrected bug: merge producing corrupted ndx indexes
 (build 1.5.0707.0) added MaxWordSize option to asearch.cnf
 (build 1.5.0707.0) added Weight option to asearch.cnf
 (build 1.41.0703.0) signinificantly improved robots retrieval to enable concurrent site indexing (especially increasing the throughput of indexing large lists of well-known urls from different sites)
 (build 1.41.0626.0) added --auth:[domain\]username[:password] and --verbose options to the parse command line directive
 (build 1.41.0628.0) added reordering of authentication credentials, the last successful authentication credential is pushed to the top of the list of available credentials
 (build 1.41.0626.0) added WeakWords option to asearch.cnf
 (build 1.41.0626.0) added client-side keep-alive support for authentication sessions
 (build 1.41.0626.0) added support for NTLM authentication, Windows version only, including authentication with current credentials
 (build 1.41.0622.0) corrected bug: if the server returns a 401 Access Denied and no valid credentials are available, the document will be removed during the 404 pass
 (build 1.41.0622.0) corrected bug: if a document is removed during the 404 pass but no new documents are indexed, the index is not written
 (build 1.41.0505.0) corrected bug: Alkaline randomly not finding configuration or data files on virtual servers
 (build 1.41.0505.0) corrected bug: 1002 error reported by AlkalineTools MrtgStats regardless of the real problem, such as invalid host name or port number; corrected MrtgStats not working on Windows NT
 (build 1.41.0505.0) added an extension --enableswap[=filename] on UNIX to specify a swap file name; for example --enableswap=/tmp/alkaline.swp
 (build 1.41.0504.1 - 1.41.0505.0) Added a Press any key to continue message and a wait for a key after the command line help screen in order to avoid an immediately closing window when Alkaline is launched from the Windows desktop; added the same behavior in AlkalineTools
 (build 1.41.0504.0 - 1.41.0505.0) added an icon to the asearch.exe program in Alkaline for Windows NT, added different icons to all AlkalineTools
 (build 1.41.0504.0) corrected bug: proxy and system errors skipped in the 404 Not Found pre-indexing step
 (build 1.41.0503.0, 1.41.0516.0) improved new swapping architecture; VM size may be now seen reduced by a factor of 3 when running with --enableswap for a very acceptable performance hit
 (build 1.41.0503.0) corrected bug: maximum sizeexit of swap easily reached on Windows 2000/NT when running with the --enableswap option, swap can now grow as long as there's enough disk space
 (build 1.41.0503.0) slightly remodeled admin section with new icons and better java-script error handling
 (build 1.41.0425.0) variables with special characters are now possible on search templates; this allows custom meta tags with spaces, for example CustomMetas=User Name,User Email can be retrieved with $[User Name] and $[User Email] on the search template
 (build 1.41.0424.0) added parsing of url from the <tr href=url> tag
 (build 1.41.0424.0) added support for html parsing of nested comments such as <!-- comment <!-- comment --> -->
 (build 1.41.0424.0) added command line parse option to dump html parsed data from a document and help find errors and typos
 (build 1.41.0423.0) changed RampupSearchThreads to a default value of zero; this was a hardcoded 2 in previous versions, which means that every time a job cannot be serviced immediately, at least 1 + 2 threads are created to anticipate server load
 (build 1.41.0423.0) added Ssi, RampupSearchThreads, MaxSearchThreads, MaxSearchQueueSize, MaxSearchThreadIdle, MaxIndexThreads and RampupIndexThreads options to global.cnf
 (build 1.41.0422.0) added LnxDump to AlkalineTools capable of showing all urls linked from a document and all documents linking to a particular url
 (build 1.41.0422.0) corrected bug: $post.* values output contains the content twice for quant, search and several other options passed in the query string
 (build 1.41.0421.0) added ParseMetas, which allows fine granularity in specifying which meta tags to parse or to exclude
 (build 1.41.0421.0) added config command line argument which dumps structured lists of built-in options for asearch.cnf and global.cnf
 (build 1.41.0416.0) added opt:insens to force case-insensitive search
 (build 1.41.0413.0) corrected bug: partially missing robots.txt directives; User-Agent and Disallow strings parsed case-sensitive
 (build 1.41.0413.0) corrected bug: day of week wrong when indexing using ReplaceLocal
 (build 1.41.0412.0) added NoCookies=Y to disable reading, storing and sending cookies from/to the server
 (build 1.41.0411.0) added AlkalineReloadIndex.pl to PerlTools capable of reloading a single or all indexes
 (build 1.41.0411.0) proper error message when the server fails to find a matching index to reload

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