Version 4.6.1 (20 November 2005) ------------------------------ - rework of tag implementation so it repass all cookies; useful to include php files and have proper sessions tracking - a bug related to loading add-ons under mod_perl fixed and other littles - better handling of long request urls. - a little bug in CGI_Request.pm Version 4.6.0 (10 August 2005) ------------------------------ - modules updates - uniform user agent - an improvement for mod_perl1 execution Version 4.5.9 (18 May 2005) ------------------------------ - added groups of modules checkboxes. Files changed: STD/Configurator.pm admin/Configure.htm NAVG/Main.pm STD/ModuleGroups.pm - new module STD/ModulesLoader.pm STD/R_general.pm - the java script code templates/default/BeforeResults-groups.htm Version 4.5.5 (26 July 2004) ------------------------------ - bug related to gzip fixed - bug related to Cwd module fixed. - bug in module make procedure for post method fixed. Version 4.5.4 (8 July 2004) ------------------------------ - modules updates Version 4.5.3 (27 April 2004) ------------------------------ - modules updates - better 'real_url' autogeneration for https://... urls - a set-permissions.pl fix Version 4.5.2 (2 April 2004) ------------------------------ - better clustering for some 2 bytes encodings like utf-8, euc-kr ... - Fastcgi mode USR1, TERM and PIPE handlers added - modules updates - added results sorting by field and category feature. For example you can sort results by 'bid' field in .side_bar category. Configure at AdminPanel->Configure->Metasearch Categories Version 4.5.1 (27 January 2004) ------------------------------ - some bugs fix - "select/deselect" search engines checkbox added to search form - option to cluster results by predefined groups of phrases Version 4.5.0 (6 December 2003) ------------------------------ - Now you can include in your add-on module urls predefined variables: $ip, $e_ip, $user_ip, $e_user_ip which represent server and client ip addresses. - add-on modules support for the major search engines added. - searchfeed.com module updated. - results bar now display limited result pages to be nice for large results sets. Version 4.4.0 (4 September 2003) ------------------------------ - xml metasearch feed added. To get it add &feed=1 to the url query string. - bugs email reporting changed. Version 4.3.9 (22 August 2003) ------------------------------ - xml metasearch feed added. To get it add &feed=1 to the url query string. Version 4.3.8 (13 May 2003) ------------------------------ - chmod on WindowsNT fixed. Version 4.3.7 (18 April 2003) ------------------------------ - few bugs fixed. Version 4.3.5 (21 January 2003) ------------------------------ - grouping results by phrase now understands UTF-8 encoded strings. Default page encoding set to UTF-8 - bug with BeforeResults.htm template fixed. Version 4.3.4 (15 January 2003) ------------------------------ - modules can receive from the cgi form user preferences for "Adult Filter" and "And/All/Phrase" searches. - some affiliate modules added. - bug about Netscape browser and rows altering background color fixed. - a bug with meta tag http redirects fixed. Version 4.3.3 (11 January 2003) ------------------------------ - a bug related to Apache2 fixed. Version 4.3.2 (21 November 2002) --------------------------------- - added 'BASIC' http authorization support for http and proxy requests. - ability to have predefined 'pre' and 'post' query substrings. Helpful to preserve a good accuracy if a search engine cuts long query strings. - fixed a 'double request' bug when have to query explicitly only an additional category. Version 4.3.1 (7 November 2002) --------------------------------- - introducing even_row_result_....htm templates to be used when have to display a search result of even number. That makes possible to have altering rows style of the search results page. - added metasearch filters, so that you can have displayed only results, which do not contain 'prohibited' words. - added on per module basis the option to auto append to the end of the query terms a sequence of additional search terms predefined in the search module itself. The purpose is to be able to enable more restrictive remote search engine side queries. - now you can have a procedure within a module where you can prepare/adjust the query sent to a search engine so that it can meet the search engine native syntax. Helpful if a search engine supports a different boolean syntax than usual. - added more parameters in Admin Panel for easier control. - have control to show or not a 'processing' bar. Version 4.1.3 (23 September 2002) --------------------------------- - made compatible with perl 5.8. Version 4.1.2 (19 August 2002) ------------------------------ - some bug fixes. - new license tracking system. Version 4.0.2 (1 July 2002) --------------------------- - '\' sign bug during caching fixed. Version 4.0.1 (1 June 2002) --------------------------- - some parts of the modules building process improved. Version 4.0 (23 May 2002) --------------------------- - most of the software code has been rewritten. - 'new version' notification feature added to the Admin Panel. - option to have results clustered by phrase. - you can have multiple metasearch queries performed along with the main metasearch query and have their results displayed next to the results of the main search. - building add-on modules becomes more easier than ever. The modules for version4 are not compatible with the modules for version 3 since they have a different structure. - an option to restrict the used CPU resources per module to protect from bad regular expressions (Unix only). - one module could be included in any set of categories. - highlighting results from any number of search engines. - display stars next to the result's title according to number of url duplicates. - you can change affiliate codes for a search engine without a module rebuild but just from Admin Panel. - you can get results not only from the first search engine results pages but from all other giving you the possibility to make maximum deep searches. - set per category content charsets. - ability to set the default metasearch category. - ability to set long custom category names for display on the search form. - summary of what results each search engine returned. - an option to rotate the http requests on random basis through a list of http proxy servers - an option to try several times to connect to remote sites if there are some connectivity problems