browser-history changelog

# News

History of changes, both to the browser-history program and to this page:

v2.8 - 24-Jul-2000
  - bugfix: since 2.6, internal links of default generated headers were false
v2.7 - 20-Jul-2000
  - new X property LAST_POS on the browser-history window to give last valid position in log file
  - summary of use less terse
v2.6 - 08-Jun-2000
  - If a file "header.html" exists in ~/.browser-history, use it as a header to start new history-log files with. Patch contributed by Philippe Le Hégaret
  - Day names have <a> marquers on them to allow jumping directly to them from the header. Patch contributed by Philippe Le Hégaret
v2.5 - 06-Aug-1999
  - In log, links to the previous weeks are now relative (were absolute). Patch contributed by Bert Bos
  - All years in dates (in logs and in previous week filenames) are now on 4 digits. This was a Y2K bug! :-) Patch contributed by Bert Bos
  - Some users edited the netscape binary to remove the leading Netscape: in window names... I had to adapt to it.
v2.4 - 24-Aug-97
  Log entries are now on the same line, to ease grep searches in files.
v2.3 - 14-Feb-97
  bugfix: on creating a new file on sundays, one some OSes (SunOs4+NFS), the list of previous histories was empty. Problem detected and fixed by Hubert CANON
v2.2 - 03-Oct-96
  built-in support of the last Amaya version (new official editor+browser of the web consortium)
v2.1 - 13-Sep-96
  you can add support to your browser without recompiling or restarting browser-history, see Supported browsers
  new option -Version, prints version and exits.
v1.18 - 25-Jun-96
  Past weeks stored most recent first instead of oldest first at top of history file.
v1.17 - 30-May-96
  Works on SunOS and on pure BSD system, where you must add the compilation flag -DBSD or type "make bsd".
  new option -DontGrab for debug.
v1.16 - 28-May-96
  Works even if gzip is not installed, and gzip location settable by the new -gzip option
v1.14 - 28-May-96
  No need anymore for a crontab-run shell script to add day names and week cleanups to the log.
  Web page installed.
v1.6 - 03-May-96
  Directory name changed to "~/.browser-history", was "~/.netscape-history" before...
v1.4 - 15-Feb-96
  Arena implements supports too.
v1.1 - 01-Feb-96
  First version, netscape only.