NwaToolset Version 1.1RC10 ====================== Release Notes ============= $Id: RELEASE-NOTES,v 1.4 2004/10/22 13:45:51 sverreb Exp $ ============ INTRODUCTION: ============ This document describes the changes that have been made in the current version of NwaToolset, relative to the NwaToolset 1.0 release. Please submit Bug reports in the bug reporting system for the NwaToolset project at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nwatoolset/ ====================== CHANGES / NEW FEATURES: ====================== ------- General: ------- The NWA Document Format has been expanded with the following fields: content_length, content_checksum, archival_time, last_modified_time ------------- Access Module: ------------- The disable java script has been removed Advanced search interface included New look-and-feel of user interfaces (cleaner, more coherent) Help page and manual included in the installation. Links from user interface to these. --------- Retriever: --------- New ARC retriever included , based on Heritrix libraries ------------- Search Engine: ------------- Sorting improved Communication between abstraction layer and Lucene made more robust. ========================== BUG FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS: ========================== ------------- Access Module ------------- 977433 General : NLS not working 985053 General : NLS is not used all over 977440 Search : Phrase search error 977439 Search : Result list - wrong text displayed 985045 Search (Simple/Adv): dctitle is displayed in result list 977446 Simple search : extra param in link to overview 977443 Simple search: Date oddities 977431 Simple search : Wrong text (The text "highest ranked version in bold face" is obsolete, has no meaning anymore) 885552 Timeline : Wrong timeline resolution 985043 Timeline : search non-ascii chars doesn't work 985039 Timeline : Resolution not possible to change manually 985034 Timeline : Starting point chosen at random 985033 Timeline : Poor information to user when url not found 977453 Timeline : Some images does not appear 977452 Timeline : result.php and time_num param 977449 Timeline : result.php needs php register_globals=on 985051 Advanced Search : Query constructed incorrect 985050 Advanced Search : Poor or no validation of dates 985049 Advanced Search : Collection and Lang not very descriptive 985047 Advanced Search : Collection chosen not kept after query 985046 Advanced Search : Missing params when register_globals ============================ KNOWN ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE: ============================ --------- Retriever --------- The ARC Retriever may have problems handling heavy load -------- Exporter -------- * When encountering a problematic file to export the Exporter child process handling this will die, instead of just skipping this file. Results in invalid xml output, which in turn will wreck the indexing of this specific Nwa Document file ------------- Search Engine ------------- The test page of the Lucene search engine doesn't behave correct on platforms configured with certain character sets. The access module is not affected by this.