HISTORY
Legend: [+] added, [x] changed/improved, [-] bugfix
Version 5.0.4 (03-Jul-2009)
- [-] Reports with extracted changes: Links were not extracted correctly
- [-] RSS feed were not displayed correctly under rare circumstances
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash when synchronizing bookmarks
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash during a check run under rare circumstances
- Smaller fixes/improvements
Version 5.0.3 (11-May-2009)
- [+] More resistant against virus scanners (virus scanner could block some WSW files)
- [x] Improved extraction of changes when sending e-mails in text format
- [-] Changes in RSS feeds were not extracted correctly on reports
- [x] Plugin for vBulletin forums improved
- [+] Norwegian user interface added
- [+] Italian user interface added
- Smaller fixes/improvements
Version 5.0.2 (06-Apr-2009)
- [x] AutoWatch countdown calculation improved
- [-] AutoWatch countdown was reset after a bookmark was checked manually
- [-] Helper program wswie.exe was not removed from memory under certain circumstances
- [-] "Alert/Actions on Error" didn't work correctly
- [x] WebSite-Watcher automatically renames images with wrong file extensions (was: internal browser could not display downloaded images with wrong file extensions)
- [-] Time configuration "Check only on [DAYS]" could fail under certain circumstances
- Danish translation added
- Smaller fixes and improvements
Version 5.0.1 (30-Jan-2009)
- [+] New PDF-Plugin that converts the content of a PDF file into a text file by trying to keep the layout
- [+] Extended Search: Option "Search in bookmarks/page content" reintroduced
- [x] Performance of AutoBackup feature improved
- [x] AutoWatch countdown calculation optimized
- [-] Command line parameter /R was broken in version 5.0
- [-] Bookmark files with UNC path could not be opened
- Bugfixes and smaller improvements
Version 5.0 (12-Jan-2009)
- [+] Completely new file format (introduces many possibilities for planned 5.x features and brings tons of other advantages, for example: everything is stored in a centralized database, up to 50% less disk usage, no reorganization after a crash, and much much more)
- [+] Plugin system that allows us more individual programming for specific pages. Custom Plugin creation is currently not available to the public, but it's planned to include the whole Plugin development system in WebSite-Watcher 5.1.
- [+] Pre-defined Plugins for major forums (phpBB, vBulletin, IPBoard, SMF)
- [+] Pre-defined Plugin to check the textual content of PDF files similar to normal web pages (this requires an additional tool to convert PDF files into text files)
- [+] Bookmark properties: Import properties from another bookmark (via "Extra" button)
- [+] Bookmark properties: Update properties in similar bookmarks
- [+] IFRAME support
- [+] Highlighting changes works more precisely
- [+] Highlight changes: Strike out filtered content works more precisely
- [+] Highlight keywords: regular expressions supported (format: regex(...))
- [+] FavIcons are displayed on browser tabs
- [+] Tabbed browsing: Close all read browser tabs
- [+] Tabbed browsing: tab hints
- [+] Internal browser: Zoom functionality in the Statusbar
- [+] Internal browser: Show if an opened page has RSS feeds with possibility to add these feeds as new bookmarks
- [+] Integration of Local Website Archive: "Open archived pages (LWA)" if bookmarks are added to Local Website Archive via bookmark actions (requires Local Website Archive 3.0+) - BLOG
- [+] Bookmark Action / Add to Local Website Archive: New options to automatically delete old bookmarks from Local Website Archive (this works only in combination with Local Website Archive 3.0+ and pages that were archived with WebSite-Watcher 5.0+) - BLOG
- [+] RSS feeds: New option to ignore changed postings (if enabled, WebSite-Watcher will monitor RSS feeds for new postings only)
- [+] AutoWatch: improved time configuration and countdown calculation (probably your time settings need some re-configuration due to these changes)
- [+] Follow Links: "Follow links to external domain" is now a separate option and can be used to monitor a whole domain inclusive all external links
- [+] Daily Auto-Backup: Backup the opened bookmark files once a day (can be restored via Tools+Backup/Restore)
- [+] Backup: Check database integrity before backup
- [+] WebSite-Watcher asks which browser tabs to re-open after a program crash
- [+] Compose Newsgroups postings: Spelling check
- [+] Extended Search: New/better presentation of search results
- [+] Extended Search: Found regular expression matches are highlighted
- [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Separate setting for e-mails and subjects
- [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: Append to bookmark notes
- [+] Report - new fields: {wsw_url_foldername} and {wsw_url_folderpath}
- [+] Bookmark Action / Export: Filename supports variables {id}, {datetime} and date variables with format "<$date$, FORMAT>" (similar to date variables in URLs)
- [+] New bookmark option: "Prevent horizontal scrolling" if the page width is larger than the browser window (bookmark properties + "Options" tab)
- [+] Bookmark properties: Remember tab if bookmark properties are re-opened within a short time
- [+] Check-By-Date:WebSite-Watcher now uses the most recent file date (a check could report false positives if a server swapped between different file dates, eg after redirecting to different servers) - Thread
- [+] Synchronize: Sync functionality is now based on bookmark id and not on URLs to sync bookmarks
- [+] Wildcard filter: More atomic match detection - BLOG
- [+] Various dialogs: Many dialog elements can be accessed via shortcuts
- [+] Themes of Office XP/2003/2007
- Tons of smaller changes, improvements and fixes
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