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# Analog 6.0: What was new in version 4?

This section lists the new features which were in version 4 of analog.

What's new in version 6?
What was new in version 5?
4.16 (13-Feb-01)
  Security fix for buffer overflow bug.
  Small correction to Brazilian Portuguese language file.
4.15 (01-Feb-01)
  Bug fixes for accented letters in dates and for EBCDIC character set.
4.14 (22-Jan-01)
  Commas are allowed in regular expressions.
  Can do a `FLOOR` beyond Terabytes.
  OS X & MPE/iX ports.
  Bug fixes, especially for multibyte character sets.
  Unprintable characters in the report are now replaced by '?'.
  Traditional Chinese, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, US English and corrected French domains files.
  Rewrote the documentation on Cache files. Added some new data to How the Web Works.
4.13 (11-Oct-00)
  Corrected infelicity in compilation procedure.
4.12 (05-Oct-00)
  Recognises Windows Me for Operating System Report.
  Can count beyond Terabytes.
  PCRE code upgraded to version 3.4.
  AS/400 port. Patches to compile cleanly on Cygwin and 64-bit Solaris.
  Bulgarian and Croatian language files. Catalan and Finnish domains files.
  Various bug fixes.
  New Licence (mostly less restrictive than the previous one).
4.11 (31-May-00)
  The default definition of "pages" is now case insensitive, and also includes `*.asp`.
  Reads the extended logs from IIS 5 correctly.
  Version number displayed before any warning or debugging messages.
  The "number of days" at the top of the report now obeys `DECPOINT` (and is also now to 2 decimal places).
  Improved OpenVMS build procedure.
  Hungarian and Romanian language files, and corrected Spanish language files and English domains files.
  Italian and Spanish form interfaces.
  The FAQ now has a list of contents.
4.1 (30-Mar-00)
  Regular expressions in `ALIAS`es and `INCLUDE`s are now available on all platforms.
  Regular expressions are now Perl-syntax regular expressions. (Thanks to Philip Hazel's PCRE library.)
  "Repeated fields" in logfile header lines are now allowed.
  New commands `STATUSINCLUDE` and `STATUSEXCLUDE`, and `304ISSUCCESS`.
  New output style `PLAIN` (like `ASCII` but with accents). New language files for this.
  In the computer-readable output, hierarchical reports now have an extra column, indicating the depth of the item in the hierarchy.
  All referrers now count as "pages." (See upgrade notes.)
  Configuration commands can be continued across lines with a backslash.
  New token `%s` in `LOGFORMAT`, allowing per-line selection of client-name and client-IP fields.
  New log format `WEBSTAR-EXTENDED` to allow for a small bug in WebSTAR's implementation of the extended log format.
  Korean language files. Also alternative Swedish translation.
4.04 (21-Mar-00)
  The analog home page has moved to www.analog.cx
  New column `d` in non-time reports.
  The `RUNTIME` command now turns off the "Program started at" line as well as the "Running Time" line.
  Non-alphanumeric characters are now allowed in the `REPORTORDER` as separators.
  Correctly parses more `APACHELOGFORMAT`s.
  Better detection of Windows 2000 in Operating System Report.
  Better warning messages when the erroneous command contains a space.
  Code for NeXTSTEP operating system.
  Better treatment of multibyte character sets.
  Icelandic language files. Corrections to Bosnian, French, Italian, Japanese & Swedish.
4.03 (21-Feb-00)
  Fixed several small bugs.
  New command `RUNTIME`.
  Brazilian Portuguese language files and Swedish domains files. Corrections to Dutch.
4.02 (31-Jan-00)
  New command `SEARCHCHARCONVERT`.
  Support for Apache's new `%q` code in `APACHELOGFORMAT`.
  Fix for search reports causing crashes on Windows.
  New language: Czech. Corrections for Serbian, Slovene and Ukrainian.
4.01 (17-Dec-99)
  New command `USERCASE`.
  Some of the default paths have changed in `anlghead.h`.
  Improvements to OpenVMS port.
  Language files included for Armenian, Bosnian, Catalan, traditional Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish & Ukrainian; corrections to Russian & Turkish.
4.0 (16-Nov-99)
  Simplified Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Portuguese & Serbian language files included.
  Otherwise only small changes since 3.90beta2.
3.90beta2 (02-Nov-99)
  It is now recommended that you don't run analog as a CGI program for security reasons. (The `CGI` command is still present, but it is now not documented.)
  The Organisation Report is now hierarchical.
  The Browser Summary is now arranged by major version number. (See notes on upgrading.)
  Non-exact bytes are now given to 3 decimal places.
  `GOTOS FEW` puts the "Go To" lines just at the top and bottom of the output.
  `PRINTVARS` has been renamed `SETTINGS`.
  `-settings` output improved, especially with `OUTPUT NONE`.
  Split `PAGEWIDTH` into `HTMLPAGEWIDTH` and `ASCIIPAGEWIDTH`.
  Includes language files for French, Greek, Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk), Polish, Russian and Turkish.
  New configuration file `examples/big.cfg` containing most commands.
3.90beta1 (07-Oct-99)
  First beta test for version 4. The most important new features are:
  - Five new reports: Organisation Report, Operating System Report, Search Word Report, Search Query Report, Processing Time Report.
  - Browser Summary improved (will change results).
  - Form interface completely rewritten, and considerably simplified.
  - Multiple *'s now allowed on left-hand side of `ALIAS`es.
  - Regular expressions allowed in `INCLUDE`s & `EXCLUDE`s, and `ALIAS`es.
  - The output `INCLUDE`s and `EXCLUDE`s now apply to the lower levels of a hierarchical report as well as the top level.
  - New commands: `CGI`, `STYLESHEET` and `ERRLINELENGTH`.
  - New column `N` in most reports.
  - `DEBUG C` now reports which part of a corrupt logfile line is corrupt.
  - Non-exact bytes are now displayed as, e.g., 47.68 Mbytes instead of 48,832 kbytes. This should be less confusing.
  - Timestamps added to `PROGRESSFREQ` reports.
  - The DNS file has a new time encoding.
  - Header files split up to make `anlghead.h` simpler.
  - Form interfaces in German and U.S. English included.
  - New documentation about search arguments.
  - New `examples` directory.
  - New licence. (Nearly the same, just clarified, and slightly loosened).
What was new in version 3?
What was new in version 2?
What was new in version 1?

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