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OutWit Hub - Version History
  • Version 0.8.9.181
    • Enhancement - Search of links is now also performed in XML files.
    • Enhancement - Guess is now also performed on non-HTML files.
    • Fix - Minor corrections in update system.
  • Version 0.8.9.173
    • Feature - It is now possible to select the number of pages to browse automatically in the Browse button popup menu.
    • Feature - It is now possible to constrain the URLs to dig, using the Dig button popup menu (within domain, outside domain or all links).
    • Feature - Added the much awaited 'Text' column in the links view. (Yes we should have done it a while ago).
    • Feature - Added a bottom panel to the Text view, in order to move text content automatically to the catch.
    • Enhancement - The online help is finally usable. All program views are covered (including the views of the Pro version that are not yet available in this beta). Menu items will follow.
    • Enhancement - Optimized destination folder management: Now defaults to an 'outwit' subfolder in the folder selected in Firefox (usually, the system's 'download' folder). Can be altered in 'preferences' or in 'export' and 'download' functions.
    • Enhancement - Optimized interface elements and help content which reduced the overall size of the package.
    • Enhancement - Slightly optimized the link search module which did some redondant checks in the last versions.
    • Fix - Corrected a regression with the 'Adjacent' option in images, which prevented the generation of thumbnails in subsequent pages.
    • Fix - The path to the save and download folder is now stored in UTF-8 which makes it usable in non-latin languages.
    • Fix - Corrected a regression on the automatic sorting of images.
    • Fix - Corrected a fatal error when loading the Hub with a corrupted catch file. The program should now repair the catch file automatically if it happens.
  • Version 0.8.9.153
    • Enhancement - Operations are faster on large catch files.
    • Enhancement - On some Ajax pages, the content was not re-analyzed when dynamically changed after a click. This was addressed.
    • Fix - The Dig button is operational again.
  • Version 0.8.9.147
    • Enhancement - Right click now works on source code in the scraper editor, to copy strings and paste them in the editor as markers.
    • Enhancement - Page series exploration now works in a broader list of contexts and languages.
    • Enhancement - It is now possible to switch sound on/off in the preferences.
    • Fix - Recent regressions in image searches and saving were fixed.
    • Fix - A regression was fixed in the renaming function that prevented duplicates to be saved, when downloading series of files of the same name.
    • Fix - The slideshow now waits for the last image to load before ending.
    • Fix - Dragging data from the catch to the page could, in turn, move the same data back to the catch if the 'move to catch' option was checked in a view. This lead to unwanted results and was corrected.
    • Fix - The menu arrow of the 'Back' button is working again.
    • Fix - In very specific cases, downloading series of images of the same name during a browse could lead to a crash of Firefox download manager. This was fixed.
    • Fix - The right click menu is now functioning normally while editing a cell in a view or in the catch.
  • Version 0.8.9.140 (Known issues in this version - Sorry, please update)
    • Known Issue - Images did not save properly.
    • Known Issue - The application could freeze for over 30s in some specific image searches.
  • Version 0.8.9.137
    • Enhancement - Updated to be compatible with Firefox 3.6.
    • Enhancement - 'Dig' now explores all links of a page except for 'log out' links. As it obviously interrupted explorations in many cases.
    • Feature - The 'documents' view was added to extract document files (pdf, doc, xls, ppt...). (pro version feature)
    • Feature - Added an extended RSS feed search option, exploring more thoroughly the current domain for feeds. (pro version feature)
    • Fix - Scraper modification date doesn't change anymore when the scraper is activated or deactivated.
    • Fix - Fixed a bug preventing the extension to run properly in some cases on Windows 7.
    • Fix - Fixed a bug which interrupted the execution of a 'Dig' after some complex ajax pages.
  • Version 0.8.9.87
    • Fix - Corrected a bug that prevented to find the next page of a series in some cases.
  • Version 0.8.9.83
    • Fix - When processing a .tmp or .txt file, characters like '&' were HTML encoded in the links view. This was corrected.
    • Fix - Several minor glitches were fixed in the scraper management: (the 'Execute' button now displays an alert if the scraper being edited cannot be applied to the current URL, a bug prevented scrapers to be applied in certain cases to matching URLs when the pattern included a '?'...)
    • Fix - A regression was found and corrected in the detection of high-res images in certain types of galleries.
  • Version 0.8.9.77
    • Fix - In the automator manager, 'active' checkboxes could not be unchecked. This has been corrected.
    • Fix - When there is no scraper, if the 'scrapers' view is selected, the program opens a blank scraper for the current URL. When a new page was loaded, this URL was not updated even if the new scraper had been left empty. This is now fixed.
    • Fix - Corrected problem that could block the interface for a few seconds in case of dynamic insertion of large numbers of nodes.
    • Fix - Other minor fixes.
  • Version 0.8.9.71
    • Fix - Minor fixes.
  • Version 0.8.9.69
    • Fix - Corrected performance problem in some large AJAX pages while links are extracted on dynamically added nodes.
    • Feature - Added an 'Empty Catch' button in the Catch bottom panel.
  • Version 0.8.9.65
    • Enhancement - Complete refactoring of the Kernel.
    • Enhancement - New Scraper Editor interface.
    • Enhancement - The logs view gives more useful information on processes.
    • Enhancement - The status bar in slideshow mode now gives useful and understandable information.
    • Enhancement - The Scraper Editor can now be found under the 'Automators' section, to prepare the way for the other kinds of automators to come: macros, jobs, scripts, queries, etc.
    • Enhancement - In all data panels, the number of columns is now unlimited. New columns are added when the extracted data requires it.
    • Enhancement - A timeout was added to the 'Select If' textbox to prevent slow selection when number of rows is large.
    • Enhancement - A volatile cache was added in RAM to accelerate recurring accesses to already seen URL parameters.
    • Feature - The following features were added to this version as they will be required in the coming Pro version. (Some of these features will not be available in the Light version.)
    • Feature - A new Automator Manager allows to import, export, create, delete, duplicate automators (scrapers for now).
    • Feature - Added an 'Active' checkbox in the Automator Manager to activate/deactivate a particular automator (scraper).
    • Feature - Scrapers from previous versions are identified by the application and an option is given to the user to either import them or archive them as XML files.
    • Feature - It is now possible to set a regular expression as the URL on which a scraper should be applied. This allows to make a scraper for whole ranges of URL or even for any URL.
    • Feature - Scrapers stored in the User Database as well as exported in XML format, now include meta-data (name, author, creation date...) as well as unique identifiers and a hash which will allow users to follow the evolution of scrapers (and soon other types of automators) along their successive versions.
    • Feature - A new red 'Stop' button allows to stop all current processes, including the application of scrapers to a list of URLs.
    • Feature - Added 'Copy Cell(s)' command in the right click menu of most data panels.
    • Feature - It is now possible to copy from the Detail panel.
    • Feature - A 'Limit' textbox was added to all data bottom panels, limiting the selection to the given number of rows (0 means unlimited).
    • Feature - 'Guess' should now be able to better analyze data dragged to the page.
    • Fix - Date display problems (occurring mainly on Macintosh) were fixed.
    • Enhancement - A large number of small features and bug fixes were added during the refactoring operation which are not listed here.
  • Version 0.8.5.1
    • Feature - The page view now accepts dragged text from other applications. The dragged content is then analyzed like any other page or text file.
    • Enhancement - The content of the 'Detail' panel can now be selected and copied.
    • Fix - The 'Export Catch' menu item of the 'File' menu is working again.
  • Version 0.8.4.13
    • Enhancement - Processing nodes that are dynamically added to the page, allowing to find navigation links in a larger number of sources.
    • Fix - The 'Home' button now loads the user's home page instead of the Firefox default home page.
  • Version 0.8.4.6
    • Fix - Dragging and dropping text and images from the page to the catch wasn't working with Firefox 3.5. This was corrected.
  • Version 0.8.3.48
    • Fix - Corrected a few minor interface glitches related to changes in Firefox 3.5.
  • Version 0.8.3.46
    • Feature - The 'Insert line(s)' feature was added to the right-click menu in most views.
    • Feature - Through this 'Insert line(s)' feature, it is now possible to insert generated sequences of strings in most views (links, images, emails, tables, lists, guess and scraper). This can be used to automatically create incremented strings, URLs to explore, sequential file names to download, etc.. In the current version, this feature is limited to 15 items.
    • Feature - A new checkbox in the bottom panel of the 'Images' view allows to ask the program to look for possible neighboring images in series on the same server. In the current version, the program only searches for directly adjacent images in sequences.
    • Enhancement - Some images were filtered out if the aspect ratio of the high resolution image was different from the one of the thumbnail. The reason was that it usually prevented from getting images for which the full resolution was unavailable. However, this also prevented from finding the high res images in many galleries. This filter was removed.
    • Enhancement - When openning a Catch file, the program now asks if the user wants to add to the existing items of the catch or replace them.
    • Fix - Bookmarks and History are now accessible through the Navigation menu on Macintosh.
    • Fix - Several minor bugs and locale issues were fixed.
  • Version 0.8.3.34
    • Feature - Added access to the history of visited pages in the Navigation menu.
    • Feature - Added possibility to remember the state of the Save Incoming Files mode between sessions.
    • Feature - Now keeps path of the destination folder in preferences.
    • Fix - Corrected a bug that sometimes occurred when importing a scraper.
  • Version 0.8.3.19
    • Enhancement - Some Kernel code refactoring and commenting.
    • Enhancement - Finds more high-resolution images in galleries.
    • Enhancement - Finds images in html files saved on the hard disk.
    • Enhancement - Finds images in simple text files.
    • Fix - Some more bugs were fixed in the scraper application.
  • Version 0.8.3.1
    • Enhancement - Now compatible with Firefox 3.5 beta.
  • Version 0.8.2.79
    • Enhancement - Added locales for Spanish, German and Chinese.
    • Fix - Minor bugs were fixed in the scraper application.
    • Feature - Added Window menu to navigate between outfits and Firefox.
    • Feature - It is now possible to import series of URLs to browse and process automatically, through a simple text file.
  • Version 0.8.2.65
    • Enhancement - When the OutWit window is not the foremost window, going back to it from Firefox now loads the current URL in OutWit Hub.
    • Feature - A catch file (.owc) can now be loaded directly from the URL bar, allowing to put a Catch online to share it.
    • Fix - For moving an item to the catch, the 'Enter' key and the drag and drop didn't have exactly the same behavior; this is now solved.
    • Fix - Header labels are better handled in the 'tables' view.
  • Version 0.8.2.58
    • Fix - Duplicate headings are now suffixed with an incremented index in SQL exports.
    • Enhancement - General refactoring of ImageLoadingQueue.
    • Feature - Added a 'Downloads' item in the Tools menu to open the download manager.
  • Version 0.8.2.42
    • Enhancement - Finds and extracts images from more galleries and pages.
    • Fix - Corrected bugs appearing in some cases during search for full-res.
    • Fix - Corrected encoding problems in scraper import/export. All files are now UTF-8.
  • Version 0.8.2.20
    • Enhancement - The maximum number of lines in a scraper was raised to 20.
    • Enhancement - The popup menu indicator (triangle) was below the OutWit Icon in the Firefow toolbar. It was moved to the right in order to take less vertical space.
    • Feature - Added "Open URL in new Window" option in the right-click menu on the Catch and extraction views.
    • Feature - Added "Browse Selected URLs" option in the right-click menu on the Catch and extraction views. (Allows to perform extraction tasks on series of sources.)
  • Version 0.8.2.9
    • Enhancement - Kernel now runs on Linux 64 bit.
    • Enhancement - Refactoring of the kernel module loding system.
    • Feature - Added data export to CSV and SQL.
    • Fix - The Escape key now systematically exits the full screen mode and aborts all current automatic navigation.
  • Version 0.8.1.172
    • Enhancement - Further performance optimization.
    • Enhancement - Enhancement in lists recognition: now handles DL lists.
    • Fix - Minor bug fixes.
  • Version 0.8.1.153
    • Enhancement - Enhanced search for high resolution images.
    • Enhancement - Minor changes in the menus wording. Harmonization, in preparation for OutWit Images.
    • Enhancement - File save/open dialogs now take into account the type of files to be displayed on Linux and Windows.
    • Fix - Minor fixes in the first run process and in the Tables view.
    • Fix - Corrected bug in the application of scrapers which prevented the application in some cases of incorrect character encoding declaration.
  • Version 0.8.1.91
    • Enhancement - Save folder dialog is now shown as soon as the 'save incoming files...' box is checked instead of when first item is moved to the catch.
    • Enhancement - In some cases, when dragging an image from the page to the catch, the low resolution image was taken, even if a high res image was found in the 'images' view. High resolution images are now systematically preferred.
    • Fix - Export shortcut key, crtl-shift-E / cmd-shift-E now works.
    • Fix - Diacritics are now handled properly in 'Apply scraper to URLs'
    • Fix - Corrected a bug that prevented image size filtering to work for full-screen slideshows when preference was set to default value (150x150).
    • Fix - Came back to previous version of URLs in the 'images' view, keeping hex escaped characters as unescaping them would cause problems in some cases.
    • Fix - Corrected bug preventing to open Excel exports coming from certain views (undefined column width).
    • Fix - Corrected bug that made 'images' return wrong file sizes for certain jpeg images.
    • Fix - Corrected download file naming problem that sometimes made outwit write over previous downloads of the same name.
  • Version 0.8.1.83
    • Enhancement - New user interface. Tabs were replaced by a side panel with hierarchical list of views.
    • Enhancement - Completed Kernel code refactoring and commenting.
    • Enhancement - Enhanced image extraction.
    • Enhancement - Dramatic performance improvement in the display of the 'images' view.
    • Fix - Corrected resizing of images during slideshows.
    • Fix - Corrected activation/disabling of some features in the right-click menu.
    • Fix - Corrected issue preventing to move from the 'tables' view to the catch, a selection including rows with labels and others without.
    • Fix - Enhanced Excel exports keeping column widths, solving scroll problem and as well as issue with large text clippings in cells.
    • Feature - Added preference panel with few preferences including the minimum image size to be displayed in slideshows.
    • Feature - Basic deduplication is now performed when adding rows to the Catch.
  • Version 0.8.0.34
    • Enhancement - Enhanced performance in browse & slideshow.
    • Enhancement - Enhanced download management and use of bandwidth.
    • Fix - Corrected refresh and focus problems in trees.
    • Fix - It is now possible to alter the URL for a scraper
  • Version 0.8.0b3 (build 17) - First beta version for Firefox 3.0
    • Enhancement - Refactoring of the Kernel and migration to Firefox 3.
    • Fix - Minor corrections were made to the application of scrapers.
    • Fix - Several incorrect tree behaviors disappeared with FF3 implementation of trees.
    • Feature - Addition of the "New table" directive in the scraper definition.
    • Feature - More high resolution images are found by the 'images' widget and the slideshow.
    • Feature - Download status was added to the bottom status bar.
    • Feature - Address history with autocompletion is now available in address box.
  • Version 0.7.1 (build 201) - Last update for Firefox 2.0
    • Enhancement - New and enhanced image extraction process.
    • Enhancement - Next in series: enhanced navigation link recognition.
    • Fix - Back and Next buttons now clean widgets from previous data and a reload is no longer necessary as widget data is updated properly.
    • Fix - 'Hide Local' and 'Hide Cache' no longer produce error alerts.
    • Fix - In the emails widget, the email addresses are now editable with a double click and can be copied.
    • Feature - Text, links and images can now be directly dragged to the catch.
    • Feature - The 'images' widget now includes additional information and images are sorted by size at the end of the extraction process.
  • Version 0.7.0 Beta 1 (build 183) - First Public Release
    • Fix - The missing scrollbar bug in the 'page' widget is solved.
  • Version 0.7.0 Beta 1rc3 (build 179)
    • Enhancement - Scrapers are now applied to the unaltered source code, which solves the remaining issues.
    • Fix - Menu shortcuts now work on Linux and Windows systems.
    • Feature - A Quick Start Tutorial is directly accessible from the Help menu.
    • Feature - The application is directed to a welcome page after a new update was installed.
    • Known Issue - The vertical scroll bar sometimes randomly disappears in the 'page' widget (requires to restart the extension).
    • Known Issue - 'Back' is not handled properly in some cases and requires to reload the page before extracting its content.
    • Known Issue - The peek window behaves erratically with some Linux versions.
    • Known Issue - Some pictures may still be missing in the 'images' widget in the case of ajax content updated after page load.
    • Known Issue - Everybody's desperately waiting for the scripting environment.
    • Known Issue - URL cannot be changed in the Scraper Editor.
    • Known Issue - The Catch and the 'page' widget should accept drag and drop.
    • Known Issue - The Scraper Editor needs work. Missing particularly: deleting, duplicating and reordering rows.
    • Known Issue - Normalizing figures with a comma for decimal separator and exactly 3 decimal digits gives wrong results.
  • Version 0.7.0 Alpha 10 (build 166)
    • Enhancement - Scraper edition and application are more stable.
    • Feature - A right click on a tree now allows to apply scrapers to a column of selected URLs.
    • Feature - A right click on a tree now allows to normalize non-metric figures (for now: distances, areas, volumes, weights).
    • Feature - A help infrastructure was added. Only includes one or two articles for now.
    • Feature - The source colorizing is now working as expected: the text and data that are actually displayed on the web page stand out from the HTML code.
    • Fix - The Dig button is now enabled as soon as the current page contains links.
    • Fix - The application doesn't crash anymore on PPC Macintoshes when clicking on a tab.
  • Version 0.7.0 Alpha 7 (build 143)
    • Fix - Better handling of Reloads, refreshing content of widgets.
    • Enhancement - Handles Ajax Content. Mostly in the case of images added after page load.
    • Fix - Fixed problems in the launch of on demand processes.
    • Enhancement - Added ‘Hide Local’, ‘Hide Cache’ and ‘Documents’ checkboxes in the 'links' widget to better filter the results.
    • Enhancement - When a slideshow is interrupted : back to page of last image displayed.
    • Enhancement - In a slideshow, pressing the Return key moves current image to the catch.
    • Feature - Source widget now contains the source code of the page (colorizing and refresh still work in progress).
    • Feature - Source widget now contains a pre-version of the scraper editor (final ergonomy to come in a future implementation).
    • Feature - When a scraper exist for the current URL, the new 'scraper' tab contains the results (NB. pb when scraping immediately after editing a scraper).
    • Fix - Solved problem making some Images appear in the Links widget instead of the Images widget.
    • Fix - Solved problem of Flash Animations still visible during a slideshow on Macintosh.
    • Fix - Fixed problem in the history widget causing missing URLs or and bad updating of Frequency.
    • Fix - Headers are now properly updated when deleting a column.
    • Fix - Useless columns & headers are now properly removed when deleting a row.
    • Enhancement - The Escape Key now interrupts browse and dig processes.
    • Fix - Column headers are now removed on delete all rows.
    • Enhancement - Empty cells are not moved to the Catch any more.
    • Enhancement - Added ‘Hide Local’ checkbox in the 'images' widget to better filter the results.
    • Fix - Widgets are now emptied when a problem happens loading a URL.
  • Version 0.7.0 Alpha 5 (build 142)
    • Fix - Changing Priority or Rating in the Catch now affects all selected items, in the case of a multiple selection.
    • Enhancement - Changed the way text is extracted from web pages: seriously improved performance on large pages.
    • Enhancement - Dramatically improved performance in several other processes, especially in the links extraction.
  • Version 0.7.0 Alpha 4 (build 135)
    • Feature - Activated 'Save Selected Files' and 'Save Selected Files In...' from widgets 'images', 'links' and 'catch'.
    • Feature - Double-clicking on a thumbnail in the 'images' widget now opens the picture in 'page' (like does double-clicking on the 'Media URL').
    • Fix - Clicking on the 'View' menu doesn't crash anymore on PPC Macs.
    • Feature - Added a 'Feedback' menu for beta-testing purposes, with Bug Report, Suggestions, Version History and Test Links.
    • Enhancement - Modified Dig, to include more link types, and go through them in the order of appearance in the page instead of backwards.
  • Version 0.7.0 Alpha 3 (build 129)
    • (First limited release to Alpha-Testers)
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