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changes from 1.0 to 1.9.0
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* maintainership transferred to Arthur de Jong
* major structural rewrites of crawling code and plugin structure
* the documentation was combined and partially rewritten in the README for
  installation instructions and the manual page for usage information
* changed output to no longer use frames and produce valid XHTML 1.1 and use
  CSS for layout
* config.py is no longer really a configuration file


changes from 1.0b10 to 1.0
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+ Don't send accept headers, as they weren't valid.
+ WARN_OLD_VERSION no longer works, until I decide what to do about it.
+ Named changed to webcheck.
+ Fixed typos in INSTALL.
+ Changes so it works with python 2.0.


changes from 1.0b9 to 1.0b10
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b Fixed bug when server redirects to a document in robots.txt (does not show
  up as broken (hopefully))
+ Filename mangling in filelink.py to help OS/2 (and Win32) (Patch submitted
  by Steffen Siebert <siebert@logware.de>
+ Added WARN_OLD_VERSION config.py option.  If this option is set to true
  (the default) Linbot will check it's version number and the version
  numbers of it's plugins against a global registry on the Net.  If it
  finds that a version is not the latest, it will print a warning on the
  reports along with a link you can follow to download the latest version.
  I think it's neat.  You might find it annoying.
+ Added preliminary support for authenticating proxies, though it does not
  work correctly yet.
+ Added -r (redirect depth) and REDIRECT_DEPTH option in config.py to indicate
  the amount of redirects Linbot should follow when following a link.  Thanks
  to Andrea Glorioso  <sama@intercity.it> for the patch.
+ Added debugio module that handles debugging and I/O
+ Added -q (quiet option).  Use it to suppress output
+ Added -d (debug) option and DEBUG_LEVEL variable in config.py for debugging
+ added version module and removed __version__ and __author__ from all the
  modules (except plugins).
b Fixed bug in Linbot using putrequest() instead of putheader() when requesting
  header information.  Thanks to Andrea Glorioso <sama@intercity.it> for
  fixing this glitch (and Seth Chaiklin <seth@psy.au.dk> for noticing).


changes from 1.0b8 to 1.0b9
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+ If you use the -o command-line option or the OUTPUT_DIR config file option
  and the directory does not exist, linbot will create it for you (provided
  that it has the correct permissions, etc.)  Thanks to Andrea Glorioso
  <sama@intercity.it> for this feature.
+ Added a CREDITS file and probably left a lot of people out.  If you think
  you should be in it let me know (marduk@python.net).
b Linbot will now report to the server that it can accept any MIME type (found
  in mimetypes.py.  This should fix the "406: No acceptable objects found"
  error that some servers report.
b Linbot correctly identifies itself as "Linbot <version>" on HEAD requests
  as well as GET requests.


changes from 1.0b6 to 1.0b8
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b Fixed bug when no images are reported for documents having 0 links
  If you don't know what this means it probably wasn't a problem for you.
b Fixed code that was messing with arguments passed via -x and -y and caused
  unexpected results and/or errors.
b -b flag should work this time (for real)
b Cosmetic changes (reports didn't look the way I thought they should in IE4.
  (and may not still as I havent' had a chance to check it yet)
b Linbot won't follow infinite redirects (currently hardcoded to max of 5
  redirects per document)


changes from 1.0b5 to 1.0b6
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+ Minor change in ftplink.py should allow better ftp link checking
+ You can now press CTRL-C (or whatever your operating system supports) to break
  out of a linbot run.  However, the work linbot does is not saved (yet).
b Fixed problem when server redirects a URL to itself.  This fix seems to work
  for most servers I've tried but there are a few more out there that I need to
  take a look at.
b Fixed bug that caused linbot to not check for yanked URLs
+ Added -l command-line option.  Usage: -l <url> where <url> is a url pointing
  to an image to be used as the report's logo.
b "patched" strings.py so that it can better parse html files created in 
   Windows/DOS (I think).
+ Made report LOGO a link to the base url
+ httplink does not HEAD a redirected URL if it is already in the link list
  (performance improvement)
- Removed LOGO_ALT from config.py
+ Changed my email address to marduk@python.net.  The official home page of
  Linbot will probaby also change with the next release so stay tuned.


changes from 1.0b4 to 1.0b5
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+ Added a contrib directory.  Right now it just contains the about plugin.  Other
  plugins will be included if people contribute them.  Also, the man page will
  return once I have updated it.  Those ugly buttons are obsolete.
+ Linbot now "inlines" stylesheets.  This has the benefits of 1) better support
  of Netscape browsers (so I hear) and 2) I don't have to document to put
  linbot.css in the output directory since it grabs it from starship 8*)
b Handling of error for when robots.txt cannot be retreived.
+ Malformed urls are trapped (sorry, I had that commented out)
b FTP link handling is totally rewritten.  Fortunately it shouldn't crash anymore
  Unfortunately it doesn't really work reliably and probably never will.  See
  README.ftp for details.
b Two bugs in HTTP proxy handling made it almost completely unusable, though
  conveniently seemed to cancel each other out when I was testing.
b Too many files error on large sites should be fixed.  Thanks to Andrew Kuchling
  et al for suggestions.
b Bug when some servers erroneously report (or don't report) Content-Length header
  fixed.