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Version History for Summary 2.0 through 2.3.15
		For information on recent versions look here. For information on Summary versions 2.0 through 2.3.15 look here. For information on Summary version 1.x look here. What’s new in version 2.3.15? January 11, 2005 Updated the Linux version to work with Fedora Core 3 and other new Linux releases. Updated browser and platform detection to match 2.5.3. What’s new in version 2.3.14? October 19, 2004 This is a minor maintenance release, fixing several obscure bugs in the older Summary 2.3.x series. The Main page wasn't honoring password limited sub-report lists, fixed. The Macintosh version of Summary wasn't detecting all possible aliases to folders correctly, treating some rare cases as if they were aliases to files, and thus didn't read the logs contained in those folders correctly. Fixed rare "error -43 opening file" problems on the Macintosh version. Fixed some rare situations that could corrupt the string table. Now clips requests read from the log file to 8K characters maximum. Now correctly reads log file lines up to 32K in length. Fixed some problems that could cause crashes when viewing the Fan In/Out report. Log entries which are missing date information are now counted as a parse errors. Loading a very large database in Summary SP could give an "Assertion 'allow_type2 || !type2_index' failed." error, fixed. Changed the default preferred domain name to "www.your.domain.com", so it wouldn't link to anywhere. WebSTAR PATH_ARGS ($foo) in logs could occasionally cause crashes. What’s new in version 2.3.12? April 6, 2004 Fixed a rare crash when writing static HTML reports on Linux, OS X, and Sun systems. Fixed a rare crash when displaying directory reports with really long directory names. Now ignores extra characters in new style registration codes. Added support for the two new Yahoo robots. The bytes/month values could be high by up to 25% for values just over 4 Gig, fixed. They were correct for values below 4 Gig. Summary SP Lite was only allowing 50 sub-reports, now allows 100. Improved non-Mozilla yet "compatible" robot detection. Local referring domain check now includes the port number, if present. Bug fix for Javascript window height detection in IE 6. Fixed a case where Frontpage extensions caused an authorization prompt when no name/password should have been required. What’s new in version 2.3.11? February 24, 2004 Fixed some rare database corruption errors when Summary was exited and launched again. The monthly sub-report reports often showed wrong data, fixed. The OSX Command Line version was unable to serve reports on a specific IP address, fixed. Speed up checking of log headers on Linux, Sun, and OSX Command Line versions. Fixed a bug where "/index.html?foo=/foo" corrupted the string table when include query strings was turned on. Fixed a rare database corruption/crash when "Treat "/x" as "/x/" if "/x/" occurs" is on. Turning on "Pre-filter local referrers" could cause incorrect referring domains named "local.com(Filtered)" and/or "local.com(Not in sub-report)", fixed. Fixed a "Result overflow" error on very large reports when "Number of lines on a report page" was set very high. Fixed a crash when "Site descriptive name" was set to a very long string. Now properly prevents current errors and current bytes from appearing in anything except request reports. Now allows "(Leave)" to show up in the Paths by Dest. report, and "(Enter)" in the Paths by Source report. Logs that had been zero length and now contained log entries were getting skipped the first time in incremental mode, fixed. What’s new in version 2.3.10? November 4, 2003 Using both aliases and sub-reports in 2.3.9 could result in under counting on all sub-reports except the first, fixed. Premium edition GeoIP updates were not working on any platform except Mac Carbon, fixed. Fixed a problem where the database could become corrupt when Summary was exited normally and then launched again. Reverting a report to it's default layout would not always take effect (on Linux, Sun, and OS X Command Line) until Summary was quit and launched again, fixed. Added several additional know search engines. What’s new in version 2.3.9? August 18, 2003 Fixes a rare "StrTable.cpp:852: failed assertion" crash introduced in 2.3.8. Now applies aliases before checking "Requests to include in this Sub-report". Aliases used to be applied afterwards. This may require configuration changes for people using both aliases and "Requests to include in this Sub-report". What’s new in version 2.3.8? August 12, 2003 In Summary 2.3.7, the GeoIP reports were crashing on Linux and Windows, fixed. SFTP log downloading was not usually working during scheduled processing, fixed. Now properly displays total installed memory greater than 2 Gig in the Program Status report on Windows 2000/XP. What’s new in version 2.3.7? August 6, 2003 Added a new Requests by Bytes Over Time report. Added a total of all search engine referred visits to the Referrer Overview. Speed up incremental downloading of very small log files via FTP. Added Baiduspider, InternetSeer, MSNBOT, NewsGator, Pita, SiteCucker, TurnitinBot, WebZIP, and Zealbot as known robots. Fixed problems detecting Grub and Hatena Antenna as robots. Adjusted the layout of the Requests by Bytes report. The dates were sometimes wrong on the pop-up labels on mini-graphs with no recent hits. The sub-sub-folder name on log downloading was always coming from the main log downloading config, even in sub-reports, fixed. Added skip whitespace as a custom log format option. Restoring a backup would lose most of the information in the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly content reports, fixed. Fixed most "Status has not been updated" messages during log downloading. Now removes trailing port numbers from host IPs before host filtering. The Search Logs results next page button was not working, fixed. What’s new in version 2.3.6? July 8, 2003 Fixed a crash with very large databases in Summary SP. Fixed a crash on some platforms when "Pre-filter local referrers" was turned on. Fixed a log download failure on some FTP servers when a file was smaller than it used to be. Improved detection of the various Windows versions for the Platform report. Improved out of memory detection in the Mac Carbon version. What’s new in version 2.3.5? June 2, 2003 The Parse Errors report was not working in 2.3.4. Fixed. The Search Logs feature was not working in 2.3.4. Fixed. Fixed a crash on RedHat 9.0, and other very recent versions of Linux. Fixed a crash when viewing Referrer reports with really long referring URLs. Improved search phrase detection for Google advanced search and Lycos advanced search. Added Froogle as a known search engine. Added Grub as a known robot. One character search words are now ignored. Added some new proxy cluster translations. Current period bar charts could be dramatically too long or too short. Fixed. Now only lists two interesting facts about each refer in e-mailed/text/spreadsheet reports, which helps them be more readable. The Referred From report was allowing the "Name with Link" column to be added to the report. Doing that would cause broken links. Fixed. User filters 1 through 6 were not configuring correctly when there was only one sub-report. Fixed. What’s new in version 2.3.4? May 6, 2003 Added the Search Engines (no Countries) report. Local refers are now filtered and aliased to match requests. New option to pre-filter local refers to save memory. Added user filters three through eight and names for all user filters (in Summary SP only). Added optional active FTP log downloading support (as opposed to passive FTP). Added physical memory reporting in the Program Status report on Windows and Sun. Improvements to search phrase detection, particularly from Excite. Increased the max length of "Identifier for use in report URLs" to 64 characters. Summary Plus & SP now allow two filters in custom report configuration. Added support for Camino browser detection. Added an optional Goals bar chart column type. Added a configuration option to lowercase CGI arguments. Added an optional five goals filter. No longer allows sorting on the Path column, which didn't work anyway. No longer displays reloads in the Fan In/Out report. Added a graph of hits over time with hover over labeling as an optional column type. Aliases now try all aliases in order, instead of stopping at the first match. Added log file size on disk to the program status report. Fixed the broken "next page" link on the last page of static multi-page reports. Fixed a bug in session ID based visit tracking that could cause an "assert hvptr!=0" error. What’s new in version 2.3.3? February 25, 2003 Added detection of for Safari and Chimera browsers. Added many new known search engines. Several new clustered host translations added. Fixed a bug that caused an assert on out of memory in some cases involving large databases that were not actually out of memory. Added a few more language codes. Fixed a bug with ask.com query string detection. Stop processing after dates now apply in sub-report settings, still don't apply globally. "(Host name isn't an IP address)" wasn't drilling down correctly, fixed. Temporary registration codes were sensitive to extra spaces, fixed. Now correctly parses spaces in auth user names in NCSA Common and Combined formats. What’s new in version 2.3.2? January 2, 2003 Added a tab bar and removed the large Overview link from the Report Menu. Added support for some new known search engines. Added support for some new language codes. Fixed up "To:" header on e-mailed reports with multiple recipients. Local search phrases were losing their spaces, fixed. Fixed tab bar in config to show Configure above nested pages correctly. Drilling down from the Search Engines report could fail or crash Summary, fixed. Fixed an "Assertion (count*4<=new_index_count*3) failed" crash. In some situations Summary would get a corrupt database error on launch when there was nothing wrong with the database, fixed. Added an optional search engines only filter. Fixed a rare crash when working with very large databases. Changed the OSX Command Line version to use CoreServices instead of CarbonLib. This allows you to run Summary on a machine without a display connected. What’s new in version 2.3.1? November 19, 2002 The Interesting Referrers report was only available in Summary Plus and SP. It is now available in all versions. Added sub-sub-folder name to download configuration to allow log downloading to physical server sub-sub-folders. Added GeoIP report links to the Visitors Overview. Renamed "Files included in this Sub-report" to "Requests to include in this Sub-report" on the sub-report configuration page. Incremental processing now allows the modification date of a log file to be up to 63 minutes earlier than it "ought" to be. A 60 minute offset can occasionally occur on some systems because of day light savings time transitions and this used to cause Summary to read the log twice. Entire report as spreadsheet was producing incorrect results on some hierarchical reports on the data from the second and subsequent pages. The Search Logs feature now only searches logs included in the sub-report when "Always use folder name as domain name" is turned on. Fixed column sort, next page, and export links for regular expression search results. Fixed a problem that could cause database corruption on the Linux, Sun, and OSX Command Line versions when you exit Summary and start it up again. Invalid !!LOGFORMAT lines in WebSTAR logs (without any fields defined) could cause crashes, fixed. Avg. Steps could be high by up to 0.5 or low by up to 0.1, fixed. Summary now stops reading logs at 2 Gig to avoid serious problems that were coming up with individual log files greater than 2 Gig. Value and leakage now say Plus & SP (only) in report configuration. What’s new in version 2.3a? October 4, 2002 The OSX Command Line version was not working on OS versions older than 10.2, fixed. What’s new in version 2.3? October 2, 2002 Added Country by GeoIP and Region by GeoIP reports. Summary now supports the GeoIP database from MaxMind, which determines the countries visitors are from based on their numeric IP addresses. Summary includes the "free" version of the database. For more accurate reporting you can subscribe to monthly updates of the database from MaxMind, which Summary will download automatically. Added Interesting Referring Domains report and corresponding items in the Overview. Summary can now detect patterns of hits which are "interesting", and bring them to you attention. This is best at detecting news sites that have links to your site for a single day, or referrers which have sudden changes in otherwise steady levels of traffic. Added support for regular expression searches within a report. Start your search string with a single quote, ', followed by a regular expression. The OSX Command Line version now follows aliases. It used to only follow symbolic links, now supports both. Added a search to the Fan In/Out report. Added an errors graph to the Problems Overview. Added proxy cluster detection for new AOL and iHug proxy clusters. Added an optional column showing percent of goals. Added detection of the Liberate and Mosaic browsers. The special icon buttons were not working quite right in custom HTML footers, fixed. If group six was used you would get random numbers in the value column, fixed. "%SYSDATE%" (with the quotes) was causing parse errors when it appeared in iPlanet logs, fixed. User art (in the userart folder/directory) wasn't working on the Linux, Sun, or OSX Command Line versions of Summary, fixed. Time Overview information wasn't showing up in the e-mailed reports, fixed. Added comments to make host/domain filtering a little clearer. Added an optional no nested items filter, to turn hierarchical reports flat. Fixed a small memory leak when using regular expression aliases. New "DNS lookups pausing" message when lookups are not complete. Daily X, Weekly X, and Monthly X reports had column sort links in static HTML, they shouldn't have. Fixed. The global session cookie setting was overriding the per sub-report setting, fixed. Added RSSEngine and Snewp as known robots. What’s new in version 2.2.4a? August 27, 2002 The Range column was always showing a value of "-1", Data columns were always in 1900, etc. fixed. What’s new in version 2.2.4? August 27, 2002 Added preliminary support for SFTP (Secure FTP) log downloading in the Linux, Sun, and OS X Command Line versions of Summary. SFTP downloading requires that ssh version 2 be installed on the machine running Summary, and that you configure ssh to not require entry of a password/pass phrase to access the machine you are downloading from. The sub-report related reports are now available to everyone when "Use name/password limited sub-report lists" is on. In that situation they only show sub-reports that the current user name/password allow access to. Name/password limited sub-report selection lists no longer show the sub-report number. Searching now works in the Host reports. Fixed a problem where current hit percentages were occasionally incorrect. The optional column current BPS was showing incorrect numbers, fixed. In some situations the CGI Arguments report could be missing some, or all, of it's contents, fixed. What’s new in version 2.2.3? August 20, 2002 Main page redirection now correctly supports "Use name/password limited sub-report lists". Increased the FTP server read timeout to 1 minute (from 30 secs). Search Logs was crashing if there were log file open errors, fixed. Search Logs was calling domains "servers". What’s new in version 2.2.2? August 13, 2002 "Allow all access to sub-report list", on the Options configuration page, was getting turned on, regardless of user input. If you have run version 2.2 or 2.2.1 you should check the value of this setting after upgrading! For some IIS log files the CS-HOST field is now used as the source of the domain name, instead of the S-IP field. This will invalidate some sub-report configurations! Users of IIS with both of these fields in their log files and "Always use folder name as domain name" turned off may need to reconfigure their sub-reports. Deleting a sub-report could cause subsequent processing runs to crash in some cases, fixed. Fixed a problem that could cause the Program Status report to crash when there were more than 1000 log files. The notes field was locked in incremental mode, fixed. Added lasso as one of the default page extensions. If the PATH_ARGS log field appeared Summary would sometimes add "$-" to the URL inappropriately, fixed. Added a few new proxy cluster translations. Fixed a problem where restoring a backup could crash if there were log files smaller than 2K in the database. What’s new in version 2.2.1? July 26, 2002 In Summary 2.2 on Windows, Summary was unable to open log files currently being written to by the web server, fixed. Fixed a problem where the Macintosh version could crash when processing separate log files from more than 100 domains. Improved error messages when the Linux, Sun, or OS X Command Line version have problems opening a log file. The Sun version was unable to open more than 56 log files covering the same time period, fixed. Problems opening log files could result in a crash in incremental mode, fixed. Fixed broken links in the body of the Refers To and Full Referrers reports. What’s new in version 2.2a? July 22, 2002 The Windows download for version 2.2 was damaged, fixed. What’s new in version 2.2? July 22, 2002 Added Failure Explanations report. Added Fan In/Out report, shows information about how visitors moved through your site. Added support for tracking visits from paid search engine listings using tracking tags. Three new reports: Tracking Tags, by Goal, by Value. Available in Summary Plus and SP only. Added Quarter Day, Quarter Day Metrics, and Quarter of Day reports. Added filtering by result/status code. Added an option to strip up to seven directory names, useful with WebSTAR V. Added an option to expire requests and referrers that don't have at least one hit every N days. Added an option to expire hosts weekly. Added an option to not create the search phase vs. search engine reports. Added date ranges for sub-reports in Summary SP. Added a configuration setting to slow down DNS lookups. Added "Prefix for local URLs" setting, which overrides the preferred domain for local links. Local links will not work till after the first processing run with the new version. Added an option to allow customers who can view several sub-reports to see a menu of the sub-reports they have access to, without seeing the complete sub-report list. Numerous small additions to the Overview. Summary now reads logs smaller than 2K even in incremental mode. Various small optimizations, for an approximate 6% overall improvement in speed. Made cookie ID for session tag setting available per sub-report in Summary SP. Fixed browser detection of Netscape version 7 (was showing as version 6). Support for the new country code for East Timor, was ".tp", now ".tl". New long javascript, gets plugin information from IE on the Macintosh. The values collected by the Javascript code are now only counted once per visit. Fixed mini-graphs going to zero after a large traffic spike. Fixed a small memory leak on very short (in real time) incremental processing runs. Fixed a slow down in the Windows service version of Summary on some releases of Windows. Added a name length sort. Switched to CW Pro 8.1 on Mac, Windows, and OS X versions. Now allows ", " in the request field in WebSTAR logs. Fixed a crash in the Overview when graphing zero page hits. Putting %%%logo in the Logo HTML field would crash, fixed. The user defined title was appearing below the page title in some places, fixed. Added definitions for a few more language codes. Increased max string length on backups (now 12K). Current hit percentages were sometimes slightly wrong in the Overview. The "More Details" links in the Overview were wrong in static HTML. %%%IF-SCREEN wasn't working in static HTML reports. %%%REPORT wasn't working quite right in static HTML reports. Sort by name now ignores case. No longer displays Mozilla's built in plugins in the Plugins Report. Fixed Quicktime Plugin showing greater than 100% (again). Renamed "Hits" column "Visits" in cases where a hit and a visit are the same thing (mostly in referrers reports). Restoring a backup that used session IDs to determine visits often crashed, fixed. Sub-report filtering of robots and/or referrers could result in global filtering in rare cases, fixed. New configurations now default "allow all access to sub-report list" to off. Summary now counts log entries more than one month in the future as parse errors. Fixed a problem that could cause Summary to fail when there were more than 719 sub-reports. Added detection of the Galeon browser. Improved out of memory detection. The out of memory message will now appear in the report heading, instead of Summary crashing. Now allows a period at the end of the normal portion of TIME-24 fields. Fixed a bug where "%00", "%g0", "%fg", etc in a log entry could corrupt the database. Fixed a crash when loading backups with paths with many commas in them. Data/String table full now behaves like an out of memory error instead of crashing. Was writing non-disk reports to disk, even though they were correctly not in the menu. Now limits the full processing in progress status messages to users of the config name/password or everyone when "Allow all access to sub-report list" is on. Added definitions for additional HTTP methods, and HTTP status codes. Fixed a bug in basic & Plus where very full databases would not load correctly. What’s new in version 2.1.2? May 7, 2002 Added Computer Report. Shows the operating system running on visitors computers. This report is now the default for Visitors:Computers on the report menu instead of the Platform Report. Added Visitors:Browser:Versions report. Shows major version numbers of visitors browsers. Switched the Visitors:Browsers entry on the report menu to show the Browser Brands report by default instead of the Browser Report. On Windows, added a scroll back buffer to the Summary console window. Added a report on memory usage by sub-report to the Program Status report. It only appears when using the configuration name/password. Improved detection of some Opera (a browser) variants. Added several new known search engines. Added Go!Zilla as a known robot. Added directory.google.com as an SLD. Fixed custom report configuration for the Language and Browser Brand reports. Added help text to the Search Log Entries screen. Renamed the URL for the Program Status report from '/logs' to '/status'. Blocked access to the Program Status report when it was disabled and the configuration name/password was not in use. Using the LANG custom log token in a user defined log format wasn't working and could crash, fixed. Speedup log processing in several small ways (1% to 5% improvement in most cases). Log Downloading was appearing in sub-reports configuration in Summary (basic). It shouldn't have appeared and didn't work in any case. The Mac OSX Command Line version was displaying dates off by one in many places, fixed. Fixed a crash when using a specially constructed corrupt URL to access Summary. If you had more than one alias configured, the second and subsequent ones would not work correctly and could cause a crash, fixed. Now displays entries for sub-reports with 0 hits in the Sub-reports Report. What’s new in version 2.1.1? April 23, 2002 Sorting on Daily/Weekly/Monthly hits columns was broken, fixed. Summary wasn't reusing an existing FTP connection in all the places that it could, slowing downloading in some cases, fixed. Fixed a crash on the Macintosh when there were a very large number of log files covering the same time period. Some database not available errors would prevent subsequent log processing, fixed. If both "Include query string in requests" and "Treat "/x" as "/x/" if "/x/" occurs" were on, files with names like "/foo/?bar" could cause a hang if "/foo" occurred in the log. Fixed. Summary could sometimes hang when it ran out of memory instead of displaying an error message. What’s new in version 2.1a? April 10, 2002 The previous build of Summary still reported it's self as a beta version. This release fixed that problem. What’s new in version 2.1? April 10, 2002 An extensive Web Analytics Tutorial has been added to the manual. The Overview has been completely redesigned. It now spans multiple pages and contains additional descriptive text. Added Visitors:Visitors:Language and Details:Log Fields:Language Codes reports. These reports show the language the visitors browser was configured to display it's menus in. The new Javascript code must be installed for these report to function. Added Visitors:Countries:Regions of the World report. The report shows totals for each of the major regions of the world. Summary now allows filtering of known and likely robots. Added an option to combine proxy clusters into a single host. This results in significantly more accurate visit counts. Available in Summary Plus and SP only. Added support for visit tracking using cookies or session keys. Available in Summary SP only. Added Time:Monthly:Monthly Bandwidth report. This report shows total server bandwidth for each month. Added Custom:Subsets:Monthly Ads report. This report shows hits for each month on all of the requests classified as Ads. Added Visits:One Page Visits report. This report shows pages sorted by the number of visits which accessed only that page. Added Visitors:Browsers:Brands report. This report summarizes browsers by brand. The Linux, Sun, and OSX Command Line versions now use ares to do DNS lookups. This speeds up the DNS lookup process dramatically. Moved the Auth. Users report into the Visitors section of the Report Menu so it will be easier to find. Fixed a crash (assert ref_byte line 666) after switching from non-incremental mode to incremental mode for the second, or subsequent time. Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred after restoring a backup. Fixed database corruption following multiple overlapping attempts to process, the first of which interrupted a DNS lookup pass. Added several new known robots: Acoon, contype, iGetter, larbin, Indy Library, libwww-perl, LinkLint, LinkWalker, LWP::Simple, Mercator, Microsoft URL Control, NATSU-MICAN, NAUGHTY Webmasters Link Checker, NetClient, RealDownload, SpeedDownload, Szukacz, UCmore, WatchDog, and WWWC. Added many new known search engines. Added ability to sort by any day, week, or month column in the Daily, Weekly, and Monthly reports (except for Monthly Bytes by Sub-report). Changed spreadsheet format to use exact bytes, instead of rounding to K, Meg, Gig, etc. Improved the download status reported in the Program Status report. Also now only shows download status when viewing the report with the configuration name/password. On the Macintosh, Summary was setting the modified date but not the creation date, which bothered Tech Tool. Now sets both dates. Now displays e-mail errors in the browser when manually sending e-mail from the Tools page. Now allows ';' as a CGI argument delimiter, in addition to '&'. Logs placed directly in the Logs folder, with always use folder name as domain name on were getting a domain of unknown. They now get their domain name from the log entry, if any. Also fixed a similar issue with the server and sub folder names. Changed the database code to not modify memory when it didn't have to on Linux and Sun. This reduces the amount of paging when working with large databases. The HTTP server on Linux now reuses processes, resulting in speed improvements with large databases. No longer corrupts the database when quitting during processing on Macintosh and Windows. If the current sub-report was empty, or there were multiple sub-reports with the same name, the Monthly Bytes by Sub-report report could be all zeros or wrong, fixed. Reduced the frequency of processing in progress messages during the writing of static HTML reports. Values are now signed numbers from -21,474,836.48 through 21,474,836.47. They used to only show positive values. Download status was not appearing on Linux and Sun, fixed. Now filters gaps in service by domain in the Overview. The Gaps in Service report was already doing this. Updated to ZLib 1.0.4, PCRE 3.9, and BZLib 1.0.2. Fixed a buffer overflow crash on extremely long HTTP requests. Some vulnerability scanners were triggering this crash. Fixed downloading from URLs of the form <ftp://summary.net> (no file name or trailing "/"). Fixed a crash when downloading logs from an FTP server that does not support incremental downloading and the local copy of the file was longer then the one on the server. Long URLs are no longer clipped when writing reports to spreadsheets. Removed MPPhysical error messages on FreeBSD. They didn't mean anything. On Linux and Sun, Summary will now launch with address space limits as low as 80 Meg. The Filtering configuration page was showing up in sub-reports in Plus even though it didn't do anything. Filtering per sub-report is only available in SP. Fixed a bug that caused blank lines in the Paths:by Source and Paths:by Dest reports when some referrers were missing a trailing "/". Increased the config field limit to 10K. In some situations sorting by the number of errors was sorting incorrectly, fixed. No longer counts NULs in log files as lines or as skipped, they are now silently ignored. Summary wasn't sending e-mail when asked to from the Tools page if configured to not send on processing, fixed. The average and total view time reports now only show page requests. No longer counts the QuickTime plugin more than once per visit. Now reports the client IP address in Summary's log for Header requests. Sorting on a column now maintains searches. Full report as spreadsheet was duplicating and dropping occasional lines in some reports, fixed. Write static reports and send e-mail were showing up on the Tools page in Summary (basic) even though they are disabled in that version. What’s new in version 2.0.7? December 3, 2001 This is the first release to officially provide support for the Mac OS X command line. Fixed a bug that caused the Windows version to get errors reading log files if there were a large number of ZIP compressed log files. Added support for InfoNaviRobot, Openfind, Powermarks, RedAlert, and Webcollage robots. Now allows you to view reports while saving or backing up the database. Speed up report creation for some of the reports when running with very large report databases. Logs with only parse errors were sometimes showing as having zero lines. Added an explanation when the by Source, by Dest, or Bad Links reports were disabled. Changed the default layout of the Log Files report (removed lines, added filtered entries). Fixed the "assert ref byte" error. Now correctly parses agent strings enclosed in square brackets. Changes to a sub page of a sub-report configuration now return to the sub-report config page instead of the main config page. What’s new in version 2.0.6? November 9, 2001 Summary Plus and SP were processing every hour, regardless of configuration settings, fixed. What’s new in version 2.0.5? November 6, 2001 New option to process incrementally every hour, and non-incrementally at scheduled times. This allows you to get most of the benefits of both modes. You can now add and delete sub-reports while in incremental mode Sub-reports that have been added can be reconfigured at will until the next processing run. New Processing and Configuration Tools page allows you to send e-mail or write static HTML reports for one sub-report or all sub-reports at any time. Auto-config and Restore Backups have been moved to this page as well. Auto process on startup will no longer reset the incremental database each startup in incremental mode. Added a test string on the request aliases page. This allows you to see the effect of your aliases while configuring them. Some parse errors had their line number off by one, fixed. Updating a setting on a sub-report sub-configuration page now returns to the sub-report configuration page instead of going to the global configuration page. Fixed a problem that caused occasional broken images on the Sun version. Summary can now properly decode doubly encoded search strings, typically from ask.com. Scheduled processing wasn't working in the basic version. Comma/period switching for European number formats wasn't working in the bytes column, fixed. Summary now validates the database on startup, preventing subsequent crashes caused by a corrupt database. Added a tab bar in configuration. Fixed a problem when a search string contained a space. You can now delete sub-reports while DNS lookups are in progress. Added known robot detection for wisenut.com. If the Bad Links report was empty it tended to get the wrong explanation for being empty. Summary now validates custom report layouts when reading the configuration file. This prevents broken reports resulting from loading some 1.5.x configuration files. Added Windows XP platform detection. %%%overview was going to /overview instead of /sub-report/overview, %%%menu also had the same problem, fixed. Domain filtering is now done after folder name substitution. This allows you to filter on domains that come from folder names. Sorting by Current Pages or Current Downloads would disable a report. Those columns are no longer available so the sort option has been removed. What’s new in version 2.0.2? October 9, 2001 Fixed a crash which would give the message "Assertion (size>0 && size<=MP_BLOCK_SIZE) failed in "MemoryPool.c" on line 560" when there were more than about 1750 log files. Summary should now work with up to 60,000 log files (if you have enough RAM). Added back current averages information to the Overview. Similar information was in version 1.x, but had been missing in 2.0 and 2.0.1. Many of the tab bar links were broken in the Overview, fixed. Program status information is now properly updated during processing. Incremental processing would forget what it had done if you quit Summary right after the very first log processing run. Speed up sorting of hosts by hits. Current hit percentages were displaying incorrectly in some reports. SERVER is now translated to DOMAIN when importing Summary 1.x custom log format definitions. Added commas to large numbers in the processing status messages. What’s new in version 2.0.1a? September 24, 2001 Summary was failing when run as a Windows service. What’s new in version 2.0.1? September 24, 2001 Restoring a database backup on Windows would corrupt the database and eventually crash. Getting an entire report as a spreadsheet was ignoring sorting and searching, and was sometimes garbled in other ways as well. Getting the current page as text or spreadsheet was off one line relative to the interactive report. Various links and art URLs in the static HTML reports were incorrect, resulting in broken art icons and bad links. The configuration icon button was appearing in static HTML reports. Configuring the CGI Arguments report was showing a blank column where the Argument column should have been. Improved some of the backup and restore error messages and added status messages during slow restore operations. The Program Status report was missing a tab bar. Upgraded to the latest compiler for builds on the Mac and Windows versions. What’s new in version 2.0? September 11, 2001 There are 34 new reports, including Images Loaded by each page, Monthly Bytes by Sub-report, Quarterly time periods, and Local Search Engine Words and Phrases. Incremental processing. Turning this on locks most of the configuration settings. Make sure you have Summary configured correctly before turning incremental processing on. When on, log files will not be reread each time if they have not changed. You can even remove old log files and Summary will still report on them. Since this is still a beta version, you probably shouldn’t completely delete any log files you might want reports on in the future, as Summary’s database might become corrupt. The user interface has been completely redesigned using tab bars and with many additional help links. Many reports have moved around in the Report Menu. The new design should make it easier to find things, despite the addition of quite a few new reports. ‘Value’ concept added. Each visit is tracked to see if it contains hits to each of six content groups. You can assign a value to each of the groups. Visits are valued by summing the value of each of the context groups they visited. Values are tracked by date, referring domain, search phrase, and search word. This can be used to anticipate future income or to track additional goals. Merges log files by date, visit counting now works correctly with clustered servers. Automatically recognizes and reads Zip and BZip2 compressed log files, in addition to the existing support for GZip and plain text. BZip2 log files are slower to read and require several extra Meg of RAM to decode, but BZip2 compresses almost twice as well as Zip or GZip. In Summary SP you can now override the built in art by creating a ‘userart’ folder and putting your art in there. Added support for running as an NT/2000 service. Automatic support for WU-FTP xferlog log format. Plain and regular expression request alias support in Plus and SP versions. Starting a pattern with a single quote causes the remainder of the pattern to be interpreted as a regular expression. Replacement strings can contain ‘*’ to indicate whatever was matched by the corresponding ‘*’ in the pattern, or $1, $2, $3, etc. to indicate the first, second, third, etc. variable portion matched in the pattern. Switched FTP URLs to follow IE and the specification. They are now home directory relative by default. Existing FTP log download URLs will be translated. In version 1.5 Summary required all FTP URLs to contain an absolute path. In 2.0 the paths are now interpreted as being relative to your home directory. To specify an absolute path name use a double slash, as in <ftp://summary.net//home/jason/logs/access.1>. True hierarchical sorting, in either order, of the Phrases by Engine and other dual key reports. The rules for creating custom HTML headers and footers have changed. See the configuration chapter of the manual for details. Existing custom HTML headers and footers will be discarded when reading old configuration files. Summary’s internal database can now grow to 2 Gig of RAM, assuming you have that much RAM. This is more than double the old size limit. The Current period is completely different. It can no longer be configured. It will always be the last 2-3 weeks. That will be the most recent two complete weeks and the partial week currently in progress. Most reports show a weekly average over that time period. The existing log field called ‘server’ in Summary 1.5 is now called ‘domain’ in 2.0. The behavior is identical. Try not to confuse this with the new ‘server’ field which is used to indicate which physical server in a server cluster served this particular hit. Save entire report as spreadsheet. Now reads logs nested up to four folders deep, instead of just two. Sort by cur bytes now sorts by bytes if cur bytes are equal. New ‘current’ concept, always the last two to three weeks. Option to write numbers in a common European format: 1.234.567,89 Support for multiple user log formats, separated by newlines. You can now drill down, in the directory report, to both directories and requests. Added ‘/config:fix’ to override custom HTML header and footer long enough to fix them when the page has become undisplayable. Optimized multi-file FTP download slightly. CWD, now remembers the current directory name, reducing the number of CWD commands issued. Improved out of memory checking. Processing will be suspended when Summary runs out of memory and most reports should continue to be available. Added local search engine reports by words and by phrases, and config to set tag. Empty sub-reports weren’t showing in the Overview of Sub-reports. Filtered visits were getting counted, even though their hits weren’t. Added (Known Robots) as a platform. Added browser support for Naughty Webmasters Link Checker, ‘Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)’, and some ‘stealth’ versions of Slurp (Hotbot indexer). Removed trailing ‘)’ on some browsers. Added Time: Quarterly Report, like other Time reports but reports on calendar quarters. No longer reports processing time for each individual log file. Transfer Duration and Duration of Visit now produce far more human friendly ranges, using ordinary time units. (Bookmark), (File), (News) now show in Referring Domains report. Changed browser special query detection, now works with query in URI. Added Protocol Report, parse token PROTOCOL. Added Physical Server report, based on the log format parse token SERVER or sub-sub-folder names in the Logs folder. Filters out gaps in logs that couldn’t be in this sub-report, if always use folder is on. Filters out log files that couldn’t be in this sub-report, if always use folder is on. Expires visits oldest first, improves unique host counting. Fixed MacHTTP log parsing, which broke a long time ago. Fixed Search engine detection for AOL Search. Long path names now get ‘...’ in the middle, to keep the display width down. Tries the old config file name if no new style named config file is present. Error pages now have a mod date in 1980, so the correct report should load when the error condition is cleared. Doesn’t send e-mail on web interface triggered log processing. Doesn’t count the Flash plugin twice any more. Phantom, from Maxum, is now a known robot. Switched the default port to 9000, from 80. Allows a downloading multiple files from a single remote directory in the regular version, instead of just a single file. Improved Windows Me platform detection. Summary now catches CGI arguments in referrer strings introduced by a ‘;’, and displays the resulting URLs correctly. No longer counts NULs as skipped lines, they are simply ignored. The report menu now reformats to avoid blank space from disabled sections. No longer allows the Java Plugin to be double/triple counted. Blank agents can now be filtered out using ‘(Unknown)’. Added an optional new column showing leakage as a bar chart. Added an optional column showing 1 page visits as a percentage of all visits. Now treats ‘;’ as if it were a ‘?’ in refers. This fixes a memory usage problem with some ad referral services. Log downloading now reports FTP server 450 errors as server error instead of as network timeout. Log downloading now properly ignores directories matched by star names. Added an optional column to display host names as IP addresses even if they were DNS looked up. Now displays the URL to connect to Summary after each processing run. Moved total hits to top of content section of overview. Improved OmniWeb browser detection. New DNS lookups in progress message. Improved the error messages for database empty and invalid sub-report. Fixed up the error message reporting an empty Bad Links report and a few related cases of other empty reports. For information on older versions look here.

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