ASF HOME | MIRROR | BROWSE | SEARCH | E-MAIL |
Updated 20 SEP 1999 Security and Privacy Notice | URL:/doc/release.html

ASF Release Notes

New Features

• This release will automatically create GILS records for each document in a document set
  • Using global document set metadata template
  • For certain document types, using "fields" already present in the document (e.g. Title in HTML documents)

Bug Fixes

• The "Crawl" function for obtaining documents from remote locations is much more stable

Misc Changes

• Many fixes have been made to the software

New Features

• Admin Interface
  Added more text to view logs screen
  
• Isearch
  Changed summary record display to something more suitable which required changes to many different parts of system

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug in print crawls status
  Fixed makefile bug for Solaris

Misc Changes

• Changed references to "centroid" to "summary locator record"
  IE couldn't handle the long URLs for searching, so changed "get" to "post"

New Features

• Admin Interface
  Incorporated crawler interface
  Added additional doctypes to index interface
  
• Isearch
  Added retrieve by document key
  
• ASFserv
  Changes to ASFserv in support of fetching key-based full records
  Changes to ASFserv in support of grs brief records
  
• ASFwhoisd
  Added automated centroid database generation
  
• Search Gateway
  Links from brief records to full records
  Improved search form and presentation

Bug Fixes

• ASFserv
  Fixed logging bug

Misc Changes

• Updated system documentation

New Features

• New Crawler
  Based on client feedback, replaced htdig crawler with pavuk

• Isearch
  Added highlighting code
  Added HTMLTAG doctype (META parsing only)
  Added state handling/reporting
  
• ASFwhoisd - foundation for whois++ server
  Added to ASF project instead of existing ids
  Added interfaces to SAI
  

Bug Fixes

• SAI
  Fixed bug in freeing structures
• Made icons/* world readable.

Misc Changes

• Misc
  Search form dynamically creates database list
  
• SAI
  Added support for highlighting
  
• asf_setup
  If passwords don't match, continues asking.
  Now asks for database server port and creates conf/ASFserv.conf
  Now prompts for admin's email address for httpd.conf
  Now sets StartServers and MaxClients to 1 since only one admin server
     is required
  

New Features

• File List selection

Bug Fixes

Misc Changes

• Iutil updated to support state determination
• File List support cgi functions added to asf_cmd and asf_print
• Updated documentation, particularly the help sections

New Features

• Full GILS field mapping capability
• First cut at zap searching of databases
• Setup "official" ASF web site

Bug Fixes

• Fixed asf_setup that was writing asf_env.sh with /bin/sh
• Fixed an optional include file in zap_mod.c in case Tcl not installed
• Fixed Makefiles to support zap under solaris

Misc Changes

• Now starting ASFserv from bin/start_main_server
• Updated README file to be more descriptive
• Updated Makefile to be more descriptive about targets and completion
• Updated asf_setup to be more descriptive
• Writing asf root dir to cgi-bin/zap_root
• Changed zap to read its root dir from cgi-bin/zap_root file instead of it being precompiled in

• Ported to Solaris
• Fixed hard-coded path in cgi-bin/cgi2sh_inc.sh
• Changed all cgi scripts to use csh
• Fixed htpasswd not being recompiled
• Moved htpasswd to bin/

• Base release