HISTORY
Legend: [+] added, [x] changed/improved, [-] bugfix
Version 2012 (12.0) - 31-Jan-2012
- [+] Bookmark properties / Merge pages: It's possible to merge the first x pages from search results (or the last few pages with new content from forum topics) to a single page. This works for URLs that have a parameter that defines the page, eg. http://www.domain.com/search.php?text=abc&page=13
- [+] Bookmark properties / Send e-mail: E-Mail addresses can be selected from a pre-defined list
- [+] Bookmark properties / Options: Bookmarks can optionally be opened in the "Text" tab or in the "Analysis" tab of the internal browser
- [+] Bookmark properties / Actions/Alert on error: New option "Alert after X errors in a row"
- [+] Check FTP folders: The directory listing is converted in a new format and the sub folders and files are sorted. This makes monitoring FTP folders much easier.
- [+] Folder properties / Assign bookmark properties: New option "Apply settings to subfolders"
- [+] Export/Import from Excel: New field wswid that is written when exporting bookmarks. This makes it now possible to export bookmarks, change the URL and re-import bookmarks. Before that change, the URL was used to identify a bookmark. If the field wswid is available, then this field is used to identify a bookmark.
- [+] Export/Import from Excel: New fields, amongst other things fields to ignore updates via black/whitelist
- [+] Send e-mails: Advanced rules for sending (optional, can be used as alternative to send e-mails after each check run)
- [+] Send e-mails: Global black list to suppress e-mail sending. If a page contains a defined entry of the global black list, then an e-mail is not sent. For example if a page contains the text "could not connect to database".
- [+] Send e-mails: New option "Send before other e-mails". With that option enabled, e-mails will be queued and sent before other e-mails.
- [+] Send e-mails: BCC (can be entered in program configuration)
- [+] Send e-mails: HTML e-mails optimized and size reduced
- [+] Send e-mails: size reduction when sending e-mails in text format and changes attached
- [+] Virtual folders: New variables {added_age_hours} and {added_age_days}. These variables can be used to create for example a virtual folder "Recently created" that shows all new bookmarks that were inserted within the last 5 hours.
- [+] Scripts: New built-in function "FileExists"
- [+] Internal Browser / Open with external program: Optional command line parameters can be specified
- [+] Internal Browser / "Text" tab: The "Text" tab can now also show the new or old version of the checked page when they were opened in the "Page" tab before clicking the "Text" tab.
- [+] Initialize PDF/Word/Excel files: Automatically use the filename as the bookmark name
- [+] PDF plugin: WebSite-Watcher can extract text from more PDF files
- [+] Filter system: FirstRegex(...) to ignore or monitor only the first occurrence of a regular expression
- [+] Custom columns: Increased custom columns from 3 to 5
- [+] New plugin: Monitor image URLs
- [+] Plugins: Function "HtmlExtract" has a new parameter to extract image URLs from the checked web page
- [+] Plugins / new built-in function: GetComparisonInfo (see help file for detailed description)
- [+] If an AutoWatch countdown is active while the system turns into hibernation, WebSite-Watcher will wait at least 15 seconds before the next AutoWatch check is started after the system returns from hibernation. This gives Windows some time to re-establish network connections before the next AutoWatch check run is started after hibernation. The default value of 15 seconds can be customized via the program tweak "MinAutoWatchSecondsAfterHibernation".
- [+] program configuration / new tweak "ReopenTabsAfterCrash=0": If WebSite-Watcher crashes, then the next start will show a dialog to re-open the last opened browser tabs. This tweak suppresses that dialog and don't re-open browser tabs.
- [x] Bookmark properties / RSS / Ignore articles older than: The minimum number of days is now 1 (30 in previous versions)
- [-] Some conflicts with "Open in external browser" (Shortcuts Ctrl+F11 and Ctrl+Shift+F11) fixed. By default, Ctrl+Shift+F11 is now Ctrl+Shift+0, if you have customized your shortcuts, then this change doesn't affect your shortcut configuration.
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could (in rare cases) falsely report the error "incorrect file size" when checking web pages
- [-] Some special Unicode characters were not decoded correctly
- Smaller fixes, improvements and optimizations
Version 2011 (11.5) - 18-Oct-2011
- [+] Internal browser: WebSite-Watcher uses now IE9 (or IE8) instead of the compatibility mode (IE7). This should also fix the malformed display of various web pages, eg. Google search pages. If IE6 or IE7 is installed, then these versions are used automatically.
- [+] RSS/Atom feeds: New option "Ignore articles older than X days". This helps to keep huge RSS/Atom feeds small and fast.
- [+] Bookmarks + Search + Replace: It's possible to replace passwords in "Internet Explorer Macros"
- [x] Extended Search: Extraction of found words improved search results, especially when searching for exact phrases
- [x] Forum Plugins: WebSite-Watcher no longer alerts an update when only threads were deleted
- [+] Add to bookmarks via WSW eye: If a bookmark already exists, then WebSite-Watcher displays a different menu icon
- [+] Script: The command "CheckFolder" can check special folders such as "Errors", "HotSites", etc.
- [-] Script: Command "MarkAsVisited" didn't work correctly if a folder with subfolders was specified.
- [-] Plugins: Function "GetFirstWildcardMatch" returned all matches
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros improved
- [+] PAD files and RSS feeds can be checked/viewed by source code if the file type "text" is selected (bookmark options + Advanced + check options).
- [x] Improved detection when pages cannot be opened via the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" or "Internet Explorer Macros" to prevent false positives
- [x] Stability improvements when running WebSite-Watcher 24/7
- [x] Smaller improvements to the changes side bar
- [-] Internal browser: cursor keys didn't work for some pages
- [-] Import from CSV files didn't work correctly
- Smaller fixes and improvements
Version 2011 (11.4) - 25-Jul-2011
- [+] WebSite-Watcher automatically checks if the IE cache configuration is set to "Never" and offers a way to automatically change this setting. With the option "Never" it was possible that WebSite-Watcher checked old pages (especially bookmarks with the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" and "Internet Explorer Macros").
- [+] Send e-mails: Additional info fields can be used in e-mail subject and body
- [+] New command line parameter /NODB to start WebSite-Watcher without a database (by default, WebSite-Watcher always opens the last database automatically)
- [+] Script menu: New submenu to edit special scripts
- [+] Scripts / new special script: Execute after each AutoWatch check run
- [+] Scripts / new special script: Execute after each manual check run
- [+] Plugins: The function Bookmark_GetProperty can return values of the last check and the last change (variables "last_check_date" and "last_change_date")
- [+] Test filter / compare sources: New option to show character values (can be helpful to detect invisible characters)
- [x] Check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser" improved: Better preservation of the page layout
- [x] "Internet Explorer Macros" improved: Better preservation of the page layout
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros improved
- [-] Sending Amazon pages by e-mails didn't work (junk could be displayed at the beginning of the e-mails due to errors in Amazon CSS files)
- [-] Follow-Links: WebSite-Watcher could insert duplicate URLs under certain circumstances
- [-] Changes side bar could disappear under certain circumstances
- [-] Fixed a bug that could happen during Backup/AutoBackup under certain circumstances
- [x] Several toolbar icons replaced and improved
- [-] Script command "CheckBookmarks" didn't work when no folder was selected
- Smaller bugs fixed
Version 2011 (11.3) - 20-Jun-2011
- [+] Bookmark properties + Advanced: New section "Forum"
- [+] Forum-Wizard re-implemented
- [+] Forum-Templates: Footer selection can optionally have changing numbers
- [+] Reopen last browser tab: WebSite-Watcher has now an internal history of closed browser tabs (previous versions could only reopen the last closed browser tab).
- [+] Automatically select the correct checking method for Yahoo Groups
- [+] FTP-Proxy - new option: FTP-over-HTTP for proxies that do not support the FTP protocol. Using that option lets you for example check FTP URLs with the proxy Squid. A detailed description, disadvantages and limitations of that method can be found in the help file
- [+] FTP Proxy configuration: Different proxy login types to be compatible with certain proxies. The correct login type can be determined automatically in the proxy configuration.
- [+] Browser toolbar: New button to close the internal browser (disabled by default, can be enabled via toolbar customization)
- [x] Improved detection of new/changed RSS feed postings
- [x] Better compatibility with certain SMTP servers
- [+] Internal Browser + Analysis: The "Keywords" analysis has been enhanced for virtual folders
- [+] Import/Export from/to Excel: troubleshooting variables added
- [x] Import/Export from/to Excel: Several improvements and fixes
- [+] Script: The command "CheckFolder" can check virtual folders
- [+] PDF-Plugin: Future versions of WebSite-Watcher will no longer produce false update notifications after improving/changing the text extraction of PDF files.
- [x] PDF plugin: Improved text extraction from certain PDF files
- [+] Word plugin: WebSite-Watcher is now able to extract Unicode text from Word files
- [x] Removed: Alternative PDF text extraction when using the PDF plugin (The alternative text extraction was done via the IFILTER system and was removed because updating the PDF reader could cause false positives. For example, a PDF IFILTER is no longer delivered and installed automatically with Acrobat Reader 10 while it was available in Acrobat Reader 9). The PDF plugin works now independently from the installed PDF reader.
- [x] Download-Manager: Improved detection of filename and file extension after relocations
- [x] Checked facebook pages displayed a horizontal scrollbar, WSW now fixes a bad CSS definition in facebook pages automatically.
- [x] Checking method "IE/Browser" and "IE Macros" improved
- [x] Some features didn't work correctly when the option "Recheck bookmark when an error occurred" was disabled
- [-] Text extraction from certain Excel files did not work
- [-] Vertical scrollbar was not always displayed properly in various list boxes
- [-] Fixed a false positive when checking certain Excel files (could only happen if the previous check reported an error)
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could freeze under certain circumstances
- Indonesian user interface added
- Many smaller optimizations, improvements and fixes
Version 2011 (11.2) - 27-Apr-2011
- [+] Automatically select the correct checking method for Facebook pages
- [+] Automatically select the correct checking method for Twitter pages
- [+] Automatically fix a problem in Facebook CSS definitions that broke the scrollbar in Internet Explorer
- [x] Plugins: Performance significantly improved
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros: Filling form fields improved
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros: Execution of Internet Macros improved
- [x] Improved user interface when no bookmark file is opened
- [x] Improved detection of new RSS feed postings
- [x] RSS feeds: More date formats for sorting supported
- [x] RSS feed postings are only sorted by date if all postings have a valid posting date
- [-] RSS enclosures could not be downloaded under certain circumstances
- [x] Download-Manager: Copy-To generates a new file name if the target file already exists
- [-] Bugfix with checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser" and nested framesets fixed
- [-] Installing WebSite-Watcher could fail under certain circumstances
- [-] Import from Excel files: Crash if the columns "check_macro" or "postdata" were not available
- [x] Replaced several user interface controls that could cause stability problems on some PCs
- [x] Internal improvements, optimizations and fixes
Version 2011 (11.1) - 28-Mar-2011
- [+] Internet Explorer Macros: New option to automatically delete cookies of the checked domain before executing the macro (This can be required if certain steps (eg. a login) are suppressed or skipped as soon as a cookie is available. Deleting the cookies for the checked domain will "reset" the page and you will always start from scratch when checking the bookmark).
- [+] New Shared Plugin: Auto-Download binary files. If you monitor binary files directly, you can download them automatically via the WebSite-Watcher Download Manager when a change is detected. This plugin is not suggested automatically via the browser information bar and must be assigned manually in bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin. Supported file extensions are EXE,ZIP,RAR,7Z,MP3
- [+] New Shared Plugin: Monitor all link addresses. This plugin extracts all links (URLs) from a web page and converts them into a new html page. Then all link addresses (instead of the page content) are checked for updates and changes.
- [+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_change_age_hours} to display bookmarks that were changed within the specified number of hours (eg: {last_change_age_hours} less than "24")
- [+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_change_age_days} to display bookmarks that were changed within the specified number of days (eg: {last_change_age_days} less than "1")
- [+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_check_age_hours} to display bookmarks that were checked within the specified number of hours (eg: {last_check_age_hours} less than "5")
- [+] Virtual folders: New variable {last_check_age_days} to display bookmarks that were checked within the specified number of days (eg: {last_check_age_days} less than "3")
- [+] Follow-Links: Include/Exclude filters support date variables
- [+] Follow-Links: Include/Exclude filters support regular expressions with function regex(...)
- [+] Follow-Links: Automatically removing no longer linked pages can be canceled (status dialog has a Cancel button)
- [+] RSS feed postings are sorted by posting date/time
- [+] Forum-Wizard works with forums which are based on LI tags, eg. phpBB3 or vBulletin4 (until now only table based forums were supported).
- [+] Temporarily disable bookmark checking, eg. for a specified number of minutes (right click bookmark + Extra + Disable check)
- [+] Browser integration: Firefox 4 supported
- [+] Download Manager: New column "Bookmark Name"
- [-] Download-Manager: the automatic Copy-To feature could fail under certain circumstances
- [x] Download Manager: Improved detection and generation of file names
- [+] Shared Plugins: New identification option to identify a shared plugin by file extension (of the checked file)
- [+] Pdf/Word/Excel files from FTP servers can be checked via Pdf/Word/Excel Plugins
- [+] Plugins: Support for password protected PDF files (the password can be entered in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin)
- [+] Plugins: Support for password protected Excel files (the password can be entered in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin)
- [+] Plugins: Support for password protected Word files (Conversion via MS Office only, the password can be entered in: Bookmark properties + Advanced + Plugin)
- [+] Plugins: New built-in function "HtmlExtract" to extract all URLs from a web page
- [+] Plugin: Built in function Bookmark_SetProperty has a new parameter "dont_check_minutes" to temporarily disable bookmark checking for the specified number of minutes. Further details see help file.
- [-] Word/Excel plugins didn't work correctly after untypical server redirections
- [x] Plugin function "DownloadFile": Parameter "Handle" added (if you have used that function in plugins, please update your plugin scripts to get them working again)
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros for pages with frames improved
- [+] Import from Excel / Export to Excel: New variable "postdata"
- [x] Import from Excel / Export to Excel: Various improvements and fixes
- [x] Improved detection if a bookmark already exists in combination with check macros and post data
- [x] Text extraction from PDF files improved
- [-] Download Manager could crash with certain URLs
- [-] Bookmark configuration could be lost under certain circumstances when the Follow-Links feature was enabled
- Bug fixes and smaller improvements
Version 2011 (11.0) - 04-Feb-2011
- [+] Virtual folders
- [+] Internal browser: Changes bar (optional via "View" menu)
- [+] Bookmark properties - New option "Offset before first change": Scroll back the configured number of pixels when jumping to the first highlighted change (this can make it more comfortable to read the first highlighted change)
- [+] Bookmark properties - Ignore Updates: This feature now supports a Blacklist/Whitelist mode
- [+] Download Manager to automatically download RSS feed enclosures
- [+] RSS: WebSite-Watcher supports multiple enclosures in RSS feed postings
- [+] RSS: New option "Keep the most recent X articles"
- [+] Set properties in all selected bookmarks: "Follow-Links" options can be applied to selected bookmarks
- [+] Assign bookmark properties (program configuration or per folder): Pre-define ignore filters
- [+] Assign bookmark properties (program configuration or per folder): Pre-define some special filters
- [+] Assign bookmark properties (program configuration or per folder): Pre-define check technology
- [+] Bookmark action "Export page": New format "Webpage, complete" to also export related CSS and image files (these files are exported into a folder with extension ".files". If the export filename is "test.htm", then exported CSS/image files are stored in "test.files")
- [+] Internet Explorer Macros with CAPTCHAs supported. If a page contains a CAPTCHA, WebSite-Watcher interrupts the macro execution and shows the browser window to enter the confirmation code. After that, the macro execution is continued.
- [+] Internet Explorer Macros: Pure Javascript hyperlinks supported
- [+] Internet Explorer Macros: Comboboxes with Javascript actions supported
- [+] Internet Explorer Macros: More login types supported
- [+] Bookmark check: truncated downloads are detected and handled automatically (truncated downloads will no longer cause false positives)
- [+] New special filter: Ignore entries in dropdown and list boxes (this filter is enabled by default to have the same behavior as in previous WebSite-Watcher versions)
- [+] Import bookmarks (with pre-defined properties) from Excel (XLS) or CSV file (supported properties see help file)
- [+] Export bookmarks with certain properties to Excel (This makes it for example possible to export bookmarks to Excel, change them there and re-import them into WebSite-Watcher)
- [+] Script command "ImportBookmarks" can import bookmarks from Excel (XLS) and CSV files
- [+] Pdf/Word/Excel plugins are now assigned automatically when a pdf/word/excel file is loaded after a redirection from a html page (in previous version it was only possible to automatically assign a plugin when the URL contained the correct file extension).
- [+] PDF/Word/Excel files can be checked via Internet Explorer Macros
- [+] PDF-Plugin: The PDF plugin uses now an alternative text extraction in addition to the internal PDF file conversion. Should the internal conversion fail, there's still a good chance that the text can be extracted with the alternative solution. This makes checking PDF files more reliable for problematic PDF files. (The alternative text extraction is based on the installed PDF Reader and the IFilter system).
- [+] Excel Plugin rewritten: Conversion is now ultra fast + Support for protected excel files
- [+] Excel-Plugin: Conversion for Excel-2007/2010 format rewritten. Supports now also cell formats, cell merging, etc.
- [+] Internal browser/URL field: If you enter a search term instead of an URL, then a Google search is performed
- [+] Plugin IDE has now a sensitive help. When the cursor is placed on a function, event function or a statement, then F1 jumps directly to the related help topic.
- [+] Plugin IDE / Code completion via Ctrl+Space: Several new features and sensitive help added.
- [+] Plugins / New functions to maintain stringlists, eg. functions to insert, change or delete specific items. All functions related to stringslists start with "StringList_". More information and an enhanced example can be found in the help file.
- [+] Plugins / New function: DownloadFile (adds an URL to the included download manager)
- [+] Plugins / New function: ReplaceWildcard
- [+] Plugins / New function: DeleteAllWildcardMatches
- [+] Plugins / New function: AddStringToFile
- [+] Plugins / New function: Sleep
- [+] Plugins: The built-in function "Bookmark_GetProperty" supports the parameter "name" to read the bookmark name.
- [+] Plugins: The built-in function "Bookmark_SetProperty" can write the additional 3 info fields of a bookmark
- [+] Plugins: Built in function Bookmark_SetProperty has a new parameter "MarkAsRead" to mark a bookmark as visited. Further details see help file.
- [+] Database Repair Tool (dbtool.exe) that can be used to repair a database. Can be used if it's no longer possible to start WebSite-Watcher or to open a database due to database corruptions and crashes.
- [+] Scrolling with the mouse wheel works when the cursor is over the control (folder tree, bookmark list, web browser), it's no longer required to click the control before
- [+] Image configuration: WebSite-Watcher can now optionally show embedded flash videos if absolute image addresses or image downloading is enabled (in previous versions, embedded flash videos were always displayed but this could slow down opening certain bookmarks).
- [+] Newsgroups: Get parent postings (which can be much faster than the function "Reconstruct Thread" when you're only interested in (very) old parent postings)
- [+] Script IDE: Code completion via Ctrl+Space added
- [+] Script IDE has now a sensitive help. When the cursor is placed on a command, then F1 jumps directly to the related help topic of that command.
- [x] Follow-Links runs more smoothly and no longer blocks the main application
- [x] Jump to first/next keyword: Performance improvements
- [x] Show removed elements at the bottom of the page: Performance improvements (also fixed a bottleneck that could freeze WebSite-Watcher in rare cases)
- [x] Improved IFRAME handling
- [x] Improved codepage detection for some Russian web pages
- [x] Improved detection of PDF/Word/Excel files after redirections
- [+] New Tweak: "CreateHighlightedChangesInBackground=1": By default, WebSite-Watcher calculates and generates the file with highlighted changes as soon as you open a bookmark. If this option is enabled, then WebSite-Watcher creates the files with highlighted changes immediately while bookmarks are checked. This will speed up opening changed bookmarks, but the check run will consume more memory and resources. It's not recommended to use this tweak if you often re-check changed/unread bookmarks without opening them after each check.
- [+] New Tweak "SavePageWhenNoKeywordsFound=1": By default, WebSite-Watcher doesn't save a page to your hard disk when keywords are entered in Update-on-keywords but no keyword is found within new/changed content. With that tweak, a page is also saved to your hard disk when none of the entered keywords is found.
- [+] New Tweak "UseStaticTrayIconHint=1": Shows the static text "WebSite-Watcher" as trayicon tooltip instead of dynamically generated information about check/update status.
- [+] Report/Export: New field {wsw_url_date_created}
- [x] The old-looking floating InfoWin has been re-designed and shows more information now. It has also been renamed to "Update-Ticker".
- [x] Internet Explorer browser integration improved (certain pages could not be added via the context menu due to an IE problem)
- [x] Checking Excel files: Performance highly improved
- [-] Pdf/Word/Excel files could not be checked via Check-Macros containing logouts
- Tons of smaller improvements and optimizations
Version 2010 (10.5) - 04-Nov-2010
- [x] vBulletin 4 Plugin improved to support more modified v4 forums
- [x] Keyword highlighting improved
- [x] Report with highlighted changes: When calculating the total length of highlighted changes, WebSite-Watcher included the HTML tags for hyperlinks. Now only the length of the readable text is used.
- [x] Update-on-keywords feature improved (more sensitive detection of new/changed content)
- [-] Bookmark action "Play sound" was not executed when the bookmark action "Mark as read" was also enabled
- [-] Excel-Plugin: Hyperlinks were not converted correctly when using MS-Office to convert Excel files into HTML pages
- [-] Check-by-screenshot: Highlighting changes could crash under certain circumstances
- Smaller fixes and improvements
Version 2010 (10.4) - 15-Sep-2010
- [+] Creating Ignore/Watch/Auto Filters: Detection of changing numbers is now more intelligent and automatically recognizes thousands separators and commas
- [+] Browser-Integration: WebSite-Watcher Eye in the browser title bar works with Google Chrome
- [x] Performance improvements (especially when working with large web pages)
- [x] Optimizations when sending RSS feeds via the Send-Mail bookmark action (especially improved compatibility when sending to gmail addresses)
- [x] If the "Ignore updates" feature is configured in the bookmark properties and an entered text was found in the page, then WebSite-Watcher will re-check the bookmark (if the option "re-check bookmark when an error occurred" is enabled in the program configuration)
- [x] Checking method "Internet Explorer/Browser" improved (especially for pages that require a minimum width to be displayed correctly)
- [-] Pages with compressed source code were not decompressed correctly under certain circumstances
- [-] Highlighting changes could fail under certain circumstances when certain cache files were missing
- [+] Automatic detection and correction of damaged cache files
- [x] Several PDF Plugin improvements
- [-] If "View+Always on top" was active, then sub windows were displayed behind the main window and WebSite-Watcher was no longer responsive
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could crash after moving bookmarks to another bookmark database
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could not jump to the first/next change when running under WINE and using Gecko instead of Internet Explorer
- [-] Changes were not highlighted correctly when viewed in Microsoft Outlook
- [-] Setup: Installing the portable version could fail (v10.3 issue)
- Norwegian user interface updated
- Smaller improvements and optimizations
Version 2010 (10.3) - 26-Jul-2010
- [+] Browser-Integration: Opera 10.60 supported
- [x] Improved performance when jumping to the first/next highlighted change
- [x] Improved Javascript filtering
- [x] Setup: It's no longer possible to install the portable edition over the desktop edition or vice versa
- Smaller fixes/improvements
Version 2010 (10.2) - 29-Jun-2010
- [+] New function "Re-Create database from cache folder". If a database has physical damages and you don't have a working backup file and the function "Repair database" fails, you can now fully re-create a database from files that are stored in the cache folder.
- [x] "Repair database" improved (WebSite-Watcher can now repair more data from damaged databases)
- [x] Improved database stability
- [x] Detection and auto correction of certain database errors
- [x] If a bookmark was checked with "Check-by-screenshot" or the check technology "Internet Explorer/Browser", then it was possible that an embedded sound was played during the check. These checks work now completely silent. This works only under Windows Vista and 7.
- [x] Improved AutoWatch countdown calculation
- [x] Highlighting keywords significantly improved (you should no longer see the message "could not highlight all keywords") - Thread
- [+] Extended Search: Save settings as default ("Options" button)
- [-] Extended Search: "Display in Main Window" didn't remember the bookmarks after a WebSite-Watcher restart - Thread
- [+] Plugins: New built in function "ReplaceRegex"
- [x] Analysis tab: Analysis for Update-On-Keywords improved
- [x] Report/Export: The pre-defined template to export to CSV files now uses a semicolon as separator (instead of a comma), so the exported files can be opened directly in Excel.
- [+] Report: New fields {wsw_url_id} and {wsw_url_follow_master_id}
- [+] Bookmark action "Send e-mail": New variable {date_changed}
- [+] Bookmark action "Send e-mail": New variable {check_url} that displays the finally checked URL and also takes account of changes to the URL via the Plugin system or redirections
- [x] The "Send e-mail" variable {url} automatically expands date variables
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros improved (more rare login types supported)
- [x] Jump to the first highlighted change improved
- [x] Improved detection and filtering of embedded scripts
- [+] New program tweak: QuickInsertFromWebBrowserContextMenu=1 to quickly insert a page via the webbrowser context menu without displaying a window, bookmarks are always inserted into the root folder in that case
- [+] If a plugin is no longer compatible with a page and a new plugin was found (eg. after a forum version update), then it's possible to assign the new plugin via the browser information bar
- [+] If a plugin is no longer compatible with a page (eg. after a forum version update), it's possible to easily delete the assigned plugin via the browser information bar
- [x] vBulletin 3.x Plugin improved (improved detection of new postings)
- [x] Several PDF Plugin improvements
- [+] Scripts / SendMail command: User defined variables can be used in the mail subject
- [x] Improved handling of images with wrong extensions
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could not highlight changes under rare circumstances (due to conflicts with CSS definitions)
- [-] Keywords were not highlighted in the pre-defined color under rare circumstances (due to conflicts with CSS definitions)
- [-] Alert/Actions on error: Bookmark action "Send e-mail" didn't work when an error was detected.
- [-] WebSite-Watcher could perform AutoWatch checks endlessly without a countdown under certain circumstances. This should fix the behavior that was described in that thread
- [-] AutoWatch: Resetting automatic time frequency after an update could fail under certain circumstances - Thread
- [-] Fixed some memory leaks
- Smaller fixes, optimizations and improvements
Version 2010 (10.1) - 08-Apr-2010
- [+] New bookmark column: Creation date. (Options + Columns)
- [+] Three new customizable bookmark columns. These columns can be used to display specific bookmark configurations, for example to show if the bookmark action "Send Mail" is enabled. (Options + Columns)
- [+] WebSite-Watcher uses the correct AutoWatch countdown value after a computer was in hibernation
- [+] Show removed elements at the end of the page: WebSite-Watcher no longer shows elements that were ignored by defined filters.
- [+] New Plugin: IFilter Text Extraction
- [+] Automatically assign PDF/Word/Excel plugin: New option "Don't assign plugin" (Program configuration + Bookmarks + Assign Plugins). If this option is selected, new PDF/Word/Excel files will be checked by file date.
- [+] Import bookmarks from Firefox 3.x
- [+] Bookmark list: Reset error status (available when you right click bookmarks in the error folder)
- [x] Bookmarks that were checked with the technology "IE/Browser" (or with Internet Explorer Macros) could steal the focus under certain circumstances, this should no longer happen.
- [x] Many improvements and optimizations for large window fonts
- [x] Checking binary files improved
- [+] New program tweak: SendMailOnlyNewRssArticles=0 (by default, the bookmark action "Send Mail" sends only new articles of an RSS feed. If this tweak is set, then all articles of an RSS feed will be included in the e-mails).
- [x] Internet Explorer Macros improved
- [x] Mail Outbox: Show queued mails in the outbox (can help to find problems when WSW cannot send all mails)
- [x] Update similar bookmarks feature improved
- [x] Update-On-Keywords: Improved keyword detection
- [x] Improved IFRAME filtering
- [x] More precise detection of first change
- [x] Automatic deletion of unused ignore filters improved
- [-] Internal browser: the default zoom value was only applied to the main browser tab. Now all browser tabs uses the default zoom value that is defined in the program configuration. The default zoom value is also used for all other embedded browsers (eg. Filter Assistant, MiniBrowser, Extended Search, etc.)
- [-] Internal Browser: Tab flickering fixed
- [-] Filters were not saved when the Filter-Assistant was called in the Page menu of the internal browser
- [x] Automatically repair folder structure after repairing a corrupted database (was not possible under certain circumstances)
- [-] Last change marker could be displayed at a wrong position
- [-] Bugfix in CSS handling that could lead to malformed pages.
- [-] Downloading images could fail if an image didn't have a file extension or if a wrong file extension was used
- Smaller fixes, optimizations and improvements
Version 2010 (10.0) (02-Feb-2010)
- [+] Filter-Assistant: The filter assistant can be called within the internal browser, either by holding the Alt key pressed while selecting a text or via the menu entry "Create new filter..." in the "Page" sub menu
- [+] Filter-Assistant: New wizard to classify the type of the filter and the selected text
- [+] Bookmark statistics ("View" menu)
- [+] Keywords: Enhanced editor with sorting and spelling check
- [x] WebSite-Watcher no longer reports an error if an RSS/Atom feed has no postings
- [+] Follow-Links: Automatically delete no longer linked files
- [+] Internal browser / tiled view: synchronized scrolling
- [+] Internal Browser: Close button is now placed within the tabs
- [+] Internal Browser + Page menu: "Copy URL to Clipboard" (if a local bookmark cache file is opened, WebSite-Watcher will copy the online URL to the clipboard)
- [+] Automatic codepage detection if neither the web page page nor the server provide a charset definition (this is a self learning system based on pages with valid charset definitions)
- [+] Windows 7: WebSite-Watcher shows the check progress in the taskbar icon
- [+] New/advanced toolbar configuration, eg. order of buttons can be changed
- [+] New toolbar button: Delete
- [+] Extended Search: browser toolbar can be customized (context menu)
- [+] New option: Reset toolbars to their defaults
- [+] Add RSS feeds from the internal browser (RSS button in status bar): Preview of RSS feed
- [x] Improved date detection in Atom Feed postings
- [+] Plugins: IPBoard 3.x Plugins added
- [+] Plugins: WoltLab Burning Board 3.x Plugins added
- [+] Plugins: vBulletin 4.x Plugins added
- [x] Plugins: vBulletin 3.x Plugins improved
- [x] Plugins: Excel plugin improved
- [+] Plugins: Bookmark can have a Private Plugin AND a Shared Plugin. If both plugins have a same event function implemented, then the event function of the Shared Plugin is executed before the event function of the Private Plugin.
- [+] Plugins: New event function "WSW_ActionsOnUpdate" is performed when an update is detected
- [+] Plugins: New function Bookmark_LoadCacheFile to get the content of new/old/changed files (this function can typically be used in WSW_ActionsOnUpdate)
- [+] Word/Excel Plugins: Separate Plugins for the internal conversion and the the conversion via MS Office 2003+
- [+] PDF/Word/Excel Plugins: Default plugins for PDF/Word/Excel files can be configured in the program configuration (Bookmarks tab)
- [+] PDF Plugin: Unicode partially supported
- [+] Plugin identification: Server log can be used to identify a file type - Thread
- [x] Selection of shared plugins improved
- [+] Send mails: new variables {folder} and {foldername} - Thread
- [+] New Script command "SendBookmarks" - Thread
- [+] Help + Check for new version (beside the (optional) automatic update check you can now also call it manually via the Help menu)
- [+] When the update check finds a new WebSite-Watcher version, you can let WebSite-Watcher download and install the new version automatically
- [x] Check-By-Screenshot improved
- [x] Open-with feature in the browser toolbar could be blocked several seconds by anti virus software
- [-] The embedded Internet Explorer could slow down or freeze under certain circumstances
- [-] Fixed a stack overflow that could happen under rare circumstances
- Many help file improvements
- Romanian user interface added
- Many smaller improvements and fixes
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