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[edit] Recent Releases
[edit] Plugin Tool 0.10.2
Released 11/09/06
- Features
- Expert Mode now provides support for writing OAI plugins.
- New "single path component" URL building block.
- Interface to associate filter factories with MIME types.
- New "required daemon version" option.
- Bug fixes
- Now handling all file overwrites correctly on Windows.
- Improved inclusion of default values from the daemon.
[edit] Older Releases
[edit] Plugin Tool 0.9.3
Released 9/19/06
- Features
- The results of crawl rule tests can now also be written (appended) to a file.
- New version of the
plugintoolstartup script for Linux which allows adding to the classpath and passing arguments to the JVM.
- Usability improvements
- Crawl rule tests can now be interrupted with a button.
- Redirected many error diagnostics to the log file.
- Bug fixes
- Closing the crawl rule test window now properly aborts a crawl rule test in progress.
- Now correctly handling percent signs in crawl rules.
[edit] Plugin Tool 0.8.6
Released 7/12/06
- Features
- Now logging messages to a file in the current directory (plugin-tool-log.txt).
- Now configured with a configuration file (plugin-tool-props.xml), plus an optional configuration file (plugin-tool-props.opt).
- Can specify a global crawl window interactively.
- Usability improvements
- "Year (Abbrev)" renamed "Year (2 digits)".
- "Base URL (Host)" and "Base URL (Path)" renamed "Base URL (host only)" and "Base URL (path only)" respectively.
- Improved crawl rule test output.
- Bug fixes
- More helpful error messages when loading malformed XML or starting a crawl rule test on a non-existent URL.
- Fixed behavior of "Base URL (host only)" and "Base URL (path only)".
- Fixed bugs and inconsistencies in the handling of string ranges and numeric ranges in plugins. (These changes will also appear in the daemon starting with version 1.18)
- Fixed class cast exceptions.
