Release Notes for NetarchiveSuite 3.11.0

This version of NetarchiveSuite was released on 2009-12-22.

TableOfContents

New features since NetarchiveSuite 3.10.*

This release mostly includes solutions for minor problems and issues.

Common Module

Harvester Module

Archive Module

Work on database-based active bit preservation functionality. This code is not yet operational

Access Module

Deploy

Bugs fixed since NetarchiveSuite 3.8.*

Common Module

Harvester Module

Archive Module

Access Module

Monitor Module

Deploy Module

Documentation

Upgrade instructions

Remember to stop the running installation before upgrading. Beware, that you only want to upgrade to this release in your test-environment, and not in your production setup.

=== New settings (under construction)=== The following new settings have been introduced:

settings.common.database.validityCheckTimeout (default: 0): Timeout in seconds to check for the validity of a JDBC connection on the server. This is the time in seconds to wait for the database operation used to validate the connection to complete. If the timeout period expires before the operation completes, this method returns false. A value of 0 indicates a timeout is not applied to the database operation.

New translation strings (Under construction)

harvester/Translations.properties

The following string was removed

Version History

Version 3.9.*

Development versions aiming for 3.10.0

Version 3.8.2

2009-09-10

Fix an important index synchronization bug

Version 3.8.1

2009-07-15

Fix of important bug leading to unresponsive harvesters

Version 3.8.0

2009-05-23

Java 1.6, Heritrix 1.14.1, Derby 10.4.2.0, complete rewrite of settings, new supported deploy module, gui access to harvest logs

Version 3.7.0

2008-11-04

Develop version aiming for 3.8.0

Version 3.6.0

2008-07-03

Improvement of archive component with regard to security, batch, and preservation; greater JMS stability; important bug fixes

Version 3.5.*

Develop versions aiming for 3.6.0

Version 3.4.2

2008-03-14

Bug fix release, fixing JMX timeout

Version 3.4.1

2008-01-16

Bug fix release, fixing out of memory on very large indexes

Version 3.4.0

2008-01-03

Separation of Heritrix, work on developing our open source platform, two-part TLDs like co.uk, and lots of bugfixes

Version 3.3.*

Develop versions aiming for 3.4.0

Version 3.2.3

2007-09-27

Bugfix of 3.2.2 with patched deduplicator, that fixes problem in parallel indexing

Version 3.2.2

2007-08-03

Bugfix of 3.2.1 with patched Heritrix 1.12.1, that supports ARCRecords larger than 2GBs

Version 3.2.1

2007-07-04

Bugfix of 3.2.0 fixing trouble using the quick start manual.

Version 3.2.0

2007-07-04

Open source release

Version 3.1.*

Development versions. Version 3.1.7 was kindly reviewed by Internet Archive and the Norwegian national library.

Version 3.0.0

2007-02-02

Marked the naming of the NetarchiveSuite, the splitting of NetarchiveSuite into independent modules, and the licensing of NetarchiveSuite under LGPL

Version 2.*

Various features and updates

Version 2.0

2006-08-30

Marked a general restructuring of the code, where harvest definition data was backed by a database, the viewerproxy was trimmed and rewritten.

Version 1.*

Various features and updates

Version 1.0

2005-07-01

The first version of the netarchive| software put in production for harvesting the entire Danish web

Version 0.*

Various pre-production development versions