Release Notes for NetarchiveSuite 3.12.0
This version of NetarchiveSuite was released on 2010-04-XX. (STILL UNRELEASHED)
New features since NetarchiveSuite 3.10.*
Major work on improving the bitpreservation infrastructure has been done, like adding a bitpreservation database. This is still highly experimental, and the old bitpreservation framework has not been fully replaced yet. This is expected to happen in the next development release.
The following bugs and features have been fixed since 3.10
Common Module
Bug 1835 The new examples folder is missing from build
Deploy Module
Bug 1705 Make jmxremote.access writable before overwriting it (install script)
Harvester Module
Bug 1777 Add event seeds only accepts a very short list of seeds
Access Module
Bug1758 UrlCanonicalizerFactory falls back to default value silently
Archive Module
Bug 1833 The method isAdminCheckSumOk() from the type FilePreservationState is not visible FR 1734 Unittest of BitachiveMonitor FR 1736 Monitoring batchjobs
Documentation Module
FR 1818 Have all the example configuration files in one folder different from the "conf"
Monitor Module
FR 1757 Need a way to remove an application from lists of monitored applications
External Software
ES 1587 Upgrade Apache Commons Net library to version 2.0 ES 1784 Upgrade Jetty ES 1808 Upgrade Apache Commons Fileupload to 1.2.1 FR 1890 Upgrade to Apache Derby 10.5.3.0
Upgrade instructions
Remember to stop the running installation before upgrading. If using derby database as your database, it it recommmended, that you upgrade your database to 10.5.3.0 by appending ";upgrade=true" to your JDBC url (Cf. http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.5/devguide/tdevupgradedb.html)
New settings
The following new setting have been introduced:
settings.common.batch.timeBetweenLogging (default: 30000): The time between logging the stat us of a batch job measured in milliseconds. The default amounts to 30 seconds.
New translation strings
harvester/Translations.properties
errormsg;template.upload.failed.with.exception.0=Harvest template upload failed with exception {0} errormsg;uploading.file.0.failed.it.does.not.exist=Uploading the file ''{0}'' failed. It does not exist errormsg;missing.parameter.0=Required parameter {0} not given pagetitle;seeds.for.harvestdefinition=Seeds for the harvestdefinition harveststatus.seeds.for.harvest.0=Domain/Seeds for harvestdefinition {0} add.seeds.from.file=Add seeds from a file errormsg;no.seedsfile.was.uploaded=No seedsfile was uploaded
monitor/Translation.properties
tablefield;removeapplication=Remove Application errormsg.error.when.unregistering.mbean.0=Error when unreqistering JMX MBean identified with query ''{0}''.
(note: This latter needs to be changed to "errormsg;error.when.unregistering.mbean.0" See outstanding bug 1844 Wrong labelling of the translation key "errormsg.error.when.unregistering.mbean.0")
Deleted translation strings
harvester/Translation.properties
errormsg;template.upload.failed=Harvest template upload failed
Version History
||Version 3.10.0 || 2009-11-16 || New deploy application; JMX stability issues fixed; JMS stability issues also fixed
Version 3.9.* |
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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.* |
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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.* |
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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.* |
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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.* |
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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.* |
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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.* |
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Various pre-production development versions |