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Release 2.3 - planned features

Type	Changes	By
	TODO: get an accurate number of failures and successes at the end of the execution (false failures were previously counted), list the files that could not be downloaded	ludovicc
	TODO: update to Commons-HttpClient 3.0	ludovicc
	TODO: add module support by parsing the CVSROOT/modules file.	ludovicc
	TODO: add option to check out files in DOS mode, UNIX mode	ludovicc
	TODO: running cvsgrab on a repository seems to change the modification date of the files.	ludovicc
	TODO: provide a french version of the messages	ludovicc

Release 2.2.2 - 2005-06-26

Type	Changes	By
	Fixed downloading of files on Eclipse.org site	ludovicc
	Fixed support of multiple cvsRoot, as seen on the Eclipse.org site	ludovicc
	Bug #1212524: support FishEye 1.0.1	ludovicc
	Fixed detection of gzipped content on some web sites	ludovicc
	Bug #1173243: support Jahia.org	ludovicc
	Bug #1193006: fix cvsgrab.sh, patch provided by ated at users.sourceforge.net	ludovicc
	support Php.net again	ludovicc
	Fixed autodetection that was blocking cvsgrab on some sites (netbeans.org, dev.java.net)	ludovicc
	Fixed combined use of -url and -webInterface parameters	ludovicc

Release 2.2.1 - 2005-03-24

Type	Changes	By
	Don't run validation when user specifies which web interface to use.	ludovicc
	Fixed auto-detection of the web interface (SourceCast 2.0) for tigris.org.	ludovicc

Release 2.2 - 2005-02-10

Type	Changes	By
	added unique -url parameter, guess from this param the root url, package url, project root	ludovicc
	Decompress files when the pages are gzipped. (bug #983998)	ludovicc
	Restored download of files for the Maven project (bug #1077452, #1072751)	ludovicc
	update to NekoHTML 0.94	ludovicc
	Added support for CVSWeb 3.0	ludovicc
	Added support for SourceCast 3.0 (used by dev.java.net now)	ludovicc
	Added support for CVSWeb 3.0	ludovicc
	hangs forever - cvsgrab -rootUrl https://forms.dev.java.net/source/browse/ -packagePath forms -destDir c:/tmp -prune	ludovicc

Release 2.1 - 2004-05-12

Type	Changes	By
	Add diff functionality. Feature request from Aslak Helsoy (and me!)	ludovicc
	store the cvsgrab options like the root url in the CVS admin files. This allow you to execute cvsgrab the second time with no parameters, as it can locate the web repository from those admin files.	ludovicc
	Add support for Chora 2.0.	ludovicc
	Add a clean update option, to force download ing the latest version of a locally modified file. Feature request from Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.	ludovicc
	Detect file type (text or binary) and set the =kb flag in the CVS entries for binary files. Feature request from Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.	ludovicc
	Fixed: pruneEmptyDirs doesn't remove the pruned directories from the CVS entries.	ludovicc
	Support cvsWeb 1.0 with multiple project roots. Necessary to get files from http://cvs.hispalinux.es/cgi-bin/cvsweb/?cvsroot=mono	ludovicc
	Add support for gzipped content. Patch provided by Ralf Stoffels.	ludovicc
	Another fix of cvsgrab.sh, this time about the evaluation of CVSGRAB_HOME variable, contributed by Daniel Fischer.	ludovicc

Release 2.0.3 - 2004-02-05

Type	Changes	By
	Improved auto-detect functionality: now tests different URLs according to the type of the expected web interface.	ludovicc
	use Jakarta's CLI library to parse command line arguments	ludovicc
	Output looks more like the standard cvs command.	ludovicc
	Add support for ViewCVS 0.9.2 with multiple cvs roots (http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=ooo4r) and CVSWeb 1.0 (http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/).	ludovicc

Release 2.0.2 - 2003-12-27

Type	Changes	By
	Added support for SourceCast 1.1 used by NetBeans.org (contributed partially by Laurent Broudoux).	ludovicc
	Fixed cvsgrab.sh: fixed log arguments that were not working on Linux (contributed by Eric Le Goff).	ludovicc
	Simplified XPath expressions to avoid duplicates in file and directory selections.	ludovicc

Release 2.0.1 - 2003-12-07

Type	Changes	By
	Added support for CvsWeb 2.0.	ludovicc
	Added initial test that connects to the site by using the root url, this should help to detect proxy settings issues.	ludovicc
	Added manual selection of the web interface, this can fix issues with some web sites where the autodetect feature doesn't work.	ludovicc
	Fixed cvsgrab.sh: use unix-style file format, updated script and make it use the $CVSGRAB_HOME environment variable (copied from Ant script).	ludovicc
	Fixed incorrect urls for directories that contain spaces	ludovicc
	ViewCVS 1.0: fixed detection when ViewCvs is not configured with multiple cvs roots.	ludovicc
	Contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. wxWindows apparently uses ViewCVS 0.9.2, but with an additional link after each file name to show the "revision graph". See http://cvs.wxwindows.org/viewcvs.cgi/wxWindows/ So I had to modify the ViewCvsInterface.java file and change _fileVersionXpath = "TD[A/IMG/@alt != '(graph)' ] [2 ] /A/B";	ludovicc
	Contributed by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. Removed caching of pages by the server to get the up-to-date version of the directory lists.	ludovicc

Release 2.0 - 2003-10-31

Type	Changes	By
	Use commons-logging to handle logging. This makes logging compatible with the Java 1.4 logging API.	ludovicc
	Fixed logging level for http client library to avoid repetitive warnings like 'Response content length is not known'.	ludovicc
	Use rootUrl + packagePath to detect the type of the web interface instead of rootUrl alone. This should fix redirection issues with Sourceforge where http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py is redirected to http://sourceforge.net/.	ludovicc
	Put back Main-Class attribute in cvsgrab.jar to be able to run cvsgrab with java -jar cvsgrab.jar	ludovicc
	Fixed an issue on Windows systems where files where not updated because the timestamp stored by Windows does not include seconds.	ludovicc
	Added more synchronisation to fix the issue java.io.FileNotFoundException: xxx\CVS\Root (Specific file path not found) when using simultaneous connections.	ludovicc

Release 2.0-beta3 - 2003-10-24

Type	Changes	By
	Fixed cookie support to avoid tons of warnings when grabbing files from dev.java.net.	ludovicc
	Fixed null pointer exception when optional packageDir parameter was not set.	ludovicc
	Hide password.	ludovicc
	When password is not present but user name is present, display a masked prompt that asks securely for the password.	ludovicc

Release 2.0-beta2 - 2003-10-23

Type	Changes	By
	Added detection for invalid rootUrl	ludovicc
	Spli t parameter package into packagePath and packageDir, to be able to give the package path on the web site, and use a different name for storing the package on the disk. WARNING: this affects the command line arguments and the ant task, read the documentation for more details.	ludovicc
	Fixes for NT domain authentification on MS proxies.	ludovicc
	Fix prune empty dirs: empty directories are now removed from CVS entries.	ludovicc
	Fixed autodetection for Sourceforge viewcvs interface: force the version to ViewCVS 0.8 when the root url contains sourceforge.net or sf.net .	ludovicc

Release 2.0-beta - 2003-10-15

Type	Changes	By
	Changed license from LGPL to BSD	ludovicc
	Replaced HotSax by NekoHtml for parsing html pages, uses xpath to extract data from the html pages.	ludovicc
	Replace jcvsii by NetBeans' cvsclient, license is more friendly and this is better designed and supported	ludovicc
	Now uses Jakarta commons-httpclient to make http connections, it supports more options in particular for authentification on the web site or on the proxy.	ludovicc
	open multiple connections to download files faster.	ludovicc
	Added support for authentification with NT credentials used on MS proxies.	ludovicc
	Added support for authentification on the web server.	ludovicc
	Added support for localy modified files: they should not be updated even if there is a more recent version on the remote repository.	ludovicc
	Added support for multiple cvsroots (argument cvsroot=[root ] to the query on viewcvs 0.9.2)	ludovicc
	Fixed issue with files recovered from the Attic/ folder when using version tags.	ludovicc
	Added support for different cvs web interfaces. Currently ViewCVS version 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1.0-dev and SourceCast 2.0 are supported.	ludovicc
	Added unit tests for better quality.	ludovicc

Release 1.2 - 2002-10

Type	Changes	By
	Added the date in the cvs entries.	ludovicc
	Made update more robust when there is an upload that failed (failed uploads don't get their version updated)	ludovicc
	Defined CVSGRAB_HOME, used to run cvsgrab.bat from any location.	ludovicc
	Bugfixes, in particular on the pruneEmptyDirs functionality	ludovicc

Release 1.1 - 2002-08

Type	Changes	By
	Refactoring: renamed package from cvsgrab to net.sourceforge.cvsgrab	ludovicc
	Added support for proxies and http authentication.	ludovicc
	Added prune empty directories functionality.	ludovicc
	Removed first / in the name stored in the Repository admin file for more compatibility with WinCVS.	ludovicc

Release 1.0 - 2002-06

Type	Changes	By
	Used clean Java code instead of BSF scripts.	ludovicc
	Created a cvsgrab Ant task	ludovicc
	Packaging, documentation.	ludovicc
	Now able to delete the files removed from the repository	ludovicc
	Support for version tags/branches.	ludovicc

Release 0.1 - 2002-04

Type	Changes	By
	First release. Uses scripts based on BSF (Bean scripting framework) and Hotsax, initially available under the Hotsax project (http://sourceforge.net/hotsax)	ludovicc